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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: March 2007
Why the rest of us are shmucks
Great website on civil servants, doctors, etc. who abuse parking privileges. Example: cop parks his $70,000 Corvette on River Terrace at Warren Street. Parks in the exact same spot for 14 months. Uses his unmarked car to hold his spot … Continue reading
Stop your whining, hipster scum!
CONTRARY TO URBAN MYTH, THE L TRAIN IS NOT THE WORST, SLOWEST, UGLIEST SUBWAY LINE IN NEW YORK HISTORY. Running from the miraculous bowels of Carnarsie—a neighborhood with more auto repair shops than people—through the dope-addled Williamsburg wasteland, to 8th … Continue reading
You need this jet
The Airbus A380, the world’s hugest passenger plane, landed yesterday at JFK on its “trip to nowhere.” Clunky and slow-moving, like the six-footer in your eighth-grade class who sucked at sports, the jet is capable of carrying 800 passengers, bringing … Continue reading
Manhattan’s littlest, cutest, most adorablist army
WE DON’T REALLY LIKE MAKING FUN OF KIDS, BUT WITH A WAR ON, and up to 64,000 Iraqi civilians dead as a result of the American invasion, and another war in Afghanistan, and you know, the history of civilization being … Continue reading
Motherless Brooklyn
Here’s the thing: you are Jonathan Lethem, bookish writer, raised by bohemian parents in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn, as a kid read a lot — books, magazines, the newspaper — graduated high school and went to college. Now, … Continue reading
Who are these guys?
Each time we eat at Tom’s Restaurant in Brooklyn (not to be confused with the sleazy Tom’s in Manhattan, famed Seinfeld locale), we marvel at the energy owner Gus and his wait staff put into being friendly. Watching the staff … Continue reading
When bad things happen to good dummies
We think having dummies for friends is, on a scale of 1 to 10, a solid 11 on the creep meter. Last Friday, traffic cops stopped Timothy Tietjen, 32, of Middle Island for driving the L.I.E. with his unhealthily-tanned CPR … Continue reading