10 Cinematic Robberies Gone Wrong
Today marks the release of the most sophisticated murder & robbery simulator our generation has ever seen. Robbing is still hard. How hard? Let’s see…
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Random subway searches: what are your rights?
This morning, on the way to the slowly-unwinding J train in Brooklyn, Jonny ran into a random bag search station. They went for him and an old lady.
Jonny said he was sweating bullets, but police didn’t find any contraband, and let him go on his way.
The whole encounter got us thinking about what our rights actually are at one of those random search stations. NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said that you are free to “turn around and leave” any subway system where police are conducting random…
One at a time, please! Here come the Dow Jones resignations.
We should probably wait until the resignations subside before we do a post about it, but we don’t work on the weekend so we’ll get started now.
German billionaire Dieter von Holtzbrinck (anyone give him a job?) has resigned from the Dow Jones board of directors to protest the sale of the company to Rupert Murdoch.
Even though the Bancrofts and News Corp have said they will create ‘Special Committees’ to prevent the hiring and firing of any Dow Jones editors, von Holtzbrinck wasn’t convinced.
“I do not believe that the…
Time to help McSweeney’s
The fantastic publishing house McSweeney’s is feeling the financial bite from their distributor’s bankruptcy. McSweeney’s has lost about $130,000 since their distributor went bankrupt last December, not projected income, but money they had earned, now erased.
In order to persevere McSweeney’s is auctioning off their stock cheap: original artwork by Tony Millionaire and Dave Eggers; music mixes by Nick Hornby; subscriptions and backstock are absurdly discounted.
Help these guys out so they can get back to making the hotness we love–Wholphin, Believer, McSweeney’s Quarterly–and discovering new authors that keep literature alive.…
The Skinny on LEVI’s
We fashion aficionados here at LVHRD are always looking for the latest trends, the cheapest finds, and the best fits. What we try to avoid are things like lawsuits. We like to keep all our designer LVHRD members working within the fashion field well informed on what is going on in mainstream fashion.
For example, in the latest edition of the New York Times, Levi’s is reported to be going mad, suing their competition left and right and with good reason. Levi’s is suing other denim companies including VonDutch and…
The FBI is Listening To Cell Phone Calls, Mobsters Beware
Remember that scene in Goodfellas (or any mobster movie, for that matter) when Robert DeNiro talks on the pay phone down the street so the FBI can’t track his felonious conversations? Well, in this day and age, that scene wouldn’t fly, not with cell phones and all.
Or maybe it would. In recent news, it turns out that the FBI can now listen to conversations on your cell phone using the microphone inside the device. And if that weren’t enough, they can even listen in when the phone is turned off. Looks like the…
Paying Taxes For the Spanish-American War
We here at LVHRD are good citizens. We pay our taxes, walk old ladies across the street, and even, occasionally, throw parties to celebrate the end of Prohibition. But when we find out that the American government has been making us pay a telephone tax that goes as far back as the Spanish-American War, well, that we just won’t stand for.
The Federal Telephone Excise Tax was introduced in 1898 to help pay for the Spanish-American War. Back then, telephones were only owned by the very rich (think railroad owners who…
Hate Your Partner? Build a Wall!
Most people, if they can’t stand their spouse or life partner, get a divorce or take up the quiet game until the other person finally decides to leave. But what if you’re rich and have money to burn? You build a wall in the middle of your house, of course! Or at least, that’s what one couple in Brooklyn did anyway.
Simon Taub and his wife, Chauna, both 57, had a white partition wall built right in middle of their house to separate themselves from each other while divorce papers…
Comical Commerce
What could possibly be funny about money? No, seriously, can you think of a single thing that’s hilarious about Greenbacks or fat stacks besides Charlie Sheen’s performance in the movie Wall Street? It’s hard, we know, and but that’s where LVHRD member and comedian Jeff Kreisler comes in.
Writer of the column Funny Money for the financial website The Street.com, Kreisler pokes fun at everything from Starbucks to Geico, all while revealing the little truths that we’d often prefer to ignore. It’s satire that Dennis Miller would be proud of.
And we’re not the only…
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