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more about #rants more comments → srhoades: Is this angry, disjointed rant, so short on wit and humour but long on adolescent insecurity and defensiveness, really representative of the allegedly... more » b4nt4: all i know is in london they have one machine--one teeny tiny machine--that both washes and dries your clothes. i really can't tell you about the soc... more » BadUncle: Foster, I love this sentence: You guys wouldn't know what to do with The Beatrice Inn if it crawled up your nose in a $100 bill. more » Bottle-Of-Smoke: Foster, try London You're a Lady by the Pogues when you get a chance. A lovely little whiskey-and-nostalgia-sodden ode to the Auld Towne. more » RollsRoyceRevenge: How to fit in in London: Wear a smashing tweedy coat and yell "Monty, you terrific cunt!" Run around with blood coming out of your eyes and frothin... more » thatgirlinnewyork: berlin's getting really really hip? yeah, like 6 years ago. more » Christopherspillane: Hi Foster, As I londoner living in New York, I'd like to refer you to the term 'Bellend'. It's rare for me to comment on blogs or other invitations t... more » Diziet_Sma: I lived in London for over a decade and I've lived here in NYC for the past 8 years. Love them both. When in London, I miss the cheap taxis, 'brunch',... more » El_Gato: Foster, excellent job on this. Both hilarious and so, so true. Gives me much pride as a lifelong New Yorker. I couldn't have said it better myself. J... more » Patrick Obama Patrick: i cant understand why no-one has rushed to defend the Oyster yet. Yes, London does have its shortcomings, as does NY - but the Oyster is just awesome.... more » mattarogerson: NYC is great...if you like shit beer, served in shit pubs, grown men who wear caps backwards, then start screaming like teenage girls after consuming ... more » Foster Kamer: And Scottsdale. Fuck Scottsdale in the cactus. more » bakercf: As a Londoner who loves New York, and when pushed to shove, would chose the latter over his place of birth as urbs prima, let me allow a few observati... more » almost witty: FYI - in London, the pubs don't shut at 11pm any more. There's more liberal licensing laws. And the last time I checked, the parts of New York that a... more » RollsRoyceRevenge: By the way, I just read the article and it is incredibly stupid. Violence evidently equals creative and edgy to this silly middle-class bitch. And h... more » -
#culturaldivides
British Sunday Times Writer Who Thinks New York City Pretty Much Sucks: A Formal Response
Oh, hello there, Stephanie Marsh of the Sunday Times. When you write an essay called "New York has lost its edge," and you live here, it's okay. When you're writing from London...
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#wtf
Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
Glenn Beck's talking up some scary plan for 2010 lately. It's scary because Glenn Beck is talking. And today, Glenn Beck unveiled his 100-year plot to fundamentally change America—and democracy—as we know it. Glenn Beck is fucking insane. More » -
#rants
New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service
Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto service cuts." More » -
#scandal
Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
Heath Care Industry Rule Number Four Thousand and Eighty: DC lobbyists are shady. And exactly how shady are the lobbyists of Washington DC who worked both sides of the health care debate? They ghostwrote speeches for politicians lining their pockets. More » -
#rants
No, That Is Not Anthrax
So far this week, the UN missions of six separate countries have been temporarily shut down and decontaminated because they received envelopes full of flour in the mail. This whole "anthrax" thing is overrated. More » -
#gawkerquestionnaire
Questionnaire: Are You a Jew?
So! In foggy London town, people are wondering who is a Jew and who is not a Jew! Why can't we all be Jews? Because some Jews are more Jewy than other Jews, apparently. Are you? Find out! Question 1:
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#anthems
Important Questions: Is Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' the New 'New York, New York'?
There's an entire Sunday Styles item on Jay-Z's nu-New York anthem, which has now been performed at the VMAs, the World Series, City Hall, your son's bris, and everywhere else. Should Hova step off, or should Sinatra step over? More » -
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#fuckinvampires
Will The Nu-Vampire Trend Please Die? Tonight?
Remember the Tarantino/Rodriguez camp-fest that was From Dusk Til' Dawn? George Clooney killed a bunch of south-of-the-border stripper/hooker-vampires using holy water-loaded Super Soakers. That was in 1996, and it should've been the end of vampire-cool. Now look where we are.
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#genderpolitics
Fallen Portfolio Editor Joanne Lipman's Self-Serving Feminism Screed: 9/11, Sissies, Etc.
Remember Portfolio? The nearly stillborn Conde publication's fallen editor Joanne Lipman's back, with an editorial for Sunday's Times entitled "The Mismeasure Of Woman," where she argues that feminism's stalled out. Great, except: it's inaccurate, intellectually offensive, and gratingly pompous.
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#voodooeconomics
"Learn To Love Insider Trading," by The Wall Street Journal
Does the recent collar of terrorist-supporting hedge fund chief Raj Rajaratnam suggest insider trading as back en vogue? The moving of markets with propriety information nobody else gets hasn't been cool since Wall Street...until now. Love it, says the WSJ.
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#shutuptwitter
Simon Dumenco is a psychopathic kitten-hater ... or something. I didn't finish the whole thing.
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#thecutespiracy
Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
Sometimes you just want to grab The American Consumer about the shoulders, and shake him, and yell: "Hey, stop being such a sucker!" Because...OMG a fuzzy wuzzy baby seal! I must buy so much Dawn® brand product, or he dies. More » -
#heroes
Some Advice for Delightfully Inflammatory Alan Grayson
Barney Frank has long been described as the Democrat's most witty lawmaker, but that may soon change, because Alan Grayson's on an amusingly incendiary roll. He learns quick, yes, but could it bite him in the ass? More » -
#rants
Seth Green Mugging Footage: Revealed!?
Remember that footage of Seth Green ranting and raving about how he was mugged? We originally doubted its validity, but this surveillance footage makes us believers. More » -
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Yuppies and Foodies and Rich People Have Perfected Fried Chicken
Oh wow, hey everybody, all the fancy people in New York City, gather 'round and look at this: It's fried chicken! Here is a newsworthy new trend, "foodies": Chicken, rolled in flour or batter, and fried. Alert the media! More » -
#rants
So-Called Seth Green Rant: Rubbish?
Hmmm. A reader sent in this video of the usually affable Seth Green "freaking out" after getting jumped outside the set of a commercial. We call bullshit for at least two reasons. More » -
#liberals
Michael Moore's Predictable, Accurate Newspaper Critique
Slovenly documentarian Michael Moore has a pretty good idea about why America's newspaper industry is in the toilet! 1) Greed; 2) Americans are dumb; 3) Republicans. More » -
#rants
Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
Even if Congress fucks up health care reform and leaves millions of poor people on the All-Robitussin Health Plan, we would be mollified if they succeed in getting all those fucking prescription drug ads off TV. Please. More » -
#rants
Let's Not Bother With Space
On this, the 40th Anniversary of the day Mankind conquered the moon, it is time to issue another clarion call for this generation: fuck Mars, let's focus our attention here, for now.
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