Even though he quit smoking in January, it was Yvan’s mission to publicly smoke through an entire pack of cigarettes before the midnight cut-off on Saturday. NYC’s public buildings, including restaurants and bars, are now officially smoke free. I suspect this sign will soon be taken down at Waverly Diner, where we had brunch.

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I’m writing this from an Internet Cafe on Bleecker Street near my apartment. I can hear the cars whizzing by outside on the wet pavement. It’s a cold, windy, rainy day. Our cable access has been down at home. That means no internet access or tv since Friday, and because I was at home [...]

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Last night at Spa, while weeding my way through the crowded dance floor, I rubbed up against a shortish, roundish man with unruly, curly brown hair. He brushed against me and his stomach touched my side, I remember thinking “he feels soft, cushy”. It was Ron Jeremy. A few minutes later Matthew saw [...]

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So, the weekend before last, I was at this bar called Mad River on the Upper East Side and I filled out some survey/contest form and never thought about it again. Last week they called me to say that I won a free night at their bar. Me and another friend of mine could [...]

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Here are a couple recent spoofs of their site:
CNN Goes to Font Size 72
Gangsta CNN
The Onion

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