Archives for October 2006
Something Nice About Brooklyn
BECAUSE WINTER IS NIGH, REMINDING HIM THAT EVEN MEMORIES OF SOFT KISSES AT A CORNER TABLE IN A SOHO BAR CAN, IF NOT PROPERLY TENDED, WILT, Recharger wants to stare at a photo of Green Acres, a community garden at the intersection of Franklin and Greene Avenues in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn–the very intersection where Jake Gyllenhaal boinked Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. Built by local residents with the help of GreenThumb— the largest community gardening program in the country–and Bette [...]
Posted in The City on October 31st, 2006 | 
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Die Yuppie Scum!
THE ABOVE PHOTO OS ACTRESS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL APPEARED IN THE OCTOBER 7 ISSUE OF BROOKLYN PAPERS – a chain of neighborhood tabloids–raising an outcry the likes of which Recharger hasn’t seen since his days as a sensitive-man-in-training in Madison, Wisonsin. Of the hundreds of letters that have poured into the newspaper (printed next to the newspaper’s apology), the main reaction has been shock that the photo would appear in what writers either called a “community paper” or “family paper.” (Memo [...]
Posted in The City on October 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Why stadium toilets overflow.
Yesterday, using our earth science database, we discovered why Giants Stadium is built on extinct volcano vents. Having washed our hands of the eerily-Yankee-esque Mets, we dabbled in football–a sport known among sports cognescenti for its sudden violence and cute tushies. We know what you’re thinking: football is the domain of office managers with clip-on ties and rub-on tans, and their latently-homosexual frat-boy sons; but it is also a land of tail-gate parties, AK47-toting Homeland Security cops, and many trips [...]
Posted in The City on October 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Flash!
Fossella Sinking: Vito Fossella, the bull-necked pretty boy fighting to retain his Staten Island congressional seat, has just received a C+ rating from The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association, IAVA, a delicious development considering Fossella bases his reelection hopes on The War on Terror. We at Recharger are pleased that the guy who DailyGotham.com calls a “Bush lap dog, Social Security flip-flopper and scandal-ridden sleazebag,” got the rating from IAVA, the nation’s leading advocacy group for [...]
Posted in The City on October 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Pacino to Beltran: asshole…
Though our rage at Carlos Beltran’s pathetic at-bat–that cost the Mets the NLCS and a shot at the World Series–leaves us sputtering with apopletic incomprehension; we will resist the urge to to morph into a sadistic Little League coach screaming, “Get the fucking bat off your fucking shoulder, you fucking fuck! You can’t fucking hit the fucking ball if the fucking bat is on your fucking shoulder!”
Instead, hoping to capture our shock, our disdain, our disgust at Beltran’s Kenny Rogers [...]
Posted in The City on October 20th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Flash!
Developer Bruce Ratner, who has been using the promise of moving the NJ Nets to Brooklyn as a way to build public support for his mega-monster Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn (without the Nets, it would be just another cold-blooded eyesore like Metro Tech) now intimates he may move his Nets to Queens.
As part of his review of Ruthie’s, a soul food place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Famous Fat Dave, ubiquitous food blogger, filmed a homeless guy trying to crash [...]
Posted in The City on October 20th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Mom and Daughter Found Murdered in Harlem
Some questions even Recharger, whose IQ is at least 74, cannot answer. For example, why does the apparent slaying of a 9-year-old girl and her mother appear on page 24 of today’s NY Post? According to the story, the decomposing bodies of Mariah Navarro, who attended fourth grade at a local school, and her mom, Maria Rivera were found bludgeoned and wrapped in blankets in their ninth-floor, West Harlem apartment. Googling the name “Mariah Navarro” brings up nothing on the [...]
Posted in The City on October 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments »
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Reason #2 To Love Steinbrenner
NOT CONTENT TO HARASS LOWLY TICKET SCALPERS, (see Anyone Who Starts a Wave Gets Beheaded) Yankee potentate George Steinbrenner is now going after those who play in his stadium’s backyard—literally.
Construction workers have transformed Macombs Dam Park, directly behind the famous stadium, into the dust bowl from hell. Trees have been chopped down, bathrooms are shut, and tennis players must use portable toilets. Worse, heavy machinery has created a noise and dust nightmare for local residents. Evil empire—er, Yankee president Randy [...]
Posted in The City on October 18th, 2006 | No Comments »
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At long last Max!
DESIGNER MAVEN, DEEP-SKINNY DISHER, BON VIVANT EXTRAORDINAIRE, MAX KATZMAN HAS AT LONG LAST COMPILED Max Katzman’s Top 5 Discount Designer Clothe Stores List™. Like us lesser-dressed peons, Katzman’s “utter amazement” at the Loro Piana cashmere coat retailing for $3,565 dollars has been becalmed somewhat by the five discount stores he has ranked according to design quality and diversity. Thank you Max!
CENTURY 21: Called “New York’s Best Kept Secret,” the genormous Century 21 carries designer clothing 75% off its retail [...]
Posted in The City on October 17th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Something slightly interesting about Queens
Having a weakness for publicity-starved artists who are as exuberantly immature as the 16-year-olds who used to sit next to him in high school trig, Recharger loves to hop on the 7 train bound for Queens and, as he approaches Long Island City just across from P.S. 1, look out the window at 5 Pointz, an old factory that has become the city’s—and maybe the country’s–largest graffiti canvas. Spray-can artists from anywhere can contribute, as long as they don’t spray [...]
Posted in The City on October 17th, 2006 | No Comments »
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