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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: January 2007
Hillary Death Watch
According to a Newsweek Poll, Hillary Clinton leads all heavyweight presidential challengers — John McCain, Barack Obama, and Rudy Giuliani. Not that it means squat. Presidential-race history is littered with the forgotten corpses of front-runners. In our recent lifetime, the … Continue reading
F train not all bad
Sometimes, for reasons even our magnificent brains can’t understand, musicians enter a car and play magic. After these guys stopped, passengers clapped.
Better than Vita
CALL US NUTS, BUT ON THE COLDEST DAY OF THE YEAR, WE GASSED UP THE RECHARGERMOBILE AND DROVE OUT TO GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, recently chosen by Frommer’s travel guide as the 2nd most desolate place on earth. Aim? To investigate the … Continue reading
Flash!
Guns! Guns! Guns! In the decade since 1995, the NYPD has seized 70,000 illegal handguns. During that time, handguns killed 5,400 New Yorkers. No wonder Mayor Bloomberg has filed federal lawsuits again four gun dealers in Virginia that, according to … Continue reading
“Better than Viagra”
This is John Belardo, sales rep at the not-at-all-cheap Joe’s Fabric Warehouse (coincidentally, across the street from Just Ask a Rabbi and Blue). During our visit to pick out material for the new chair in our doghouse, John told us … Continue reading
Just ask a rabbi!
One block from Blue, we saw this, a blue billboard asking us to share our picayune problems with a rabbi. Tortured by nearly every aspect of our life, regretting virtually everything we’ve done (except skipping the final game of the … Continue reading
Blue as in bile.
We know as much about architecture as we do about hedge funds, which is to say, slightly less than we know about Aramaic, but certain buildings give us a feeling that maybe we’re not wanted in this city anymore. Take, … Continue reading
Exclusive: Viagra killed Karl Marx
Even Karl Marx, who said something to the effect that capitalism treats workers (i.e. people) like commodities, to be bought and sold as the market dictates, might have winced at drug-kingpin Pfizer’s decision to close its Brooklyn plant, costing 600 … Continue reading
Hillary Death Watch
The Daily News poll of 501 registered New York City voters showing Hillary Clinton trouncing Barack Obama among every ethnic group — even blacks — is about as prescient as a poll asking Bronx residents if they’ll root for the … Continue reading
Bold Face Names
Returned to Dewey’s Flatiron tonight to watch two NFL dickheads, Payton Manning and Tom Brady act all serious and shit about being tall, blond Fascists, but the crush of A-List celebrities turned the evening into a drag. First, Beyonce Knowles, … Continue reading