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OK, I know everyone is busy spreading misinformation, or getting freaked out about the spread of misinformation, and The freaking Onion has become a valid philosophic reference for epistemic post-modernity, but listen.

I have a fabulously talented chef friend who’s trying to open a restaurant in Astoria, Queens, NY. They’re in part using Kickstarter to fund the opening (I know). They are 100-people-each-giving-$20-in-the-next-53-hours-away from succeeding in this part of the venture. If you value people making good food, the personal me getting to eat said food, or just seeing more businesses that give a shit about workers, ingredients, etc. (#cliche, #whatev, #itstrue) then please consider giving or forwarding to someone you know in Astoria/Queens/New York/TheWorld/TheUniverse.

Thanks for your time. Please go back to feeling superior to Reddit but much less well-accomplished than the average Onion writer.

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This beauty had been a strange thing. It had always brought on some distress and then infinite kindness in others and then sadness too. But none of them were cherubs any longer and they knew all this and hated it, seeing him now across the woman’s lap, her breasts over his twisted face. Eden in the bed of Eros, all Edenwide all lost. He was neither child, boy, nor man, and he was dreadful.

This beauty had been a strange thing. It had always brought on some distress and then infinite kindness in others and then sadness too. But none of them were cherubs any longer and they knew all this and hated it, seeing him now across the woman’s lap, her breasts over his twisted face. Eden in the bed of Eros, all Edenwide all lost. He was neither child, boy, nor man, and he was dreadful.

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Oooh, besides getting reblogged by the Neighborhoodr for Astoria, today, I also got a pic up on Ugly Astoria! Highs and lows. Strikes and gutters. astoriaugly: bmichael writes: Living Room is a, I think, “Middle Eastern”-themed night club on 21 St., near Astoria Blvd. Its awning is supposed to look like tree bark, I guess, but when you walk under it, it looks like the places is making a funny face at you. It’s so ugly. Awe-some! I’ve never actually passed under the awning—only been horrified from across the street. I thought maybe they were going for “cave entrance”? Or “Hershey factory disaster”? Now it’s obvious they’re aspiring to “creepy Muppet.”

Oooh, besides getting reblogged by the Neighborhoodr for Astoria, today, I also got a pic up on Ugly Astoria! Highs and lows. Strikes and gutters.

astoriaugly:

bmichael writes:

Living Room is a, I think, “Middle Eastern”-themed night club on 21 St., near Astoria Blvd. Its awning is supposed to look like tree bark, I guess, but when you walk under it, it looks like the places is making a funny face at you. It’s so ugly.

Awe-some! I’ve never actually passed under the awning—only been horrified from across the street. I thought maybe they were going for “cave entrance”? Or “Hershey factory disaster”? Now it’s obvious they’re aspiring to “creepy Muppet.”

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