HBO Go crashed during the season finale of True Detective

March 10, 2014 By Comments

 

Credit: dorkshelf

Credit: dorkshelf

At 10:50 on Sunday night, so many viewers tuned in to watch the season finale of True Detective that HBO Go, HBO’s direct-streaming service, crashed. Typically, episodes are only available on HBO Go after they have aired on TV. Last night, however, HBO let subscribers stream the episode through HBO Go as it was being broadcast live.

The Internet Phenomena Blog posted a graph that depicts HBO’s massive traffic spike:

As you can see, the spike occurred at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, the exact time True Detective started. Despite a flurry of furious tweets, the service remained offline until approximately 12:30 a.m., at which point viewership spiked for another hour and everyone went to bed angry. We were all in Carcosa, then.

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A baby seal washed up in Greenpoint on Sunday (don’t worry, it’s fine).

March 10, 2014 By 3 Comments
credit: NY Daily News

credit: NY Daily News

A baby seal was spotted sunning itself beside the Newtown Creek at around 2 p.m. on Sunday, the Daily News reports. Unlike the dolphin that got stuck in the Gowanus Canal last year, the seal was totally fine. It was just chilling and catching some rays.

The seal was discovered by “a group of teens skating nearby.” According to one of the teens, the seal was “the size of a dog, a fat dog.” Despite fatshaming the seal, the teens did the responsible thing and called the NYPD, who called the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation in Long Island, who sent an expert, who said the seal looked OK.

The seal swam away when the tide came back in at around 4 o’clock.

[via NY Daily News]

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Vampillia played The Silent Barn

March 9, 2014 By Comments

Boredoms and Ruins related Japanese Art-Rockers Vampillia are in town for a series of shows. Last night they annihilated The Silent Barn in Bushwick. Full video is below. They will do it again tonight at Pianos in Manhattan and tomorrow at Death by Audio in Williamsburg.

 

 

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“Pee all you can pee with Airpnp”

March 9, 2014 By Comments

When you gotta go, you gotta go- and now there is an app for that. Airpnp to the rescue! Similar to the travel rental website, residents and businesses can rent out bathrooms for public use, and patrons can then rate their commode experience.
The founders started the app as a way to prevent “rogue pee” during Mardi Gras this year, but it quickly caught on all over the world, with 208 toilet hosts in Europe. There are only four locations currently in NYC, one right here in Williamsburg. For a mere $5, you can visit a stranger’s W.C. at 167 N 6th Street!

 

Here’s the ad:

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Drop a load in our humble abode

We’ve got an excellent throne for your tush and its ready for use! You can rest assured it will be a holy matrimony because our apartment is in a reclaimed rectory in Williamsburg. Only three floors to walk up to take your caca. So park your fixie and rock your brightest flannel as you drop the kids off in our communal pool. We’ve even got free nail clippers!

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Urban sweat lodge and spa offering $150 toxic garbage facials from Newtown Creek

March 7, 2014 By 1 Comment

Have you ever wanted to slather poisonous, chemical-laced sludge all over your face and body? How does running an obstacle course made of jagged, sharp old car parts (“curated by some of Brooklyn’s best makers”) sound to you? Maybe you’d like to sit in a teepee made of old garbage and inhale the noxious fumes generated by burning whatever shit we’ve been dumping in one of America’s worst superfund sites for the previous century. Well, now you can! [Read more...]

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Spiderman with yellow cock removed from Bedford Avenue

March 7, 2014 By Comments
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Spidey with his yellow cock, via

With great dildo comes great outrage:

This Spider-Man figure, with dangling rubber penis, showed up on wire crossing the middle of Bedford Avenue at North 6th Street in Williamsburg at least six weeks ago.

The superhero and his friend were dangling about 15 feet in the air — too high to reach, but low enough to give an uncomfortably clear view to people crossing one of the neighborhood’s busiest intersections.

“There’s no art to this thing at all,” said John Sexton, 60, who passed the spectacle on his way to the L train earlier Thursday. “It’s just vulgar, and that’s all there is to it.”

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Oddly, the Daily News censored their image: [Read more...]

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Girl bus tour may be coming to Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Bushwick

March 6, 2014 By 2 Comments

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This is just what Brooklyn needs! More tourists. Ugh. They should just shuttle them off to Brooklyn Heights:

The circuit would focus on everything from Greenpoint’s coffee outpost Café Grumpy, where Lena Dunham’s character Hannah Horvath once slung lattes, to a Bushwick warehouse where Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) accidentally smokes crack.

But don’t expect a glitzy romp through the West Village to Sex and the City staple Magnolia Bakery, or past the Condé Nast building where Carrie Bradshaw once penned articles for Vogue, on a “Girls” tour — much of the hit show takes place far away from the bright lights of the big city. [Read more...]

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L Train signs at Metropolitan/Lorimer accidentally switched

March 6, 2014 By Comments

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Look closely at the picture above. Notice anything…out of place? That’s the passage leading to the L train in the Metropolitan/Lorimer subway stop in Williamsburg. Most of us don’t need the signs telling us which train goes to Manhattan and which one barrels out into Canarsie.

Some people do need those signs, however, which is why it’s notable that they’re switched in the picture. The left passage actually leads to the Manhattan-bound track, and the right to Brooklyn. Who switched them? Unclear, but it caused some commuter consternation. According to the observant photographer, Astrid Anderson:

I took the train at 830 AM, but I think it was up until the late afternoon. I went to the actual Manhattan side and waited for the train. Everyone was looking extremely confused. When the train came on my side, a bunch of people on the other side started freaking out and tried to run back to the other side.
My friend took another photo around 4 PM & someone had simple stuck a post-it on one sign saying “this is wrong”.

Here’s Astrid’s friend’s photo with the post-it note:

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The signs were fixed as of Tuesday evening.

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