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Harlem Smart Car Outbreak

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 14, 2008. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

NYC the Blog is reporting a Smart Car outbreak in Harlem, with three reported sightings. "…A fukn epidemic. NYC The Blog would like to be the first to report a full blown outbreak of Smart Cars in Harlem. That’s right. Holla. Walking on Broadway yesterday afternoon, marveling at the different world that exists down there
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Remembering Bernie Mac in ‘Mr. 3000′

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 12, 2008. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

With all the obits out there, we wanted to look back at what Armond White said in 2004 when Bernie Mac starred in the baseball comedy, Mr. 3000. Check it out here
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The Queerest Thing: Transgender Nomi and Voguers Steal the Show at Hercules and Love Affair

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 11, 2008. Posted in Music, Posts

I missed the Hercules and Love Affair show at Studio B earlier this summer, but wasn’t going to miss the return performance of the fab dance band that has somehow infiltrated the drudgery of the indie music ranks and caused folks to dance. I especially wanted to see how the eight-piece live band was able
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Ab Fab: NBC Showcases Olympic Swimmers’ Sweet Spots

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 11, 2008. Posted in Posts, Sports

The Olympic Games are the time to sit back, relax and admire other people’s physiques. NBC seems to have finally picked up on the penchant for more exposed flesh on network television and has even devised a guessing game on its website. It sorta resembles some sort of boy-next-door gay porn site, with headless, objectified
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Bore Yourself Silly With Sigur RÃ³s

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 5, 2008. Posted in Music, Posts

If you missed Iceland’s slow and moody Sigur Rós when they were recently in concert, then Current TV is offering you a second shot later today when they play the MoMA concert on their site. Check out a teaser here
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Why You Can’t See ‘Midnight Meat Train’ in NYC

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 4, 2008. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Try as you might, you can’t see Clive Barker’s Midnight Meat Train on a screen in NYC. Lionsgate decided to dump the horror flick (which may actually be worth checking out) in dollar theaters around the country this past Friday. Mr Disgusting at BloodyDisgusting.com thinks that if peole had paid full-price to see it, the
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EURO COUNT: Let the European Invasion Begin

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 4, 2008. Posted in Posts

It’s August and that means… the Europeans are coming. If you didn’t realize that this is the month when all the Euros leave their home country and descend on others, then you sure did as you got on the train this morning or tried to walk down the street without stumbling over some thin, attractive
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How to Solve a Sunburn

Written by Jerry Portwood on August 1, 2008. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

It’s another beachy weekend. And in preparation of those eventual back blistering aloe afternoons, here’s one solution to sunburn recovery
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Halt the Hike (And Fainting Passengers)

Written by Jerry Portwood on July 31, 2008. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

This morning’s commute on the 1 train was packed and hot and sweaty. Water dripped on us from a condenser. A circuit clicked and some piercing alarm continued to sound. Then the lady behind me fainted and her bottled water sprayed at least a dozen of us. We lifted her up as the doors closed
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Remember When the Cock Was For Sucking? Now Lindsay Lohan Can’t Get Enough

Written by Jerry Portwood on July 30, 2008. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Used to be, you went to The Cock, a dark, dank bar on the Lower East Side, and you’d be more likely to get groped, not have a celeb siting. I heard someone complaining just the other day about all the girls showing up to shake their stuff, curtailing the surreptitious slurping that used to
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