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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
Why not just stab us?
Before we picked it up, Atonement fit all our don’t-read-this-suck-ass-thing criteria: a) it is a Big Important Book b) it is a bestseller and c) it came highly recommended by a lot of people. Think The Kite Runner. And for … Continue reading
This is your brain on drugs
Our trip to the Brooklyn Museum–the second largest art museum in the United States–was wildly successful (see below), but the new facade, designed by the firm of Cresson, Cresson, Cresson & Asshole, still vexes us. We don’t know much about … Continue reading
Cheap date
The Horn & Hordart commercials used to claim “you can’t eat atmosphere,” probably why fancy million-dollar interiors never impressed us, also probably why we did Krystal’s Cafe, the best Filipino restaurant in Manhattan. It wasn’t just the tokwat baboy and … Continue reading
Another LSD Flashback
You heard it here first. John M. Angelo and Michael Gordon, chief honchos of meglo-hedge fund Angelo, Gordon & Co. (which describes itself as “specialists in non-traditional investments” and manages $12 billion in assets, and, we kid you not, has … Continue reading
Flash!
$1B tax break from Bloomberg. Sounds good, right? Till you find out “the average small-home owner — including hose in co-ops and condos — would save $201.” Let’s see, that’s about 40 happy meals. We love this story. Jennifer Rubell, … Continue reading
Is your 15-year-old daughter married?
In one of the more bizarre journalistic exposes by a regular newspaper, the New York Times today reports that “51% of women are now living without a spouse.” Pretty catchy headline based on info from the U.S. Census Bureau. The … Continue reading
Who farted?
Call us naive, but we are a teensy shocked that the three statuettes Dreamgirls won at last night’s Golden Globes were not hooted off the stage. While we were eternally grateful to the foreign journalists who last year bestowed a … Continue reading
Flash!
MSG digs dirt on Ranger cheerleader: we don’t know who’s right, but something smells fishy about MSG execs who’ve dug up a ton of dirt on Courtney Prince, ex-captain of the Ranger cheerleaders (for those of you who haven’t been … Continue reading
Chockful O’ Feng Shui
We don’t like bars. We don’t particularly like beer. Despite some recent hormonal imbalances, we’re not even sure we like football. Yet tonight we discovered Dewey’s Flatiron, a sports bar chockfull o’ feng shui — the kind that makes you … Continue reading
Smooth: Like No Other
Henceforth, we give you permission to blurt — in the heat of passion — to your girlfriend or boyfriend or “partner” or “significant other” or “honey” or whatever sickening term people these days substitute for intimacy, the following: “Smooth, like … Continue reading