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Rebar Rethinking

Stoophang introduces a new article category today, construction. Given that my other blog, Brooklyn Row House, is mostly about construction it was overdue here. On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:30 a.m. EDT, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, experienced a sudden partial collapse. While I’m a…

The Next Mayor Of NYC Is…

As even many non-New Yorkers know, NYC is in the final week of its Democratic primary for Mayor. I don’t know if it’s because Mayor De Blasio has high, bipartisan disapprovals. Or that a year of COVID-19 lockdown has made New Yorkers focused on the importance of local leadership. But NYC seems very engaged in…

GaetzGate

While Florida congressmoron, Matt Gaetz, protests his innocence and his “cancel culture”-obsessed mentor, Donald Trump, doubles down on his calls for boycotts of Coke, Nike, Delta Airlines, Amazon, the NFL, MLB and half the corporations in the Fortune 200 [1], it’s a good time to pause to simply enjoy the comedy of unabashed, nitwit hypocrisy.…

Binge Watching in Corona Times

With movie theaters, concert halls, music clubs, restaurants, and bars closed by COVID-19, and even Bill Gates admitting that his entertainment option of choice these days is watching Netflix, binge watching of streaming media has gone through the roof in 2020/21. Last week, in a fit of Covid-induced cleaning freakiness, I dug through one of…

Fully Vaccinated, Now What?

Today was a momentous one in my personal Fasti Antiates Maiores. It’s the day I am, according to the CDC, officially vaccinated against COVID-19 and with at least 94.1% assurance that I won’t catch the virus. It’s been exactly two weeks since my second shot. So after a year of lockdowns, masking up, washing hands,…

The Insurrection Backfire

In 2017, a photo emerged of Al Franken on a 2006 USO tour pretending to feel up a napping Playboy model, Leeann Tweeden. They were flying in a Blackhawk helicopter to another show with a dozen other entertainers and staff. The photo was intended as a joke because Tweeden was wearing kevlar body armor.  Anyone…
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