NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York)
… especially Mondays on which Shea Stadium is renamed “Tadium.” Behold (courtesy of MetsBlog):
This unfortunate moniker has been adopted due to the demolition of Shea, as pictured below:
Oh, well. At least such a Monday will only come to pass once.
More substantial writing to come from this half of the BOTO writing staff after October 30th.
Yours in melodrama,
Nicole
NICOLE CATÁ (Westchester, New York)
BEN THEODORE (Westchester, New York)
Nicole couldn’t help but notice that news about politics and the Ivy League have resurfaced on our humble blog, and she felt it necessary to point out that her future alma mater has its fair share of bizarre minutia. While we here at BOTO usually sing rigorous, albeit quirky, praises of Columbia - think rugby-clad musicians spouting witticisms and bellowing the school fight song in football fields across the Ivy League - we have also been taught to question the status quo to the point of near paranoia. Couple this insatiable curiosity with the perspective of a more objective voice (that of a Haverford College student) and you have a partnership ready to tackle the hairy underbelly of world domination. With this in mind, we present the following riddle: what do Barack Obama, Frank Lautenberg, David Paterson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hans Blix, Pat Buchanan, Alan Greenspan, and Mikhail Saakashvili have in common?
Find out after the jump: Read More
NICOLE CATÁ (Westchester, New York)
Since Devon is off on yet another jet plane (this time to Japan) and Nicole finds herself stuck in Westchester for a few weeks, expect the redheaded half of BOTO to keep you entertained with even more gusto than usual. Today’s diversion comes in the form of a post on the review blog, I Ate My DVD Collection. In keeping with her affinity for New York City, Nicole defends and extols the virtues of the show “Sex and the City” here. Here’s hoping you enjoy the review and continue checking Break Out the Oreos out of Carrie Bradshaw’s patented “ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love”!
NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York)
Since Devon has already graced you, the readership, with a photo entry about the Yankees, Nicole won’t follow suit with such a one about the Mets (who have won ten consecutive games and earned ten consecutive Snoopy dances from a particularly enthused fan as her team tied the Phillies for first place in the National League East). Instead, she will build on an important BOTO theme: free events in the Big Apple. There is no better time than the summer to soak up the city like a (fiscal) sponge, so, for this entry, Nicole will leave the news reporting to the other half of BOTO and assume the role of travel writer. But first, we present you with a blast from the past in the form of some field evidence of the Peregrine Falcon That Wasn’t. Behold, Exhibit A. Quick poll: Baby Falcon, or Teenage Robin? Discuss. In any case, while Nicole has given up hopes of a career in ornithology, she is proud to call this bird her mascot. By the way, if you’d like to see more animals of the cute and feathered variety in New York, you needn’t travel all the way to Westchester to do so: the Bronx Zoo offers free admission on Wednesday afternoons and is, for Nicole’s money, the best of the many popular destinations in the borough.
An otherwise baseball-free entry about architecture and outdoor concerts awaits after the jump:
NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York)
Having conquered her incompetence regarding all things technological, Nicole returns with the triple crown of her pseudo-anthropological investigations into city life: three How-To lists, which should come in handy if you plan on visiting NYC this summer to attend free concerts, rescue your friend’s misplaced belongings, or eat for cheap. But first, Break Out the Oreos pays its respects to a native of West 121st Street in “White Harlem” (also known to your co-writers as their beloved Morningside Heights): groundbreaking comedian George Carlin, most renowned for his famous 7 words routine (which led to a Supreme Court decision that the “Filthy Words” schtick was “indecent but not obscene”), died on June 22, 2008 of heart failure. As Carlin mused on his fame (or notoriety, depending on whom you ask): “My name is a footnote in American legal history, which I’m perversely kind of proud of.” In honor of his death (since Carlin preferred direct language to such euphemisms as “passing”), the BOTO team mourns his loss and chants, “shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits.” Those who enjoy free events, heroism, and inexpensive meals should see what lies in store for them after the jump:
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