Category Archives: Booze & Drug
“Torching a crack rock is very different from typing a Tweet.”
This one exemplifies the “column that forces a metaphor to allow its author to brag about his drug experiences” archetype.
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‘Find the Sleepy Cadet’ is way easier than ‘Where’s Waldo?’
Our Spritely Commander in Chief kept West Point up well past its bedtime tonight, turning his stately presentation on the future of Our Global War into a cadet lullaby. Our to-be-deployed troops sucked it down like warm milk:
Assuming this would be the only time this happened (and that this cadet was being tased), we settled [...]
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I went online and found a new word for getting schwasted.
So, alright, whatever, Gothamist non-post about cops getting, ah, “pirated copies” of their badges so they don’t lose the originals. Moral of that story? You can get anything in Chinatown if you know where to look. Call the RIAA or something. The Chinese love selling the fake shit.
Wait a minute.
“You’re going to go get boxed [...]
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The 401 loves them some “Little People, Big World”
What up Rhode Island:
(401): the non-midget kid sent 8,000 texts in a month. the midget parents are pissed. THIS IS EPIC WHEN YOUR HIGH.
[via Texts From Last Night]
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‘The Whole Thing is Fucked’
Patrick from Titus Andronicus had a pretty shitty Halloween, which inspires some deep thinking on the hipster set, which inspires criticism, which we agree with wholeheartedly. Blogging!
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GOVERNMENT BOOZE!!!1
The bootlegging barons of the prohibition era must be smiling in their graves.
The state government last week awarded $800,000 to the Brooklyn Brewery to jump-start their $6.5 million expansion in Williamsburg.
[New York Post]
For a bit of background on Brooklyn Brewery’s expansion, see this Times article from last year. The gist: People moved to Brooklyn precisely [...]
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Going Native
Its CMJ, fer chrissakes, which means that poseur indie kids from all over the damn country descend on our fair city with hopes to copulate with poseur indie kids from our fair city. Hat tip to FREEwilliamsburg for pointing out a few resonant craigslist gems. Here’s our take:
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Report: SLA Drunk on Power, SoCo
Gothamist reported earlier today on a the culmination of a two year report on practices within the State Liquor Authority. Basically the report concluded that the SLA is the most corrupt, poorly run, and generally inefficient government office, EVER. This makes a lot of sense. Among other factors, the report contends that a “lax internal [...]
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