SOLD!

 

 

Priced To Go



Fighting the flu.

 

It's a war out there.

 

Some people have resorted to surgical masks to keep germs at bay.

 

Mostly the standard issue white or gray variety.

 

 

 

Zzzzzzzzz.  SOOOO boring.  The fashion police would have this guy behind bars in a nanosecond.

 

If you're going to go full-blown bandito on us, at least do it with style.

 

Fortunately there is a remedy at hand. 

 

Behold...the animal print mask. 

 

Battle the bug AND unleash your chic inner beast!

 

Grrrrrrrrrr...

 

 

Girl Gone Wild

 

 

 



Redundancy.

We've all heard the term, a common word in these cautious, threatening times when paranoia about our vulnerabilities and security has us doubling up like never before.  Nowadays it has become prudent to back-up just about everything.  Airlines do it--in triplicate--to reduce the failure rate of a plane's mechanical system to near zero.  So do power companies.  And so do we.  Ever pack an extra pair of underwear into your overnight bag...just in case? 

Yes, it's one big redundant world out there.

But really, schlep a spare bike around town?  Talk about pushing the redundancy envelope!  But then again, perhaps he was a Boy Scout and that "Be Prepared" motto just kind of stuck.

Or maybe he just likes to show off.  Or annoy midtown motorists stuck behind him.

Carry on!




Bicycle Built For Two
 

You can never be too careful.

Even behind a Macy's window on 34th Street.

Especially when your face is your greatest asset. 

Because it's never a good idea to take a cigaret in the eyeball when you're a Dior model.

Or anyone else for that matter.




Hazardous To Your Health
 

Yeah, it's my board.  So you got a problem with that, dude?



Rad
 

Priced to go.

Spotted this New Year's Eve special a block and a half from Times Square.  Four six-packs of Budweiser for $20.  Cash and carry. 

Heckuva deal considering individual 16 ounce cans of Bud go for $2 a pop at the local bodegas. 

So for revelers on a budget, seemed like this sidewalk sale was quite the bargain.

Unfortunately, no takers.  This enterprising chap packed up his al fresco shop without a nibble after about 30 minutes of futile hawking.

He probably needed a beer.

 

This Bud's For You

 

Okay, I get it.

The Big Booty Bread Co. (West 23rd Street between 7th & 8th, that's the owner's caricature on the front window) sells "badass cookies & cupcakes."

Booty.  Badass.  The play on words is duly noted.

But come on, can a Red Velvet Cupcake truly be peddled as "badass"?

Which got me to thinking...just where did the word "badass" originate anyway?  Someone had to combine "bad" and "ass", but who and when?

Etymologists aren't totally sure.  It seems this term for "tough guy" started to show up in 50's slang.

But what about the original "badass" gangstas before then?  What were the legendary badasses of history called?  Fearsome fellows like Atilla the Hun, Vlad the Impaler, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, William (think "Braveheart") Wallace...badasses before the word was coined to describe them as such.  Somehow, pinning a label like rogue, knave, scoundrel or scamp on any one of them just doesn't seem to have the right gravitas to attach to such illustrious men of mayhem.  Hannibal a "ruffian"?  I don't think so. 

Nowadays, it seems "badass" just isn't what it used to be, not when poseurs like Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson can pass for what is known in our acronym-crazed world as a BAMF.  So maybe calling cookies and cupcakes badass isn't such a stretch after all.  But really, $2.95 for a Triple Chocolate cookie? 

 

Killer Cookies