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Early Addition: Why Are Diner Menus So Long?


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Published Oct 28, 2019


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  • The Video of the day is this footage of Trump smiling while being booed by Sunday night's World Series crowd, that also chanted "lock him up."
  • John Oliver wasn't impressed with Trump's victory lap after the killing of ISIS’ leader given Trump’s recent actions in Syria.
  • Watching Morning Joe is always embarrassing, but especially so today.
  • Also embarrassing: everything going on behind-the-scenes at Conde Nast.
  • The push for convenience via Amazon delivery and the like is causing extra gridlock and pollution around NYC.
  • Thanks to Michael Gillespie, a programmer at a Nerds on Call repair store, hundreds of thousands of ransomware victims have recovered their files for free.
  • How did diner menus get so long?
  • A woman was killed by debris from an explosion at a gender reveal party.
  • If Republicans really feel so "anxious and adrift defending Trump," comparing it to a "horror movie," they could always, ya know, stop defending him.
  • Joe Biden's presidential campaign is a beautiful mess: "Watching Biden can feel like being at the rodeo. You’re there because on some level you know you might see someone get killed.
  • A surfer who played his guitar whilst riding waves said he "got a few looks" from other people in the sea, which sounds about right.
  • And finally, why working at home is the best:

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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