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• Commented on Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag
  This looks great. I really enjoyed 'Get in the Van', which is Rollins take on being in Black Flag, but this should be great because Dukowski will give his side of things. The one thing I won't ever forgive my...
• Commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  Everyone should be aware that he owns several NYC restaurants in addition to Paradou: Aunt Suzie’s, Baluchi's, Sotto Voce, Olive Vine Café, and Sweet Melissa Patisserie. I've eaten at Aunt Suzy's many times, but sadly the meal I had there...
• Commented on "Chap-Hop History" by Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer, played on a banjolele
  Sometimes, something difficult to pull off is perfectly executed, like this video. This just improved my morning in a huge way....
• Commented on Iraq: Open Thread, "Bloody Sunday"
  When people stop caring that 136 innocent men, woman and children were torn to bits in a public street, we've reached the point where we need a moral re-boot. I'm certain that people who can blow violence off with a...
• Commented on A geeky introduction to cheap remote control helicopters and planes
  I bought a Mosquito 4x4 a few months back, after reading about it in Make. It's the perfect fun distraction if you live in a tiny NYC apartment. Fair Warning: Your friends will want to fly it, they will crash...
• Commented on Yoko Ono Embraces Creative Commons? O Yes!
  This is great news, but it doesn't surprise me. Yoko Ono has been on the outer fringes of art for a long time, and has always given new things a shot. It makes me happy to see someone with such...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  I live in Bay Ridge/Ft. Hamilton Brooklyn. There's a large Muslim community, especially people from Yemen. It changes in 9 or 10 block, but in the blocks surrounding my apartment I'm one of the few non-Muslims. I've lived here for...
• Commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  @MCCRUM I agree 100%. I'm a born and raised city kid. I was 23 during 9/11, and NYC had become a mean, jaded place. Even ravers were killing each other, Michael Alig anyone? I was definitely planning my getaway. I...
• Commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  I'm 100% sure having a hangover saved my life on 9/11, and it's the main reason I'm here to write this now. I had been working on Fulton St., which is 2 blocks east of the WTC. I lived 10...
• Commented on Cocaine dealers hurt by recession
  It's about $80-$100 a gram in NYC for delivery in NYC....
• Commented on Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper Garrido?
  It would be interesting to crowd source a project to count how often other vehicles appear behind the Google cam car, for how long, etc. Just to see if this something that is mundane statistically. I realize that would be...
• Commented on NYC skateboarding legend Andy Kessler has died.
  This really breaks my heart. Andy was one of those people who managed to be nice to everyone without being insincere. That's such a rare quality. I don't think there is a person in NYC that ever picked up a...
• Commented on Amazing hot rod auction
  I remember building and being obsessed with a Monogram model kit of the 'Boothill Express' when I was a kid. It even came with some fake tombstones for atmosphere. Very cool to see the real thing....
• Commented on Can Bre Pettis Replicate Himself?
  Crown Heights is the neighborhood in Brooklyn for killer West Indian/Trinidadian food. If it's nice out walk down Rogers or Nostrand and there will be guys out on the street with grills made from 55 gallon drums. It's the real...
• Commented on Plants vs. Zombies
  I had a long flight delay on Sunday coming home from a business trip, so I decided to give this game a shot to kill some time. Now I am totally hooked. I don't play many video games these days,...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  That is so cool. It's great to see countries realize that riding bikes is a good thing that should be encouraged. I don't think helmet companies can really be considered evil. They make a product that stops people from cracking...
• Commented on Naked man tasered at Coachella for refusing to wear wizard's robe
  I think the simple fact is they could have easily cuffed and subdued without tazering him, so this would seem to be a really excessive response to a victimless crime....
• Commented on Warren Ellis's GI Joe
  This made my day. I think this is a great spin on GI Joe. I love how Destro speaks with a Scottish accent, someone has been reading their filecards I see....
• Commented on Notes From the Underground
  I'm a huge subway dork myself, so I hate to be a curmudgeon, but without a bit of inside help, you can't see the City Hall subway station anymore. As several people pointed out, if you stay on the six...
• Commented on 15-year-old girl beaten by sheriff's deputy
  That is really disturbing. That girl posed absolutely zero threat to those officers. He could have just shut the door. It seems that her kicking her shoes off was just something a bratty, arrested teenager would do, it wasn't dangerous...
• Commented on Phantom Corsair from 1938
  When designers say something moves this is what they are trying to get at....
• Commented on Mall in China has McDnoald's and Bucksstar Coffee
  I can verify that 'Pizza Huh' exists in several Asian countries in abundance....
• Commented on Paralyzed guitarist outfitted with mechanical glove
  Does that interface with Guitar Hero? Where's Fred Savage? Very cool use of tech....
• Commented on The Work Week Ahead
  I read this book a few weeks back on the reccomendation of a friend, and there are a few things that bothered me as well. 1.Ferris assumes the only point of working, is to make money. I think if you...
• Commented on Kinks reunion documentary-in-progress
  This is fantastic. I love The Kinks, and really feel that they've been pushed to the wayside somewhat by those other English guys with the bad haircuts....
• Commented on Small Wonder robot girl TV show
  I was always much disturbed by the androgynous brother Jamie. I watched this as a kid really early in the morning before school, and it always made me feel sort of weird....
• Commented on Ads from comic books
  This post, and the one about the biting monkey are killing me, I love them so much. I sent away for the 'Giant Submarine' and it was literally a cardboard box with printing on one side....
• Commented on In Washington and on Wall Street, it's harder to figure out who is negotiating for the pirates and who is negotiating on our behalf.
  Bailout, 'rescue', 'What's the alternative if we don't?', 'Should it all collapse?' etc. etc. We have let 3% of the planets population enslave, murder and screw with the other 97%, but people still believe this nonsense? C'mon...With just the people...
• Commented on My-- *Our* BoingBoing Future
  @Ruskoff As an evil PR person by day, I completely sympathize with the need to pitch something to get a reaction, that's just the way things work these days. If you aren't proactive, nothing will happen."Knock and it Shall Open",...
• Commented on Great Books By Women
  @2 Freya Stark is one of my heroes, her writing is amazing and she is a real life person who actually did cooler stuff than the fictional Indiana Jones. She roamed the desert meeting mystics with a Burberry trench and...