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A Grand Theft Auto obsessive has matched up vistas from the hit Rockstar videogame with the real New York City. Here's the Conde Nast skyscraper in Times Square (at left) compared with the equivalent tower in Liberty City's 'Star Junction' (at right). Any GTA fans want to create mayhem in the magazine group's lobby, mow down a few Vogue interns, and send us a videograb of the results? [Matthew Johnston's Flickr page]
Your Mission: A Murderous Rampage At Conde Nast
A Grand Theft Auto obsessive has matched up vistas from the hit Rockstar videogame with the real New York City. Here's the Conde Nast skyscraper in Times Square (at left) compared with the equivalent tower in Liberty City's 'Star Junction' (at right). Any GTA fans want to create mayhem in the magazine group's lobby, mow down a few Vogue interns, and send us a videograb of the results? [Matthew Johnston's Flickr page]
new york times
'Times' Commuters Forced To Walk Block
Things are so F'ed at the Times. First the buyouts and now they're cutting their late night shuttle van service from the office to Penn Station and Grand Central. The Times says increased safety around Times Square made the cut possible. But gentrification can't hide the truth: The internet age has made shuttle buses irrelevant. Telecommute home! Full memo after the jump. [via Media Mob]More »
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We Have Found the Mad Bomber
The cops brought in one of those criminal profiler people like you see on the tv shows to figure out just who was mad enough to toss a tiny bomb at the military recruiting station in Times Square at 4 a.m., injuring no one, before speeding off suspiciously on his bicycle. "'He feels comfortable on the bicycle,' Mr. Pierce said of the bomber, suggesting the person could be a bike messenger." You fools! It was Owen Wilson. [NYT]
mistakes
Whoops
Both major New York tabloids today went, on their front pages, with a story that everyone knew was bullshit by the time they picked up the papers. If you caught a second of the morning news today, you know that the letters to congressmen saying "WE DID IT" had jack shit to do with that little I.E.D. that went off in Times Square the other morning. The Post didn't know that when they decided to play the story HUGE today. The Daily News went a bit more tasteful, with one line below a story about how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are having a Graveyard Smash, or something. Click to see both covers embarrassingly huge.
never forget
VIDEO: Hooded Terrorist Coward Flees Times Square Attack!
Surveillance cameras captured fleeting, blurry images of the man who dropped the bomb on Uncle Sam this morning and Police released clips to the media this afternoon We know the terrorist rides a bicycle ("in a suspicious manner") and wears dark clothing. We must insist you turn in any friend, neighbor, or relative who matches this description to the police for questioning. Watch the video for yourself, after the jump. (Also please click to see this loving illustrated tribute to the victims of today's attacks from Gawker reader and patriot Ryan.) More »
never forget
Fallout
Did the TIMES SQUARE I.E.D. affect the Conde Nasties? Did Anna Wintour make it to work today? Any MTV or Viacom slaves want to weigh in on the confusion and terror that have surely overtaken their studios? Send me your stories of heroism. [Photo: Reuters, who are also headquartered right around the corner from this morning's TERROR.]
opposite day
Teens Scream Against Sex
Were you alarmed by an unruly crowd of hundreds of screaming adolescents in the Times Square vicinity today? Don't worry. It was just the TEEN MANIA teens holding their RECREATE '08 rally, taking a vocal stand against those things young adults hate: "substance abuse, violence, premature sexuality, Internet porn and more." Least. Fun. Rally. Ever. Beware of New Jersey's Izod Center this weekend, where 10,000 more religious A students will gather maniacally. The press release explains their crusade of sobriety: More »
sad riots
Shred The Pain Away At Times Square
The Time Square Business Alliance invites all New Yorkers to their hellish playground tomorrow to destroy their baggage, in the both-literal-and-figurative Darjeeling Limited sense. It's "Good Riddance Day," you see, and they've got shredders and garbage trucks at the ready. Show up with old love letters, bounced rent checks, the Bill of Rights, the only documents that prove your arch-nemesis' innocence—anything you need to forget about this terrible year we've all just muddled through. Then they'll shred it and cart it off to Staten Island, the spiritual and physical home of spiritual and physical refuse. You only have an hour, though! Get there before 1 p.m. or else you'll be stuck with that marriage license for another year! Not since the Comiskey Park Disco Demolition Riot of 1979 has there been such a cosmically confused and comically wasteful response to our shared spiritual bankruptcy!Good Riddance Day [Times Square Alliance]
protests
The Viacom Walkout: Articulate, Attractive, Angry!
It was the most the most fashionable group involved in a work stoppage ever this afternoon when about two hundred Viacom freelancers and permalancers (most in their twenties), some press and Times Square onlookers gathered in front of 1515 Broadway. For a while they chanted "What the fuck! What the fuck!" until a fellow clambered on top of a garbage can. "You guys!" he called. "Listen! Cursing and saying stuff that doesn't really matter won't change their minds! We're out here for dental, right? And we want healthcare, right?"
"RIGHT!" the crowd roared back. Chants were amended thusly.
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More from the rowdy underinsured crowd protesting benefits cuts at Viacom.
More photos from today's Viacom walkout—a crowd of about 200 rallied.
A photo from the Viacom walkout going on now in Times Square.
two is a trend
Latest Times Square Streaker Also Taken To Bellevue
So basically these days, if you wanna go to the loony bin, you just rip off your clothes and go to 42nd Street. Just three weeks ago, Josh Drimmer did it. Last night, some dude came down from White Plains and disrobed. Says the Post: "'By the time he got to Times Square, he was naked,' an NYPD spokesman said. After being apprehended next to a vendor's cart marked NUTS 4 NUTS , he was taken to Bellevue Hospital."
TIMES SQ. NUDE DUDE: PART 2 [New York Post]
Cops Finally Going After the Real Criminals
Hey, maybe those tourist-halting pedestrian traffic-impeding ground compasses will be a blessing in disguise if the NYPD keeps arresting dudes who stand around blocking the sidewalk. Maybe this is all a complicated sting operation!
Hey, maybe those tourist-halting pedestrian traffic-impeding ground compasses will be a blessing in disguise if the NYPD keeps arresting dudes who stand around blocking the sidewalk. Maybe this is all a complicated sting operation!
acting out
Naked In Midtown? Off To The Nut Hut!
Local blogger and young Yale grad Josh Drimmer spent the day nekkid in Times Square yesterday. Why not? He's just a bilious young man of the old school! And so off to Bellevue he went. Let that be a lesson to you.
Welcome to Times 'Bare' [NY Post]
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