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02 Jun 2009

Cheap Shots @ Cheap Shots, FREE Shots If It’s Your B-Day

There is a bar in the East Village that diligently carries the torch that so many others have let extinguish, where  kinda transient, tatoooed patron types collect their paltry earnings and hand them over in exchange for cheap shots, or better yet, glory. Cheap Shots is one of those simple,

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01 Jun 2009

Jet lag and $1 beers

    I just got back last night from 10 days in the Yucatan Peninsula.  It was mostly spent reading on white sand beaches in the Mayan Riviera, and truthfully it was Plan B.  The original idea was for my lady and I to visit Cuba, smoke some cigars, drink

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01 Jun 2009

FREE Wine at Imprint TV Launch Party

Imprint-TV is a new news source for the New York area focusing on positive news, hoping there is still some taste and decency left willing to choose uplifting and human over sensationalism.    The fact they are having a launch party with free wine is a good start.   My

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01 Jun 2009

“Sexting”: The Next Generation

“Sexting” is a retarded, sensationalist, armchair psychology/media-created buzzword made up to scare the kind of gullible and easily excitable, pearl-clutching middle aged parents who still think that “rainbow parties” were (or are) an actual thing that all the morally bankrupt kids these days participate in.  If you need an example,

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31 May 2009

Union Design Festival — Free to stroll 150 indepdendent designers!

I always have trouble buying things for some of my friends. Its not to say that I don’t know them ‘” hell, I’ve known most of them for WAY TOO LONG, in fact ‘” but that their interests are so hodgepodge that its hard to say what they would like

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31 May 2009

How to Get Rid of Things: FREE Advice Blog

The blog How to Get Rid of Things isn’t a screaming call for divestment, although that would be nice too.  As they say,  it is a “do-it-yourself guide dedicated to helping you prevent, eliminate or remove common annoyances from your life.”  What kind of annoyances?   Well,  How to Get Rid

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31 May 2009

FREE Colt at VICE Afterparty with RSVP

Although the screening at MoMA is sold out for the documentary “The Ride” there will be an after party thrown/hosted/branded by Vice at Rodeo Bar according to MyOpenBar.  There will also be a midnight performance by The Weight.   Maybe if the modern cowboys rode competition bulls less and protected

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30 May 2009

CA Academy of Sciences FREE for North Beach/Marina Residents TODAY!

So the California Academy of Sciences decided to be smart and ration off free days for residents in SF by zipcode, instead of having the entire city bombard the entire place in just one day. An even better deal than Nightlife, these free days allow you to view all habitats

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