Archive for the ‘The Blog’ Category

What I Hope Happens: 10,000 B.C.

The Blog: February 5th, 2008

A segment in which marginally experienced webeditor and novice blogger Ryan Grim describes what he would like various movies, television programs and books to be about.

The year is 10,002 BCE. Dinosaurs have long since gone the way of the dodo. Dodos, however, are thriving. 90% of people on Earth, while they don’t realize it, [...]

Becoming A Citizen, Again, This Time Amongst Many Immigrants

The Blog: February 12th, 2008

Anyone fortunate enough to have been at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Center DMV this morning would have come across about 60 of America’s finest Albanians, Haitians, Southeast Asians, some other “others,” many unhappy children, and me. No, I wasn’t there cruising for FOtB tail this time, but rather to take the New York State learner’s permit written [...]

A Typical Bloggy Update

The Blog: February 25th, 2008

Blogs were invented by IT types who wanted to keep in touch with their IT type high school/college friends after moving to faraway places to take IT jobs. They’d post about their cats’ pooping habits and the unapproachable cute girl who works at the laundromat. In the spirit of what these were initially supposed [...]

The Luncher #2: Bratwurst at Café Sabarsky

The Blog: March 4th, 2008

A segment in which marginally experienced webeditor and novice blogger Ryan Grim describes his lunch, briefly at first and then in ridiculous detail.

The Skinny: I ate bratwurst at an Austrian place in the city.

The Fatty: After spending the better part of a Sunday afternoon at the Guggenheim, my friend Nick and I walked a few [...]

At Least Carcetti Wasn’t a Pimp John

The Blog: March 10th, 2008

I hadn’t planned on commenting on news stories here, but having just read the early report on our Governor’s involvement in a prostitution ring a day after watching The Wire series finale, it seemed appropriate, for some reason, to write about politics.

I hope he’s a pimp! With hoes! He probably ordered hoes to do gross [...]