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I generally resist ever blogging about my bike-riding adventures mostly because Bike Snob NYC exists and he says everything I think about while riding my bike so much better than I ever could. The secret of that blog is that its author is not really a snob at all. He is just a guy who rides [...] So yes, it’s a bummer that Michaela Watkins got fired from SNL but I have to say, I will not miss her Angie Tempura character one bit. I never found this joke funny. It’s too easy get cheap laughs by taking potshots at the Internet’s worst tendencies, and I involuntarily cringe when people do it, [...] I was headed towards the cash register with a basket full of cleaning products and canned tuna and a bar of dark chocolate and one large beer when a couple cut in front of me in line. They didn’t mean to; they probably didn’t even see me. They were too busy talking to each other. [...] At the station entrance at Metro Center in DC last weekend there was a sign — neat, professional — apologizing for broken air-conditioning on the platform. How genteel, I thought. Ever since I’ve been back home in New York the subway platforms have been obscenely swamp-hot, the humidity rolling up out of the ground from [...] I had been whimpering, collapsing into Bennett’s lap while quietly moaning “You guys this movie is breaking me,” and miming wrist-slashing actions for about an hour and, okay, I concede that none of that constitutes ideal movie-theater etiquette. But it wasn’t as though I was chatting throughout the movie or shouting things at the screen. [...] |
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