Results tagged “doit”

MOVIE: Beware to those heading over to Pioneer Theater tonight, that Jackass Steve-O will be there promoting his new movie TV: The Movie. "A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials." And we bet he'll totally staple something to his face.

Now that you're finished pretending you care about football, it's time for the music version of Monday-morning quarterbacking: What are you going to do with your week? To the videotape....

So, with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's dream of finding a perfect slogan for Brooklyn comes the reailty that there's no one slogan that's good enough for the borough. Instead, the borough will use a variety of civilian-suggested slogans for different campaigns. According to the Daily News, "the Brooklyn Tourism Partnership will use several slogans - which range from the classy ('Brooklyn: Bridge to the World') to the wacky ('Brooklyn: The Tenth Planet') and possibly risque ('Do It In Brooklyn') - for specific advertising campaigns." Hey, aren't there only eight planets?

At the Times Square subway station, in the tunnel between the A/C/E and the 7, etc. there are words near the ceiling, that say "Overworked" and "So Tired" and so on. Why is that there?

In other racist-though-fronting-as-cool news, tien looks at Details' lame "Gay or Asian" analysis (click on image at left). How about one for a Details' reader - "Gay, Metrosexual, Bored or All of the Above"? Also, Matte Chi on the Details piece, there's a protest planned outside of Details on April 16, and here's the letter from the AAJA.

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