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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
A Very Nice Christmas Story
Recharger adores Christmas hypocrisy, especially the part where he gets presents and doesn’t give any. But something about this story made him pause mid-sip in his Jack Daniels. Nancy has received money from the New York Time Neediest Cases Fund … Continue reading
Fake Blood
To: Leo DiCaprio From: Recharger The Dog Re: Blood Diamond. Dear Leo: Saw your film, “Blood Diamond.” You recall that after The Aviator, we said you looked like a 12-year-old with a fake mustache, and that your naked scene in … Continue reading
Nightmare On Tenth Avenue
Recharger, at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn last week to visit his uncle recovering from a heart attack, noticed that “the pre-eminent treatment facility and academic medical center in the Borough of Brooklyn” gives garbage a good name. “I don’t want … Continue reading
Island at the Center of the World: by Russell Shorto
Dear Mr. Shorto: Trademark your name; I will drink any chocolate milk called Shorto. As for your enlightening, lugubrious history of New Amsterdam—Manhattan–I was disturbed for the following reasons: It gave me a creepy case of the academics. I did … Continue reading
Suckers!
ASK RECHARGER THE MOST BORING NEWS ITEM OF THE YEAR, and he’d waver between any story about Derek Jeter and Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, so named because stores, flush with cash, go in the black. But Black Friday … Continue reading
See Gerritsen Beach and Die
Gerritsen Beach, the predominantly white, one-time fishing village located in South Brooklyn, a neighborhood, Congressman Anthony Weiner claimed “whose residents don’t put up with violence, and certainly do not tolerate hate,” has become hate crime central. Let’s start with the … Continue reading
Stop the presses!
Recharger, striving to fill gaps in his education, attended The Sixteenth Annual Albanian Festival at Lehman College, a three-hour variety show. More than 3,000 fans came to wildly applaud dancers, singers, instrumentalists, comedians and, tragically, poets who performed a touching … Continue reading
This just in: machine detects eyeball bombs.
COME MID-DECEMBER, RECHARGER WILL RELAX AS HE PASSES THROUGH SECURITY CHECKPOINTS AT JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. Verified Identity Pass, a private security firm, is starting a program that charges a $100 annual fee to travelers who get an ID … Continue reading
Condoms in a Jelly-bean Jar?
Sheesh. Till now, Recharger pictured Columbia University students pulling all-nighters for Professor Jackson, napping in the library, and argueing existentialism in the malt shop. Turns out the school where tuition costs $33,000 is a breeding ground for sexual deviancer that … Continue reading