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Like thousands of people who spend too much time the internet, I’ve become strangely obsessed with the mysterious spam Twitter bot @Horse_ebooks. Not much is known about Horse_ebooks, though it appears to be part of a network of spam accounts promoting dumb ebooks.
Thing is, I really want…
I’ll throw in another $50 to sweeten the deal, btw. Adrian can handle it from there.
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This guy regularly charges me $3 too much for SodaStream refills. BUT I MUST GRIT MY TEETH.
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March 1924.
“If a jellyfish could slap a rat in the face, he would do it. But he can’t. He has no arms.”
Earle Liederman means business, gentlemen.
“Instead, he must settle for wrapping the drowning rodent in his tentacles, administering fatal venom through millions of invisible nematocysts.”
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Comparison of bands name checked in the LCD soundsystem song “Losing My Edge” with those name checked in Pitchfork’s song-by-song LCD soundsystem retrospective.
GIL! SCOTT! HERON!
not pictured: bands & artists namechecked 20 yrs earlier in the fall’s “hip priest”
sure cool ok but WHO IS JOHN HERMANN? Andrew, DO YOU KNOW?
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Come Monday, May 16th, I’ll be starting as an Assistant Editor at Popular Mechanics magazine. I’ll be focusing on tech, doing my best to fill the void left after the departure of Seth Porges.
To say I’m excited would be an understatement: last time I felt like this was right after I got a “You’re Hired! (As an intern!)” email from Brian Lam at Gizmodo back in April of 2008, marking the start of more than two years Gawker Media, and, mainly, giving me an excuse to follow Arianna to San Francisco for the summer. Thanks for both of those, email.
A few thousand posts later I went freelance, which, thanks to a generous referral by a friend at Giz (initials: JJ), resulted in a string of bylines at a magazine I’ve enjoyed for as long as I’ve been literate. I already know my new editor and have every reason to believe I’ll love the work, so my worries rank as follows:
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What the hell is “Taco Fried Chicken” and what is it doing in Dunkin Donuts?
No joke, I found a severed, fully feathered chicken head four blocks away from here last week. Should have taken a picture.
Also, a little backstory: that used to be a combination pizza hut/taco bell/dunkin’ donuts. Now there’s just a dunkin’ and a bunch of dirty-looking old equipment from the other two. There’s a big black banner where the menu used to be.
Now that they’ve torn down that haunted orphanage building on 3rd ave, this might be the grimmest sight in Gowanus.
