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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Photo of the Week: Night Swimming
The latest recycling craze to hit Brooklyn is swimming pools made from…wait for it…dumpsters. As reported in The New York Times this past week, the design company Macro-Sea created three connecting pools in dumpsters on the banks of the Gowanus Canal (sterilized, of course). But don’t try to get there–the space is reserved for invite-only, exclusive parties. For the common folk, there’s a video. Hmph. Photo by Yana Paskova for The New York Times.
The Writing On The Wall
Ah, the perils of Facebook. When will rising political stars learn that a Facebook wall is not an appropriate venue for unsavory comments? The latest culprit in a string of Facebook wall-offenses is (was) the Deputy Press Secretary for Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. Lee Landor posted a comment to her Facebook account earlier this week in which she lauded Cambridge, MA police for “doing [their] job” and stated that President “O-dumb-a” should not have involved himself in the issue of the controversial arrest of Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he attempted to enter his home. Landor wrote: “You know what, I am really getting SICK of hearing about how white people are evil racists. Black … More >>
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Help Out Our Buddies @ Drinking Liberally
The founder of Drinking Liberally needs your help! Many of you met Justin Krebs at our annual kickball bout with the Young Republicans. Please take twenty seconds to sign the petition. You know Rudy’s? The dive bar with $9 pitchers and free hot dogs? The place where Drinking Liberally began? The place that keeps the hell in Hell’s Kitchen? It’s backyard has been closed by the city for 7 months… and now we need your help to reopen it. Check out our petition — http://livingliberally.org/rudys — it’s a letter to the Department of Buildings Commissioner asking him to expedite the steps that will let them reopen. The reasons for the closure are bizzare, byzantine and quite possibly corrupt. Why couldn’t … More >>
#geographyFAIL
Good job, Fox News: As The Kids Would Say, “Geography Fail” – TAP
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Ballot Shenanigans
Councilman Bill de Blasio is back on the ballot for NYC Public Advocate. He’s “back” because the Board of Elections tried to kick him off late last week, for a typographical error: New York City’s election laws are notoriously unfair, and few events make that point as well as what happened on Thursday to City Councilman Bill de Blasio. Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat from Brooklyn, has been running for the job of public advocate for New York City. He has raised more than $1 million and courted thousands of voters. To get on the ballot, he needed 7,500 valid signatures of city voters. To be sure he got enough, his campaign gathered 125,000. But Thursday afternoon, Mr. de Blasio’s … More >>
David Silversmith, Political Insurgent, 30
Last week, we promised that the person who joined MYD as our 100th dues-paying member would be profiled on our blog. No sooner than one hour later, David Silversmith became that lucky guy, a “living, breathing, progressive-agenda-wielding testatment to how far MYD has come over the past seven months” and the recipient of a brand-spanking-new “Don’t Vote for Pedro” t-shirt. And so it is that we kick off our new blog series “MYD Member of the Week”. Every week, we’ll profile a (dues-paying) member of MYD–stick ‘em in the spotlight and make ‘em look good. Jealous of David? Email me at newmedia [at] goMYD [dot] com if you want your two-and-a-half minutes of fame. Have questions you want to ask … More >>
