Or the office intern ordering coffees for a dozen people. I got stuck twice behind the same kid at Starbucks in my neighborhood on separate occasions ordering FIFTEEN beverages. Not fifteen black coffees—fifteen different drinks. I’m positive there’s an app for this shit that you can use to order ahead of time and…

Day drinking is officially off the table for me. I can’t, and I won’t. I live in NYC and I skip brunch culture entirely (I work in the restaurant business therefore despise brunch anyway), and every time I see sloppy drunkasses sauntering around Williamsburg making fools of themselves I feel better about the decision.

And food. For god’s sake, eat throughout the day. I can put away a bottle plus of wine on my own over a substantial dinner and feel fine the next day, but I did that same thing sans food last year (I still remember the exact date) and was in a fetal position in my bathroom until well into the next afternoon.

Ugh, no kidding. I work with a few people in their early 20s and their stories of partying all night give me secondhand headaches. I’m 31 and I can barely enjoy myself after drink #4 because all I can think about is the agony of the next day.

Skipped the article specifically to look for a GRRM comment, and you delivered. Thank you.

I used to get off at Newkirk Plaza on the B/Q, it was nice once it started emptying. Now I live off a stop on the L where basically half the train unloads. I shouldn’t complain, my commute is like 10 stops from end to end.

“Oh, they’re starting construction on a new residential building—”
*sneezes, looks up*
“And it’s done. People are moving in.”

Restaurant bartender here—I get on the train to work at 3 pm and I usually head home around 1 am, on the L line. While it isn’t usually super packed at 3 pm, that seems to be the witching hour for delays and other fuckery. And at 1 am, well, depends on the day. My Saturday night journey home from work was a packed…

My question is even with additional funding by the state government (which Nolan’s previous piece in this series said is responsible for funding), is it possible to fully integrate/innovate new train technology when the tracks and tunnels are a century old in some parts? I’m curious as to how MUCH work needs to…

Too lazy to Google other countries with developed transit systems (England and Japan come to mind first), but some of the tunnels in use here in NYC are over a century old. So yeah you’re right, I don’t think the builders of those tunnels could have fathomed the technological improvements of the coming century or the…

10/10 Excellent dog, would pet

Thank you for reminding me to read more Klosterman.

Or it had a quenelle of creme fraiche on it and he thinks it’s cheese.

Just dropping in to shout out ricotta cheese for being so good.

Someone made a burner account called “fukthischick” and proceeded to say, well, “fuck this chick” in the comments. I think all the non-shitheels are enjoying their holiday weekend and will drop in later or something.

Ugh. Similar story for me working at concession stands at baseball fields all summer when I was about 14-17. Hot dogs and fountain soda, plus all the candy and sugary gum I could shovel in my face. If I replicated that now, I’d be in a fetal position all night.

I can’t even imagine what’s on the menu at a place called Grandma Max’s. Amazing.

OH MY GOD FAZOLI’S. Your post just reminded me of that place and that it exists. I can smell the breadsticks as I type this. We used to inhale those things as a part of our weekly Taco Bell/McDonalds/Fazoli’s/Runza* rotation.

*I’m not sure if Runza exists outside the Omaha area, but I ate so much of it in high school…

After really bad breaks like this (Paul George, Kevin Ware, this guy), I always wonder how much of their recovery is psychological. I feel like you’d also need therapy in addition to the physical rehab, right?

Nah.