//williamsburg
Dirty-Looking Hipsters Overrun By Actually Dirty Hipsters!
“‘Crusty Punk’ sounds fittingly like a euphemism for syphilis.”
a) I can barely tell the difference between emaciated cokeheads who spent hours making themselves look dirty and emaciated junkies who look dirty because they sleep in dirt. I suppose the nose will know(s).
b) “Gutter Punk” is so ’90s. “Crusty Punk” sounds fittingly like a euphemism for syphilis.
c) Williamsburg is not a “family neighborhood”.
d) Hilarious that the half-built luxury condos are now infested.
e) This is why I shun (and loathe) panhandlers. I have ever since living between the Upper and Lower Haight in SF. Fie on middle-class kids who don’t want to work but call me yuppie whatevs while simultaneously trying to wheedle money.
Modest Mouse Secret Show Tonight at 1 AM in Williamsburg
“Now they suck and don’t play enough older songs….”
Modest Mouse is playing a secret show tonight at 1 AM at Music Hall of Williamsburg, a.k.a. North Six. Doors are at 1 AM and show starts at 1:30 AM.
$20 no-fee tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com
Prior to “We Were Dead….”, I 100% would have gone. But now they suck and don’t play enough older songs to warrant attendance.
However, if they hopped on the “play an album in its entirety” bandwagon and opted to play (my all-time favorite) This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, or Lonesome Crowded West, or Building Nothing Out of Something, or even The Moon and Antarctica, I would be in line right now instead of typing this.
Lost Kitty
Awww. It looks like the inset picture shows “Roscoe” and his bow-legs under a blankie!
LOST CAT
LARGE, LONG, BLACK CAT, SMALL TUFT OF WHITE FUR ON HIS CHEST
MIGHT ANSWER TO ROD OR ROSCOE
THIN TAIL, KIND OF BOW-LEGGED, SHINY COAT, FRIENDLY
MALE, NEUTERED, 2 YEARS OLD
LAST SEEN NEAR THE CORNER OF BEDFORD AND SOUTH 2ND,
ON APRIL 2ST [sic] IN THE EVENING
IF YOU SEE HIM PLEASE CALL JEANNIE AT 917.XXX.XXXX [I'll give you the remaining digits if you've seen her cat] OR DURING WORK HOURS 212.XXX.XXXX
CASH REWARD!!!!! WE MISS HIM
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