Posts Tagged ‘transportation’

The V Train’s Demise Makes It The Conan O’Brien Of Subway Lines

Where are all the Coco supporters today in news that the unloved and slighted V train is going to be eliminated under the new budget cuts? The V was hardly given a chance to shine and it showed moments of brilliance before having the axe handed down because the MTA panicked over expenditures. The V [...]

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Why I'm Not Worried About Swine Flu

Everyone in Los Angeles is terrified about Swine Flu, which they really shouldn’t be because no one in Los Angeles ever interacts with other people. Your average Los Angelino is face-to-face with an average of two real people per month (made-up stat), and it tends not to be the person who gets Swine Flu. But [...]

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Corn-Powered Cars

Every time a tub of popcorn induces a number two of destructive proportions it fails to surprise me that we can power cars on the same material. You’d think that the link would have been made decades ago, probably by some guy sitting on a toilet having his insides wrecked by a Loews Theater super-combo. [...]

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More NY vs. LA

The way that people drive in Los Angeles is the way that people argue in New York City. Both require an instinctual level of offense-minded aggression with complete disregard to the possibility that you could be liable, at fault or wrong. You will also continue to regale tales of both to disinterested coworkers in a [...]

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Bus Internet Password Protection

I went down to D.C. last weekend, a city with permanent residents who are douche bag lawyers mixed with temporary tourists who are fat, stupid southerners. This makes me not understand why there was a problem when they had a crack head mayor. My friend recommended I take the DC2NY Bus which turned out to be a [...]

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