Monthly Archives: September 2009
World’s youngest middle-aged man feels weight of H1N1 preparation
Its back to school for the kids, which for New York public school students means a game of Russian Roulette with an unrelenting opponent: swine flu. At IS 238, teachers are really cranking the heat on students like Ty Coleman, pictured left:
Coleman: When you sneeze, sneeze (motions) like this, and don’t cough on anybody.
Reporter: And [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin picks crown at US Open
The tongue sweep.
Dov Charney: all kinds of sad.
American Apparel CEO Dov Charney is very, very sad that he was forced to fire 1,600 of his employees for “immigration problems”
Here he goes all boo hoo:
“I just cry when I think that so many people will be leaving the company… It is my belief that immigrants bring prosperity to any economy.”
Yeah, probably, [...]
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Pinball Wizard
Lo and behold, The Great Pumpkin’s North Brooklyn Pinball directory.
I think of myself as something of a pinball revisionist — I started my career on a high-tech, faux-holographic Star Wars Episode I machine in Milwaukee. While a part of me wishes pinball-nouveau had taken off (the last time I saw a Star Wars pinball machine [...]
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Bingo! Update on Japanese Aliens
Just yesterday we broke the story on Aliens taking over the Japanese government. You might remember that near the end of that article we said this:
Sometimes all you have to do is provide leading coverage on one crappy story to catapult a crap website with mediocre, or even no content whatsoever, into one of the most highly trafficked sites [...]
Poking Holes in the Huntsville Donut Caper
Another day, another conspiracy here at WTPWB. This one takes us far from our Brooklyn roots, and down south to Todd P’s unfortunate home state of Texas. Specifically the micropolitan area of Huntsville, Texas. Yeah, it sounded familiar to us too. To save you the google search, you’re trying to come up with the name [...]
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WE’RE HAVING A CONTEST
First read this. See you in a minute.
If you didn’t read that, let me tell you how it boils down. Basically, that site you love to hate, Look at This Fucking Hipster, couldn’t get enough of its actual subjects to sign the waiver for their upcoming (surely to be deck as fuck) book, so they’re [...]
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Things about Japan that Todd P doesn’t know
I bet Todd P did not know that Japan is run by aliens. I bet you didn't know either, but here at WTPWB, our brand of rough-and-tumble-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-issue-hard-hitting journalism aims to inform. So let's really crack the lid off of this one.
The first, and most telling sign that any country is about to succumb to an alien invasion is when the guy they elect to be premier is married to someone who has traveled to Venus. Seriously.
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“Pre” School of Architectural Criticism Taking Hold