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Contact Info For Representatives (and one CEO!) Concerned About Occupy Wall Street At Zuccotti Park

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:00:00 -0400

Assemblyman Shelly Silver: 212.312.1420 | District Office: 250 Broadway Suite 2307 New York, NY 10007 (map)

Congressman Jerry Nadler: 212.367.7350 | Facebook | 201 Varick Street, Suite 669 New York, NY 10014 (map)

Senator Daniel L. Squadron: 212.298.5565 | Twitter | Facebook | 250 Broadway Suite 2011 New York, NY 10007 (map)

City Council Member Margaret Chin: 212.587.3159 | Twitter | Facebook Chatham Green, 165 Park Row, suite #11, New York, NY 10038 (map)

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: 212.367.7350 x12006 | Twitter: @MikeBloomberg and @NYCMayorsOffice | Residence: 17 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075 (map) | City Hall: (map)

Brookfield CEO Richard Clark: 212.417.7063 | Three World Financial Center, 200 Vesey Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10281 (map)

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Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:33:31 -0400

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Stirring The Soul

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:21:10 -0400

Just ate a plate of pig knuckles in Munich. Now drinking a beer and watching German women’s soccer on tv while MGMT plays in the background. About to see a Swedish coming of age film that’s part of the film fest. You?

How do you leisure?

92y: Bob Mould is coming to 92YTribeca on Jun 23 for an evening...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:51:12 -0400

92y:

Bob Mould is coming to 92YTribeca on Jun 23 for an evening of music and reading.

Have you heard of him?

No, I have not. But I read he sounds like Ted Leo, Dave Grohl, and Ben Gibbard, so I guess I’m familiar with the genre.

Matt Walks, the author of the infamous(?) piece above, writes:

I’ve learned that in this day and age you can’t phone anything in. Every piece, every paragraph, no matter how trivial you deem it, matters. As a journalist, that’s incredibly reassuring and powerful. I’m also reminded that passion plus internet anonymity can be humbling.

Important question: For anyone familiar, do you know if the “shoe mile” that used to be...

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:50:09 -0400

Important question: For anyone familiar, do you know if the “shoe mile” that used to be 8th Street in Manhattan relocated anywhere else?

More here…

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:18:03 -0400

More here…

Photo

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:05:08 -0400

Interesting. From a press release email: EXIT 12 DANCE COMPANY BOARDS THE INTREPID AIR & SPACE...

Sun, 22 May 2011 10:49:00 -0400

Interesting. From a press release email:

EXIT 12 DANCE COMPANY BOARDS THE INTREPID AIR & SPACE MUSEUM

Military-Themed Performance Commemorates Fleet Week New York, May 28, 2011

Exit 12 Dance Company, a New York troupe of dancers and military veterans, will pay tribute to Memorial Day on Saturday May 28th with two performances of its signature work “Homecoming” aboard The Intrepid Air & Space Museum in New York Harbor at 11:30am. The ballet, choreographed by Artistic Director and former US Marine Roman Baca, is set to letters to and from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The performance honors those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom and occurs during NYC’s annual Fleet Week, May 25th - 30th, 2011. “Homecoming” focuses on the families affected by the war, both at home and far away.

“I started choreographing as a way to return to civilian life after serving a combat role as a Marine in Fallujah, Iraq,” says Baca. Committed to the healing power of art, the company’s work has garnered acclaim for its portrayal of the rigors of war through dance. “It is an honor to present our work on the Intrepid, a floating symbol to the sacrifices of our military.”

Tickets are available through admission to The Intrepid Air & Space Museum at www.tickets.intrepidmuseum.org. General admission: $22. Students and Seniors: $18. Veterans: $15. Retired Military and Active Duty: Free.

The cast of “Homecoming” features dancers Adrienne Cousineau, Lisa Fitzgerald, Taylor Gordon, Michael Wright and other Exit 12 artists.

Exit 12 is a New York City company of dancers and military veterans that performs cutting edge contemporary and classical ballet centered around critical issues and military themes. Under the artistic leadership of former US Marine Roman Baca, the company strives to educate audiences about important social issues, cultural awareness and diplomacy, and the importance of arts in education. Since its inception in 2007, Exit 12 has performed at Dance Theatre Workshop, Performance Space 122, The Byrdcliffe Theatre, St. Joseph’s College, Lincoln Center, and The Ailey Citigroup Theater. “We pride ourselves in being a close-knit company full of real people, dealing with real issues, real feelings, and movement that speaks.”

Roman Baca enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in early 2000. Deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, Sgt. Baca continued to seek opportunities for his art form and co-founded Exit 12 Dance Company in 2007. He danced with the Nutmeg Ballet and New Mexico Ballet Company. He was the recipient of a 2009 producing and presenting grant from Ajkun Ballet Theatre, a 2010 Access DanceUSA Scholarhsip from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and DanceNYC, and the Connecticut Wartime Veterans Medal. He has been featured on NPR, Reuters, Pointe Magazine, and American Public Media. In 2010 Roman’s military themed holiday ballet, A Soldier’s Nutcracker, was performed for disabled and low-income children and collected a room-full of toys for the Marine Toys for Tots charity.

Website: exit12danceco.com

Blog: exit12danceco.com/Ballet_to_Bullets_and_Back

Facebook: facebook.com/Exit12DanceCo

Twitter: twitter.com/exit12danceco

It brought back to his mind the time that Perry had walked in while he was taking a bath and...

Sat, 21 May 2011 16:58:33 -0400

It brought back to his mind the time that Perry had walked in while he was taking a bath and remarked, “You’ve got a beautiful penis.”

[…]

“I’m sure I might have said, ‘You’ve got a good-looking cock there, my friend,’ but I wouldn’t have used the word ‘beautiful’ about a friend’s penis.”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend?currentPage=6

Lurie worked out hard to prepare for an expected nude scene in the HBO prison drama “Oz.”...

Sat, 21 May 2011 16:31:23 -0400

Lurie worked out hard to prepare for an expected nude scene in the HBO prison drama “Oz.” Afterward, he went to the West Village restaurant Da Silvano, still thinking about ways to enhance his appearance—“I wanted to make my penis look enormous onscreen”—

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend#ixzz1N1Mc03Z4

“We’re getting so good at various electronic means...

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:39:00 -0400

“We’re getting so good at various electronic means of identifying, tracking, locating… that we’re able to employ this extraordinary machine, an almost industrial scale counter-terrorism killing machine…”

—Lt. Col. John Nagl (Ret.) Pentagon Adviser

[Video: Frontline Kill/Capture]

Just made a donation to Free Speech TV, “the fully-independent, non-profit national television...

Sat, 14 May 2011 20:14:13 -0400

Just made a donation to Free Speech TV, “the fully-independent, non-profit national television platform for Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera News, Thom Hartmann, and countless of independent documentaries.”

Well worth it: http://bit.ly/l56EN3.

[FSTV FACEBOOK - CALL TO ACTION: We need your help!]

ageofperil: Use Ghostery to spy on ad networks as they spy on...

Sat, 14 May 2011 18:35:10 -0400

ageofperil:

Use Ghostery to spy on ad networks as they spy on you

To the right of that big red arrow above is a tiny ghost icon. That’s Ghostery. It’s a browser add-on. By clicking on it after visiting a site — like, say, Huffington Post, now owned by AOL — I can see the names of ad networks and other companies that are surreptitiously trying to collect information about my online behavior.

Ghostery exposes the otherwise “invisible” web and allows people like me, my mother, my neighbor and other everyday web consumers to know more about how we’re being monitored online.

Most of us don’t fully grasp the technical dimensions of Internet privacy, so even with Ghostery in place, few people, including me, would be familiar with the obscure companies that turned up as we traveled across the web. For example, a trip to HuffPo reveals VoiceFive Networks, Tacoda and Quantcast. Ever heard of them? (If you work for Wired.com or the Wall Street Journal, be nice and don’t answer.)

On the other hand, the mere presence of Ghostery and the pop-up it generates each time I visit a new site is a constant reminder that even if my name and social security number aren’t being nabbed by marketers, much of the rest of my experience online is.

Thinking about unfollowing everyone except chris mohney.

Fri, 13 May 2011 19:57:35 -0400

Thinking about unfollowing everyone except chris mohney.

City Moves Will Smith Trailer From Soho Street

Wed, 11 May 2011 19:39:41 -0400

I live in the South Bronx, where there is a slaughterhouse on my corner, bus traffic, car traffic, and truck traffic going up and down my street all times of night so that I have to put my volume up high to watch television in peace when I finally get home after work and school.

Wonder what the city is doing for those folks…

“A well-dressed gentleman is likely to feel underdressed without a handsome handkerchief or...

Mon, 09 May 2011 23:30:00 -0400

“A well-dressed gentleman is likely to feel underdressed without a handsome handkerchief or pocket square tucked neatly into his suit jacker or sport coat.” —Brooks Brothers

Bought a bunch of pocket squares this weekend, learning how to fold them.

Festival of Ideas: 'There's A Fly In This Ointment'

Mon, 09 May 2011 22:06:10 -0400

The way I look at it is even though there isn’t anything inherently evil with wanting a bigger lane so you can ride your bike comfortably, or wanting to grow healthy greens on some rooftop in North Brooklyn, these things are symptomatic of the gentrification that has watered down the character of so many neighborhoods. There is a desperate need for attention that comes with so much of this, that makes the effort come off as superficial.

When I was a little kid, my grandfather grew tomatos and string beans on a little strip of land on the side of his house in Manhattan Beach. Other neighbors grew different things, and they would just trade these with each other. They never thought to call attention to themselves or create an identity out of it.

In 2011, when the gentrificationers plant something, it immediately gets placed on their blog, and flyers are put up in the local $6 soy latte emporium, where they take great pains to mention over and over about how they are supporting ‘local farmers markets, etc etc’, and they bask in a self-identification as an ‘urban farmer’.

When I was growing up, there were always a good amount of people relocating to NYC from other places - the difference was that they mostly seemed to just want to assimilate into their new surroundings, and their addition was a plus - they are just as much New Yorkers as me in my book. It now seems that the current wave wants to come here to use NYC as a coffee table conversation piece.

Unfortunately, I think I’ve just done nothing but prove that Jeremiah is correct - it is hard to put your finger on. Hopefully readers smarter than myself can at least understand what I’m trying to say.

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/05/ideas-for-new-city.html?showComment=1304968433471#c6933874384799242205

[Ideas for a New City]

About Canada

Mon, 09 May 2011 09:09:27 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

In the summer of 2002 I was 15 and the air was hot and vague and I took a plane from Las Vegas to Edmonton, Alberta to visit a girl who could no longer abide me without allowing a sequence of distortions into her mouth. Her mother suggested I stay, that a prolonged nearness might remingle us like wires. At one point it occurred to me that either I was going to succeed or I was going to die there. I was there 10 months.

Huh. I didn’t know Krucoff lived in Canada for such an extended period.

Though it’s been the case for a while, it just occured to me. Twitter is the new Blogebrity.

Sun, 08 May 2011 14:57:45 -0400

Though it’s been the case for a while, it just occured to me. Twitter is the new Blogebrity.

Tomorrow: Electronic Waste Recycling Day on Stanton St. Bring your old phones, chargers, mouse,...

Fri, 06 May 2011 22:54:31 -0400

Tomorrow: Electronic Waste Recycling Day on Stanton St. Bring your old phones, chargers, mouse, printers etc… Here’s the list of accepted items.