Even the Empire is powerless against the wrath of the NYC department of traffic.
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Darth Vader Gets a Parking Ticket in Brooklyn
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Daring Mens Fashion Show Circa 1951
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Apple critic Mike Daisey is as hot as ever?
BarBarSeven
This article is strange. It declares that despite the Apple incident, Mike Daisey is as “hot as ever”, but the example given is what? “ The 50-person seat room was packed…” FIFTY PEOPLE!?!?! Whoa! Is that even legal? Were fire marshals called?
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Butter Knife Weilding 69 Year Old Man Stopped from Boarding Flight by the TSA
BarBarSeven
Hey everyone, a 69 year old man was prevented from boarding a plane with a BUTTER KNIFE! Phew, dodged that one.
View Link [online.wsj.com]
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Upworthy
BarBarSeven
New site that aims to make practical/social causes viral & fun.
View Link [upworthy.com]
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Iraqi ‘emo’ youths reportedly killed by conservative militias
BarBarSeven
Reports say that up to 58 teenagers have been beaten to death or shot in the last month, most of them men.
Iraq’s interior ministry recently described emos as devil worshippers.
View Link [bbc.co.uk]
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Ralph McQuarrie passed away today at the age of 82
BarBarSeven
“Some of the designs in the first three Star Wars films are honestly amazing work. The man we have to thank for this is Ralph McQuarrie, the concept artist who really set the tone for the film, much more so than any other individual. And I’m including George Lucas in that.”
View Link [bleedingcool.com]
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Goat Massage
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Nello Ferrara of the Ferrara Pan Candy Company Has Passed Away
BarBarSeven
Creator of Atomic FireBalls & Lemonheads has passed away.
View Link [suntimes.com]
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1963 Jim Henson Robot Film Discovered
BarBarSeven
From the AT&T archives.
View Link [techchannel.att.com]
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Brooklyn Proto-Parkour from the 1930s
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Take Up More Than One Seat at 3:00am, Get Arrested
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“Mr. Peppers had put his feet up on a subway seat, and that, the officer informed him, was a crime — one that in his case would lead to his arrest. He spent 12 hours in jail before he saw a judge, and was released after pleading guilty.”
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People Living in Tree Trunks in Prospect Park
BarBarSeven
And they are not Keebler Elves.
View Link [brooklynpaper.com]
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The Passengers are Fatter so US Coast Guard Revises their Regulations
BarBarSeven
“For roughly the last fifty years, the US Coast Guard regulations for the loading and stability of passenger vessels has assumed an average weight of 160 pounds per person. Conceding to the reality of a more corpulent population, the regulations were updated last month, increasing the Assumed Average Weight per Person by 25 pounds, to 185 pounds.”
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Girls Rock Austin Camp Counsellor Murdered on New Years’s Day
BarBarSeven
Tragic, but the killer has not been caught. Posting to get the word out.
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Japanese Cats for New Year’s
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New York Dance Stand 1983 complete Danceteria episode
BarBarSeven
Fun, goofy & cool NYC 1980s right here: “Complete 1983 episode of public access cable television show New York Dance Stand. Features footage shot at Danceteria on West 22 st. in New York.”
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Artist John Chamberlain Dies
BarBarSeven
“John Chamberlain, a multi-tasking artist who made sculptures out of crushed, often vibrantly painted automobile parts that came to define his career while flouting connections to any single movement or trend, has died. He was 84.”
View Link [galleristny.com]
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According to the BBC: Sunday Mirror Phone Hacking
BarBarSeven
Well, look at this!
View Link [bbc.co.uk]
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Lady Takes Off Pants to Cool Off in NYC Subway
BarBarSeven
Check out the guy who sits down at 0:23.
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Avengers Movie Trailer Leaked
BarBarSeven
‘Nuff said. EXCELSIOR!
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Michele Bachmann has CHOOT-SPA!
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Artist Who Used to Paint Pro-Kim John Il Art Does a 180
BarBarSeven
“Before defecting, Song cut his artistic teeth painting propaganda for Kim’s regime, turning out grinning portraits of founding father Kim Il Sung and technicolor depictions of militant workers and peasants. Since arriving in South Korea, however, he has turned his talents against the repressive regime and its diminutive leader.”
View Link [globalpost.com]
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Cat Faces Off Against 2 Green Apples
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Harvey Pekar Interviewed by Elvis Mitchell
BarBarSeven
“By day, Harvey Pekar was a file clerk, but by night he created one of America’s favorite cult comics, American Splendor. He later became the subject of a feature film, in which he appeared as himself. Cleveland’s favorite dark, dysfunctional and curmudgeonly son died in July, 2010. On the first anniversary of his death, we re-broadcast his 2003 interview with Elvis Mitchell.”
View Link [kcrw.com]