Sitting on a Trend...


Apr 27, 2007

NYC Green Policy: The Coddling of the New York City Driver

Earth Day news is that Mayor Bloomberg will coddle the New York City driver -- "charge $8 for vehicles coming into Manhattan from 86th street and below." This means that the well to do will keep driving in and through.

No mention of the limos and taxis that cruise, honk and grid lock so luxuriously throughout the town.

Surely this means that once again, the City will take a dump on Harlem. As many drivers will find their way around the $8 charge.

I've asked before and I'll ask again can New York City learn from Paris. I'll answer. Yes, indeed. In 2006 Paris and other cities of France installed an electric tram to pick up passengers on the outskirts of the city. The tram is seen as "a symbol -- of Delanoe's campaign to make driving in the capital so miserable that people will leave their cars at home."

Within the United States my hometown, Houston, finally put up a light rail and prohibits traffic from the downtown to medical center. Bravo! Park and ride has been growing strong through the years. I was walking to the park and ride in 1972 where were you?

Many in the Houston area do the right thing. Though they don't have the luxury of a billion dollar federally funded transit system like New York City, Houston citizens strive daily to add and use park and rides in their community. Sure wish New York City would get it. It is about doing the right thing. Not thinking you are above everyone else. Sure the penalty of doing the right thing in New York City is very unrefined merde that you must step around over and over again. However, if everyone does the right thing the service will have to get better.

Yes, NYC has spared the driver and boiled the poor pedestrian instead. Runover by bicyclists who know not where they go and masses of people in the subway who haven't bothered to figure out how to get where they are to go. Blocked from taking the walk sign at least two times in a row on a daily basis. So that's why they call the avenue Mad-ison. Cigarettes thrown in their face and on the ground before them. Its chaos and to tell you the truth, a limo driver honked at me the other day. He was gridlocking, running a redlight and I was taking the walk. I did tell him off. Frankly I've had it. I'll start calling in licenses of those who gridlock and honk for undue reason and taking pictures of the people who throw their cigarettes. I hope all walkers will do the same.

Charging taxes and fines to aid people in their habit will never be a good thing. When the people give up their habit then the taxer and finer try to get them back in the habit. How about people just stop spending and do the right thing. Why do you have to be so neurotic? Both sides gov and addict are totally and utterly neurotic.

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Apr 25, 2007

NYC Green Policy: Give it a Kick in the Butt




Sunday, Earth Day, in New York City a woman throws a lit cigarette right in front of Trendy as she is coming out of St. Patrick's.

In Thailand, "We want laypeople to recognize Lent as an opportunity to be closer with God. This year we have an anti-smoking campaign," said Bishop Banchong. "Smoking is a danger to people who are near to smokers."



Any dot gov can make a law or speech,
ah but can they make an effective campaign?

You can't make people do the right thing no matter how many laws. Just check out New York City if you don't believe.

Think outside the Butt, go gratis to the smoker and then say grazie for their kind act. See ButtsOut.


fashionable smoking at a posh outdoor restaurant in Rockefeller Center.

A waiter could have grazie'd a ButtsOut imprinted with the restaurant name to this flip flopper. Thousands of impressions would have been made.

Doing the Right Thing is FREE-dom.

"The fine for throwing a lit cigarette from a vehicle in Washington is $1,025."
April 12, 2007

50 pound fine for throwing smoking-related litter in Falkirk, Scotland
March 2007, BBC

95% of Cigarette Butts are not biodegradeable and they are harmful --
The filter of a cigarette is made of cellulose acetate (plastic). The “butt” part of the cigarette contains a toxic residue. see cigarette butt litter

2003 Land & Underwater U.S. Cleanups - TOP TEN ITEMS
DEBRIS ITEMS TOTAL NUMBER PERCENT OF TOTAL
1. Cigarette Butts, Cigarette Filters

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Apr 24, 2007

On the 8th day we got hot water!

"thank tha lord!" one of my roommates "TXT'd back.

Oh but what to do with all the worms in the opened can?

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Apr 23, 2007

If 311 doesn't help will the Mayor have an answer?

trendy picture soaking up some city dirt on Earth Day with cell phone camera outside of St. Patrick's.

If on the 6th day god created man and woman, on the 7th day he rested, so on the 8th day will there be hot water? Unbelievable.

Ms. "A" was promised hot water yesterday as she handed the landlord her notice to move out in June.

Today Ms. "A" came home and no hot water. It was 9pm. Hello? Ms. "A" could have gone to yoga to get her hair washed if she had been given some notice.

So Ms. "A" called 311. 311 reported that an HPD representative went to building and found the lock working and therefore that complaint is closed. She said "Wait a minute, I complained that it is defective. Sometimes its locked but most of the time it isn't." "Well I don't know what to do" the 311 representative said. "Do you see why that complaint has been on the record 5 times? Ms. A begged.

311 representative continued, "On the hot water complaint, a tenant in the building was asked if there was hot water. They replied yes. The complaint was closed." Ms. "A" asked to speak to the supervisor since the 311 representative was not enabled to help further. She came back and said there is no contact information for the supervisor. Ms "A" replied she was left with no choice but to call the Mayor.

Most of the tenants in this building are related to the landlord. This is an HDFC housing coop for low-income tenants. That's why they don't have to pay any real estate or income taxes on the coop whatsoever. Nice handout for the poor? middle-class? or as my landlord says, she is wealthy. My landlord is directing officer of the HDFC corporation that owns the building she lives in and this one. She is supposed to live in this apartment. She does not. She rents the apartment out for $850, $750 and $650 a month to three tenants. We had another tenant for three months but she did not have to pay rent.

Do you get what I am telling you here? This landlord had the opportunity to take care of her building and make alot of money and probably noone would have known any better. Ok I suspected but I didn't look it up. Now the facts are all out. When I made the complaint I saw the whole history and record of this corporation. Also the guy smoking in the super's apartment told a roommate a few days ago as we kept trying to find the super to tell the people upstairs that the landlord isn't suppose to be renting out the rooms that way. He says lack of hot water, water and heat has always gone on like this. Nobody does anything about it.

So speaking of Mayor Mike Bloomberg I did look him up in the white pages. I did call him. His answering machine directs the caller to 911 for emergencies and 311 where hundreds of operators are waiting to take your call. So I left him a message.

So anyway lets just hope my message wasn't a blur with the mayor and that he will have an answer. Because my next step is Life Magazine or National Geographic.

Gosh time flies. Do you see why I don't have time to niche down my blogs. Darn, not done again.
I sure hope I can get up in time to make my 6:30 am yoga class across and down town. My hair needs washing. I just tell them at the office, get used to it, curvy hair is in.


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Apr 22, 2007

Hoody, a national challenge

Years from now hoody will rank on the list of classics of all time. Friends among black dresses, pearls, white blouses, sneakers and jeans of course. Who could ever not be friends with jeans. Suits might eventually get dropped from the list, oops.

Obey The Rose Camo Hoody in White and Rose, Sweatshirts for Women
Hoody is understood as a culture invention in the United States. Yet which culture? Surfing, skateboarding or hip-hop. I vote for surfing.

Mikasi The Thought Man Hoody, Sweatshirts for Men
In England the hoody is a national challenge with the likes of Mr. Blair on the box about them. See "Hug a Hoody" In France too - hoodie = hoodlum. here
A voice for "Save the Hoody" is Lady Sovereign.

In the U.S.A. well its mainstream and always a source for new invention art karma: soul, adidas, and even monkeys. [not to say hoody invention does not thrive in Europe see here]

Cardboard Robot The Sidewinder Hoody, Sweatshirts for Women

Andy Warhol The Merilyn Flourish Hoody, Sweatshirts for Men

Paul Frank The Hey Julius Hoody in White, Sweatshirts for Women
oh me? I love Rock & Soul

555 Soul The Rock & Soul Hoody Tunic, Sweatshirts for Women
Karmaloop LLC

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Apr 21, 2007

Get your hot water on...


not.


This is the second time this year we have been out of luck on the heat and hot water.

The above statement is pretty generous on my part because whatever heat they giveth they taketh away via warped open windows in my room. I lived in 30-40 degree rooms this winter, all winter. Why didn't I report this to the self-clapping authorities? Because I've paid 12 years of my life for the 62 housing violations of a past landlord. Frankly, I don't know if my life will be going out that far if I continue to live in "Green" New York City. Regardless if I think much of it or not, I will be living here until I've got the whopping downpayment on the skyfarm in Milan so I'd better just keep progressing through adversity.

This time the 4 days of last time is stretching out to infinity. On the second day Ms. Anonymous went to the self-clapping New York City Housing Preservation Department to file an Anonymous complaint. here They were all zippy and promisy there! she cheered. They said in 24 hours someone will be out. On the 28th hour Ms. A called again and a really up representative wanted to cheerlead the status of the complaint. So Ms. A let her. Then she said "They won't be able to contact me because I am anonymous right? I mean that's all this message says that in 48 hours they will contact me." The NYC gov cheerleader gave her a "G "and then an "M." "Yeah I know" said Ms. A "The Message was definitely Generic."

Ok we are all here. (Well the other two found open doors at heated houses, I didn't look because this is my home that's where I should be. If your two roommates fled and you were left with a quiet house what would you do?) Yes here anticipating the 48th hour, 49th hour, the 50th hour and on and on and nothing. No change whatsoever, no hot water, no heat. Magically two of the three front doors are locked but there is no light in the vestibule but then there never was since I've been here last September.)

To be fair the Landlord and super are unreachable. That's how I spent the first two days of this deprivation contacting them and getting the other two to wear out the dial tone on LL and Super's answering machine. Nothing. This new guy upstairs has no water and the Super told him to ask us. Through further conversation he told me that the Landlady had gone overseas.

Ms. A says she's not dealing with this anymore. The NYC gov has 4 outstanding complaints on this same building from 2004 on its Rah Rah board. Those conditions still exist. It amazes me how they pat their back over it. She said that, so stop looking at me that way.

Me? Oh on the 5th day I resumed Bikram Yoga so that I could get my hair washed. I mean it is inspiring. Still my mom said that when I first came home after doing a year of it I looked 30 years older and so tired. I said "Mom, that was probably due to the New York City discrimination committee more than anything else. One burrito a day from a rat infested food chain does not a young face make." Anyway when I came back a couple of years later having left yoga due to serious illness and broken through the discrimination barrier like Catwoman she said "Welcome, Your back, the real you." Gotta love a mom that thinks you are still 20.

I am going to do this yoga thing everyday and see what happens. Because my landlord isn't coming back for a couple of months and New York City is too busy self-clapping.
In the last 28 days we had 98 major crimes in our precinct. Hardly sounds crime-free to me. Remember those detectives? (see "Undoubtedly women are better marketers than men") They told me it was very dangerous here. Yet the mayor and his cheerleaders are over there patting each other on the back. Since when did NYC become a basketball game?

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Apr 19, 2007

Every day is Earth Day, so how many Earth Days are you Baby?

earth days on earth

365 x your age


If you are from Planet Venus


Divide Earth Days by 225




If you are from Mars

Divide Earth Days by 687




More on spacegrant here

Are green cities anything to be green about? In the meeting of mayor's minds last year, New York was somehow determined to be pretty green [here]. Still, think about it, a little piece of land with over 263,000 drivers aspewing carbon footprint on its earth face daily (over 1/2 of those drivers live within the five boros).

80% of New Yorkers ride the subways daily (over 5 million), add to that the annual millions of tourists, did I miss the reward? Someone's not thinking outside the subway map. that's for sure.
Out of those 5 million only 2000 people are using nyturf , big problem. Again with great incredulous intonation, New York City is considered one of the most green cities in the U.S. That's pretty scary. My wood floors are blackened from what's outside every day; I wash black soot from my apartment off my flip flops every morning. I counted on my walk to work there were 35 smokers flinging their cigarettes with total abandon.

I think green should mean quality of life not suffering for other's addictions.

In Traffic’s Jam, Who’s Driving May Be Surprising". January 2007 One driver in five are just passing through the busiest streets of the city. 35% of government workers drive to work (free parking). In terms of traffic congestion NYC ranks a little above Houston and Atlanta (neither one of those cities has the massive transit authority of the NYC). Free Parking, Congested Streets: The Skewed Economic Incentives to Drive in Manhattan

"Give thanks for the unknown blessings already on their way." -- Native American Saying aspirenow

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Apr 16, 2007

Rock on ...

Fifth Avenue.

top of the rock by trendy

Fort Washington is the top of the Rock at 260 feet above sea level on the land called Manhattan. here

Just think of it. another "hot" island, Key West, has its highest spot, Solares Hill, 18 feet above sea level.

The highest elevation in New York State is 5,344 feet, Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks.

Ah but if you want to go to heaven, Mt. McKinley in Alaska peaks at 20,326 feet, the highest point in North America.

Thoughts on a Sunday evening, actually our worst rain came several days before the emergency announcement. My last pair of leather shoes freaked out and I had to throw them away. Not to fear vegans are here==>

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Apr 13, 2007

Strengthen your core

Shop Nikestore.com today for great products, hot sellers and clearance items!

with Nike.

My mom was telling me how she has owned her nike running shoes for over 20 years. She's a walker not a runner.

She reminded me of my first pair, I was a runner during college.

That was a long time ago, we're still around and so is Nike. Our Nikes look good, hey so do we.
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I love the Nike workouts that you can download to your quicktime, iPod and PSP.

Nike lets you choose the sport in Art of the Workout
Women's eCatalog 180x150

Choose Dance, Yoga, Running and Boxing.

even learn the Jamie King's Dancehall. Come Sunday 11pm its if you can't beat them join them. In the upstairs dance studio a Juillard School dancer is working out some Brazilian moves. Logo Orange 88x31

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Never Slang a team...

of women. Boy the web is abuzzing. Even Howard Stern is telling Imus how he should have handled it.

Remember back in March 5, 2006 the Academy Awards said it was alright to call us women a bitch. Is a woman's worth less than 50 cents? Hollywood, California.

And in April 17, 2007 outside my window they be a trash talking calling out the 'stupid white bitch.' We are in New York City.

If you don't call out a team or a high-profile individual then is it ok? That's the latest media lesson.

C. Vivian Stringer received some hate mail from Imus fans. No high drama for a code. She says she showed restraint on the few bad among over 600 really great supporting letters. A good lesson for Civility coders.

At any rate this state team will go on to join the "As seen on Oprah" club and CBS and New Jersey got some great PR. And the world is one down on the hip hop talkers. Oh and did they miss the point. Probably, that every woman is worth more than 50 cents.

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Apr 12, 2007

Get your credit card on

Because women are better with their credit card than men.

Obey The Dirty Work Jacket in Brown, Light Jackets for Women

Anita Hamilton in "Lay off, Suzie Orman":

"Median annual credit-card debt for single women was just $1,900 in 2004, compared with $2,000 for single men, according to the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances."

*Karma Shoes (Shoes) Adidas Rod, Sneakers for Men

Did you notice all the girls bringing their guys to the store with them. Well yes it was a bit too crowded for me but I hung in. It was when this guy grabbed my size in a jeans sale at the Gap when I started to wonder why the men's department was losing their guys?

*Karma Wares (Mini boutique) Anchovy Flip Flop, Shoes for Men


What is of concern most, are men getting a better deal than women?

Gentle Fawn The Minute Cropped Blazer, Light Jackets for Women

ABC - A Cure for Male Menopause?

4VOO - Men's makeup

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Apr 9, 2007

I am Starbuck'd


Women's eCatalog 125x125
Step Up Spring Training! View the Nike Women's eCatalog

I am Starbuck brings us Latin America in the shape of mango pineapple empanada, dulce latte, Brazil Ipanema Bourbon, Mexican Chile Brownies and Salsa Dancing.

Yes, it was kind of a holiday for some last Friday, lunchtime, a Starbucks employee asked me to dance salsa with him.

I'll leave the rest to your imagination. I was starbuck'd.

Why are you still looking at me that way. Oh! I just had the empanada and Soy Green Latte, Ok?

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Apr 8, 2007

When we are down to our Last Bee...

Will we have to tell our children that we are as busy as a tree? or will trees totally stress out too?

The buzz is not Web2.0, its the lack of buzz, bees are dying. Something to buzz about indeed. Bees are vital to our ecology. ho hum you say. They are also vital to the $14 billion United States agriculture industry.

"Cobey said it could be from too much of everything: bad weather, chemicals, parasites, viruses.

“If you give them one of these things at a time, they seem to deal with it,” she said. “But all of these things, it’s too hard.

“I think the bees are just compromised. They’re stressed out.” - Columbus Dispatch

see further Celsius



Honey is not part of the Vegan diet. My boss asked me are you a vegan? I said well, not a perfect vegan. Someone gave me a "perfect" chocolate chip cookie...wheat free, dairy free, it had honey.

The Maple syrup in the United States is not yet collapsing. see here.

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Straight hair, the standard?

Am I different when my hair is straight? Good question.

I've had curvy hair all my life. Whenever I style my hair straight I get extreme reaction. I look like my Aunt Elise barbie doll.



These are the Straight 2.0 products that get me to the "perfect" standard in less than 15 minutes. I wash my hair every two days. I live in a filthy city brought to you by the "i deserve it" crowd. John Frieda products last four months. You don't need to go to a salon or buy "exclusive" products.



If I wash my hair without comb out and go to bed I wake up natural Curvy and still get Wow!
So are we are getting oh so much closer to Curvy 2.0? Agencies still tell me that if I want to get a job wear my hair straight to the go-see. A consultant told me that if you have curly hair they'll never take you seriously. Back at art world, red and curvy hair is very sexy.

So far in life I have just treated my hair as a creative. At any rate this topic is pretty right on with over 1.3 million g-links to "straight hair the standard."

see Matthew Yglesias: The Social Construction of Straight Hair

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Have a Curvy Day

I've suffered from Curvy all my life.

I am not fat whatsoever. I'm just curvy.

Finally thanks to having a job in the Rockefeller Center I finally found someone who loves me. The Gap and Banana Republic. I found one pair of curvy jeans at the GAP and two pairs of Curvy Pants at the Banana Republic.

I'm totally in love with Curvy. I hope it will be a long-term relationship. Those are so healing.

The hairdressers on my modelling gigs used to comfort me. My agency wanted me to lose even the curves in my face. They would say "Don't listen to them, you are voluptuous."

Voluptuous, Curvy? Curvy!

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Apr 3, 2007

If you were down to your last cow

would you sell it for some magical beans that would take you to heaven?


or think of it as a quest for the last glass of milk?

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When the twitter buzzes

SWSX buzz is twitters.
Yahoo scores 262 and Google 797 on links to "swsx twitter."

Therefore all future unconferences or conferences will be stripped down with non-twitter machines. This, I have to ipod.
Apple iTunes
Of course New York has always suffered from various entertaining forms of the twitter thing. Still they did not dare call themselves something with an x behind it... until Now..

Yes, indeedy, New York Magazine brings us the next generation of Learning Annex (instead of 2.0 they call it "nyxny" (click and don't go to the dotcom unless you want some X massage).
You are now enabled to pay money to ruin things, unlearn things and don't know where you are going to wind up until 24 hours ahead of time (sorry, leftovers from 1.0).

Sure the Secret is you might just be delighted.

but P-l-e-a-s-e no more of those last minute broken down buildings with 5th floor assignment, sorry elevator not working or sweep the unsuspecting Eastsider way over to the West side when its quite clear which side they belong on or vice versa.
Apple iTunes
New York, MySpace... does the twitter really differ? MySpacers will twitter on X number of candidates at the X of the year. If its too X to call will Newscorp reign Supreme? here
Apple iTunes

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When QII bothers about her carbon emissions....

its time for you to do a rethink...
here


Super Solar Shower


By you, I do mean are you driving your car into and about town all alone? Then seek rehab here, Electric Vehicle Hands On Clinic - TR201 - Hopland, CA;
human emitters of puff go here

Marine Solar Kit

Timetable:
June 2006 Supreme Court takes first global warming case
November 2006 Justices’ First Brush With Global Warming - New York Times
December 2006 Autopia - Wired News (rulings won't take effect until 2009)
April 2007 The Blue Marble: Supreme Court Chastises Bush Administration For ...

What does that mean? Puff Puff...U.S.A.

God Save the Queen! and anyone else who just wants to do the right thing instead of following someone's law.

Powerflex Solar Panels
see also "Soybean Sputum, Carbon Footprint?"

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Apr 2, 2007

Is TED your Signorelli?



Did you know that TED "offers 5 free passes each year for truly exceptional individuals who otherwise could not afford to come to TED." register here



What's TED?
here
What's Signorelli?
here




I'm not saying TED is your Signorelli. However underground you want to go, be fearless, be exceptional, be noble. Signorelli live on!

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Can a PC sell you a MAC?

well yeah, especially when the MAC is cute. see new ads here.
Apple Store
The commercials were so right on, I want to get Mac'd. Its not a "you deserve a MAC" kind of thing. Its I'm tired of three years of problems kind of thing. Now, how do I dip in?
Apple Store

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Apr 1, 2007

A Smashing Fit for Like-Minded Bods

Metropolitan Museum Steps has "It" Factor. "It"? see New Museum of Art hot button series location, location, location...

"It may surprise many to discover that the steps were built as recently as 1975...more at Great Public Places"

"There are some stairs in the city - like those in front of The Metropolitan Museum of Art - that are arguably more important urban events than the buildings to which they lead."--Paul Goldberger, architectural critic for The New Yorker


uses and activities includes like-minded thinking,
"sunbathing" and "two of the six stages of flirting"--McClandish Philips, The New York Times
100x100 Swimwear
Great Public Places offers the other coast can't beat (though I do love the other coast ;):
How to turn a Place Around, April 26-27, 2007 New York City
How to create Successful Markets, May 18-19, 2007 New York City

125x125 Spring Sale

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Wherever you Entrepreneur

Today I bumped into a few hotspots debating exactly what spot produces great entrepreneurs now and tomorrow.

Does it Matter Where the Young Entrepreneur Lives?
"Young entrepreneurs should be living in cities that are populated with like-minded individuals."--David Askaripour, Young and Hungry

Digital Inspiration, The Wiz Kids of Silicon Valley Featured on BBC Technology, links us up with BBC News tech editor, Darren Waters.
"One of the reasons that San Francisco flourishes as a hub of technology is because there is a great network of like-minded people."-->60 second soap box
from It's over. But still to come...
09:38 PM "Oregon and Scotland ("Silicon Forest" and "Silicon Glen" respectively) are doing a little bit better."
03:22 PM "In most technological paradigm shifts, it is usually a small area that thrusts it on."


Alain de Botton, author of "Architecture of Happiness," see lovemark, writes:
"where we are heavily influences who we can be - and argues that it is architecture’s task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential."


"Wherever you are there you are"?--Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Soybean Sputum, Carbon Footprint?

Gaiam.com, Inc

Google Paper is made from 95% recycled soybean sputum. This latest creative ingredient was of concern to PETA. Google backed off with not in BETA.

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Bio-Degreaser

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In its latest attempt to be all things to all search requests, Google may have inadvertently stepped on a carbon footprint. John Muir said "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
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