What you did not know about New York City

There are a lot of things you don't know about New York City, even if you've lived here all your life.

Were you aware that legally, animals may and often do own property here?

Did you know that the random pair of shoes you see on the street may be an advertisement for a Doo Wop groups seeking new members?

Did you have knowledge of the fact that the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich you love so much may have arrived at the deli in liquid form?

I'm fairly certain that you did not know these things.

Please visit my new blog, Little-known facts about New York City, for more amazing and completely true information.

Garfield Minus Garfield

equals the best comic strip on earth.

Controversial video

This is the video that Channel 102 was afraid to show at their monthly screening. They thought the public wasn't ready to hear the truth about the New York City Subway system.



*** update: Channel 101: NY (formerly Channel 102) has yielded to popular demand and agreed to screen Beyond Fact. The screening is Monday, March 2 at 7:00pm and 8:30 pm at Pianos in New York. Details here. Please come out and vote for our show, so we can continue freak people out with the truth. ***

**** update update: The first episode of Beyond Fact received enough votes to come back for a second month. Over the coming weeks, Rory, Craig and I will be uncovering another earth-shattering conspiracy to reveal to the public. Stay tuned to the Channel 101: NY site for details about the next screening ****

Satan is real

Proof here, from NPR.

today's guest blogger: Emily Litella

Los Angeles Times: Gray wolves will be fair game for hunters in parts of the northern Rocky Mountains after federal officials announced they would be taken off the endangered species list.

What's all this I hear about gay wolves being hunted? If a wolf wants to live his life as a homosexual, it's nobody's business but his own. To hunt them down because of their sexual orientation is just plain wrong, and I urge you all to write your congressman to demand equal rights all wolves, whether they're gay or lesbian or anything else. Thank you.

please read sarcasm into this

I was just going through my work e-mail Drafts folder looking for something, and came across an old e-mail I never sent for whatever reason, and which I do not remember composing. Reading it now, I would like to think that the tone was totally sarcastic -- but sadly, I'm quite certain that it was not.

hi Dave;
Thanks much for the comprehensive update on where our publishing software is headed. We're excited to move into the next phase of content management.

I want to point out that I was never actually excited to move into any phase of content management.

I may already know too much

For whatever reason, I get a fair number of messages mistakenly sent to my Gmail account. They're usually really boring: a registration notice from a community college in Southern California, some real estate crap from Ohio, etc.

I got an interesting one yesterday, though -- one that made me think I could get swept up into some kind of North By Northwest-style misunderstanding.

To: [redacted]@gmail.com
From: dispatch@[redacted].com
Subject: deepak
Date: January 24, 2008 12:41:51 AM EST

DEREK
I TRIED SEVERAL TIME TO CALL DEEPAK TO SEE WHAT TIME HE WAS GOING TO BE HERE WITH THE STERLING HTS LOAD FOR JIM BUT IT SEEMS AS IF WE HAVE THE WRONG CELL PHONE NUMBER FOR HIM AS I COULD NOT REACH HIM. HOPEFULLY HE IS HERE BEFORE JIM GETS HERE IN THE AM I KNOW THE ROADS WERE A LITTLE SLICK BUT HE SHOULD HAVE MADE IT BACK BEFORE I WENT HOME OR AT LEAST CALLED ME IF HE WAS GOING TO BED DOWN FOR THE NIGHT SO I KNEW WHAT TIME TO TELL JIM TO BE HERE
JIM COMING IN AT 5AM TO TAKE LOAD IN CASE IT IS HERE

This all seems to work out a little too neatly for Jim, if you ask me. He shows up at 5, the "Sterling HTS load" isn't there yet, and nobody suspects him of anything. If Deepak had a load to deliver, wouldn't he at least give a call if he was running late or had to "bed down" somewhere? Something is definitely fishy.

Anyway, if I suddenly disappear along with Deepak, I'd start the inquiry with Jim and Derek.

unusual candor from the MTA

dark breakthrough

Gothic scientists have made a huge step forward.

"FFREE COFEE"

Who says there's no such thing as a ffree cofee?