Occupy Wall Street

There is this thing going on.  In downtown/ midtown/ uptown Manhattan.  A lot of people are voicing their dismay at how the government isn't our government and how our interests aren't being looked after in any way contiguous with the democratic process in which we try to participate.  People are being corralled, pepper sprayed, pummeled and forgotten. And unless you live in certain foreign countries or have a Facebook or Twitter friend who is following the events, you wouldn't know it was happening.  Mostly because no one is reporting it. Which, honestly, is flabbergasting.  Suffice to say, people are speaking their minds peacefully and orderly, in the best tradition of a democratic union, and they are being persecuted for it.  In New York.  U.S.A.  2011. 
So yeah, good luck to all of us, with that.

Last Call

So, so much more in the works.  Stay tuned.
"In life there are weirdos and assholes.  I'd rather fraternize with the weirdos."

The End of an Era

"Sentimental in the Shorey

Hello friends
After 4 years of good times and shenanigans down on River St. we'll be closing our doors tomorrow September 29th at 8pm.
Swing buy to say one last goodbye to our beloved little space before it becomes a pile of rubble and a memory.
WE'LL HAVE A LAST HOORAH PIZZA PARTY AND BEERS TOMORROW, THURSDAY AT 7PM
We will be reopening at our NEW LOCATION in late October / early November
located at 68 North 3rd St. Williamsburg Brooklyn. (Corner of North 3rd and Wythe Ave)
Keep checking our blog for updates on our renovation and opening day...and of course our grand opening party!
For any inquiries or questions we can still be reached at our email address. mollusknyc@gmail.com
Thanks to all of you for your amazing friendship and continued support! We'll miss you Monster Island!
Keep it Hard Body!"

Facebook Surfing

Facebook is the stuff of nearly universal reproach.  Sheepishly acquiesced to by nearly all comers, the social networking site is a bittersweet guilty pleasure at best, begrudging necessity at worst,  in our interconnected world, both useless and surprising.  Today offered up the work of Christa Padova from the QSPro Long Beach blur.  Enjoy.

Today's Thought

Wifey's 36th Birthday

Today's Other, Spookier Thought

Here
(yes, this is a touch Yahoo News-worthy, but it's just too weird.)

Today's Thought

Slo Mo! Speed Ramps! Pumping Music! Blam!

Guys With Machines Making Highlight Recap Pornography.

Christopher Hitchens debates Barry Brummett

White Wash

Peoples Of The Indies

via Bukit Bear
“…the idea that freedom can be a real thing…today in the 20^thcentury…and for people who’s skins are brown..”

Jonathan Clay

via QPs

Ah, Winter.

Two Alternative Scenarios: 1. Wake up long before dawn, drive 30-45 minutes to the beach before sunrise, take the requisite ten minutes to fit into your 6mil suit, haul your board off the car, paddle out to the break as a hopefully hazy sun fuzzes through the grey clouds, check your watch after three minutes in the water, paddle in, take the requisite twenty minutes to pry yourself out of your 6mil wetsuit, stress out through an hour and fifteen minutes of traffic to get home just in time for your wife and child to give you the evil eye as you rush your boy to school, late again. 2. Wake up long before dawn, look down at your crappy two-wheel-drive 1993 toyotondabishi piece of junk covered in a six foot high snow drift thanks to the snow plow, go back to sleep.

"So dope. Real NYC."

 via A.Lopez