Odds on the 2013 Mayoral Election
August 6th, 2011 Comments Off
Calculated August 4, 2011, from Irish Betting Site Paddypower.com:
Christine Quinn: 2 to 1
Bill Thompson, Bill de Blasio & Scott Stringer: 2.25 to 1
John Lui[sic]: 6.5 to 1
Anthony Weiner: 10 to 1
Adolfo Carrion Jr., Marty Markowitz, Ray Kelly & Ruben Diaz, Jr: 16 to 1
Eliot Spitzer: 25 to 1
Alec Baldwin, Diana Taylor, Dick Grasso: 33 to 1
Niall O’ Dowd: 55 to 1
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For those curious: Niall O’Dowd is a Irish-born publisher and journalist; Diana Taylor is the New York State Superintendent of Banks and Mayor Bloomberg’s domestic partner; Alec Baldwin was formerly a busboy at Studio 54.
From the Edge of Not Knowing
March 12th, 2011 Comments Off
As a result, today’s events could trigger a massive cultural shift in how humans perceive and regard the “usefulness” of nuclear materiality. From this moment of not knowing, we sense the bare reality that the nuclear can take the human-geologic convergence up to—possibly beyond—its limits. Friends of the Pleistocene, March 11, 2011
Dubai on Empty
March 11th, 2011 Comments Off
Dubai has been built very fast. The plan was money. The architect was money. The designer was money and the builder was money. And if you ever wondered what money would look like if it were left to its own devices, it’s Dubai. – A.A. Gill, Vanity Fair, April 2011
you may not be technically advanced enough to follow me on all of this
March 11th, 2011 Comments Off
I just figured that Bruce Banner had probably been a friend of Reed Richards [Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four], and Reed had given him some elastic trousers. There’s an explanation for everything, but you may not be technically advanced enough to follow me on all of this. -Eric Spitznagel, Vanity Fair, March 10, 2011
Hello there.
February 22nd, 2011 Comments Off
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