Stranger Than Fiction theatre tonight at the IFC Center presents: Cocaine Cowboys
There will be a Q & A with the producers of the documentary directly following the screening.
Stranger Than Fiction theatre tonight at the IFC Center presents: Cocaine Cowboys
There will be a Q & A with the producers of the documentary directly following the screening.
I got the e-mail last week about a last chance sale on Polo.com and I tried to act like I wasn’t going to fux with it all. I avoided looking at the website up until yesterday (after I got another e-mail telling me the sale would end on Monday).
I really wasn’t pressed since I was starting to find these Modern Explorer pieces up in Marshall’s and I know Macy*s end of season sale is around the corner. But then I opened a link which had this Year of the Dragon flag posted up. I can’t NOT fux with scarves. I can’t.
The dragon scarf link pulled me into the link with this flight jacket and since the satin jackets are sold the fux out I figured I might as well get in while there’s still something to get got.
The flight jacket has some nifty details and a dragon print on the sleeve. BAM! They got me and I don’t even have the bread to spare right now. I guess the phone gonna have to get shut off for a couple of weeks? LMAO.
True story.
The Museum of the City of New York is one of the many landmark city buildings I get to work on during the day. The Museum has been selected to participate in a grant program for $250,000 run by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express. This is a project that is part of our ongoing renovation of the building and it would be great to get this funded.
The winner of the $250,000 grant is determined by popular vote. We are competing against 40 other cultural and educational institutions in New York City. There will be second and third prizes as well as the top $250,000 prize.
You can find out more about the program at this link: Partners In Preservation
The grant will be used to restore the Museum’s beautiful wrought iron gate at the stair to the Museum’s main entrance and the two statues in the niches on the Museum’s exterior on Fifth Avenue. This press release link will give you more information on the program and what MCNY plans to do. Here’s what I need for YOU to do…
Voting for the PIP grant already started on April 26th! Anyone can vote once per day from April 26th through May 21st, and I hope that you will vote daily for the Museum and encourage your family and friends to do the same! There are three ways to vote:
(1) desktop web
(2) mobile web
(3) Facebook
Voters may use different platforms on different days, but may only vote once each day. Votes are tabulated in real time, cross-platform. Facebook users are not required to “like” the PIP page. On any of the three platforms, voters can choose to login using their Facebook account, or create a PIP account. A login is required to verify one vote per day. Once you create an initial account – which is easy to do – then all you have to do is login.
Remember to vote every day. And spread the word.
Chocolate Snowflake and I are in Florida on my parent’s coattails. They were the ones who bought into the timeshare scam many years ago. My mother has rarely used the timeshares after my dad’s passing. Part of the reason is because this shit can be so damn inconvenient. My folks bought their timeshare from a resort in South Carolina and like most people they didn’t want to visit the same place every year.
The way these timeshares are supposed to be set up you can ‘exchange’ your resort space for a similar one within the resort company’s network. Yeah, that sounds all well and good except there be hell’a blackouts and unavailability as you try to make your exchanges. Now planning a vacation becomes a full time fuxin’ chore. And all you wanted was to put your feet in some white sand for a week.
Timeshares are operated like scams that you sign up for in perpetuity. You can’t sell them either because they aren’t property that was paid for but a week during the year. A SPECIFIC week at that. So in some cases when you can’t afford to take your vacation during that exact week you have to pay a fee to have the chance to use the timeshare during another week of the year.
I wasn’t even supposed to be in Florida with C.S. but everyone she invited didn’t feel like going with her. I don’t know why because C.S. is the perfect roadie. We do these timeshares to a tee with groceries from the local supermarket and hell’a maps that feature all the attractions of the place we are visiting. C.S. even signed us up for a timeshare pitch at the resort we were staying in (for an AmEx giftcard and a 3day/2nite stay at a Wyndham hotel).
The new pitch isn’t for timeshares any longer since the jig is prA’li up on these scams. The new pitch is for ‘Vacation Ownership‘. Same scam animal, different name. The salespeople try and coerce you to pay $15,000 so that you can accrue annual points to use towards visits to resorts in their network. Do these niggas know I can’t even pay my cellphone bill regularly? What the fux makes them think I might could afford to take a week away from my grizzly like that? Oh, yeah, maybe because I told them I go to St. Ma’arten or Barbados annually.
I’m already in hellified debt with just my clothing, toy and sneaker collections without assuming some scam from these two-bit soulless prostitutes. These scam niggas is only half a step above the niggas who work for financial companies who create sexy names for the instruments which rob people’s retirement accounts. They are all vultures and a blight on the Earth. All I want to do is put my feet in some white sand with my ladybug. Keep your timeshare scams.