When traveling to Coney Island for Nathan’s 2010 Hotdog competition you begin to embark on a travel of epic proportions. Upon embarking the B train I immediately ran into a cute foreign couple from the Netherlands who were also traveling to the competition. After expressing their joy from the Netherlands previous world cup victory over [...]
I’m watching the news one night on TV and suddenly out of no where, one of the reporters start quipping about the new Sex and the City sequel and how fabulous the movie is and how later one of the show’s stars will be coming on live, or something to that effect when I suddenly [...]
It’s a quarter past nine in the evening and I’ve just downed my third glass of vodka whatever with the shiny catering boy refreshing my palette’s sense of humor with the umpteenth delicacy. It’s probably my first solid meal in three days but I’m hardly complaining. Around me a bevy of television types hustle for [...]
To the unsuspecting observer, what supposedly passes for high society may actually be that (give or take the occasional too unbelievable story of $4000 bubble baths) but to the seasoned member of real society what may be passed off as society in their mind is a complicit effort by the media to cash in on [...]
When being poor in America may not be as bad as you think it is. By now we all know that we are living in a collective economic contraction that has taken a heavy toll on our collective prosperity and even most people’s ability to maintain day to day survival. Of course according to myth, [...]
For some reason or another most people in Western society are brought up with the idea that even if they don’t come from a distinguished or privileged class that eventually with hard work, a good education, patience and commitment that they too can ascend to their rightful place in society. The irony of this thought [...]
A Braver type of journalist has arrived in America. From Gawker comes an interesting tale of the brave new world of journalism: Former North Carolina TV newsman Jon Robinson is more interesting than most TV newsmen: “What I really wanted to say [on air] is, ‘I shot heroin last night and smoked crack and watched [...]
A minute must have passed before TMZ were next to Brittany Murphy’s death bed analyzing ‘exactly’ what had led to her death and what her death meant for America and by implication whether her recent lapse in work professionalism was tied to the possible bogey man called ‘drug addiction’ that has seen a number of [...]
Pay for play or payola is a common term in the music industry. Paying people to play your music on radio stations is an illegal and frowned upon practice. However, payola is a common practice in the relationship realm. For some women, it is dinner and a movie. For others it is many dinners and [...]
Some things just can’t be ignored… We think the pictures speak for themselves, lest we say anything more, very interesting for a country that has a high degree of racial and xenophobic tensions… French Soccer Team 1959 French Soccer Team 2008
