Strike! Yes people, unbelievable and surreal as it may sound, that's what it's come to.

Here we have what I feel is an eloquent speech given by the Transit Workers Union spokesman Roger Toussaint.

Here are various links to articles about the strike.Keep an eye out for the all the anti-union spin that you're sure to find.

Look people, a transit ( Read more... )

Halloween is actually one of my favorite "holidays". People and kids milling the streets dressed up in crazy costumes, hopped up on candy, ringing the doorbells of strangers. It's not religious (I know, I know, it has religious roots, but you get my point), it has nothing to do with patriotism, and it's just fun. You don't have to be rich to ( Read more... )

that is all.

I am that mythical, neurotic, mysterious beast: The native New Yorker.  We do exist.  It IS possible for human babies to be born and raised into semi-functional adults in the N-to-the-Y-to-the-C. People don't believe you when you tell them.  They say, "where are you from?"

New York.

"Yeah but I mean like where were you born?"

New York.

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