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Status of Things

2010-04-14T14:14:00.002-04:00

This blog is sleeping for a long time. I update Twitter most frequently, Tumblr occasionally & Free Williamsburg a few times a week. Keep in touch.

Twittastic

2009-05-20T11:17:00.002-04:00

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BB Tip Sheet

2009-05-13T10:52:00.002-04:00

Check out this week's Brooklyn-Based Tip Sheet: May 13-20. Iiiiii helped (points thumb to chest)!

On FW: Just Another Job Listing

2009-05-12T18:22:00.002-04:00

I was intrigued by everything about this...the boring office work, the urine shots and of course the striptease lessons. A true tale.

Kanye Webst Week

2009-05-12T17:05:00.002-04:00

It's Kanye time over at the F.A.T. Reposted via BuzzFeed:

The web scientists and technicians behind F.A.T. (Free Art and Technology Lab) are celebrating Kanye Webst Week by cranking out bits of ALL-CAPS glory by the day. So far they've given us Kanye Vision, Beautiflu and Kanye Quotables, the definitive refreshable database of Kayneisms culled from his blog.

See the whole thang, here.

Twitter

2009-05-06T17:19:00.002-04:00

Oh, just follow me on Twitter already, would ya?

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The Rhizome 50,000 Webpage

2009-04-22T11:17:00.003-04:00

Like the Million Dollar Homepage before it, Rhizome's 50k Webpage is an attempt to raise money by people's purchases of pixels. I bought 20x20 for $20 with a link to my Twitter account.

Most Tweets @MCHammer In One Minute

2009-04-21T13:26:00.000-04:00

Brooklyn's Got Balls

2009-04-20T11:56:00.002-04:00

via Kottke, who went with the "Suck my Manhattan!" joke.

Palin Vetting Questions

2009-04-17T18:14:00.001-04:00

A.B. Culvahouse, a powerful Washington lawyer and former counsel to President Reagan, told an audience of Republican lawyers that for McCain, selecting a vice president came down to three questions: Why do you want to be vice president? Are you prepared to use nuclear weapons? And the CIA has identified Osama bin Laden, but if you take the shot there will be multiple civilian casualties. Do you take the shot?

Link: Politico

SnagFilms Film Widget

2009-04-14T14:11:00.001-04:00

Round-up

2009-04-06T12:53:00.004-04:00

While I wait for my chinese food delivery, here's what I did last night:

Dollar Van Demos provides cheap-o rides (operated by West Indian drivers, no less) around Brooklyn [freedubya]

Woman Arrested at Wall Street Pillow Fight [nbc]

Learn how to properly hide a boner [buzzfeed]

Can you find the ladies? [buzzfeed]

Boners are really awkward! There's even a blog about it. [buzzfeed]

This dude's a nerd. Helpful though. [buzzfeed]

This ad for condoms is clever. Or a photoshop disaster. [buzzfeed]

Bad idea, Zecco. Joke's on you. [buzzfeed]

A blog for flaming garbage cans in hip hop videos. Of course. [buzzfeed]

Bruno Red Band Trailer

2009-04-02T17:12:00.000-04:00

It's time to watch America be uncomfortable with gay people, you guys! We've been waiting...

NY Channel 11 Falls For It

2009-04-02T12:50:00.002-04:00

NYC Channel CW11 News didn't realize Improv Everywhere's latest "Best Funeral Ever" video was a fake, and ran a segment about it on their 10 O'clock news.

Watch the original on BuzzFeed.

Footage of Fixed Gear ‘Red Hook’ Race

2009-03-30T22:21:00.000-04:00

Although the New York Times did a nice job poetically describing this weekend’s Red Hook Criterium—just read the opener—here’s some excellent video footage of the outlaw fixed gear bike race that shockingly resulted in no injuries for the cyclists involved.

via Animal NY

Designers in Manhattan, Memes in Bklyn

2009-03-24T11:26:00.002-04:00

Last week I previewed then reviewed cut&paste's lil' thang at webster, found some iphone cupcake apps (via andy), an unhappy goose and soap in the shape of xbox 360. tonight i'll see some memes and continue digesting this mac n' cheese.

Water

2009-03-23T15:54:00.002-04:00

w/ Time Bomb by Beck

Great Greenpoint Mac Off Not So Great

2009-03-23T15:44:00.003-04:00

But only for reasons related to my late arrival to the party...

We showed up at both The Mark Bar and Habitat to empty, crusty trays that once held gooey, steaming mac n' cheese for the hoards. Being late sucked. So we eventually just ducked over to TBD on Franklin for their $3 Bluepoint's and banging mac n' cheese, which was still in abundant supply and really was awesome. TBD is fun! We bailed before the awards to grab a hot polish dinner, but Miss Heather, one of the "celebrity judges" stuck around and has video. Check it.

Dear Mark Zuckerberg & The Facebook Team

2009-03-17T18:40:00.002-04:00

You have finally, FINALLY, really fucked up Facebook.

I know you're mad that Twitter turned you down, but c'mon, my news feed is now nothing but nonsense! And I just keep getting lost in it, with useless junk, that I now am trying to filter our through the use of networks. Control your envy, Facebook overlord. You had a great site there for a minute, until you went and got all crazy on us. I am not just "getting used to the redesign." This isn't just growing pains. This is a serious problem. You f'd up my news feed.

Read: THE NEW FACEBOOK REDESIGN IS CLUTTERED. Please fix. Thank u.

More on Gawker

Virgins and Graffiti Art

2009-03-17T18:13:00.002-04:00

So if Williamsburg has no art virgins anymore, what's that say for the graffiti population? Are they equally as sexually-shared? Or are the great spray paint artists of New York City cardboard humpers like the mathematicians south of Canal St.?

Babylon Band by Kutiman

2009-03-12T11:19:00.003-04:00

Kutiman remixes YouTube, and does it reeeally friggin' well. Enjoy this, but there's a handful of others here:

Lawyers Can Help With That Warrant, You Know

2009-03-11T12:09:00.006-04:00

Sometime last winter someone I know very well got a pink slip summons here in Brooklyn, New York for urinating between two parked vans somewhere in industrial Bushwick or Bed-Stuy...can't remember which. The odds that anyone drove by at the exact instant of his urinary relief are asounding, let alone two of New York's finest. Approximately 8 minutes after he got that ticket, he threw it out, or lost it, one or the other it doesn't matter now. He then basically forgot about the ticket for months, until sometime yesterday when he realized that summer is coming up, and with it kickball, and with that joy of drinking beers outdoors in McCarren park at night.

Oh no!

He probably has some kind of (hopefully loosely enforced) warrant out for his arrest for not showing up for that measly little pink slip! He did some research around the bliggosphere, had Sheila at Gawker do an advice column for him, and eventually, balled up and called a lawyer. He is now a proud American citizen with retained legal counsel ($500) who has advised him to "keep his head down" while he sorts things out. This is great! He really feels truly American and can say things like, "I dunno guys. I shouldn't drink that beer on the subway. My lawyer's advised me not to."

He has promised to send me updates with how everything nets out. Today his lawyer is checking with the courts to verify the existence of that warrant.

Originally posted on FREEwilliamsburg

Phish Hampton Live Stream!

2009-03-06T20:18:00.001-05:00

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO PHISH'S LIVE STREAM OF TONIGHT'S HAMPTON SHOW!!! YES!!!!!!

(or just wait 'till an hour after the show and do the "No Spoilers" version, numbnuts)

Phish's Box Boat Robot

2009-03-06T15:48:00.003-05:00

All I know is what the guy at Hampton Coliseum who took this picture, tweeted..."the box boat show."

Dressing Like A Schoolgirl, Getting Pussy and Watching the Watchmen

2009-03-06T09:15:00.005-05:00

An UES restaurant is giving away free dinners and two rounds of drinks to all who come dressed like schoolgirls during the four days surrounding its debut on Gossip Girl.

The NYC Beard and Mustache Championship is coming to Williamsburg March 14, with a new category: Recession Beards!

Speaking of Recession Beards, I spot a trend!

How much pussy (cat) did you get on prom night?

And finally, what if the Watchmen was a Saturday morning cartoon we watched in the 80's?

The Antlers - Hospice

2009-03-05T11:03:00.003-05:00

The Antlers are playing Union Hall tonight. Their new album, Hospice (stream here) , was called by Robin Hilton at NPR, "one of the most beautiful and moving works I've heard in a long, long time." It really is. I recommend giving it a good listen.

"Who Watches the Watchmen" New York Graffiti

2009-03-04T18:49:00.003-05:00

Someone...or something has been going spraypainting the words, "Who Watches the Watchmen" in Chelsea, SoHo and in random alleys around town. So who's doing it? I can't imagine the city's comic nerds are out late at night spreading the Watchmen's tagline around town. And, seeing that it's all done in the same purple paint, this is just screaming grassroots marketing. Warner Bros probably doesn't care that they'll get fined, they're going to make so much bank on this film in its first two weeks in the theatre. I kinda wish they did something more original, like, I dunno, had a street artist remix their ads and then furiuosly back pedal while city agencies huff and gruff to the Post. (via Slashfilm)

Brands Step Into Your Newsfeed

2009-03-04T17:21:00.002-05:00

Facebook's allowing brands to get all up in your news streams, starting on or around March 11th. Are you ready for that?

Sleeping Dog Runs Into Wall

2009-03-04T15:26:00.001-05:00

Support animal rights tear down all walls everywhere all the time so dogs can run freely in their sleep and not have to have rude awakenings like this poor fellow! No Walls For Dogs. NWFD. T-shirts to follow.

I'm So Vain

2009-03-04T00:30:00.002-05:00

Sometimes I think this song is about me.

I'm Back!!!

2009-03-03T18:45:00.002-05:00

Oh forget it sally. I'm coming back to blogger. This month has been one big blog hosting identity crisis. Why tumblr? Why blogger? Why blog at all? I've decided that I'll keep posting here on Moneyries with stuff from NBC, BuzzFeed and Free Williamsburg. You'll also get your fair share of dumb geeky internety stuff. I promise it'll be fun to read, and if you have any suggesstions or ideas, just email me. Thanks friends and random internet people. I look forward to revving this engine back up!

On Tumblr Now!

2009-02-12T16:40:00.002-05:00

C'mon over to Tumblr, where the water's slightly infected and everybody wears the same pants.

moneyries.tumblr.com

Time To Leave Blogger

2009-02-05T16:43:00.002-05:00

Well this is the final twig in a wildfire, but it's time to leave Blogger. I'll be on Tumblr within the month. Goodbye Google, you've treated me well, but this is ig'nant.

Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings

2009-02-04T11:59:00.001-05:00

Cry some tears of a rapper with 'em:

Left 4 Dead Valentines

2009-02-02T16:17:00.001-05:00

More here....

A brief moment of excitement...

2009-01-28T13:19:00.001-05:00

For a moment here I thought Bill Cosby had actually taken a moment from his day and decided, "Hey, I'm gonna add Brian on Twitter." Oh, to dream....

Around The Web

2009-01-28T12:32:00.002-05:00

Around the web this week:

Buildings flooding around W'burg
Sound Fix To Close: NBC, FW
Ice Skate and Rock Out
Muxtape is Back: FW, BuzzFeed
The White House Record Collection

and, Time Lapse Video of a Baby Playing With His Toys: BuzzFeed

The future has arrived!

2009-01-03T06:12:00.000-05:00

Personal media viewers "My Vu" are apparently a hot item, says the
store clerk at Tech Showcase, at JetBlue's Terminal 5 at JFK...

Welcome To My Study Christmas

2008-12-23T13:01:00.001-05:00

Radegast

2008-12-20T20:01:00.000-05:00

Drinking a tall, German beer in a snowstorm at Radegast Beer Hall,
Brooklyn NY.

Trying to go to the Blip Fest

2008-12-05T10:56:00.002-05:00

I really want to check this shit out this time around, I missed it last year. I wrote about it at NBCnewyork and FREEwilliamsburg, so we'll see if I make it down for a wrap-up. Should be pretty rad.

Blip Festival 2008: The Promo from Richard Alexander Caraballo on Vimeo.

Reminder: My Mustache!

2008-12-01T13:24:00.004-05:00

I'm still growing, and the kids are still in need. I'm growing out my Mustache for Kids for two more weeks, and am in serious need of your donations. If you're unsure, check out the cause, and visit my Grower Profile, where you can see week-by-week 'stache pictures. Then, if you're willing to support my facial growth, click through to my donation page and pick your project. Thanks! The above picture was taken today, two weeks since I shaved. It's pathetic, I know, but it'll get there eventually! Here's some 'stache news: If you donate just $5, at least, I'll mail you a holiday greeting in full mustache, taken via professional camera, and in glamorous black and white. If you want one, donate, then email me your mailing address.

The Oldest LOLcat Evar!

2008-12-01T11:25:00.003-05:00

This guy's from 1905, making the "What's Delaying My Dinner"-LOLcat over 100 years old!
(via buzzfeed)

Chicken Head Tracking

2008-11-26T12:56:00.002-05:00

It's almost Thanksgiving, but lets take a moment and see how incredible chickens are at keeping their heads in one place. It's called Chicken Head Tracking:

The Most Horrible Day of My Life

2008-11-20T11:20:00.001-05:00

Whyyyyyyyyyyy? How could they vote for that loser who doesn't shave! My sleepover was ruined, as you'll see here, by the evil overlords at American Idol.

Le plus horrible jour de ma vie - Insolite

via buzzfeed

A Little More on the Mustache

2008-11-14T13:05:00.008-05:00

This is my personal giving page, as I'm doing Mustaches for Kids. Here's what the heck I'm doing, but it basically involves growing a mustache for public school kids throughout November: [NBC, FREEwilliamsburg].

Please consider donating to my causes which will benefit local Brooklyn public school kids, as outlined below!
1. 5 kinds of percussion instruments for a music program.
2. 6 digital cameras to help students launch an on-line school newspaper.
3. 30 mice, 30 mice pads, 4 USB 7-port hubs, and 30 headphones for kids to explore the internet.
4. 10 Scrabble game sets and 10 chess game board sets.

JUST ADDED:

5. a xylophone and mallets
6. 27 subscriptions to Time For Kids magazine
8. a comparative animal dissection kit!!!

These kids, and my mustache, need your help!

Mustaches for Kids - The Beginning

2008-11-14T09:37:00.002-05:00

I'm doing this. More to come later.

Obama's Victory Speech

2008-11-05T17:32:00.001-05:00

Yes, we can.

Bedford ave., Brooklyn NY

2008-11-05T00:52:00.000-05:00

Rangers v. Crosby

2008-10-25T20:04:00.000-04:00

No Phish Tickets

2008-10-14T17:50:00.003-04:00

Lame! No Phish tickets from me. Deeeenied. From the email:

We regret to inform you that you did not get the tickets that you requested through Phish Tickets.

Please note that your card was not charged and all billing info will be deleted from our system.

You will have another chance to purchase tickets on the public on-sale date for each show. For specific on-sale information please see below or refer to the tour dates section at www.Phish.com/tourdates

Tickets will be available Saturday, October 18 at 10:00AM Eastern here:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Phish-tickets/artist/748766

3.06.09 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
3.07.09 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
3.08.09 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA

This e-mail was sent from 5391 Three Notched Road, Crozet, VA 22932.

Well, Phish overlords. I've marched to Coventry and I can march to Crozet, Virginia too! All hands on deck!

...

... just kidding. Here's hoping ticketmaster doesn't crash.

update: it crashed.

Good Morning, Gif!

2008-10-14T11:03:00.000-04:00

Sarah Palin is a pony!

2008-10-14T10:59:00.000-04:00

And a whole crapton more at Fark, via Wired.

I'm Not McCain's Friend!

2008-10-08T11:48:00.003-04:00

John, stop calling me that! I'd rather you call me "that one".

More links on BuzzFeed, and here's a t-shirt.

Big Crack-lovin' Rat Taking Over Chinatown (Updated!)

2008-10-02T11:57:00.005-04:00

Eat crack, New York!

I saw the artists working on the giant rat in Chinatown this morning, and it's almost finished. And no, there's no Banksy up there. Not that he's a fatty, but these guys were younger and skinnier than any other photo of Banksy I've seen. These guys are putting the finishing touches on some outlined letters that will eventually read, "Let Them Eat Crack". Fucking Marie-Antoinette, back in business. There's some more on this Banksy rat business at Animal and Gawker.

Updated: Here's the final!

via The World's Best Ever

Big news to me...Phish is back!

2008-10-01T10:37:00.001-04:00

Phish 3 678 9

or you can just watch it here!

PHISH HAMPTON 2009 from Phish on Vimeo.

It's Snowing on Mars

2008-09-30T16:47:00.002-04:00

Hooooolly crap its snowing on Mars, and that is so freaking awesome.

From stupid Breitbart:

In an unprecedented discovery, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has found snow falling from clouds on Mars, scientists said Tuesday.

Let's go sledding with the Martians!

Breaking...

2008-09-17T20:29:00.003-04:00

...I might move over to Tumblr.

UPDATE:
I just tried to post the sentence above this update, but Blogger wouldn't let me do it! It knows. Look at the error message!

Translation from Blogger:
$Ries...Screw you, you conflicted bastard. You can't edit the internet at more than one blog. You've chosen Blogger, so persist. We've got help groups. WTF does Tumblr have?! Sorry, but you're stuck with us.

Ninja Kitty

2008-09-15T11:43:00.000-04:00

This had me lol-ing. So sneeeeaky!

Todd P's Back To School Party

2008-09-13T18:32:00.000-04:00

I remember

2008-09-12T00:15:00.000-04:00

Phish Reunites (Kind of)

2008-09-10T11:00:00.002-04:00

At a wedding party for manager Brad Sands, all 4 members of Phish reunited for three songs - Suzy Greenberg, Waste, and Julius. Here's a video! Now it's up to you to make sure you're unemployed for next summer...

2008-09-06T22:15:00.000-04:00

I love cheesesteaks

2008-09-04T15:49:00.001-04:00

If I could eat Cheesesteaks every day for the rest of my life, I totally would.

Chelsea Piers Are Sinking (I Was There!)

2008-08-29T13:06:00.003-04:00

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

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

2008-08-28T01:29:00.003-04:00

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.

The Catorialist

2008-08-22T10:40:00.000-04:00

Find your perfect look for fall: The Catorialist

Good Morning Gif

2008-08-22T10:13:00.000-04:00

Next time...

2008-08-21T21:39:00.000-04:00

Bring your wife!

Happy Birthday NYC Resistor!

2008-08-20T15:40:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-19T15:30:00.001-04:00

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

Pandamonium riots on Bedford

2008-08-17T12:14:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-14T13:04:00.001-04:00

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

2008-08-14T12:34:00.003-04:00

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

2008-08-13T18:45:00.000-04:00

Awesome.

Awkward Rap

2008-08-13T12:14:00.003-04:00

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

via College Humor

Mr. and Miss Williamsburg Beauty Pageant

2008-08-12T16:32:00.003-04:00

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

Kitchen Diaries

2008-08-12T10:55:00.001-04:00

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

2008-08-11T14:04:00.001-04:00

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

2008-08-11T14:02:00.003-04:00

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

2008-08-11T13:52:00.002-04:00

via buzzfeed, more images here.

Moneyries on FREEwilliamsburg

2008-08-11T11:51:00.004-04:00

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

2008-08-08T23:54:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-08T15:32:00.005-04:00

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...

2008-08-08T15:12:00.004-04:00

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

2008-08-08T14:59:00.004-04:00

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

2008-08-08T14:51:00.001-04:00

88 Ways To Celebrate 08/08/08

2008-08-08T14:16:00.003-04:00

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...

2008-08-08T14:10:00.005-04:00

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

2008-08-07T19:05:00.001-04:00

Slow Motion Lightning Strike

2008-08-07T18:58:00.001-04:00

Welcome To My Study [video]

2008-08-07T14:41:00.004-04:00

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

2008-08-07T01:06:00.000-04:00

Photo from EA Game lab, playing Dead Space

2008-08-06T19:24:00.000-04:00

Door warning at EA

2008-08-06T13:59:00.000-04:00

The Hipster Doctor Interview

2008-08-05T08:56:00.005-04:00

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

2008-08-05T08:25:00.003-04:00

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

2008-08-04T16:30:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-02T06:07:00.002-04:00

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)

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

2008-08-01T11:36:00.004-04:00

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