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- Paid $800 Interest On $2,000 Purchase And Ruined Friend’s Credit Score
- Loaned $5,000 To Friends To Make Music Demo; They Spent It On Guitars.
- Didn’t Buy House for $18,000. Now It’s Worth $160,000.
- Lost $1200 In A Card Game
- After Paying $39,000 To Debt Consolidation Company, She’s Left With $45,000 Debt.
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Amazing weight-loss machine! Lose five pounds in two hours!!
At the Nao Salon and Spa, a revolutionary machine helps clients shed pounds before the holiday parties. World famous Japanese con man, er, healer Sensei Kazuo Maeda brought his Ryu- Jitsu (“Dragon Magic”) machine to town, and for $350—pocket change—the … Continue reading
Everything Old is New Again
The good old days are back. Another fun controversy at City College—hotbed of radicalism, hothouse for neo-cons, and hot time for swingin’ singles. This time the beef is over a room that students named after convicted cop-killer, Assata Shakur and … Continue reading
Raymond Chandler: flawed master.
Pick-up on Noon Street, by Raymond Chandler. Chandler is about style. Fashion, interiors, language–spare, readable, cynical language. The language of people wounded by life, clinging to particles of self-respect. Those are Chandler’s strengths. Plot is not his strength. After reading … Continue reading
Two more days to see The Amazing Station
Designed by “award-winning Broadway scenery and lighting designer Clarke Dunham and his artist/writer wife Barbara” (from the spine-tingling brochure), the Amazing Station is pretty cool. Four railroad scenes representing four vanished train-stations over the four seasons. For those of us … Continue reading
Today pedicabs; tomorrow sled dogs.
JUST WHEN WE WERE GETTING USED TO THE NEW TAXI FARE, the Bloomberg administration now wants the City Council to pass a bill requiring pedicab owners to license and insure their vehicles, have emergency brakes, seat belts, head lights and … Continue reading
At last: an actor who won’t sell out.
The above photo says it all: Julianne Moore, star of Broadway’s The Vertical Hour, has gotten serious. With all the holiday boozing (alone) and feasting (totally alone), Recharger missed this important news because, despite urgent phone calls from Ian Schrager, … Continue reading
Jeter and A-Rod Domestic Partners?
CARS MEAN 52,000 FEWER JOBS IN NEW YORK CITY AND A $13 BILLION HOLD IN THE CITY’S BUDGET, says a prominent business coalition. “Traffic congestion is now a brake on the economy,” said the brilliantly eloquent Kathryn S. Wylde, chief … Continue reading
Another reason to smoke crack.
You can’t make this stuff up. According to a recent study by the Regional Plan Association, a nonpartisan planning group, by 2030, commuters will need 12 hours to get to the office. Tragically, this means that Recharger has another excuse … Continue reading
Blog-o-monium
Looking at the art on Misterfairfield is like looking through an old book of curiosities. Gives us the shivers.
Is anyone NOT gay?
According to New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 10% of men who say they are straight had sex with at least one man during the past twelve months; 70% of these are married. Many of these same … Continue reading