Alex Smith
@alexinnyc.bsky.social
Native New Yorker. Insufferable music snob. Laughably anachronistic blogger: https://vassifer.blogs.com
Just a coincidence?
Manhattan Mosaic Mystery
Okay, here’s a weird one. It could be purely a coincidence, … but I don’t know. See what you think. Back in October of 2008, my wife and I took our two little kids up to the Upper West Side...
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August 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just a coincidence?
And now for something totally different...
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Disco Dueling on 43rd & Third
I hate to call her out on it (although she caught the error herself before the episode was over), but my friend Jessica, on this morning’s episode of the Desperately Seeking the `80 podcast, made a fl...
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March 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
And now for something totally different...
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The man is DEMONSTRABLY ill-equipped, IRRETRIEVABLY up his own ass and IN ABSOLUTELY NO WAY qualified to make authoritative decisions about anything relating to health. But we all knew this, and it still happened. This will have consequences, and it's your own fucking fault, America.
RFK Jr. Is Officially in Charge of the Country’s Health
The anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is about to be the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.thecut.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The man is DEMONSTRABLY ill-equipped, IRRETRIEVABLY up his own ass and IN ABSOLUTELY NO WAY qualified to make authoritative decisions about anything relating to health. But we all knew this, and it still happened. This will have consequences, and it's your own fucking fault, America.
It would be a bummer to lose that Keith Haring mural, although the headline misleadingly makes it sound like Haring's mural -- painted circa 1987 -- appears in "Raging Bull" (a film shot in 1980 set in 1941). Suffice to say, it does not. The rec center does (and, really, big whoop to that).
Keith Haring mural at old NYC rec center featured in ‘Raging Bull’ could be endangered by site demolition, advocates fear
“There has been no clear indication from city officials whether the mural is guaranteed to remain intact or if it might be affected by any future redevelopment plans,” said Gil Vazquez,…
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February 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It would be a bummer to lose that Keith Haring mural, although the headline misleadingly makes it sound like Haring's mural -- painted circa 1987 -- appears in "Raging Bull" (a film shot in 1980 set in 1941). Suffice to say, it does not. The rec center does (and, really, big whoop to that).
Trump is fucking garbage.
February 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Trump is fucking garbage.
Perched perilously on the precipice of leaving Meta platforms for good, I take a look back at other people's photographs on Instagram of my lost New York City... vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/20...
Poached Pics: Pieces of the Past
There’s been a bit of an exodus, in recent days, of folks leaving Instagram and Facebook, put off by Zuckerberg’s brazen sucking-up to Trump. I, too, have courted the idea of leaving — which is saying...
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January 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Perched perilously on the precipice of leaving Meta platforms for good, I take a look back at other people's photographs on Instagram of my lost New York City... vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/20...
Then, Now and Forever.
Dead kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
YouTube video by Antitodo Old Punk
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January 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Then, Now and Forever.
Every morning, I scan the headlines and am astonished that this is the world we’re now living in.
January 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Every morning, I scan the headlines and am astonished that this is the world we’re now living in.
Trump is absolute sewage.
January 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Trump is absolute sewage.
Absolutely terrifying.
Trump wants California to require voter ID to get disaster aid | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said he wanted California to require voter ID in order to get disaster aid for the LA wildfires.
www.cnn.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Absolutely terrifying.
My only real grievance with Bluesky, thus far, is that it seems indistinguishable from the original Twitter format ... a platform I never really warmed to.
January 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My only real grievance with Bluesky, thus far, is that it seems indistinguishable from the original Twitter format ... a platform I never really warmed to.
This is already old news, but still worth sharing ....
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Really Worth Sharing
From the National Prayer Service on Tuesday, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's words to Trump, literally speaking truth to power. This is some Punk Rock, right here. “Let me make one final plea, Mr. Presid...
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January 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is already old news, but still worth sharing ....
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Inaugural post. Hoping this turns out to be a good move. Increasingly put off by the shenanigans of Zuck and his vile ilk. Let's make it work.
January 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Inaugural post. Hoping this turns out to be a good move. Increasingly put off by the shenanigans of Zuck and his vile ilk. Let's make it work.