Manhattan Offender

Here's a simple meal that even an idiot (see Townsend, Rod) can make, impress a date, and get them tired enough to sleep over on a cold night.

Skinless salmon steak.
- Brush with olive oil.
- Sprinkle chili powder and pepper.
- Broil about 6 minutes (be sure to pre-heat).
Brussel Sprouts
- Clean and boil on medium in a covered saucepan.
- Salt, pepper. (Some would say butter, but I say NO!)
Cous cous
- Put a little olive oil and salt in the water.
- If you can't make cous cous you should really order in.
Wine
 - Gewürztraminer, less sweet than a Riesling, yet not too dry or fruity.

Daniel Nardicio has lost his East Village Radio show because he's "too new East Village"? I was a guest on this and can assure you the topics that never came up were "hedge funds, Viking refrigerators, trust funds".

From Daniel's press release:

Dlist Radio CENSORED?

 

After four years of broadcasting the wildly popular nightlife talk radio show DList Radio, East Village Radio has cancelled the show after a scandalous incident on their November 8 show.

 

The show, a very popular podcast on Itunes, has been called “Party Monster meets The View” and “Gay Howard Stern” in the media. Despite all of this attention, EVR station manager Jorge DoCouto deemed it necessary to bring Nardicio in to the station and berate him for producing a show the station considered "inappropriate", "offensive" and "no good". 

“He was seriously going off the handle about how there was no line I wouldn’t cross, no offensive thing I wouldn’t say, which is absolutely untrue. It’s a gay shock jock type show, that’s the format- don’t they listen to radio?”

 

During the as yet un-aired November 8 show which features interviews with comedians Booth and Pat, the band The Tigerlillies, Dick Chibbles Porn Clown and an interview with Dr Pouset, a French Anthropologist who studied the similarities between Bonobo Apes and Homos, hosts Daniel Nardicio and Matt Phillp discussed how enamored Nardicio was with the station’s sound technician “Joe” and afterwards, the show was mysteriously unavailable online.

 

“I called the station the next morning to find out where our show was because it is always on Itunes immediately after we record it live on Saturday nights,” says Nardicio.  “I was told the show had been lost.”

Nardicio and Phillp apologized to “Joe” for the offending remarks and even offered to take the “offensive” bit out of the show if only the station would broadcast the November 8 show but East Village Radio refused. Nardicio and Phillp then asked several times for East Village Radio to return the recording of the November 8 show and they not only refused, they reacted by canceling the show.

 

D List Radio was featured in the Village Voice’s Best of New York for 2008 and has recently broadcast interviews with celebrities like Rue McClanahan, Perez Hilton, Michael Musto, Elijah Wood,  Lady Gaga, Alison Moyet and Fred Schneider - many of whom EVR were proud enough to advertise on eastvillageradio.com's homepage.

 

“Based on the station’s support of our celebrity interviews, our top iTunes rating, the fact that we’re syndicated on other web radio sites like QNationFM.com in Cleveland and feedback from fans, we're not convinced we're “ inappropriate”, “offensive” or “no good”,” says co-host Matt Phillp. 

 

“What confuses me is EVR’s official party line is that they’re “community based” and “East Village” yet when I was dressed down I was told our show was too much for the “new” East Village, which caters to women who moved here to be Carrie Bradshaw than do something interesting. Says Nardicio.

“EVR” is doing exactly what the entire East Village businesses are doing, they’re trying to make it more like the Meat Packing District, and our show is directly counter to that movement.

The show, which will be going on the road this fall with their road version called “Fairy Home Companion” will be making an announcement after Thanksgiving about their exciting new NYC home for the show, which will be reinvented as a multi-media, live audience event.

 

“Regardless, we're still doing the show live at Sugarland in Williamsburg this Friday with Robynne Kaamil, Bianca del Rio and DJ Aaron Elvis.” Says Nardicio  Legal proceedings to retrieve the confiscated show are also underway and to help help us finance this free speech lawsuit you can purchase a  “I fucked EVR’s Joe” at www.theDshop.com  starting this Friday and all our shows are now available at www.dlistradio.com.  Well, all except the Nov 8 show.  So far."

 

For more information contact Daniel Nardicio at Daniel@dlist.com (917 204 2476) or Matt Phillp at contact@matthewphillp.com

Question of the day - When did MetLife brand out Sixth Avenue?

Also? Will One Bryant Park (or whatever its name is) ever look complete, or is that some 'style' thing?
Oh, and? Will the iPhone ever have a zoom lens?
Lastly? When did I become Andy Rooney?

The suicides we can deal with, but the lack of iPhones will make this not the New Great Depression, but the Most Depressing Depression.

Since my holiday vacation plans were just blown away by friends fearing lay-offs (Provincetown remains elusive!), the reality of the downturn is in-mind.  The Boston Globe has a nice "think" piece outlining what the new economic reality may bring. 

Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one.

(via Neal (on whom I totally crush because of the points of view taken in his writing, but am unsure of his gayness.  And it's not like he lives on the same continent anyway.))

All of those sparkly new subway cars with their video screens and robot voices and funny hydraulic noises? They'll be arriving at the platform every 45 minutes or so.

The old orange and amber seated cars, even the purple trains weren't that much of an upgrade to these new cars.  With entire lines being cut from the system, it's not like you're going to be riding them much anyway. 

MTA's planned cuts include everything from station agents to entire train lines.
(Via Maura, who's right.  Nobody reads the Daily News.)

Past Over - Ten dollars is all you needed at Save the Robots

Sometimes I receive telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembers where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came to town.  Originally posted at Gawker, April 19, 2007.

"Hello?"

"I'm so glad you're home, humpyhole."

"Are you being nice to me?"

"Oh... I guess. But I wanted to go to sleep so I thought I'd do that thing where I call you and tell you a story and you sort of help me get to sleep."

"Are you calling me boring?"

"Well, no. Not at all. You sort of remind me of the first time I went to Save the Robots."

Masturbation in a hotel lobby with a magazine is cool with divine creator as long as it is not a gay magazine according to artist that was great up until 1982 (okay, fine 1984) but now has pretty much been phoning it in ever since.

Prince Says God Against Homosexuality.

Dream Analysis - Underdressed at the Mr. Black, the ginormous performance venue

I was with a core group of friends at V and R's loft.  Granted, they live in a West Village one bedroom, but in the dream it was their very fancy, well-designed huge loft with a huge garden on the roof deck.  We were hanging out, and there were a few other less core friends there as well.  Someone said, "It's time to get ready."  And I asked, "Ready for what?"  E told me that we were all going to Mr. Black for a show.  Everybody dressed really nicely, but all I had was what I was wearing, which was my blue swimming trunks (the American Apparel ones with the ridiculously long drawstring) and a black tee shirt (also from American Apparel, the "Summer Tee" of which own four, all black).

We went to Mr. Black, but it wasn't Mr. Black.  At least I assume it wasn't, as I've never been to the new location, but I assume it's not some ginormous space with a beautiful stage, like something you would see in a 1930's movie - think Ethyl Merman at the supper club in that scene from Myra Breckinridge, but more seating space.

We knew more people there who joined us at a big table.  Everyone was socializing, but I felt a need for fresh air.  I stepped outside via a stage exit.  I leaned against a pole and found out it had paint on it.  So now I was underdressed and my clothes had paint on them. 

J appeared and offered me drugs.  I said no thanks as it looked like it was very little left.  He said had two more bags.  Then a stage-worker asked for some because he was feeling groggy.  I pointed out the wet paint, and he said he was going to make a sign but he was groggy.  I told him that I hoped the drugs helped, but it was too late for me.

Just before waking, I was trying to decide whether to go back to the table with "the guys" with my paint-stained clothes or remove my clothes or go home.

Below is the dream analysis of being underdressed in a dream.

Name that bar, a new regular featuure, which may not become all that regular

Protest rally at Manhattan Mormon place turns out to be disappointing, at least in the number of "missed connections" generated.

"I texted you yesterday."
"You text me every day."
"Yeah, but you didn't respond.  We were meeting up for the Proposition 8 rally thing."
"I don't go to the Upper West Side.  It's where everything goes to die."
"What?"
"Anybody cool that has ever moved to the Upper West Side has always let themselves go, gotten lazy, or had a baby.  And it's an inconvenient commute."
"I went there from Brooklyn.  And then went back to Brooklyn."
"Dude, okay, I'm a 'bad gay'.   I didn't go.  I don't see a purpose.  Do you think protesting their little Manhattan outpost is going to do one thing in Utah?  I'm all about getting the fuckers taxed, though."
"Did you sign the online petition I sent you?"
"Yes.  All three of them.  Look, what nobody is saying is that the Mormons are setting themselves in alignment with the culture warriors to make Max Headroom the next president."
"What are you ..."
"Romney.  Mitt Romney.  Crazy-underwear wearing Mitt.  So how was it?"
"There were, like, thousands of people.  It was fun.  You should have gone."
"Heh.  I bet there were tons of "Missed Connections" generated."

That is a bet that, if placed I would have lost.  There were just two.