Overheard in New York (I’m pretty sure me, Freddie, and Rajeev were the owners of the second one): Guy: …Newborn babies are pretty small, yo. Girl: Not small enough to fit in your pocket! Guy: What if you were wearing cargo pants? –A train Guy #1: Shouldn’t you guys be out looking for jobs instead [...]

A short series in which our anti-hero surbanite author travels to urban New York to meet his two co-conspirators, returns to the silent sunlight of San Diego, and realizes that he has found the ever-elusive element of life, his purpose. The real nature of man is the totality of social relations. Karl Marx “This, this [...]

“Black Cats” (Abo, Moreno, Oso) by Revaz

A podcast: New York, New York (Right Click, Save Link As) Or simply subscribe to our podcast feed in iTunes to automatically download all future podcasts. Alba by Allen Ginsberg The Incumbant by Soul Coughing New York, New York by Ryan Adams New York, New York by Frank Sinatra Wikipedia on New York City Where [...]

Once upon a time, a country called USA took a little stroll thru a little country called Iraq. Many years later, the citizens of USA forgot all about Iraq as its attention was turned to various scandals affecting their own administration over who took a leak where and who shot who and why. The people [...]

Mushaboom, mushaboom. I’m always amused by the response when new friends find out that I go to the gym nearly every day. Part of the surprise is understandable: oso does not look like he goes to the gym every day. But the other reaction, then faintest hint of a grin, makes me feel like I’m [...]

Así fue: un cierto editor de un cierto diario decidió a publicar unas caricaturas de un cierto profeta de un cierto grupo de gente. Y la resulta fue que todo el mundo – incluyendo ciber-comentaristas desde Morocco hasta China – tuvieron algo que decir sobre el balance entre la libertad de expresion y el respeto. [...]

I’m currently reading Dostoevsky’s Brother’s Karamazov. Its super sexy. I think Fyodor’s better than Shakespeare. During the last 2 months that i’ve been reading this book there have been 2 occasions where I have been sitting either next to or across from someone on the subway who was also reading a Dostoevsky novel. The other [...]

Two weeks ago there was a conference in Orlando, Florida called “Word-of-Mouth Basic Training” and according to NY Times advertising reporter, Julie Bosman, “it was aimed at teaching attendees how to tap into the power of word of mouth, an ancient form of communication that many marketers have updated by using new technology like blogs, [...]

I wrote this a few weeks back … and then forgot about it. Maybe you know the feeling: It’s 10 a.m., for the past two hours I’ve been drifting in and out of sleep, in and out of dreams, surreal situations, implausible gatherings of unrelated friends. I awake, barely, and emerge from one dreamscape only [...]