http://www.takethecityandrun.com You've got a big mouth... now I'm gonna show you an even bigger one. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:13:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en glumbert.com - The Apple iRack http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/05/12/madtv-apple-spoof-irack/ 1. The Big Sleep - "Murder" 2. TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me" 3. The Knife - "Silent Shout" 4. Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy" 5. The Rapture - "Whoo! Alright-Yeah... Uh Huh" 6. Unsacred Hearts - "But Ms. Love" 7. Grizzly Bear - "Knife" 8. Unsacred Hearts - "Somewhere Deep In NYC" 9. Matmos - "Steam ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/23/top-ten-songs-of-2006/ According to Streetsblog, there was a transportation planner (also a Park Slope resident) in attendance at last week's community board meeting who had a statement ready to read, but never had a chance to share it. If given the chance, he would have argued against converting 6th and 7th Avenues ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/22/transportation-planner-argues-against-one-way-avenues/ John Edwards has just officially announced that he will not suspend his presidential campaign. This comes after it was found that his his wife, Elizabeth, has had a recurrence of cancer. http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/22/john-edwards-will-not-suspend-campaign/ Governor Kathleen Blanco has announced she will not seek reelection in Louisiana: "Today, I am announcing that, after much thought and prayer, I have decided not to seek re-election as your governor," Blanco said. After her ridiculous fumbling of the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita situations, it's about time she actually made a ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/21/thank-god-blancos-out/ This site has been getting a lot of hits lately for "Hillary 1984." I posted the Apple commercial vs. Hillary Clinton candidacy announcement mash-up YouTube video two weeks ago, but it just recently got picked up by the mainstream media as an item of interest, so people have apparently been ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/20/the-hillary-1984-hype/ Proof that outsourcing work to India doesn't always work out: "She died in a freak rugby accident" became "She died in a rugby match for people with deformities." The lesson here is that subtitles for movies should probably be translated by someone from either the country of origin or destination. http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/20/a-way-with-words/ Directed by Zack Snyder 300 could very well go down as a watershed moment in filmmaking. No, it's not a particularly great movie; it is entertaining, but it's not exactly an exercise in sophisticated storytelling. It is, however, groundbreaking as far as technical achievement. For years now, anytime a movie laden ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/18/300/ I attended last night's Brooklyn Community Board 6 Transportation Committee meeting. The turnout was impressive --- the auditorium we were in wasn't the biggest, but it was filled to capacity, which was probably somewhere around 150 people. But there were even more people outside in the anteroom to the auditorium ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/16/park-slope-speaks-with-one-voice/ I can't claim I was a big fan of Tracy Morgan during his time on SNL. But I've become a big fan of 30 Rock. However, now I have to ask myself how much of his character, "Tracy Jordan," is actually a performance: via TV Squad http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/14/tracy-morgan-shirtless-in-the-morning/ As someone who lives in Park Slope, between 7th and 8th Avenues, I'm really against the Department Of Transportation's proposal to make 6th and 7th Avenues one way streets. I like my neighborhood the way it is now and don't really understand the claim that making those avenues one way ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/14/park-slope-one-way-no-way/ I've been following the problems in Brooklyn's 40th District since the special election there a few weeks back with awe at how ridiculous the situation has become. A quick summary of the problems as I understand them: Does Matthieu Eugene even reside in the district he was elected to represent? Or ... http://www.takethecityandrun.com/2007/03/13/wasted-money-in-brooklyn/