one time i saw this crazy subway preacher mid sermon get all offend and say ‘you all dont listen to me anyway fine then im just not gonna share the lords word w/you anymore’ and sit down in a huff as if we were gonna feel bad and ask him keep preaching again, it was v funny

hahaha

calling him favorite seems cruel but i’ll never forget the legless amputee beggar pushing himself thru subway car singing “amazing grace” and then abruptly seguing into “do ya think i’m sexy.” dude could actually sing too.

thinking about the candy-bar kids makes me wonder: do yo guys ever buy books etc from street vendors

a man singing sam cooke’s “a change is going to come” on the train yesterday made me shed actual tears.

ya but it’s kinda cynical for him to use ‘change’ like that

sometimes I’ll hear people singing on the subway and think “he/she learned to sing in church” and this always chokes me up

theres a guy on the a/c line sometimes who sells dvds and hes got great patter, “forecast outside: miserable. forecast inside: $3 dvds” or something

haha there are a lot of change-is-gonna-come singers groups on the trains lately. I guess word is out about it making white people choke up.

one of my favorite subway dudes was the metrocard holder dude: “It’s the NEW metrocard holder. Slides in, slides out, only a dollar.”

my favorite ever candy seller spiel (an older guy, not the not-selling-for-no-basketball-team kids) was somthing like, “God told me not to rob, steal, or sell drugs. God told me sell peanut M&Ms. He said, ‘White people love peanut M&Ms. And they got money.’ So far he’s been right.”

lol

funny cause god told me they love weed

ppl haven’t openly sold weed on the subway since Dinkins days, man, u kidz shoulda been here then

^^last car on the train amirite

bet it was beat

fyi if you’re in asia all the panhandlers have handlers

no reason to think NYC would be different! ^_^

I don’t really care though if you choose to sell candy on a train that’s fine I’ll buy your peanunt M&Ms

dunno dayo if you bite in deep enough and you will taste the truth

er minus ‘and’

I guess the kids are probably making the equivalent of after-payroll-tax minimum wage and it’s probably more fun than mcdonalds, but

I mean on one hand it’s relative to their other options, but on the other hand it’s the same SYSTEM that MAKES those welch’s fruit snacks that leaves them with no options

yeah those welch’s fruit snacks, who the hell is gonna buy that? that’s really what I don’t get about this scheme

if this were a well oiled machine they would be selling cheetos instead

they must be like the absolute cheapest thing you can get in bulk

guys which is the better airport to fly into: laguardia or jfk? convenience-wise

maybe the syndicate bought a single box of those at the start of the scheme and they’ve just been trying to get rid of them for years

I dunno why you would be grudging these kids just because they’re organized. maybe because this is AMERICA where we SHOULDN’T GIVE HANDOUTS because everybody must WORK for their LIVELIHOOD

staying in brooklyn

jfk

awes, thanks

I mean CONGRATULATIONS for seeing the BIG PICTURE and having CLEAR EYES about NOT GETTING SWINDLED

where in brooklyn — lga might be better if you’re in wburg or greenpoint

ya in a certain sense buying m&ms from duane reade is prob going to even worse people in the end

wburg

are you gonna take a taxi or the train?

if we stopped giving money to panhandlers they would all just go and get jobs, right

because there are plenty of those to go around

saw a dvd seller a while ago do his spiel in english, then in spanish, then paused and did it in french — everyone was like whooooa

cab from lga to wburg would be like $20 maybe?

dunno! might be getting picked up?

my rule is never, ever fly into laguardia if you can help it

that shit shuts down like 5 times a week

if you’re getting picked up or taking a cab to wburg then yeah lga

if you’re taking public transit jfk

i can get miles if i go to LGA

btw i go to new york

when

new year’s

buddy of mine is buying half my ticket, so it’s still OK even this last minute

oh wow I’ll probably be in ny at that time too

but can understand two ships passing etc etc

why are you taking a ship

man if you come here there’s gonna be a snowstorm huh

so basically i have this choice:

JFK — $50 cheaper, Sun Country, no miles

LGA — Delta, miles

take the miles, always take the miles

why are you taking a ship

― iatee, Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

it’s an artisanal ship

my rule is never, ever fly into laguardia if you can help it

― max max max max, Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:01 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^^

nye party at max’s btw

I flew into laguardia once it wasn’t that bad

lga isn’t that bad imo but I also I could like walk there

I flew into JFK once too I don’t remember that tho

I also flew into the twin towers and then bush started the war on terror and invaded iraq

sorry ya’ll

o great one time dayo, leguardia experts here, iatees lived in ny for what 6 months, thx 4 the advice noobs

*stands on the lefthand side of the escalator*

ya but the 6 months were very close to lga I got time to study it

newark is the most underrated of all airports

max is from nj btw everyone

lol I’ve flown into newark probably the most times

I like LGA just cuz it’s a shorter cabride from my hovel.

“take the miles, always take the miles”—from max’s remake of The Godfather

if you’re getting picked up or taking a cab to wburg then yeah lga

if you’re taking public transit jfk

― iatee, Thursday, December 22, 2011 8:02 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

I read this as “If you’re taking public transit jfc”

that too

newark is the most underrated of all airports

definitely closer if you live or are staying in manhattan

yeah but you have to deal w/ the shame factor of having landed in jersey

But yeah, laguardia is significantly closer geographically to williamsburg, although the airtrain to A to L is not terrible. Cab ride from LaGuardia is probably not expensive though — maybe like $15 and you’ll be there in 15 minutes, I’d guess? I think there are also bus lines but I never tried that.

Also LaGuardia is pretty small and in my experience the few times I’ve been there that’s meant getting in and out fast. Guess it depends when you fly.

meant to say west side of manhattan—LGA is closer to east side

none of the bus lines is gonna be worth it from lga

are

I dunno why you would be grudging these kids just because they’re organized. maybe because this is AMERICA where we SHOULDN’T GIVE HANDOUTS because everybody must WORK for their LIVELIHOOD

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:56 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Lol “organized” — you make it sound like they formed a cooperative. They are being ripped off by some old creep in their neighborhood who takes most of their proft and does who knows what else to them.

take the miles, always take the miles

thiiiisss i mean cmon now

I think it’s a stretch to assume that the kids are getting molested

here i just see candy. in seoul ppl sell all kinds of cool stuff on the train. i have a square cloth with korean sign language alphabet printed on it and this great knit sponge/dish cleaner

newark airport is p bad imo, i might be conflating memory of eating a sad bagel at newark airport dunkin donuts w/a more considered analysis of its location & transport infrastucture though. i maybe just found the trains there confusing.

also

a man singing sam cooke’s “a change is going to come” on the train yesterday made me shed actual tears.

― bene_gesserit, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:30 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

ya but it’s kinda cynical for him to use ‘change’ like that

― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:32 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

lol

my rule is never, ever fly into laguardia if you can help it

― max max max max, Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:01 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^^

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:08 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

yall are crazy, LGA’s a lot easier to get in and out of

totally agree. 20 min to LGA vs 1 hr to JFK but admittedly this is just b/c i live in queens. also the bus stop is right outside my apt.

I go through LGA when I can. It’s an easier/faster/cheaper cab ride to/from my aerie. If I go through JFK these days, I’ll suffer the interminable Airtrain/subway ride (which isn’t much better than the M60 iirc) on the way back. I appreciate EWR’s public transit convenience, but New Jersey is a tunnel too far.

BTW protip if you are renting a car from NYC the airports usually have way better deals, especially if you bid via priceline.

thx dudes I go to LGA why becuase miles

how much are folks paying for internet? i have time warner and the cheapest plan when I signed up was $33/m. sometimes it’s so effing slow...but I can’t bring myself to pay any more than that!

yeah I believe that’s what my plan costs too. I refuse to also pay $50 more for basic cable. Just have internet.

I flew into newark today and when I was walking out I passed the security screening point and they had erected these glass corridors that let people through two abreast and it was like children of mine so upsetting

i flew into newark airport yesterday and didn’t think it too bad (well, until the waiting curbside for my ride to pick me up part, but that was arguably worse for my brother)

new york penn station today, otoh, was hellish

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2011/12/23/the_most_expensive_cities_have_the_highest_wages.html

people in the Bay Area, the DC area, New York, and Boston really are richer than people in Tucson and Akron it’s not all given back in higher housing costs.

so I’ll be in NYC from the 30th to the 4th

no plans for NYE just yet, but I should prob able to get lunch on the 2nd and 3rd while my bros are at work, I think?

ay is off til the 3rd

This year I’m breaking my streak of doing absolutely nothing for the new year and spending the day in NYC. Going to try and hit a few museums; my absolute musts are Daphne Guinness at the Fashion Institute of Technology (my last chance to see it, and the closest I’ll get to the McQueen exhibit I missed) and Carsten Höller at the New Museum, but I’m going to try and fit in the Neue Galerie too if at all possible.

No real plans for the actual Eve part of New Year’s, so I’m probably just going to head back into Philly and do my usual NYE ritual; pile of blankets, bottle of wine, stack of DVDs, terrible sleep-related decisions

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/nyregion/nyc-traffic-deaths-set-100-year-low-mayor-says.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

that ray kelly is given any credit is a joke, police dept is pretty useless.

oh wow you’re making those people going 70 on a cross-street at rush hour wear their seatbelts

ray kelly gets credit for everything

was just noticing yesterday how cavalier new yorks pedestrians are, take some care w/yr lives fools!

it’s just insane how casually people will stand *inches* away from cars going 60+. I think about this like 3 times a day on queens blvd.

yeah exactly i was on the manhattan side of the williamsburg bridge pedestrian entrance and people are just standing right at the edge of the road waiting for the light to change while cars are zooming so fast onto the bridge