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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…
- Stoop Dog
- on June 30, 2021 2:42 pm
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…
- Stoop Dog
- on June 21, 2021 5:07 am
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.…
- Stoop Dog
- on April 10, 2021 12:35 pm
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…
- Stoop Dog
- on March 4, 2021 8:40 am
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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,…
- Stoop Dog
- on February 24, 2021 3:49 pm
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…
- Stoop Dog
- on February 14, 2021 11:52 pm