mar-see-ah asked: Frances Ha is SO GOOD. See it immediately.
All the push I need!
#34—The Iceman
It was not a brilliant movie—weirdly paced, bluntly scripted—but I will happily watch anything in which Michael Shannon plays a creepazoid.
Also Winona Ryder is a beautiful alien princess.
This movie is nuts, end of story. The fact that it really actually happened makes it even crazier. Sure, some of it is predictable, the music is weird, and the 70s world is small, but the acting is on point and it’s a long uncomfortable watch where anyone can die at any time.
Long before NYPD officers talked about 250s, the act of an officer stopping a civilian on the street and patting him down was known as a “Terry stop.” In 1968, the Supreme Court ruled in Terry v. Ohio that a police officer could stop and frisk someone on the street even if he had no probable cause to arrest him; all cops needed was “reasonable suspicion” of criminal activity. In New York City, controversy over this police tactic erupted in 1999 after four officers trying to stop a man in the Bronx wound up firing at him 41 times. The killing of 23-year-old Amadou Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from Guinea, transformed stop-and-frisk into a political issue.
We were somewhere among the back half of the crowd watching Macklemore when the girl in front of us, who had been screaming something and proudly holding her beer aloft while standing up on the wobbly, thin fabric center of one of those fold-up canvas deck chairs, went down like a brick.
The chair had buckled below her. A guy nearby, wearing a white tee that bore an American flag and the text “Back to back world war champs,” tapped his friend, pointed at the girl on her face in the grass, and said, “Sweet!”
Two days earlier I had been sitting in my office, clean and sober, dignity intact, when a buddy of mine emailed me to say we should go to the Preakness on Saturday. I told him it was pretty late notice to decide, on Thursday, to head to Baltimore on Friday night, and that I had basically promised someone I’d go to a graduation party in New Jersey on Saturday.
“That sounds pretty lame,” he wrote back. “I should remind you, there will be over 125k drunk people in the infield. That’s at least 50k booties in jean shorts. Beers are 2 bucks.”
What I Watched: Francis, Ha
This is on my short list. Loved the New Yorker profile on Noah and Gretta, and I just finished the WTF Pod with Marc and Noah this morning. This movie seems up my alley.
Here on EOS, we covered the many reasons why New York City F.C. spells the end of the Flushing Meadows Park initiative and also gave reaction from both the New York Cosmos and the Red Bulls.
Here are a few more links to go with your morning coffee:
-New York is once again ready for professional soccer.
The Daily News says
-why Flushing is now a non-starter
Dana Rubenstein at Capital New York expands on
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-A team is born, but not all cheer.
New York Times –
-tracking Ferran Soriano, the Manchester City executive who has pursued New York for years.
Also in the Times, Jack Bell does a masterful job of
-Don Garber reassures that New York City FC will be a good thing
Over on Soccer by Ives,
for the Red Bulls as well.
-saying New York City F.C. needs to truly be “Major League.”
Filip Bondy gives his two-cents,
You had me at “the oral history” because this format is almost always a winner when done right.
I literally ran a test to see how accurate the Nike Fuel Band tracking is against a GPS run tracker like RunKeeper. Turns out, it’s pretty accurate, at least on the miles.
In the 7 years I’ve been in NYC, I’ve never once went for a run before work. Until today.
Ideally, a party of 3 or more is perfect for Pok Pok NY. Of course, 2 is perfect if you want to be stuffed. Weeknight is way to go. Weekend is 4-5 hr wait. These are the must order fish sauce spicy wings. (at Pok Pok NY)
There’s a new MLS team in NYC. Yankees, Man City partner on New York City Football Club. Here are details: http://usat.ly/14trmQw
And here’s to hoping they don’t play like the other MLS teams.
Hey buddy - New York already has a MLS team and it’s good enough to be sitting in the #1 spot atop the eastern conference.
Nevermind that NYCFC doesn’t have any players, a coach, or a stadium to be better than MLS teams. The Yankees and Man City owners are in for a brutal awakening with the strict salary cap and DP structure in the MLS.
If this announcement makes any NYC area resident realize they want to see some soccer, they should get their ass to Harrison NJ right off the PATH for a world class team playing this Sunday that already plays for New York, and not wait until 2015 for this new unicorn team without an identity.
*I agree that MLS play is not at the Premier League level, but we’ve got to celebrate what we’ve got, that’s getting better!
(Source: USA Today)