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This week, I visited the International Gift Fair at the Jacob Javits Center, where suppliers displayed their wares to potential retailers. Basically, people who make things set up a booth in hopes that people who own shops will attend the convention and order lots of the things for their stores. So, imagine this: 3 floors ...
Liberals aren’t the ONLY people suffering in these crazy times, you know. This is something I know, at least, so I checked out all the protestors at Occupy Comic Con to help give a voice to those in need whom the mainstream media ignores. Unite, people who wear costumes in public!
How is it legal to inflate the value of homes, property, or other assets to the point where a market downswing would mean the disappearance of trillions of dollars? To me, that sounds like nothing more than the behavior of someone with a gambling problem. Except this addict just happens to be a collection of ...
I’ve encountered corporations a lot this week, in a lot of different ways. Like all of us. Because there is no getting away from them. Ever. As I was walking around Times Square recently, I just found it overbearing. I felt like all the logos and mascots and music and corporate branding coming at me ...
Some people think that the climate crisis is an inevitable, cyclical shift that is going to happen no matter what humans do, and that Al Gore is an evil mastermind behind his own corporate interest or ego-driven mania, bent on becoming a countercultural revolutionist that eventually takes over our society starting through a cult-ish liberal ...
I had the privilege of sitting down recently with Daniel Pinchbeck, author and all around genius who’s an expert on the the apocalyptic theories surrounding the year 2012. For quite a while now, people have been writing in and asking me to cover 2012, and I never knew what it was about other than something ...
Recently, I went on vacation to one of my absolute favorite places in the world. One day, I was just doing my thing, driving around on a golf cart with a beer and absolutely no thoughts in my head, when I stumbled upon a strange sign that read, “Floating Plastic Bottle Island.” So I turned ...
For some reason, I was asked to participate in this year’s New York’s Funniest Reporter contest, and for some reason I AGREED TO DO IT. I’ve never done stand up in my life! But by watching this video, you’d never know it. I mean, I’m a total PRO! Just listen to those finely-tuned punchlines! Watch ...
So I took a trip over to the Green Manufacturing Expo at the Jacob Javits Center recently, only to learn that the expo was only one teeny, tiny part of a general manufacturing expo, where going green was hardly the trend. There was a ton of medical supplies, robotics, and more teeny, tiny pieces of ...
I went to check out this year’s Auto Show at the Javits Center, and I didn’t really know what to expect. I’ve gone in previous years to check out the splashy booths, million-dollar concept cars, and other general monuments to consumerism. This year, though, with the economy going to the crapper and the ridiculous sums ...
