Chelsea Piers Are Sinking (I Was There!)

So the other night I was playing in my weekly hockey league at Chelsea Piers when suddenly, rink management came running out and summoned the refs over to talk. After a short heated conversation, we all saw the one ref turn around and mouth the words "Oh, Fuck!". So, that was alarming.

He then blew his whistle and told us all, "Game's Over! Everyone off the ice, now!". We thought he was kidding at first, then I thought maybe there's a bomb threat, then I thought why the hell would someone bomb Chelsea Piers?!

We quickly learned through the grapevine that the pier was apparently collapsing, news learned when a diver doing a normal weekly inspection saw a bunch of broken pilings under water. So, naturally, I fought my way out of paying parking ($12), which actually was a fight. I had to convince the attendant that the frigging pier was collapsing and I'm not going to pay. Now, the story is in the news. From the New York Post:

Two hockey rinks at Chelsea Piers have been shut down because a section of wood pilings the building sits on were damaged after a boat rammed into it, officials said yesterday.

Players were abruptly ordered to leave Sky Rink at Pier 61 along the Hudson River on Wednesday at 10 p.m. after construction workers decided there were too many men on the ice while they worked.

Read the rest of the article here: NYPOST

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Where is Moneyries? He's deeper in the internets!

Oh, Hai!

I just wanted to drop in and let you know that i'm still a-bloggin frequently all the days long, although instead of yapping away on Moneyries all the time, I've relegated my interests to where they belong.

For all music, arts, NYC, and Brooklyn news, I'm the Senior Editor at FREEwilliamsburg.

For all internet, awesome, funny, trending, pop culture type cool shit, I'm contributing to BuzzFeed. Here's my personal feed.

I'll continue to update Moneyries with general random bits of the world's internet, so don't lose touch. I'm just sayin i'm more spread out now. Like Mayo.

Now go, enjoy me. And please comment, email, and tip me off at both of those internet graffiti walls by keeping in touch. Either visit frequently, or email me!

Thanks, ta ta for now.

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Bring your wife!

Happy Birthday NYC Resistor!

From Make Magazine, Brooklyn hacker collective NYC Resistor is a year old!

A year ago, NYCResistor was conceived by a few folks around a table in the C4 hacker space in Cologne Germany. We needed a hacker space in NYC and we started building the infrastructure for our space by getting the website started, getting a jabber server up, and putting together email lists. A few months later we had 9 people committed to the idea and we incorporated so we could have a collective checking account for paying bills. A few months after that, we moved into our space in Brooklyn. This hacker space thing is growing. It seems like every day new hacker spaces are popping up on the hackerspaces.org site.

MAKE; NYC Resistor

Slow Motion Skateboarding Video

skate - shot on red - 120 fps from opus magnum prod. on Vimeo.

Pandamonium riots on Bedford

I just posted a rather amusing account of the hipster riots on Bedford last night. Turns out, police don't like public displays of Pandas and Boomboxes. Go read it:

FREEwilliamsburg - Pandamonium on Bedford last night

Video of a cat swimming

This is great, she/he just skims across the water!!! Best week ever has ten of these gems.

Ra Ra Riot's The Rhumb Line Reviewed on Pitchfork

And they dig it, giving the album a 7.5...so, that's cool. This is their first LP release on Barsuk Records, up till now it's just been the EP. Ra Ra Riot's playing the Music Hall of Williamsburg in October. Get ur tix before they sell out; you can preview some songs on Hype Machine before you buy.

Who remembers blog rock? Well, the long-time-coming debut from Ra Ra Riot is the sort of album that got people excited about the stuff in the first place.

via Pitchfork

Craigslist Cash Experiment

Awesome.

Awkward Rap

A Beasite Boys stylized rap for all those awkward moments in life...

via College Humor

Mr. and Miss Williamsburg Beauty Pageant

Join the fun, see the interview. This is not to be missed.

Kitchen Diaries

If, like me, you happened to miss Beardyman's Kitchen Diaries video last year when it debuted on youtube and amassed over 2 million views, here's your chance to see some fine beat box cooking complements of an unassuming house-wivian cooking show.



via BB

Unneccesary Censorship

This one's featured on youtube, but i love me some unnecessary censorship. Jimmy Kimmel presents the "Come and Play" edition, where they censor Sesame Street in a tribute to the FCC.

RIP Isaac Hayes

The interwebs are ablaze over the weekend with the passing of our beloved Chef, soul singer, and Scientologist Isaac Hayes. So here, enjoy some Shaft theme to keep your Monday going.

Bush Doing Something Awkward

via buzzfeed, more images here.

Moneyries on FREEwilliamsburg

I'll still be bringing you all sorts of nonsense over here at moneyries, so don't go away, but come visit me on FREEwilliamsburg, where I'll be posting daily on Williamsburg events, culture, and internet awesomeness.

My first two posts are:
Kickball Halfletes of the Week
Pool Party Goes On, Attendees Free of Deer Ticks

and FYI, a "Halflete" is someone, like me, who really can't be called an athlete any more, but perhaps once was, or continues to dominate the beer sports like kickball, buck hunter, and darts.

Cat drinking water

To keep up my cat obsession this week, here's Mr. Loki drinking water
out of my sink. I thought only dogs did this! But, apparently this little guy is just thirsty.

Sky Watch in Williamsburg

Animal reports that the NYPD has installed a border-style watchtower at the corner of Graham and Moore to help fight back a recent crime surge in the area. It's all rather inconspicuous. My question: does someone actually sit in this thing and bake all day, or is it just a really big box for a really tiny camera? Let's organize a mass-mooning with 88 butts at 8:08 tonight! Or just go see the drums.

Animal's got a few more pictures, too.

Oh lordy, here we go again...

He cheated. While she had cancer. How...vice presidential of him.

However, his brow-dampening yet reliable method of "am i the father" testing is quite like anyone who's seen a recent sexual partner's facebook status read, "I'm pregnant!".

Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby's birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.

In other words, his early 2007 springtime romp with Rielle Hunter puts him in baby-free safe boat.

via ABC.

88 drummers on Williamsburg waterfront at 8:08

Tonight, the Boredoms are back with 10 more drummers for their 88Boadrum Event, where they join 88 drummers for 88 minutes at 8:08 tonight on 08/08/08, at the Williamsburg waterfront. Oddly, the event is sponsored by Nike, and they'll be giving away free t-shirts from their "88Boadrum NSW Tee" collection. Tickets are at Sound Fix or online at brownpapertickets.com.

Click below to view a strange little video from last year's 77Boadrum Event on 7/07/07 at 7:07 with 77 drummers and you get the point.



via Pitchfork
image via Flickr user Barry Yanowitz

Have a cringeworthy weekend

88 Ways To Celebrate 08/08/08

If you didn't notice, today's an anomaly.

It's August 8th, 2008, meaning 08-08-08, and if their marketing was at all successful you probably know that today's also the start of the olympics. I also read on FriendFeed that people who rush to get married today also risk higher divorce rates. That being said, Best Week Ever painstakingly compiled a list of 88 things you can do to celebrate 08/08/08.

Among them: make love to a spider, have an 8-person orgy at a Super 8 Motel, and fall in love with a Sk8ter Boi. I'd also add to the mix singing the song, "I like to ate, ate, ate apples and ba-nay-nays".

Take a few moments to visit Best Week Ever and read the rest.

And you thought McCarren Park got weird at night...

Police were called to LanTian park in the middle of the night recently by a frantic man who managed to get his penis stuck in a park bench. Xing, a 41 year-old lonely Hong Konger (kongite? kongerinian?), was trying to satisfy himself using a hold in a metal park bench, when suddenly he realized he was stuck!

When doctors arrived on the scene they tried to release some of the pressure by removing some of his blood, but the penis was so swollen that they ended up having to cut the entire bench free and take it, with Xian attached, to the hospital.

It turns out, that if they didn't get him free from his love bench in one more hour, they would've had to remove his penis. Dear god.

via Weird Asia News

Barack Obama and Paris Hilton's Response to McCain "Celebrity" Ad

Slow Motion Lightning Strike

Welcome To My Study [video]

Comedian Mitch Magee presents "Welcome To My Study", cause he's seen things...things that he just shouldn't talk about! Eliot @ Buzzfeed says:

Comedian Mitch Magee’s wonderfully bizarre web series is absurdist comedy at its finest. From the disturbing opening theme music to the creepily slow close-ups, “Welcome To My Study” is essentially like watching Mr. Rogers on ‘ludes and house arrest.



via Buzzfeed

This is my cute cat

Photo from EA Game lab, playing Dead Space

Door warning at EA

The Hipster Doctor Interview

Gawker, from time to time, mentions their favorite Williamsburg Doctor, Dr. Jay Parkinson. They love him for a few reasons. First, he's from Williamsburg, giving him that hipster cred. Second, he's a decent looking guy, so this fulfills many a lady's fantasy of a dreamy doc. Third, you can chat with him over IM, Facebook, Email, etc! He's doc 2.0! Well, this past winter, after their first story and subsequent Gothamist coverage, I im'ed the doc and had a little chat. I dug this up from the archives of this here computer, and thought that nows the time to share the Dr. Parkinson interview, wherein we talk about free publicity, his ethos, and how Gawker writers are lonely souls...(no offense).

He also couldn't keep the phone down for our goddamn broken conversation, but, as you'll see, he seems like a pretty nice guy, and with the launch of Hello Health he's really making the uninsured williamsburg internet enthusiast a little more comfortable. Here, learn more. Oh, and this past week good old publicity hound Julia Alison saw the doc, and lifecasted the whole thing. So anyways, yea, I sat down and had a little insta-chat with the good doc, so here it is, our first ever Moneyries exclusive interview.

moneyries: saw you on gothamist...are you located in nyc or baltimore?
jayparkinsonmd: nyc
jayparkinsonmd: i never log into myspace and gawker got a hold of my myspace which said bmore
jayparkinsonmd: i moved up here 2 months ago
moneyries: got ya
moneyries: well, the flickr account they're linking to says baltimore
moneyries: anyways, what you're doing is awesome. keep it up.
jayparkinsonmd: thank you....sorry....i'm getting calls from all over the country....was on the phone
jayparkinsonmd: hmm...i gotta change that
moneyries: yea, i bet the press is going to be all over ure story b/c of gothamist
jayparkinsonmd: oh man...check out gawker
moneyries: so back to the reason i im'ed...do u take just uninsured people, or both? basically my gf and i just moved to brooklyn, and have lots of friends who fit in both categories
moneyries: haha, gawker too, im surprised wired hasn't called
moneyries: u'r right up there alley
jayparkinsonmd: i treat insured people as well. i just don't take insurance....i'll give you a receipt and you can submit the claim to your insurance company and be reimbursed. but dealing with insurance companies is expensive requiring staff and billing specialists. it helps me keep the cost down. plus i charge less for those that have insurance b/c they don't benefit as much from my services.
right on.
moneyries: i just paid upwards of 300 to be insured for 2 1/2 months, and i really don't need it. just b/c my parents told me to do it
moneyries: i'm waiting to see how the new job i have deals with health care. so, i might be in touch! good luck though, i'll pass your name along to some friends
jayparkinsonmd: thank you....sorry again
jayparkinsonmd: phone is off the hook
jayparkinsonmd: : yeah it's insane how much health insurance is. but congrats on the new job that'll provide it for you. keep in touch.
moneyries: thanks, good luck to you with the newfound publicity
jayparkinsonmd: ha....thank you. i hope the old saying that any publicity is good publicity is true
jayparkinsonmd: thanks....gawker dufuses can be assholes
moneyries: yea, i mean, those are the extremes. these are people sitting at cubicles with nothing better to do
jayparkinsonmd: poor bastards
moneyries: haha
jayparkinsonmd: keep in touch
moneyries: will do. later.

Journalists Beaten in China

With the Olympic Games kicking off in three days, now is not the best time for the Chinese Government to go around beating up journalists. However, that's exactly what they did earlier today after two Japanese journalists filmed the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Kashgar China. The Chinese police reportedly took the journalists from the hotel they were staying at, beat them around a bit, and broke their equipment. They also tracked down a French photographer for AFP and made him delete photos from the attack. Later, the police issued apologies and offered to pay for the broken equipment, but the message was clear.

``Journalists are forbidden to enter the area controlled by border police, but the two disobeyed the rules,'' Kashgar's government spokesman Eskar said today, according to a report by state news agency Xinhua. ``We are sorry for the incident and the damage to the equipment that belonged to the reporters.''

via Bloomberg

70s Anti-drug ad brings the funk

Thank you Hanna-barbera for working through the 70's when everyone else was out getting high.



via Videogum

No Dancing Shoes for Studio B

In a community board meeting that compared Studio B attendees to "Sodom and Gomorrah", the Greenpoint club's request for a Caberet License was ultimately shot down. This means there will be no dancing allowed! None! Their lawyer came even armed with a list of potential compromises recommended by a neighbor to the B, but in the end only a few attendees spoke up in its defense, noting it "puts Greenpoint on the map". (It doesn't.) One person even came with photographic evidence of sultry deeds going down on the dance floor, er images of girls "flashing their breasts"! The problem here is Studio B isn't that cool. It's just a noisy club in a dustier bit of industrial Greenpoint that occasionally has overpacked parties listed on Going.com.

The list of comprimises, which the club promises it will continue to follow through with, are as follows (via New York Shitty)

1. The issue of soundproofing, namely the rooftop garden.
2. Permanent signage admonishing patrons to be considerate of their neighbors.
3. The installation of double doors on the first floor as an extra sound-proofing measure.
4. A supervised smoking pen to be installed and enforced in front of said establishment.
5. Studio B will do regular trash sweeps of of Calyer and Banker Street.
6. A security force (provided by Studio B) will be put in place to deter patrons from loitering on adjacent properties.
7. Enclosed garbage containers will be put in place in lieu of garbage bags.

Neat. Comprimises are great, aren't they? Read more about all this nonsense at the Brooklyn Paper, cuz its early, i have no further commentary, and I'm hopping on a plane to a tiny little island in the middle of the Atlantic. Can you guess it?

McCarren Park Pool Parties Coming To An End

The McCarren Park Pool parties that we've come to love are coming to an end in less than 30 days, when the Sonic Youth take the stage in the pool's final curtain call before it goes through a $50 million dollar Pinocchio remake into a Real Pool! It's been twenty years since real water flowed through the pools belly, and only three of the last twenty saw worn Converses and warm beer. Here's to hoping open container laws won't be stricly enforced and floating bars serving Margaritas and Coozie-coated PBRs will occupy every corner.

Like every sweet summer fling, though, this one is destined to end. According to a city plan, McCarren, on the border between Williamsburg and Greenpoint, will soon quit its current state — a combination performance space, hula hoop and dodge-ball playground, alt-fashion catwalk and reclaimed ruin — and revert to its original purpose as a public swimming pool.

nytimes via curbed

Saturday Night Live's Older Sets Are Dead

Twenty-five years of SNL sets went the way of the jackhammer this past week, as either NBC Execs or the old set builders decided their time was due. The mass archive at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was reduced to piles of rubble last month, without even giving fans a chance to sift through its hilarious history. Or maybe, this is just their way of killing off the last ten years of SNL "dark ages" before Andy Samberg came around and showed NBC the importance of digital shorts. One of my favorites of those would be the Japanese Office, shown below (w/ commercial. mine had NPH, so that's ok). Enjoy!



via I'm Not Saying