The original memoirist, St. Augustine.

​Sometimes, the most boring people are the most effusive. The person who traps you on the other side of their monologue at a party; the person shouting into their cellphone on the bus. The constant tweeter. The teenager with 5,000 Facebook photos of her and her spray-tanned friends grinning in a line. These people are a fact of life, and well, whatever -- except that now, as Neil Genzlinger points out in an article in the Times' Book Review, they're all writing memoirs. Bad ones.

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Back before LSD became associated with '60s counterculture, it was an experimental therapeutic drug used on people like this genteel housewife. "I can feel the air, I can see it," she says. "I can see all the molecules. I'm part of it. Can't you see it?"

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​By Ryan Gellis

Most people who heard about Theophilus Burroughs' bust for attempting to sell night-vision goggles, 200,000 counterfeit cigarette stamps, and bulletproof vests to undercover operatives he thought were connected to Middle East terror organizations probably uttered a "WTF?" and moved right on, albeit feeling a little safer. But to me the news was a bit more personal. Burroughs was my high school music teacher.

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via Don Ross Group

​A five-month study will determine if streetcars will be part of Red Hook's future transportation (rooted in its past). The study aims to find the best option to link Red Hook with surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods to "support economic development," according to the Department of Transportation. If it works out, Red Hook could look like New York of the early 1900s -- then, maybe hipsters would change out their fedoras for top-hats. G'day, miss.More >>

via Bowery Boogie.

​As if American Apparel isn't having enough problems these days, now, those problems are beginning to manifest in very public ways, right here in New York City. Symbolism, ahoy.

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via EV Grieve

​First it was Grimaldi's Pizzeria in Brooklyn -- nearly three months and $60,000 behind in back rent and city taxes, the famed pie-slingers were facing eviction, despite the lines out the door. But while Grimaldi's owners were able to pay for their slack, the same can't be said for Village Fabrics, a well-known mom-and-pop fabric store on First Avenue and East 11th Street that's falling into the same fate with inevitable closure at the end of the month.

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via Art.com

​The MTA has tired of taking your money. They would like to take your possessions now. Specifically, your possessions related to Grand Central Terminal for an exhibit commemorating 100 awesome years of Grand Central-ness. (The birthday goes down on February 1, 2013, but they're planning ahead.)

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George Carlin would be proud.

​The United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has determined that the FCC's ban on even one small "patently offensive" expletive and other profanity on TV and radio violates the First Amendment. They stated that the current policy is "unconstitutionally vague" and creates a "chilling effect that goes far beyond the fleeting expletives at issue here." Chilling, indeed! We barely know what to say anymore. Thank goodness we're not on f'in TV.

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​New numbers out from Pew Research give us a handy excuse for whatever ills have befallen us over the past 30 months since the "Great Recession" began. If you were unemployed, took a pay cut, had your hours reduced, or involuntarily took to working part-time, you're in good -- or, at least, a lot of -- company. The humorless old recession had that effect on more than half of the adults in the labor force. It's also made us thriftier, less optimistic about our futures, and more broke than ever. But 62 percent of us think it's going to get better this year. Fingers crossed. [JDoll]

Is that an Ionic column, or are you just happy to see me?

​In the Benjamin Buttoning of Betty White's reclaimed celebrity (see: comeback to fame by way of SNL by way of social networking site), we now have rumors of Betty White sex photos. Because video wasn't so popular back then. God, imagine having to Polaroid your illicit deeds! What a hassle!

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