That would probably make an excellent shoplifting strategy, actually - a black guy and a white guy go into an expensive store as team. The black guy wanders aimlessly and attracts all the attention while the white guy robs them blind. Haha... (I'm laughing to hide the pain and misery inside.)

I am sure that there will be many tributes to the abundance of great music made by Reed. But I would like to spotlight one of his stranger and most audacious contributions: the 1975 all-guitar feedback piece, Metal Machine Music, perhaps the most bizarre record ever put out by a significant act:

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Macy's Inc also owns Rich's and Bloomindale's. Barney's is owned by Perry Capital who used to own stock in JC Penney's but dumped it in September. Considering how Barney's is constantly teetering on the edge bankruptcy I'm surprised they're so choosy about who shops at their stores....or maybe their choosiness is the…

If David Bowie could share his alien life extending technology with Iman, why couldn't he share them with Lou Reed? He'd better give some to Iggy Pop.

Well, we saw him riff wildly on Walk On The Wild Side last year in Switzerland, and he was an angry old sod, but he was a fucking talented angry old sod and we'll miss him.

What's really sad here is that the story here is no longer about this poor black kid who saved up hundreds of dollars at his job to go to an exclusive store and buy himself something really nice and then got harrassed, taken to jail and publicly humiliated because of his age and skin color, but it is now about…

Shop and Frisk. When do we just fuck the first term and just frisk? Not like the fourth amendment was meant to stop people from doing this kind of shit!

"breathing while black" was already a thing

"What's next, breathing while black?"

Shopping while black, essentially.

I have one too! She's actually Hera, the goddess of total "Imma cut you bitch!", but still amazing.

My cat won two Halloween pet costume pageants today! Three years in a row, undefeated!

Guys, the school I work at got invited to trick-or-treat at the White House, and I get to chaperone.
I AM SO EXCITED.

This is something I think about every time the topic of virginity comes up and some one says something about how X% of the people at their school lost their virginity at X age, how do you know with any degree of certainty? This might be because I was that girl who everyone thought was getting it on when I was sitting…

Whenever I hear "programming is for guys" I get really annoyed, because historically, programming was a woman's job - it was only in the 1970's that men started to be employed as programmers more and more.

the one silver lining to an ill-advised home permanent was winning a costume contest dressed as Carol the receptionist that year. she was awesome. (and an episode with Carol meant a very drunk game of "Hi Bob.")

She played Carol on the Bob Newhart show back in the 70's as well.

And if you're old enough, you also loved her on The Bob Newhart Show as well.

Oh yay. Another pissing contest so everyone can show how wealthy they are at the expense of the non-wealthy participants in the wedding party. Or is it gauche to have poors stand up for you these days?