​Credit card debt? What credit card debt? Oh, pour yourself another drink. The latest fun -- and healthy! -- thing we're all doing under the influence of a little boozin' is...shopping on our own personal computers, from home, at night, after a hard day's work, with the jug of wine next to us. In a fascinating "trend" piece from the New York Times, it seems that not only are we shopping drunk -- the online retailers actually want us to shop drunk. As long as we don't return things the next day, of course.

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​In late November, West Side Rag (a nominee for a Village Voice "best neighborhood blog" award!) pointed out that someone had been papering the empty storefronts of the Upper West Side with stickers that read "This Is Neighborhood Rot," "This Is Neighborhood Decay," "This Is a Neighborhood Eyesore," and so on. The identity of the sticker bandit was a mystery, though -- and still is, except now, he or she has a website. And, kind of, a movement. So 2011!

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​EV Grieve has noted an eBay listing of interest to New York City public transportation geeks -- there's an authentic 51" x 31", 26-pound New York City subway sign, from outside Union Square, available for a mere $12,500. The seller writes that the sign was by the stairs to the entrance and is "from the personal collection of a New York City attorney." (How and when the attorney acquired the subway sign, and why he or she gave it up, we don't know.)

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98% of dogs still live at home with their parents.

​Here is a reason to check upstairs when you're hanging out in the well-appointed basement pad of your new man friend. He might actually be living with his parents. According to a new Census Bureau study, nearly one in five men in their late 20s and early 30s -- late 20s and early 30s -- are living with their parents, a number that's risen from 14 to 19 percent in the past six years. Is this terrible? Do we judge them for doing so? Well, not completely. After all, the job market is tough, there's this whole lingering recession thing, and mom's macaroni and cheese really is the best. Nobody else makes it like that! (We draw the line at our man friends also wearing adult diapers, however. We're seriously putting our foot down.)

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​Check your calendars, friends. Yep, we're in October, a month in which your only concern should be which of your lightweight jackets to throw across your shoulders as you tread effortlessly out of your house and also, what creative and intelligent but still sultry and appealing to members of whichever sex you prefer thematic outfit you will be wearing at whichever Halloween party you choose to attend this weekend. Maybe, if you're really neurotic, you can ask yourself (but only once!): "Should I get the flu vaccine this season?" (If you're asking, the answer is yes.) But under no circumstances should you spend any time thinking, "Will it snow this weekend?" And certainly, certainly do not ask yourself or anyone else, "Have I completed my Christmas shopping yet?"

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​Should you not know, now you do: A "Hamptons house ho" is a young lady of perhaps working-class means who escapes her dull workaday life and embarks on a jaunt to Long Island's narrow beach-dappled sections during the months in which sun shines down on all of us, swapping her white Reebok high-tops for a pair of borrowed pumps with a Sharpie-drawn scarlet sole, and attracting a man from the upper echelons of a society she dares to enter. As you may have read in your favorite Jane Austen novel, this not terribly goodly woman will exchange favors of a bodily sort for getting to stay in a mansion, and the kind of mansion she chooses designates the kind of woman she is. The New York Post has interviewed a few guys who are profiting advantageously from this situation. They are very open-minded!

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​Bucky Turco over at Animal NY has today posted one of those giant ATM receipts ($329,174.91) that generally cause us to say, Who the hell keeps that much money in a checking account? Except right now, with markets down -- the Dow more than 600 points; S&P and Nasdaq down more than 6 percent -- and much of the world freaking out, we're wondering if maybe this Southampton Chase banker knows something we don't. Let's all remember, it's time IN the market, folks. (Here are five stocks that went up today, via @pkafka.) Also, clearly this Southampton Chase banker knows something we don't -- including the abbreviation for Southampton on a bank receipt. Cat video? [via Animal NY]

​• Levi Aron, the alleged killer of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, who was drugged, smothered, and then dismembered, will be in court today to be arraigned on murder charges. Autopsy results for Kletzky found he'd ingested "cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant; quetiapine, an antipsychotic drug; hydrocodone, a pain medication; and acetaminophen, the drug found in Tylenol." [CNN]

• AT&T wireless customers in New York City are facing an outage due to "a software upgrade"; the problem started at 1:30 a.m. and won't let users make or receive calls. There's currently no ETA for fixing the problem. [NBC NY]

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​Crazy kids! Instead of being appropriately bewildered and concerned by credit card and education debts, young adults are feeling "empowered" by what they owe, according to a new study from Ohio State University. In fact, the more credit card and college loan debt they have, the better these incorrigible youngsters feel about themselves! Once they get to be a little older, however, say 28 to 34, they start getting stressed. As the scientists behind the study point out, credit card debt might be helping people feel good because they're not thinking about their debt at all but instead are thinking about what they can get with their credit cards -- a/k/a instant gratification. It's hard to compete with that.

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​Imagine you had an alternate reality in which everything was "luxury." You'd drive a luxury car instead of taking an average to shitty non-luxury subway, live in a luxury apartment, wear luxury clothes, eat in luxury restaurants, be named whatever your name is but with "luxury" in front, and so on. Everything luxury! Luxury everything. Your condoms, in that case, should also be luxury, and/or luxurious. Or both! Fortunately, there are strides being made in the luxury condom market. They are called Naked condoms, and they are "one of the most upscale brands in the growing business of luxury prophylactics." This means you will pay $56 for a box of 12, compared to $12 for a pack of 12 Trojans.

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