Ms Renee Ra has a spot she'd like you to make yours. July and August, $1100 a month for a spacious one bedroom south of Prospect Park. Lovely views, elevator, AC (though you'll have to pay the electric bill). Interested? Let me know and I'll put you in touch. ...
Eventually: my promised report back on the Pirate Bay talk, which was great, and after which Mister Mux Tape explained that commercial software is, by its very nature, better than free and open source software and then asked me if I worked for the FSF when I called him on that bizarre and baseless assertion. I'm not even talking about Apache here. Or I am, but at the present moment, Open Office is better documented than the MS Office suite. And calc's financial functions are just plain better. I didn't point out that I don't think that the Free Software Foundation really has the staff resources to travel the Eastern seaboard heckling speakers at community arts talks. I also didn't point out that there are people in this world (no really, there are!) who hold opinions they aren't paid to hold and expertise on subjects they are not professional lobbyists on behalf of. Actually, I could kind of wrap that one up and repeat what we already know which is that the Bureau of Piracy is great, you should take a look at the links on the original post and (this is the part I hope you already know) that the real problem with the prosecution of the buccaneers is about free speech. Not about my right to swap music willy-nilly, copyright be damned (another thing I didn't say to Mux Man: there is, I think, a big difference between software and music) but about whether a file sharing platform should be held accountable for the files shared over it. Particularly in a world where some musicians do want to make large files (their own) available free of charge and politically significant data sets can be a difficult thing to host on your own little server. Fundamentally, neither the laws nor the recording industry have kept up with the modern world and it is worth asking why that is really the fault of the Pirate Bureau. That was rough. I might come back and try to make it sound a little coherent.
ABC NO RIO GALA & BENEFIT AUCTION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 7 TO 10 PM ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS 172 NORFOLK STREET Hungry March Band will be performing along with Aurora Boob Realis, Boobie von Trapp and Jezebel Express, all MC'd by the most excellent Reverend Jen. ABC No Rio has an ...
Last night, we went with a bunch of Merry's apprentices to see Danny Hoch's new show in a high school auditorium in Bushwick. An auditorium decorated with murals that tell the story of the mankind on earth, in which very fair skinned naked people are blessed by a winged angel ("The Dawn of Civilization") and then bestowed the flame ("The Gift of Fire"). And with fire the story ends. Before I start, just so you know, I'm struggling with the fact that last year's RAT was really inspiring and rejuvenating for me but without something to offer I can't see myself going again. So I saw a play finally. Some live theater. Saw it with a couple of teenagers (both named Hector) whose entire previous experience with live theater consisted of a trip to Lincoln Center to see the Nutcracker (shorter Hector) and "we saw this play once at school" (larger Hector).
My cousin is coming to town and she wants to go to a play. Fair enough: I live in New York City. I ought to be able to hook that up. Only, I don't go to plays and the people I know who do fall into difficult categories. Either they ...
Actually, Ben reports that he's signed a lease.
Here is what happened: I worked too late for no good reason. I looked over at the clock as I was turning on the radio and thought to my self, "crap. It is 8:03. I have an entire hour before Fair Game is over. It really is only on when ...
A colleague recently asked for cheap places to stay in NYC and then circulated the list he'd aggregated. This is a question I've tried to answer before, for all kinds of people, from punk to professional to downright prissy. I know that not everyone can dig a youth hostel -- if I'm coming to town for work I'm not sure I can stay in a dorm. So use your judgment. There's something for everyone. If you're looking for a place to stay that isn't crazy expensive, take a look at:
Okay, not to go all bug paranoid on you all, dear readers, but having learned that Hoyt-Schermerhorn is teeming with bedbugs (yeah, you read that right, and yes I am exaggerating a little) I am totally revolted. I am also reminded that when I was a child my mother ...
If you work with teenagers, you probably know at least one that would love to be taking a black and white photography class, right? Intro to Photography & Darkroom Technique Ten Saturday Sessions April 19 -- June 21 11:00am -- 2:00pm This class will introduce the basic techniques of black and white photography: composition, exposure, ...
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