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Barbara Terry, 52, has worked nearly her entire adult life as a prostitute in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. She hopes to retire in a year or so to a house she bought upstate.

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—	At 52, Still Working the Streets in Hunts Point - NYTimes.com (via npr)

tylercoates:

“She’s really running out of stuff, huh.”

-Lindsay

soupsoup:

How did I miss this? via @juliewood

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chels:

Auld Lang Syne | The Loom

This great band is one of my favorite things about this year, and their cover of one of my favorite songs ever is absolutely perfect. It’s available for free download along with a list of their 10 favorite moments of the year. Read, listen, and be merry.

I like my movies (and music and television) as much as the next couch potato, probably more. And I wouldn’t steal content for any reason, in part because I make a living generating a fair amount of it. But it’s worth remembering that the film industry initially opposed the video cassette recorder and the introduction of DVDs, platforms that became very lucrative businesses for them and remarkable conveniences for the rest of us.

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—	David Carr (via soupsoup)

Why would anyone take a blade to Champagne? Well, frankly, it allows you to embrace your inner jackass under the guise of being dashing, with the entire drippingly elegant historical pageant of Champagne to lend your puerile posturing legitimacy and panache. I still can’t decide if sabering Champagne is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of, or one of the greatest, but it’s precisely that tension that makes it so stirring. »

soupsoup:

fek:

True story: Sabering champagne is a fuckton of fun. UPDATE: The comments on this thing are hysterical.

I’ve done this several times with mixed results. Once a party guest wanted to try it, the bottle slipped from his hands when struck, flew off the balcony, landed in the yard, and then was propelled horizontally by jet action into the neighbors yard. It was quite memorable.

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soupsoup:

A message to Rex Ryan and the New York Jets