East Village Idiot

Am I the only one who finds this ad’s co-opting of a name for a Breast Cancer awareness event incredibly inappropriat

I do the sudoku in amNewYork to pass the time on my commute every morning, but this morning, I got an unsolvable puzzle. Yes, after more than a month without posting, I’m sure this is exactlywhat you were waiting fo

Hello there. I kicked this site to the curb last week, and it finally found its way back to me today. So here goes nothing. The latest in “no, you’re doing it wrong.” Seriously, this is not a difficult one. You could get accessories right, but not coffee...

The U.S. just had its first Swine Flu death. It was a 23 month-old. The natural media reaction?PANIC! God forbid they give a little perspective. Here’s some: According to the CDC, 55 other children in the U.S...

I didn’t want to post this on a Monday, because it would make everyone utterly miserable. So, uh, Happy Tuesday, everyone! (Taken on the corner of 18th & Broadwa

To: All Staff From: Mother Nature Re: Spring This is to inform you that effective April, 2009, spring will be eliminated due to budget shortfalls. We regret having to make this decision, but because of the recession, all companies are being forced to make cutbacks...

This is a 20 Right Triangle-bound Rectangle Train. The next stop is flashing dot. Stand clear of the closing doors, please.

Gatlinburg, Tennessee is like Aspen, Colorado if it was run by rednecks.

Hey, here’s a brilliant idea! Threaten to kill the mayor of New York in the comments of a relatively mundane article on the Daily News’ website. Lay out your entire plan, including your defense in court, and then attach your name and a phone number to it...

If you have such a problem with your college’s leadership, leave. You chose to go there in the first plac

More posts coming soon, but in the meantime, please take some time to enjoy the revival of LOLYankees. Old and tired meets new hotness. You’re welcom

Dear lord, Accuquote. Could you be any more obvious at toying with people’s emotions? Crying babies in a life insurance ad? Tasteless, because they’re trying to get you to buy something.

There is a rash of these on a stretch of Chrystie Street and 2nd Avenue around Houston. The accuracy of its execution is much more pronounced at night, obviously, whenthrongs of Bridge-and-Tunnel trash traverse the East Village and Lower East Side and very much deservebeing flipped off.

Don’t confuse the two. Unlike the film starring Jason Segel and Paul Rudd, thisparticular filmis actually about the bromance between Alberto Gonzales and former White House Legal Counsel John Yo

Last I checked, an escalator can become stairs, but stairs cannot become an escalator.

How do you figure, Delta Airlines? At its widest point, it might take me 45 minutes to swim across the East River. A boat is much faster. I could drive over a bridge, and even with gridlocked traffic, I’d still make it from shore to shore in less than an hour...

Mycurrent roommate is moving in with his girlfriend on April 1st (next week!)in the hopes of saving money. He told us this at the beginning of March. So, immediately,I went the old-fashioned route - the route I’ve used to find every roommate I’ve ever had: Craigslist...

Today, the MTA will vote to raise fares again… this time to the tune of 23%. Your monthly Metrocard that cost you $81 this month will cost you $103 in June. Yes, it’s outrageous. Yes, it’s unfair. But no, it’s not entirely the MTA’s fault...

I hate kicking someone when they’re down, but this example of the MTA’s inefficiency cannot be ignored. This stairway at the Grand Street station on theB/Dhas eight steps. Apparently, it takes 13 days for the MTA to repair 8 steps...

…but I can’t decide whether to rant about the rampant homophobia at the New York Post, or do my duty as a Red Sox fan and simply make an “A-Rod is Gay

From today’s issue of my hometown newspaper, theProvidence Journal: Really? Barry Manilow? I hear the Captain & Tennille arepretty mainstreamthese days, too. It appears that Rhode Island is perpetually trapped in 197

So long, K-Rock. 92.3 WXRK is flipping to Top 40 tomorrow as 92.3 Now FM, ending another brief run of rock radio on a station that was already a shadow of its former self...

This one is minor and discreet. This one is, however, is egregious.

The New York State DMV has held me hostage for six days now. On Sunday, I placed an order online for a reprint of my license, because I lost it in an unfortunate incident at an out-of-state bar on Saturday night. As of today’s mail delivery, I still haven’t received it...

Does anyone else feel like this… …is just an oversized version of this… …13 years t

Sorry, I’ve been away for the past few days. Here’sa collection of some of the things I’veconsumed in the past five days, and why I shouldn’t eat anything ever again:

I went to Flip today for lunch, and I pretty much echo AHT’s review. All right, but not worth the price. Their definition of “medium” seems to vary depending on whose burger they’re cooking. Meat was a little more flavorful than I think AHT experienced on day 1...

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13th & 4th, 8:32am.

I have a very generic personal e-mail address on Gmail. I owe it to the fact that I was an early adopter/beta tester of Gmail (back when you needed to be invited)...

Not many people in New York City listen to the radio. This has a lot to do with the fact that we don’t sit in cars all day driving around from place to place. But if there was really an incentive to listen to radio, wouldn’t we find a way to tune in...

May 7, 1997: - I was a sophomore in high school. - I was taking trigonometry, little of which I remember. - I was probably on the bench at a varsity baseball game. - I had an online journal on Geocities....

This morning, I was going down the stairs to the L Train, knowing full well that a train wasin the station. I was stuck behind this seemingly able-bodied middle-aged man wearing a burgundy jacketwho took a careful, slow, steady pace down the stairs...

The inbox on my Blackberry, after receiving 33 text messages in 40 minutes from the MTA with the exact same text about a service alert on the L Train that had already expired earlier in the afternoon. It’s a good thing I have an unlimited text plan...

There are plenty of things that bother me about the Trader Joe’s on 14th Street, but one thing that boggles my mind are its hours of operation. It’s open from 9am-10pm. And every morning, by 8:55am, there is a throng of eager customers waiting to get in and beat the crowd...

NYU isn’t a public institution. They don’t have to open their books and share you the details of their endowment, and they have every right to kick you out. They’ll just as easily find some other sucker willing to pay 200Gs for an NYU diploma...

To whom it may concern: I am writing to you out of concern over a serious safety issue on the L Train platform at the 14th Street-Union Square...

Troubling findings from yesterday’s Times: Cities remain attractive to the young. Forty-five percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 would like to live in New York City. Oh, God, no. Just what we need: more fratboys from the South and Sex in the City wannabes from the Midwest...