Pat Kiernan made his third appearance in the co-host seat with Kelly Ripa on Live! with Kelly today. Kiernan co-hosted yesterday and in March. While we were not in the studio today to watch the show live, we're curious what people think of Pat outside of our Pat-loving bubble here in New York.
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World Reacts To Pat Kiernan On Live! With Kelly: He's A "Young Irish Regis"
Yes, NYC Has Its "Fake" Space Shuttle And We Love It!
Today, New York City got the Enterprise space shuttle, but some people are trying to rain on New Yorkers' spacegasm by calling the shuttle a "fake." Of course, the outcry of the prototype shuttle coming to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum is nothing new (in fact, it's about a year old), but DCist, smug about its decommissioned space shuttle Discovery, points out that the Discovery has actually been used in space missions while the "Enterprise has been in D.C. since NASA decommissioned it in 1985. The shuttle was put on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in November 2004."
Judge: Manhattan DA May Subpoena OWS Protesters' Twitter Accounts
A Manhattan judge ruled earlier today that Tweets are fair game to be subpoenaed, after a handful of OWS protesters received notice from the DA that their messages of 140 characters or less were considered evidence. Protester Malcolm Harris' attorney had argued that the Manhattan DA's office's request violated his client's privacy and free association rights, but the judge disagreed, and used Twitter hashtags in the first paragraph of his ruling. "The defendant moved to #quash that subpoena. That motion is #denied," Justice Matthew Sciarrino, Jr. wrote.
A Tweet In The Life Of "Rock Star Mayor" Cory Booker
On Thursday night, Newark Mayor Cory Booker pulled a Jose Canseco when he saw his next door neighbor's house was on fire, rushing into the burning building to save a woman. He's spent the last 60 hours or so since his heroic rescue being fawned over by the press (who dubbed him "rock star mayor") and grateful constituents. How has Booker been handling all that attention? Below, check out the top ten ways Booker has dealt with being a "rock star mayor"—and just go ahead and imagine Bloomberg directly dealing with any of these things (let alone dealing with them by tweeting at people):
Alec Baldwin Still Bitching About Everything During His Roman Holiday
Alec Baldwin is a talented actor, but it seems like he's terrible at relaxing. After news broke this week about his alleged stalker (which brought the disgust of Andrea Pesyer, plus some Today Show employees to try to interview him at his home) and an incident last week where the Daily News sent a reporter and photographer to his fiancee's yoga class, Baldwin has been complaining about the media and the kind of attention that's paid to an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated celebrity. So he's in Rome right now, yet he's still lashing out:
Courtney Love J'accuse! Did Dave Grohl Sleep With Frances Bean Cobain? (Probably Not!)
It would seem that Courtney Love has a private Twitter account (@cbabymichelle) reserved for things that should probably actually be reserved for a diary or personal phone call. Like this thing last night when she accused former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl of hitting on (and possibly sleeping with) Frances Bean, the daughter of Courtney and the late Kurt Cobain. The two are about 24 years apart, and Grohl first knew Frances Bean as a newborn baby. So the accusations are pretty damning IF to be believed.
PSA: The Titanic Was Real, Not Just A Movie
The Titanic tragedy will turn 100 years old this week, and all of the media coverage surrounding the sad anniversary seems to have shocked some people who never knew the Titanic was anything more than a movie. Below, a few gems from real life humans who have somehow escaped all knowledge of the historic event until recently—prior to this month, they had no idea the ship was real, and that it sunk, like, IRL. Sigh x infinity! "My Sigh Will Go On!" ETC.
Mets Are Literally Giving Tickets Away For Free
The Mets reached "baseball nirvana" with their 1-0 opening day win over the Atlanta Braves yesterday afternoon—and even better for management, they were able to get a record sell out crowd at Citi Field. But there's still a lot of nervousness about selling tickets—and it's now at the point where the Mets are literally giving tickets away for free to anyone who wants.
Alec Baldwin Lashes Out On Twitter After Daily News Shows Up To His Fiance's Yoga Class
Over the weekend Alec Baldwin, who turns 54 years old today, proposed to his girlfriend, 28-year-old yoga instructing Hilaria Thomas, while the two were away in Montauk. How do we all know this? Because Alec Baldwin is very famous! So naturally, this important life moment that would normally be kept amongst friends and family for the rest of us, was splashed about in the newspapers. It comes with the territory of being famous, and the two likely weren't going to keep it a secret anyway, as they've documented their love for each other in many public Tweets. But Baldwin went off on Twitter last night after one newspaper, The Daily News, sent photographers to his fiance's yoga class to get photos of the ring.
Video: Spike Lee Does The Right Thing, Compensates Couple For Twitter Mess
After mistakenly tweeting an elderly Florida couples address—thinking it was the address of George Zimmerman, the man who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin—to his 240,000+ followers, Spike Lee has agreed to an amicable settlement with Elaine and David McClaine. He also called them personally to reiterate his apology: "He was really kind," Elaine McClain said. "And when he called us, you could just tell he really felt bad about it. And it was just a slip, and I just know that he really, really has been concerned."
Spike Lee Apologizes For Retweeting Elderly Couple's Address
First, Marcus Higgins made a mistake, then Spike Lee made a mistake, and now an elderly couple is living in the shadow of George Zimmerman haters. Last week, Higgins found an address for George W. Zimmerman. Thinking it was the Zimmerman who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, he tweeted it to tons of celebrities—and Lee was the only one to retweet the address. Except the address was for the wrong Zimmerman, and the only people living at that home now are his elderly parents, Elaine and David McClaine. After nearly a week of death threats, Lee has finally apologized for the mixup: "I Deeply Apologize To The McClain Family For Retweeting Their Address.It Was A Mistake.Please Leave The McClain's In Peace.Justice In Court."
Bloomberg Wins Shorty Award For "Foursquare Mayor," Gets Heckled By OWS
For one night of the year, Twitter gets to walk the red carpet at their very own glamorous award show. The fourth annual Shorty Awards were held Monday night at the Times Center in Midtown. All the faceless Twitter dignitaries whose real names you don't even know, but who pontificate in 140 characters all day long, showed up to p@ each other on the back.
Welcome To NYC Tim Tebow: Everyone Already Hates You
Tim Tebow was traded from the Denver Broncos to the Jets for two draft picks today. Or as Sara Schaefer put it, Tebow was traded for his sins today to New York, "the mother of prostitutes and earth's abonimations, so the Lord might testeth him." Truly the Jets must be blessed to have not one, but two thoroughly mediocre quarterbacks! We can't wait to see what happens: will Rex Ryan give him a new goofy nickname? When will David Brooks write about how he's the first religious athlete ever? And will Tebow kneel before Zod? But it seems a lot of people don't share our enthusiasm—including some of the Jets team.
Twitter User Who Suggested Killing Cops Over OWS Says He Was Just Joking
With the six-month anniversary of the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, OWS had their busiest weekend in quite awhile when they attempted to retake Zuccotti Park late Saturday night. Although they didn't succeed, 73 protesters were arrested or detained, and demonstrators felt reinvigorated. Police were more concerned with tracking down “smackema1,” who tweeted after the protest: “we wont make a difference if we dont kill a cop or 2.” The man who made that tweet told the Daily News it was just a joke: “It’s not like I meant anything of it. Who takes anything like that seriously? I’m in Florida, what am I going to do?” Obviously he doesn't know just how seriously the NYPD takes internet commenters.
The Great GoogaMooga Ticket Fail Has Hungry Hipsters Hangry
As we mentioned in our newsletter this morning, tickets to The Great GoogaMooga—a weekend-long food and music festival from the creators of Bonnaroo being held in Prospect Park in May—were available starting at noon today. Although entry to the fest is free, attendees had to register online to obtain a ticket to the event—with 40,000 of those available, no one was really too worried about snagging one. But glancing over the fury at Twitter Town Hall currently, it seems GoogaMooga has gone the way of Kraftwerk and Radiohead: "After waiting in line since 12:05 it said there are no tix available? #wtf #googamooga," tweeted one frustrated person.
Another Occupy Protester Has His Tweets Subpoenaed
The Manhattan DA's office has subpoenaed DC-based Occupy Wall Street protester Jeff Rae's Twitter account from September 15 through October 31. "I was a little bit blown away," Rae told Reuters. "It's interesting that in places like Egypt our leaders applaud people for using Twitter and social media for their movements. Here, I'm being subpoenaed for using social media." But Jeff, unlike New York City, Egypt is frozen in a police state bent against demonstrations and civil liberties.
A Couple Of Weird Things Are Happening For The Titanic's Anniversary
On April 15th it will have been 100 years since the Titanic tragically sank, taking many passengers down into the Atlantic with it. Because of the landmark anniversary, the famous shipwreck is back in the spotlight. There's even a Titanic 3-D movie coming out, but a 3-dimensional Celine Dion-soundtracked homage to the tragedy isn't even the weirdest thing occurring around the anniversary.
Ochocinco Wants To Buy You Dinner At Sylvia's Tonight
Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, the New England Patriots wide receiver, is feeling mighty generous—or mighty lonely—because he just Tweeted, "Dinner in NY tonight -- 1st 200 people at Sylvia's Restaurant by 7 pm in Harlem. Leave ya money/credit cards at home. I got you this time."
Top Ten Park Slope-iest Remarks From Last Night's Food Co-Op Meeting
Last night, the Park Slope Food Co-op held its monthly members meeting—and although it wasn't the much anticipated meeting to vote about whether a vote should be held to ban Israeli products, the meeting was still chock full of amazing quotes about biodegradable bags, the culture of criminalization, and "fascist food." Chadwick Matlin live tweeted the two hours and 14 minute-long members-only event—you can read all the texts at The Awl, but below, we've selected our 10 favorites to give you an impression of what it's like when Co-opers stop being polite, and start getting passive aggressive.
O Brother Where Art Thou: Gov. Cuomo Begs For More Twitter Followers
Hydrofracking, teacher evaluations, pedestrian murders—Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have one of the most important jobs in the state, but it isn't always the most fascinating one. Lacking the plucky attitude of Mayor Bloomberg or the Popeye grin of Ray Kelly, Cuomo is the least colorful of our major NY public figures (unless you share his love for hot rods). So we find it kind of sad that he felt the need to publicly ask his much more popular brother, ABC anchor Chris Cuomo, for help getting more Twitter followers.
End Of Days: The Pope Is Tweeting Now @Pope2YouVatican
Not only does the Pope have an iPad, but for Lent this year he's also got a Twitter account! Sadly though, he appears to be using Twitter for Mac and not PopeDeck when he—or much more likely some underling—tweets from @Pope2YouVatican. Yes, that is really his handle—@Pope2You was already taken. But now, you can get one step closer to God, in 140 characters or less.
Governor Chris Christie: "People Get Beer Muscles On Twitter"
When NJ Governor Chris Christie announced he was lowering flags to half-staff on the day of Whitney Houston's funeral, he was slammed by Twitterers who felt it was too inappropriate. So Christie took to the social networking service to respond to people, "@steakprincess Flag being lowered for her cultural contributions as an artist & New Jerseyan. Her struggles w/substance abuse r a diff topic" (@steakprincess had written "@GovChristie are you serious? Whitney is no hero, she was a crack head who killed herself. Our flag is not to be lowered for a junkie.) Today Christie said, "People get beer muscles on Twitter."
A Salute To The Real Presidents Day Heroes: Workers Whining On Twitter Today
It has come to our attention that some of you have today off. Isn't that nice? We're sure most of you are spending the day in solemn, patriotic reflection. Others, however, are making insufferable little tweets about how it's a holiday and they're pounding unlimited mimosas at some magical brunch orgy. One New Yorker whose Tweets are "protected" literally Tweeted "hahaah, the people who have to work today #suckers." Please note that this sort of gloating is not particularly appreciated by those of us here in the trenches, toiling to aggregate Tweets from other people working today. These people are the real HEROES:
This Year's "Who Is Arcade Fire?" Grammy Goes To: "Who Is Bon Iver?"
Last year, after Arcade Fire won a Grammy, the Twitter machine lit up with inquiries asking: Who is Arcade Fire? A Tumblr was started, a PSA was made, and even Tom Colicchio weighed in for some reason. Well, last night when Bon Iver took home a Grammy for Best New Artist (despite putting out albums since 2007) and Best Alternative Music Album, it was déjà vu all over again. Are these confused people Bon Curious or Bon Averse? Who knows, but they're Tweeting... and yes, there's a Tumblr keeping track of them all (it's been around since they were nominated).
Linescapable: Twitter All Lin When It Comes To Jeremy Lin
Twitter was first on the scene for all the Linsanity last night as Jeremy Lin, #Linning and #Linsanity became trending terms in NYC (and also in LA!). But among all the celebrities, sports writers, fans and Twitter personalities to weigh in on the Lin phenomenon, no single tweet was more touching than one from fellow Knick Amare Stoudemire, who is currently in Florida mourning the sudden death of his brother Hazell. "Thanks to Jeremy Lin & The Knicks, Y'all help me get my mind off my Bro for a few hours, Thx. Great game guys. Enjoy the win. Travel safe," he tweeted after the game.
Twitter Harder To Resist Than Drugs And Alcohol, Says Science
The urge to check Twitter and email can be harder to resist than the lure of drugs and alcohol, according to a new study to be published in the journal Psychological Science. This means that when people joke about being "addicted" to the Internet or not being able to live without their "CrackBerry," it's about as funny as an alcoholic "joking" about mainlining Duff Beer "directly to veins!" If you think social media is destroying someone you love, be sure to share this blog post with them on Facebook.
Top 20 Saddest #MetsRejectedPromotionalDates Tweets
The Mets have spent their offseason cutting coupons, selling off pieces of their outfield, and generally lowering expectations about the team's immediate future to the point where a healthy Daniel Murphy seems about as good as it could get. The sorry state of the franchise is not lost on its long-suffering fans, who took to Twitter today to mock the organization's decision to bring back homemade Banner Day—for the first time since 1996—by creating the hashtag: #MetsRejectedPromotionalDates. Below, check out twenty of our favorite pathetic, imaginary Mets promotional dates.
Weiner Wasted $13,290 To "Investigate" Twitter Crotch-Shots
Before disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner 'fessed up to being a serial sexter, we were treated to a week of denials and finger wagging as Weiner pretended the crotch shots were not of his crotch—and then when he finally admitted he couldn't "say with certitude" whether the wiener was his, he still maintained someone had hacked his Twitter account to send them. So how dedicated was Weiner to keeping up that pretense? Dedicated enough to pay over 13K to a team of private investigators to get to the bottom of his self-made mess.
What Does This Photo Of Jonah Hill With A Ghostbusters Car MEAN?
It's time to feed the Ghostbusters III rumor mill.
Big On Broadway: Map Of Twitter's NYC Traffic
Eric Fischer created a map showing Twitter traffic based on location, noting, "Broadway as the spine is not difficult to believe. Data from the Twitter streaming API (10000 points, 30000 vectors). Base map from OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA." Basically, it follows the city's biggest—and apparently most connected—corridors.
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