March 2012
1 post
WatchCome Here Often, aka Michael Rae, aka FREAK WEEK’s amazing new video, with some help from Wildwood.
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
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December 2011
6 posts
Jive Bombers- Bad Boy
FUCK YEAH BEARDS
“I cultivate this beard not for the usual given reasons of skin trouble or pain of shaving, nor for the secret purpose of covering a weak chin, but as pure decoration, much as a peacock finds pleasure in his tail. And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”
-John Steinbeck, p. 32,...
NYPD Cops Call Paradegoers 'Animals', 'Savages'
From an article I posted today:
The vibrant and colorful West Indian Day Parade is a source of familiar tension between police and Brooklyn’s Caribbean community. During this year’s festivities, which were particularly violent, some of the floats’ MCs could be heard saying “We love the NYPD!”— an attempt to bridge a divide, that after today’s news, will...
FUCK YEAH SHAE MINNILLO
eightshaesaweek:
WatchAny Little Game- Freak Week
Amazing bachelor music video shot in Ocean City, NJ in September by the boys at Wildwood featuring Michael Rae.
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
8 posts
There is no IRL. This is everything.
“Each year of your twenties is worth three in regular time. The decade moves like dog years except that in the end you suddenly turn 30 as if you didn’t just age a single lifetime. Something happens between the ages of 20 and 25…”
“We are not so mysterious. If you want to get to know someone infinitely better, meet their parents for five minutes. We are attracted to...
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Mr. Rogers Gave A Legendary Emmy Acceptance Speech
Mister Rogers went onstage to accept the award — and there, in front of all the soap opera stars and talk show sinceratrons, in front of all the jutting man-tanned jaws and jutting saltwater bosoms, he made his small bow and said into the microphone, “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have...
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as...”
– Thomas Wolfe
“I came to this weird realization, reading about what’s going on in Africa and the Sudan and stuff like that, that I don’t hate any music. Or at least, I don’t hate the motivations behind it. And a lot of people are like, ‘Oh, those guys are doing this shitty music so they can get money and pussy.’ Yeah, but do you know what people do to get money and pussy on this planet? Really horrible things....
August 2011
3 posts
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
from "Let...
Still My President
“I think that we forget when [Martin Luther King Jr.] was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times,” the president said. “There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But...
July 2011
2 posts
WatchPlimpton! I think this looks cool.
I'm not thinking of anyone else when I think "New... →
I interviewed Tao Lin for The Huffington Post.
June 2011
6 posts
“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s... →
GOP Senator For Gay Marriage: "Fuck It, I Don't... →
My latest at The Huffington Post. Very happy that I got to share this quote with so many people.
Watch“The Internet Is My Religion”
Jim Gillian shares how he transitioned from Christian fundamentalism to a Web-based belief system.
America, America, America
“Four American vets stood up, men from Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne who had been under fire with Tim and me many times in eastern Afghanistan. They filed out of their pew carrying two folded American flags that had been sent by Senator John McCain, himself a veteran of Vietnam. The young men presented my country’s flag to the Hetherington family and then to Idil [Hetherington’s girlfriend...
Watchgotagirlcrush:
Robyn - “Call Your Girlfriend”
Be Cruel- PEOPLETHOUGHTS
Man, I usually hate...
May 2011
4 posts
It's a complaint you hear often in New York--that... →
My latest article at the Huffington Post: “NYC’s Vanishing Landmarks”. A video slideshow!
April 2011
10 posts
Any Little Game- PEOPLETHOUGHTS
My friend Mikey...
"My Dad defeated them! Not with weapons but with... →
A gay girl in Syria tells the horrifying and awe-inspiring tale of two goons who recently visited her house and threatened to adduct and rape her for anti-government posts on her blog. Her Dad gives quite a fuckin speech. UPDATE: Well, fuck. Didn’t see that coming.
WatchPlease don’t watch the royal wedding.
I just email-interviewed Norman Mailer's son...
for The Huffington Post about his Dad’s apartment. Money quote:
“There were an interesting parade of writers, musicians, actors and politicos that came over for dinners and parties on a pretty regular basis. I remember Abbie Hoffman came over one night for dinner when he was still technically a fugitive. He had a new girlfriend with him at the time and told me in a drunken moment...
Knoxville: Summer 1915
On the rough wet grass of the back yard my father and mother have spread quilts. We all lie there, my mother, my father, my uncle, my aunt, and I too am lying there. First we were sitting up, then one of us lay down, and then we all lay down, on our stomachs, or on our sides, or on our backs, and they have kept on talking. They are not talking much, and they have kept on talking. They are not...
I Love 'Loosies': In Defense Of Black Market... →
I think it might piss people off.
The latest in gentrification: Pro-Cro! →
My wonderful roommate Emily, gets it right, like she always does on her wonderful blog.
speechisamouth:
This is exactly where I live. It is maybe not the wisest to say that! But what you can take from this video is that my neighborhood is going to be so expensive and safe. Real soon. Tomorrow, I bet. Pro-cro. Pro-choice. CroMags. Magnocrag. Just a little word association. That really is the...
March 2011
13 posts
Manhattan Grid Plan Turns 200: 5 Reasons We Still... →
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via nedhepburn)
NY Spends 75 Million A Year On Marijuana Arrests-... →