5 Ways to Mourn The Dog Days of Summer

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Last hurrah before asphyxiation by infinity scarf/nutmeg So we need to reassess this dog days of summer thing because I have not been basking in a canine's holy light of godliness. IDK about you, but dogs are really having their year as they've essentially become deities; if aliens invaded earth they would 100% think dogs were walking us. Because … [Read more...]

Sometimes you have to cross the line to know where it is.

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The Time I Saw George Washington's Dentures So I have a increasingly legitimate infatuation with the American Revolution; many thanks to Rick Lawton the Eternal American Patriot, it's snowballed and is getting out of control. So much so that when I heard Washington's original dentures were in special collections at the New York Academy of … [Read more...]

An Adult Happy Meal is a Sad Meal

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A case against the eternal damnation of chicken nuggets While no disappointment in my life will be quite as grave as the incorrect valuation of Beanie Babies, the disappearance of complimentary toys with meals starkly marks when dining went from Happy to Sad. What we lost in the sophistication of a plastic Chicken McNugget wearing a cowboy hat, … [Read more...]

To StreetEasy, from the Brokerage Community:

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We are George-WashingDONE doing business. Welcome to Real-life Game of Thrones, with less fur, sans dragons, and uberBLACKs instead of majestic horses. I know we talked about this last newsletter and I really hate sequels because they always tend to be a total let down, e.g. Land before Time vs. Land Before Time's II-XIV, but this StreetEasy … [Read more...]

“You have to know the past to understand the present”

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Blast from the LES' past, full speed into its future ^ a now to think Hair of the Dog calls this corner its home, oh how we've progressed... To many, the modern day history of the Lower East Side is reserved to a hazy recollection of screaming 'Despactio' in an Uber in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Houston, grinding in the basement of Hotel … [Read more...]