j-school posts to come
ok, then. thank you to the nice folks that said, yes, post boring grad school thoughts. it may take a second to get back in the swing of things, but i'll be doing my best.
until then, if you like, you can check out what else i've been writing.
posted September 28, 2004 in deliveryscratching my paint with your nipple piercings
To the MAN who DID his hoochie on my hood!! \@@/ (PIC) - w4m
Reply to: [email protected]
Date: Fri Aug 27 11:58:13 2004
Okay, so I live near the beach....
All the dust, the drunks, the tourists exhaust, the noise, you name it! But hey I wouldn't live anywhere else!!!
SO yeah my car is dirty all the time and I hear it from my friends, my BF and everyone all the time...
"why don't you wash it", blah blah blah!! And sure everyones seen the "wash me" signs that people devilishly write on cars from time to time..
But really?? THIS WAS NO WAY, NO HOW! A COOL WAY TO FORCE ME TO WASH MY CAR and make me late for WORK!!!!! WITH MY BF LAUGHING - HAR HAR WHY WASH IT! IT'S PRICELESS
WAS THIS REALLY NECESSARY you cocky sons of bitches???
THIS IS MY CAR, NOT YOUR BED!!!!! RRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
I got your prints from my hood, thank you very much!!! I will find your lame asses!!! OH! and Thank you hooch for scratching my paint with your nipple piercings and dime store MR T rings!!!
P.S.. click the link on the top right that says "best of" for better exposure!!
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
how not to freak out about the master's project
think of it as ten 600-word feature stories, not a 6,000-word thesis. (paraphrased from giegerich at today's meeting)
posted September 20, 2004 in deliverythat said,
this chick rocks hard at the ripe old age of 18:
Most overrated trend/movement sweeping the city:
Ugh, there are so many. I wish people would just be original. I mean, I am not setting any trends, but I just wear what is comfortable sometimes a little trendy. But, I get so annoyed that people aren't creative anymore. For instance the trucker hat (an easy target I know, but so so annoying), why? Big logos are equally annoying, I just think people need to relax, there's always going to be someone out there that looks cooler than you. And usually it's someone who didn't try as hard as you did.
What bygone NYC place or thing do you wish were still around?
... I wish the PS1 series of I think it was 2002 could just happen every summer, I had such a good time that year there ... I wish there was a reset button I could press to make all my jadedness go away. I remember when I first moved here and every little stupid thing would make me feel so inspired. It's so hard living here that it wears you down so quickly, I've only been here for 4 years and I am so salty about everything!! Pour out a little liquor for my innocence y'all.
If you could change one thing about New York, what would it be?
I guess if I wanted to change it too much I would be ready to move away. I wish it weren't so damn expensive to live here so I could save some money or buy a place.
The End of The World is finally happening. What are you going to do with your last 24 hours in New York?
I feel lucky to have some really great close friends. I would just get them all together and bug out. I always end up piling too much into my day. Ideally, my last 24 hours would be completely free form.
- "gothamist interviews: lindsey caldwell, hustler/dj," gothamist 17 september 2004
posted September 17, 2004 in printprof. isaacs drinks tab
other notes from class, cribbed from him, carey and excerpts from the daily show that were shown:
new york times = old gray lady
cnn = milf
cable = girls gone wild
"cynicism is the wrong place to start"
"journalism is important because the whole culture is parasitic off of it"
"if journalists don't record it, it's gone. out of history."
best work under worst circumstances
"live a life in truth"
"journalists must irrigate their imaginations by drinking deeply from the depths of life. do what's irrelevant ... immediacies of life ..."
"often not the case that people read news today ... maybe tomorrow or years from now"
posted September 17, 2004 in deliverya whimper, not a bang
not that this is breaking news, but this can't really be called a blog anymore—more of a place to keep links and quotes and other shit that i don't want to lose track of. plus, i'm a boring grad student now, and who wants to read about that?
or do you?
posted September 17, 2004 in deliverynear v. minnesota
notes from law class, which i spent interested in the lecture but morbidly petrified of being called on:
"there's good in the worst seeming press" (lewis)
"try to avoid the knee-jerk reaction that the press is always right" (blasi)
1476 = gutenberg printing press. remember for next time.
don't underestimate the impulse to censor ... it's often connected to the fear of anarchy ... larger force today than many realize (paraphrased from blasi)
posted September 17, 2004 in deliveryCompassionate conservatism means that he wasn't pulling that hard.
A member of the audience pulls a demonstrator's hair as he forces her out of an auditorium where President Bush was addressing a crowd of supporters.
"Bush Supporters: Classy!," wonkette 10 september 2004
posted September 10, 2004 in politicsFor a more rigid stabbing device, layer toothpaste between every sheet in a thin film
eye2eye Posted 7/18/2004 01:15:07 AM 4:51:38 PM
I'm wondering where in the city I can live that is reasonably priced and yet safe at 1 a.m.? I work at a TV station where we work late hours....I wanna buy a place in an upcoming neighboorhood (trying to get a bit more space than the best Manhattan neighborhoods)...any thoughts on areas that are still being gentrified and yet are safe? Is that an oxymoron? Any ideas welcomed.
ja Posted 9/9/2004 01:15:07 AM 2:28:48 PM
Things (people) that are going to harm you and/or rob you/steal from your home (burgularly) are gonna happen and you have no real control over it.
If you move to Hunts Point in the Bronx - maybe - then you're chances for victimization go up a bit, but not too long ago, there was a man raping and sodomizing and stealing from women AND ONE man (the man was sodomized with a pair of scissors: ''I''m gonna go Taliban on your ass!'' was, I believe, the line quoted by the Post by the assailant) and this happened on the Upper East side.
I've made it my hobby/exercise to walk about Manhattan at night 11pm to 4/5am six nights a week for the last eight or so years (writer and fan of social deviancy) and can tell you, this city is safer than safe.
The people who are assaulted, robbed, raped, etc., are not at fault, but it's all about just being heads up and aware and wise.
I've seen it all. ALL. Check next post for details of ''all.''
ja Posted 9/9/2004 01:15:07 AM 2:49:22 PM
#1 Nocturnal Victim-in-Waiting:
Young white women who come home drunk and drop keys and purse contents on stoops. See this at least five times a week. Can you spell push-in assault?
#2 Bad Landlords/Property Mngt.
The number of buildings between 23rd and 42nd, between Madison and 2nd avenue with their front doors OPEN at 3am is shocking! Walk right in and terrorize.
#3 Drunk Young White Boys with Cash
Easy prey.
#4 Horny men at incall sex joints
Massage parlors and incall brothels are all over the East Side. I know of at least 14 of these joints and several in Tribecca and West Village that are, between 12am and 4am, prime for rip-off. Client's come and go. When they're coming, they're flush with cash, erections and guilt. Easy prey. These men will not call for help. They're breaking the law. Never mind all the sex joints themselves that are packed w/cash. I'd NEVER want to live in a bldg. w/ a massage parlor or whore house. It's trouble all the way. (Write me, and I'll tell you how close you live to one)
#5 Flashers, Peepers and Perverts
These guys all have favorite blocks and areas they like to prowl. My newest find is a geeky white guy in the East 30's w/blond hair and glasses. He's out there every Friday and Saturday
night with his hand on his cock. Someone's math teacher, looks like.
#6 Subways. Safe, but dangerous.
You'd think the subways were dangerous, but they're not. Except when they are. Most have no attendants, no cameras and are FULL of blind spots. Always sit in the first or fifth/sixth car if you're scared, generally, of NYC. These cars have motormen/conductors. Sit in last two cars for victimization.
#7 People sitting in cars, fucking, fighting and sleeping.
Don't park your car on a dark street, and then, sit in it for three hours getting a blow job. Sitting duck. Exp. if you're half naked.
#8 Parks
Anyone who walks through a park, after 12am, asks for what they might get. Sorry. True. Stay away from parks.
#9 The tough looking are not the ones to fear
Kids that look tough are usually all bluster. It's the loners you have to watch for. One person will commit a crime. A pack of drunken - LOUD - bridge and tunnel types may terrorize verbally or kick over a few trash cans, but the REAL harm comes from the slow moving loners who usually carry no bags and look a bit better off than most homeless.
#10 Homeless vs. Crazy
The silent, shuffling homeless are generally docile. It's the erratic - LOUD - disheveled that you want to cross the street for if you see them coming your way.
#11 Doormen and Steet Lights and Shadows
Always look ahead for the next doorman, street light or shadow that MOVES TOWARDS the curb FROM the building side when walking on a dark street. Always look 50 yards ahead and work with your eyes BACKWARD. If they were gonna jump you, they would have already. They're ahead of you, waiting to GET behind you. NOT BEHIND you.
Write for more.
'Fraidy cat!
ja Posted 9/9/2004 01:15:07 AM 2:59:44 PM
New Girl Wrote:
Look into the Upper East Side. (I'm talking below 96th Street, not Harlem.) ...safe safe safe. Boring, but safe.
____________________
Here's the deal:
Safe is relative. Those who wish to harm another ''stalk,'' wait, watch, hunt, prowl, case and observe. No neighborhood is really ''safer'' than another. Rather, it's the inhabitants of a neighborhood who make it safer by action and awareness, and those who move through it on foot who keep their eyes and ears open.
If someone wants to hurt you, they'll try. Whether they do or not, is unknown until it's too late.
So, to the original poster, you're looking for an ''answer'' and a comfort level that's really not attainable in an add-water and mix recipe.
This is a city with 8 million people in a small space. People go crazy. You live here. Deal with it.
bernii Posted 9/9/2004 01:15:07 AM 3:27:11 PM
But still, I know where this person is coming from. My criteria has always been that I like to live in a neighborhood that has people walking on the street late at night and on a block that is fairly well-lit and not totally deserted. I found Astoria to be pretty good that way. When I lived there I felt very comfortable walking from the subway alone late at night because tons of people got off at my stop, and the neighborhood had 24 hour delis and fruit stands and pastry places etc. As far as up-and-coming in Manhattan, I'd say Murray Hill and Kips Bay area may be worth considering. Not as ''cool'' as some other areas, but therefore less pricey and cabs would be cheaper than Queens or Riverdale!
ja Posted 9/9/2004 01:15:07 AM 4:18:39 PM
''But still, I know where this person is coming from. My criteria has always been that I like to live in a neighborhood that has people walking on the street late at night and on a block that is fairly well-lit and not totally deserted.''
Exactly. As I stated, those who want to harm another, or cannot help themselves from doing so, will. Or they'll try.
So, the original poster's comment is either immature or he/she shouldn't be living here if their lifestyle/domicile choices are dictated by the hours of their employ.
About a year ago, I chuckled at the ''new'' trendy self-defense classes being heralded in NYC: Krav Magna. The ''choice'' of all Israeli security forces, or some such drivel. And like lemmings, they lined up to pay to take these ''street defense'' classes.
Know who'd I want to teach me in street defense? A convict. Any guy who can kill someone with a magazine and some toothpaste is who I want teaching me how to protect myself on the street.
(Tear out the pages, and roll them TIGHTLY into the smallest tube you can manage. Cement with toothpaste and let dry. Stab. Toss in water to destroy.
For a more rigid stabbing device, layer toothpaste between every sheet in a thin film
For a spear-like weapon, telescope the pages to desired length. This is good for reaching through the bars and going after an eye)
The best weapon(s) on the street are as follows:
1. Your own voice screaming ''Your care is on FIRE!'' (People don't care about you. Leverage other's concern for THEIR shit).
2. Keys/cellphone for gouging/stabbing and clubbing
3. Trash at, or near your feet. Anything you can quickly pick up and THROW, club with, splash-on, will do the trick.
All you need are the precious few seconds to cause sensory havoc upon your attacker to get physically away from him so you can being running, screaming, sheltering.
My weapon of choice when walking through dicey areas? A hot cup of coffee, with lid on, but loose, held lightly with thumb on top and forefinger on bottom. A splash of HOT coffee to the face will do the trick every time.
PS - Girls? The ''I'm-talking-to-my-friend-on-my- cell-phone-so-you-can't-attack-me'' trick at 4:30am while you're walking home is lame.
No one is awake then. Better to just have your cell flipped to camera option so can capture an image of your assailant, but to carry the phone in one hand at your side to use as weapon and keys in the other. Concentrate less on pretending to talk to someone who you want your assailant to think will come out and save you and more on who is on the street, watching you. And if you're just checking messages, wait to do it when you're home.
- "Where to Live when you work Late Hours?," mediabistro 9 september 2004
posted September 09, 2004 in printVirginia, this has been going on for seven hours
Barbara Walters: Virginia, this has been going on for seven hours. Come on, you're not going to do this much. Can I edit it?
Virginia Heffernan: What? Are you a control freak?
BW: No, but I am very hands on. I will do a rough edit. Or I can do what I do with the producers: you do your rough edit and I'll do mine; and then we can compare
VH: You've got to be kidding.
BW: and then we can compare on the sections that we really feel are important, where we agree. I'm very happy to do it.
VH: No, thank you.
"Barbara Walters: The Exit Interview," new york times September 5, 2004
posted September 06, 2004 in speechgo Code Pink!
June Brashares, 40, of San Francisco, an activist with Code Pink, stood up on her chair and unfurled a banner that read, "Bush lies, people die" ...
Later, another Code Pink activist, Jodie Evans, 49, of Los Angeles, stood up in a seat under the Fox News skybox and pulled off her dress, exposing her pink lingerie with a hand-written message: "Fire Bush - Women say bring the troops home now" ...
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, told The Chronicle later that she was elated with Brashares' success in getting a national platform, even for a few seconds.
"This is the third day in a row that Code Pink has penetrated the convention,'' she said. "My question to President Bush is, if he can't secure his own convention, how can they bring security to their own nation?''
- Carla Marinucci, "S.F. woman hauled away for interrupting president," s.f. gate September 3/2004