Monthly Archives: September 2013

Holy Windbag

September 25, 2013 – 1:13 pm

Yesterday GOP senator Ted Cruz spoke for over twenty-one hours before Congress in hopes of getting his fellow law-givers to reject the much-maligned Obamacare. At one point the Texan read from a popular children’s story to fill the time during his marathon anti-Obamacare speech according to the BBC. Other Republicans were not amused by the […]

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Big Big Big

September 24, 2013 – 7:13 pm

Scary as heck. There be dragons. And man will ride them. Surfer Garrett McNamara catches what could be the largest wave ever surfed, off the coast of Nazare, Portugal, on Jan. 29. The estimated 100-foot wave, if confirmed, would beat the current world record of 78 feet, which McNamara has held since 2011. According to […]

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Tough Skateboard Girls

September 21, 2013 – 1:01 pm

foto from gwen o’neill i love tough girls.

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CHINESE ROCKS – Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers

September 21, 2013 – 12:40 pm

Nothing says 1970s Lower East Side better than Johnny Thunders performing the classic CHINESE ROCKS. “I’M LIVING ON CHINESE ROCKS. ALL MY BEST THINGS ARE IN HOCK.” He was a legend on the Lower East Side. “I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don’t do it to […]

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Hopper’s Delancey Street

September 21, 2013 – 12:33 pm

So little left of the Lower East Side. Hopper’s View from the Williamsburg Bridge.

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