OMG Why Must I Do This To Myself?

whoa, whoa, whoa

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:46:00 -0500

I’m on deadline. Meant to take an Advil and came THISCLOSE to taking an Ambien instead. Would’ve been a travesty. (Or a gift?)

Hey... misclassified laid-off "freelancers" CAN AND DO win unemployment benefits!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:37:00 -0500

Suck on that. [NY Post]

two dying professions

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:48:10 -0500

Matt was a “reporter” for LOLoween, and I was a newsboy.

Happy LOLoween Print Is Dead Version!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:29:00 -0500

Lewis Hine’s newsies, 1910:

Zombie newsie, 2009:

"I was just holding it for a friend!"

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:23:00 -0400

Ever the “sober companion,” I held the evidence for Matt’s new article on heroin so that it would not fall into the wrong hands. Then, after-school special style, I flushed it down the toilet.

reached a new low: I'm making a collage

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:31:00 -0400

It’s relaxing. no wonder it’s so popular amongst teen girls, prisoners, and rehab patients.

wide awake it's morning

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:06:11 -0400

I haven’t seen this side of 8 a.m. in I’m-embarrassed-to-say-how-long. .

those fake strands of fake autumn leaves really can add cheer to a room

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:06:00 -0400

and my insides, at this point, consist almost entirely of candy corn.

my important thoughts & feelings on 'The City'

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:06:34 -0400

“But the weird allure of the show — and it has some — isn’t the flimsy narrative, but a cold, brilliant visual depiction of post-gentrification New York City. It’s the first series to expose the innards of the glass-and-steel New Downtown — the ultra-modern luxury condos, hotels, and upscale boîtes that sprung up during the boom.”

[WSJ’s Speakeasy blog]

it's funny 'cause it's true!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:04:10 -0400

Just as it killed journalism (“Dude, I just tweeted the earthquake”), Twitter has expanded its menace to the whole of American Literature.

Alphabet City Still Not Safe for NYU Students

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:00 -0400

“TWENTY-SIX MINUTES after last call on August 23, a loud pop sent a wave of jitters through the weekend drunks, bouncers, desperate lonely-hearts and wide-awake cokeheads hanging out on the Avenue A strip between East 12th and 14th streets. Just as they settled back into their cigarettes and drawn-out good-byes, another bang! rocked them”

[New York Press]

No, growing up means shooting your TV, Bickle-like

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:31:57 -0400

mattharvey:

Growing up means not smashing your TV (even about health care)

The health care debate is perfectly summed up by this image. A black man is threatened with a cop’s taser for standing up to a rent-a-mob of Medicare recipients—while a yellow Revolutionary-era “Don’t Tread on Me” flag is waved triumphantly above his humiliation. The now notorious footage from Brunswick GA features a burly middle-aged man being threatened with violence and arrested for not having a protesting permit. Before he’s hauled away he measures his Tea Party foes aptly. “I am not going to be moved by people who don’t care about other people,” he seethes. He’s forced to the ground as blue haired ladies—and old guys dressed like 1776’ers—laugh and cheer. One of the latter, the local Teabagger’s aptly named spokesman, Larry Lynch, energetically flies the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. Interviewed by a hack working for an ABC affiliate, Lynch boasts that he is performing his patriotic duty. As the clip winds down the hack intones in a cut-rate Uncle Walt tone: “Tea Party members had wanted a peaceful rally…”

Growing up means not smashing your TV, but when I saw a version of the clip on CNN a couple of weeks ago, I almost launched a coffee cup at the screen. All the greed, ignorance, racism and big lies of the right were unfolding at once. And what kind of local health-care system are the Teabaggers fighting for? On the same day these stormtroopers were grounding their boot into the face of dissent—Georgia Public Radio reported that a Veteran’s Administration clinic promised to Brunswick this year would be delayed until 2012. The region has several army bases so that’s a bigger deal than it seems. So if vets—darlings of the red-blooded—lack basic services in Brunswick, it must be a very ugly picture for the area’s other poor. It’s not even worth accusing conservatives of bad faith and deception anymore. Manipulating the law and a hypocritical, yet pliant, middle-class—while cloaking the deceit in perverted ideals—is the American Way for Republicans.

congrats!

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:28:07 -0400

That’s how you know when you’ve really made it as a Gawker blogger!

fek:

This weekend has been, by far and away, the most patently immature, childish two days of writing I’ve ever produced. Ever.

Somebody had a rough drive home this Labor Day

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:50:54 -0400

mattharvey:

Even with your hair-trigger finger firmly on the dial, bits and pieces of racist rage are bursting through the car’s speakers: “Socialist plot…” “Indoctrination…” “Protect our kids from that man…” They call the president “that man!” You clench the wheel. It’s not just the talk show hosts who are frothing: the callers—middle class mothers—are furious that Obama deigns to lecture their overweight brats about responsibility. You don’t want to understand them. You speed up. This is not America; this is an apocalypse of sick stupidity. You just want it to end, but there’s nothing you can do except go faster.

jesus h. christ

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:39:00 -0400

Can anyone possibly even imagine what it must be like to be Julia Allison’s broker?

overheard

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:50:00 -0400

“I told him to be here fifteen minutes ago, and it’s been half an hour, but he’s running on Dominican time, as usual.”

the internet is over

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:36:00 -0400

My shrink just added me as a friend on Facebook….???

Seriously?

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:11:00 -0400

“Her eyes widening beneath heavily shadowed black lids”? [NYPress]

Ummmm. Maybe Matt can start freelancing letters to Penthouse!

Hm. mattharvey nixes the apartment (“room” is better description, I mean, I’m...

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:52:00 -0400

Hm. mattharvey nixes the apartment (“room” is better description, I mean, I’m unemployed here) b/c of its basement location, my shrink’s still on vacation, and my parents don’t have the time to deal with that kind of question, so now I don’t know what to do.

(Guess what? I just wrote a Julia Allison-style post.)

Thanks for telling me

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:33:32 -0400

Not unless you talk me out of it, which I think he just did. Also, he was on the phone when I called to tell him!

mattharvey:

I’m glad I checked Tumblr today because my girlfriend has some news. She’s moving to Manhattan; Nice to know.

sheilamcclear:

this might be a mistake, but I’m about to sign a lease for the weirdest apartment share on the Lower East Side. Can’t beat the location, though!

OMG Why Must I Do This To Myself?

whoa, whoa, whoa

Hey... misclassified laid-off "freelancers" CAN AND DO win unemployment benefits!

two dying professions

Happy LOLoween Print Is Dead Version!

"I was just holding it for a friend!"

reached a new low: I'm making a collage

wide awake it's morning

those fake strands of fake autumn leaves really can add cheer to a room

my important thoughts & feelings on 'The City'

it's funny 'cause it's true!

Alphabet City Still Not Safe for NYU Students

No, growing up means *shooting* your TV, Bickle-like

congrats!

Somebody had a rough drive home this Labor Day

jesus h. christ

overheard

the internet is over

Seriously?

Hm. mattharvey nixes the apartment (“room” is better description, I mean, I’m...

Thanks for telling me

No, growing up means shooting your TV, Bickle-like