Williamsburg is Dead ...
… is dead? I think so, not sure if I’m gonna renew the domain name registration.
Damn you MTA!
“We have to thank WCBS 2 for reminding us of what we know already: sometimes when you swipe your Metrocard and it says “Swipe Again At This Turnstile,” it has already deducted a fare, though the turnstile will not let you through. And that hurts, especially after turnstile groin and/or torso injuries. Not to mention the fact that they just took your money.
According to the news report, the MTA apparently does not even bother denying this, claiming that its poor, 12-year old turnstiles sometimes can’t read the magnetic stripe and the “swipe again” message means “a fare may or may not have been deducted.” Funny how it never seems to work in your favor, does it? And funny how the reader works well enough to deduct the fare from the card, but not well enough to open the turnstile for you.” —Gothamist
This happened to me for the first time yesterday! It’s a good thing I am a very wealthy internet journalist, lest I get angry over being robbed by the MTA. Now if you’ll excuse me, my limo is waiting outside for me …
Busy tonight! Let Us Eat Local w/ food from Jean-Georges, Blue Hill, Aureole and Gramercy Tavern, then off to see my man-crush, Lord Ira Glass, III, Esq., at the 92nd St Y.
Ten Works That Have Sold as Well as The Da Vinci Code—Combined
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, 81 million
Equals
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 30 million
• Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer, 17 million
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, 8 million
• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, 7 million
• Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt, 5 million
• The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie, 5 million
• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, 5 million
• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen, 2 million
• White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, 1.5 million
• Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, 5 million
Source: NY Mag
I’m sorry I’m not the hero of a novel. I’m not up to playing such a part, I just read a lot sometimes. -robert walser’s dostoevsky’s idiot
Where the Wild Things Are screening 10/14 with Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, John Hodgman
$75/$150 benefiting 826 NYC
