I don’t know what it is, but I like it. #Inwood #Wahi # Whin #Dyckman
I don’t know what it is, but I like it. #Inwood #Wahi # Whin #Dyckman
Turns out the Easter Island heads have bodies, too! Archeologists discovered bodies beneath the 887 stoic faces after 12 years excavating and studying the statues.
“They’re buried up to mid-torso level. So it’s understandable that the general public didn’t have a clue that those statues had bodies,” Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told Fox News this week.
While experts have known for some time that much of the stone figures has been partially buried due to centuries of exposure to the elements, “this is the first time that one has been excavated in such a way that the documentation was complete and scientific,” said Van Tilburg.
Lights Out: Two turkeys show off their dubstep beatboxing skills (and, surprisingly, neither of them is Skrillex).
Wait for the drop.
Gobblegobblegobble, wubwubwub.
[hyst]
Really? #Bronx
A little brightness for this grey Monday.
Don’t be afraid if you see this man lurking in Inwood HIll Park (I was). They’re shooting a movie.
Stop Txting #Inwood #Wahi #Whin
One potato. Two potato. Three potato.
Amsterdam Avenue Cat, #wahi #whin
Washington Heights, #wahi #whin
Mini-Car Crash #Inwood Hill Park
Also, did you guys see the article in the Times about NYC rents being higher than ever? The couple featured is like ‘OMG we were sooo devastated when our LL raised the rent on our West Village doorman apt, so we had no choice but to move to Dumbo where we bought a $1 million condo (with 250k down) — it was hard, but it worked out.’ (And seriously straight ppl, how do live with yourselves when you pose for pictures like that?) Which I mention because if you’re willing to live in an ‘unappealing’ neighborhood (which is NYT code for ‘non-white’) like Washington Heights (for example), you can still buy a big house for < $1 million, and most of the apartments are still rent-stabilized, which means the LL can only raise the rent a stipulated amount each year. The disadvantage of course being that you can’t really pretend your NYC life is an ivory-fresh HBO show.
Fe/Male, Washington Heights #wahi #whin
Junot Díaz: “Miss Lora”
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, a gesture. That’s what happened with your girlfriend Paloma—she stooped to pick up her purse, and your heart flew out of you.
That’s what happened with Miss Lora, too.
It was 1985. You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced—like totally, utterly convinced—that the world was going to blow itself to pieces. Almost every night you had dreams that made the ones the President was having in “Dreamscape” look like pussy play. In your dreams the bombs were always going off, evaporating you while you walked, while you ate a chicken wing, while you rode the bus to school, while you fucked Paloma. You would wake up biting your own tongue in terror, the blood dribbling down your chin.
Someone should have medicated you.
(via sophiagurule)
Knight News Challenge: 1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]Scale the private listserv I...
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Scale the private listserv I run for female leaders in technology/media into an open network of and for women.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
No. This segment is vastly underserved. There are…
