Golly gee, I just posted about that damned Cube on the Anya Phillips thread. I better tell Maripol zee mozzefockers are NOT tearing NY apart!

Thanks Bobby for the update. I walked by there tonight; it is so nice out, a lot of people walking around in the cool, clear air - but no skater kids hanging in that empty Astor space where their cube stands. Don't know what ya got 'til it's gone.

I vote for a new sculpture:
A statue of Allen Ginsberg, also on a pivot, so the skater punks can spin him around all day & night long.

I vote for a whole East Village mock pantheon, Ginsberg, Penny Arcade, anyone who ever performed at PS122, with a looped recording of Reno telling Giuliani jokes. And the pigeon crap should never be cleaned off.

Thought they could have opened a repair shop right there and taken on apprentises. why not dig a huge pit and create stairs down to a windowless museum under that platform about the real east village.

Chinese take out deliveryman found after being stuck in elevator for three days!

NY Times article

I always suspected that delivering food in this town could be dangerous!

The real funny thang about this was I saw the news last night and police commisioners all stowic standing up at press conf. saying 'this housing project has 840 (sic) units in it and we have searched 800 (sic) of them... we will resume searching the remaining 40" it was smth insane like that can't quite remember the EXACT figure but smth daft! Its all rather cop in Simpsons stupidity here.. over 500 apts searched but NOT the lift!!

Better than the major fire in the Gompers Houses the other week. Whole apartment on top floor goes up in huge spectacular conflagration. Lights up the whole area. Helicopters, major stir up in the nabe all night long. Three bodies found. Breaking news on local network teevee. Then no follow up at all because the three bodies were the result of a "family dispute." If it was drugs or some other vice thing there would be coverage through the court sentencing of whoever. But since it is in a city housing block and some bizarre family thing no one is allowed to publicize it beyond the obvious spectacle.

Reviving this topic for local news from all over Manahatta-

This glorious tale in the Post a few days ago-

quote:

HANGY SPANKY

February 9, 2008 -- A leather-loving submissive was clinging to life yesterday after a freak accident at a Midtown bondage club cut off oxygen to his brain, law-enforcement sources said.

A dominatrix at The Nutcracker Suite on East 33rd Street called 911 at about 1:30 a.m. after finding the hooded man turning blue in a dungeon room as he hung by his arms.

He was also wearing nipple clamps, a dog collar and women's high-heeled shoes, and his hands were cuffed behind his back, sources said.

HANGY SPANKY