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The office memo April 8, 2009

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items that will not be appropriate for display in my office based on a memo to all staff extolling the virtues of being ‘generic’ even though everyone would have benefitted. I ran these all by my coworkers and the answer was no.

 

  1. a wu tang poster reminding us all to ‘protect ya neck’
  2. a communal bar station
  3. an easy bake oven
  4. a life sized Keanu cutout circa the replacements replete with the tagline ‘pain heals, chicks dig scars, but glory…lasts forever’
  5. my ‘grow up to be gay’ magnet set [that sean gave me]
  6. the holiday tree (think: Christmas tree redecorated monthly to reflect various holidays)
  7. a disco ball
  8. any arts and crafts project I ever did [particularly the pottery class wares of ‘07]
  9. the Jamaican bobsled team statuette that rach got me in Jamaica [ie the best gift ever]
  10. rachel’s other best gift ever and pretty much the polar opposite of generic: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Cursing-Match-Profanity-Generator/dp/0762435755
 

Reasons why 60% of the time I love reading http://gothamist.com/ all the time April 8, 2009

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  1. they read all the papers, so I don’t have to
  2. it makes me feel new yorky
  3. when I read the times, they usually summarize just the articles I really liked, thus earning my trust
  4. I like when they use a picture from something pop cultury (You Can’t Do That on Television, the Simpsons) to illustrate an article about something similar
  5. I’m not at all a foodie and yet it’s not Wednesday without the midweek nyc restaurant review roundup
  6. they were genius enough to start sending emails first thing in the AM so I can plan for any local special happenings that day
  7. the writing is informative and yet very sassy and clever
  8. I love that I know the names of the two main contributors/editors (jen chung & jake dobkin) and that I know jen loves pandas
  9. they enable my distaste for brooklyn
  10. they have versions of gothamist for other cities and every Sunday they summarize the biggest stories from each ‘ist’ and it is the one thing I look forward to looking at on Mondays
  11. they totally humor staten island in pretending they’re a real borough
  12. they make fun of nyu kids
  13. before they did weekly concert reviews, they randomly reviewed the beastie boys show at mccarren pool that rocked my world cause it was the greatest show of all time and they had a picture where you can clearly see me right up front. It was the best night of my life. http://gothamist.com/2007/08/10/beastie_boys_bo.php
  14. they’ve written about steve’s pies TWICE and they once helped steve find his lost dog! http://gothamist.com/2005/12/01/steve_tarpin_st.php

    http://gothamist.com/2006/06/10/the_hungry_cabb_3.php

  1. best interview ever: http://gothamist.com/2007/08/07/adam_horovitz_m.php