One of my issues with rock and/or roll is… the electric guitar. I don’t much care for the sounds they typically make. Imagine, if you can, that you didn’t care for the sound of the french horn. Now image that for nearly sixty years popular music–the music of your generation, your parent’s generation, and your [...]
Entries from August 2007
August 9, 2007
Brooklyn Tornado Video
This was taken in Kensington just minutes after the tornado hit, so you can see the crazy weather, but they just missed the twister: -from the Kensington Blog And the aftermath:
August 9, 2007
Tornado kicks Brooklyn’s ass
Ok, so by now you’ve heard of the TORNADO that made Brooklyn its bitch early yesterday morning. This is funny, especially considering an earlier post of mine about being woken up in the middle of the night by cacophony. Well, yesterday morning Southwestern BK had its ass handed to it, and this is where I [...]
August 4, 2007
The Misfortunes of Virtue
“It is essential that misfortune should suffer; its humiliation, its pains are among the number of Nature’s laws, and its existence is useful to the general plan, as that of prosperity which crushes it; such is the truth that ought to stifle remorse in the soul of the tyrant or malefactor; let him not hold [...]
August 4, 2007
Mafoo’s quote of the year
I’m at the Apple Store in Soho yesterday. I sit down for a minute in that little amphitheater place they have upstairs, half paying attention to the presentation the AppleClone is giving. It’s on the new iPhone, which admittedly fucking rules. So he is closing his presentation and he, like totally, goes: “So yeah, the [...]
