A Good Day for Choice Quotes

From the Washington Post article on the rise of crime in a gay neighborhood in the Village:

“My name is Paper. Put that in a big P, in bold. I’m a hustler,” said Alan a.k.a. Paper. Despite the police van just five yards away, and his own low-grade homophobia, he keeps chanting. He pulls in $700 a week just on the strip. “Everyone knows that gays carry mad cash.”

And an NYTimes article on a ‘body-snatcher’ in Detroit:

“My theory?” Mr. Thomas offered. “White people kill themselves. Black people kill each other. Chinese people don’t die.”

Cool for a minute

The NYTimes has a great article on MisShapes, the venue responsible for this picture and these 2 seconds of fame. I love nothing better than a NYTimes interpretation of the fag world:

Don Hill’s is little more than a dingy bar, but that night it was packed with art world and music stars, as well as hundreds of fiendishly dressed young people who had adopted the MisShapes style of wearing a heavy curtain of jet-black hair.

And, let us not forget the faggy world of media gossip (roooooaaaawwwwwwww):

Fashion designers have long shown a vampire interest in the style and tastes of fringe groups, sucking them dry, and older houses, in particular, have depended on them for cachet with young fashion consumers. For the MisShapes, there is a danger they will lose credibility if they are seen as being in the pocket of big companies. Gawker, the media gossip site, has taken a number of swipes at the MisShapes, implying that a backlash is under way.

All in all, you can say that the world of New York revolves around the delusion of everyone’s importance. This includes socialites and the places they attend.

Vaginal Variety – Hookers.com

If you don’t read Slate often, you should start now. Apart from being dead on politically (or at least opening a reasoned and rational debate), they often have articles about sex. And this, to put it mildly, is no prude shit (with some economics to boot). Check out “Hookers.com: How e-commerce is transforming the oldest profession”:

Third, there’s what you might call the eBay effect. Before the Internet, there must have been people who wanted to sell Scooby Doo lunch boxes and Star Wars phaser props, and people who wanted to buy them, but how could they connect? Likewise, 10 years ago, even if I’d had the inclination and the $2,500 to spend on vaginal variety, I wouldn’t have had the faintest idea where to turn. But now, thanks to the Web, exchanging dead presidents for live girls couldn’t be easier. And if, as I tend to believe (don’t you?) there are more men who would pay to be “escorted” than gorgeous women willing to provide that service, then the Internet will pull more buyers than sellers into the high-end market, thereby inflating prices.

Amazing (Or, no more wars for Israel)

In the middle of a big anti-Iranian (read: PRO-ISRAEL) rally at Harvard, a guy showed up with these signs:

And was soon confronted… with a fight (check out the video!). And thanks to Publius for the great reporting.

Sex Bait

The question: “On Monday, a Seattle web developer named Jason Fortuny started his own Craigslist experiment. The goal: “Posing as a submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom, how many responses can we get in 24 hours?””

The answer: “He took the text and photo from a sexually explicit ad (warning: not safe for work) in another area, reposted it to Craigslist Seattle, and waited for the responses to roll in. Like Simon’s experiment, the response was immediate. He wrote, “178 responses, with 145 photos of men in various states of undress. Responses include full e-mail addresses (both personal and business addresses), names, and in some cases IM screen names and telephone numbers.”