You, my precious reader, may be surprised to hear that Nunatak far from being the Church’s militant nun wing is actually the house band of the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. I recently shared a cab with a lady who worked for several years in the station and it seems like a pretty stange kind [...]

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UPDATE: Team Bush is denying that the watch was stolen with not one but two stories.
I thought I had blogged this before, but can’t find it - anyway Bloomberg’s congestion toll idea is picking up steam. I am totally into this idea of charging a toll to get into the lower parts of manhattan during [...]

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Huh, so the iPhone obviously isn’t even out yet but there’s now rumors of the 2nd gen iPhones, perhaps to be released in September! The rumor suggests that Quanta (who apparently already build MacBooks and iPods) will build the next one with an initial 5 million shipping. The rumor further suggests that the next one [...]

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If it’s art, mustn’t it be monday?
Check out this site that goes around thrift stores and garage sales finding old tapes and posting a picture and mp3 of the whole tape. Bad ass, if you ask me. The one that happens to be up now isn’t that exciting, but texas psychic is pretty good as [...]

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You know, living in NYC I’ve heard more than my share of nightmare stories about bad landlords. They seem to always be trying to get one over on you, they care about their buildings only enough to ensure that the building itself doesn’t completely collapse and maybe not even then, they’re always trying to figure [...]

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Jalopnik is showing some more press shots of the soon to come Transformers live-action movie. It’s pretty cool that the ever mocked Bumblebee is going to look all badass, I hope he gets to be badass, too. I mean, if you’re a transformer how do you live down a beating by a VW Bug named [...]

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So, while the rest of the country is sinking, New York real estate surges? First quarter sale prices averaged 23% up. But there’s a couple interesting stats provided. First Manhattan was in first place with the highest average sale price. Now here’s the thing, in Manhattan the average price per square foot only rose 3%. [...]

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So, we went to the Highline Festival last night. There were three bands. Kate Havnevik was eh, kinda Bjorky but lacking any edge or insanity. TV on the Radio was really good except for the overpowering falsetto singing that came in periodically and the fact that the lead singer is made of cartilege (ok that [...]

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If you live in New York City there is no chance that you haven’t seen those Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar flyers posted in every bodega and restaurant in the entire city. Well, some awesome MFA student from Parsons has, as his art project, plastered new Dan Smith Will Teach You posters all over [...]

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So I just realized that there are music videos on YouTube! Ok, I didn’t just discover, but I randomly thought to see if there was a video of a band I kinda like and lo, there was. I like Asobi Seksu, but it’s a little hit or miss for me - I really like probably [...]

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