So this week I went to Canada. Canada now occupies the #2 slot on "Worst Places To Travel" right between Mexico City and New Jersey. I was identified at Passport control as something that made the agent...Grill on 39th, right next to the Courtyard Marriott. Its just across the street from the Schnitzel Express I ate at last time I was in New York. I think I'll stop there on my way to LGA again tomorrow

The New York Senate voted Tuesday night to expel a senator convicted of a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, a resolution the lawmaker assailed as an injustice to the people who elected...majority including Monserrate, who with another Democrat briefly joined with Republicans last year in a coalition that resulted in monthlong legislative gridlock before they switched back. Source.

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Very fun time tonight at the Mysterious Bookshop in downtown Manhattan with pgtremblay , who was in town with fellow Beantown crime writer Dave Zeltserman for a reading. As usual, it was a Tremblay...on barbecued ribs afterwards, and then disappeared, ghostlike, into the night. Then, when I got back to Brooklyn, I saw that Snowpocalypse 2010 had begun. Goodbye, world! It was nice knowing you

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First place, mofos! Team Totally Tits is now a six-time winner! As usual, we only did so-so on the first round, the Grab Bag of random questions, good but not great. The second round was a spelling bee...Great Harry's team trivia series, and I am the proud, one-month owner of the trophy, which is currently standing on my kitchen table. We return on Monday, March 8, to see if we can retain the title

David Paterson Has Not Resigned Today New York Gov. David Paterson consulted with "key Democratic leaders" over the weekend to discuss either a) his imminent resignation pending a New York Times...fighting ring out of the governor's mansion." "He is the illegitimate adopted love child of Ed Koch and Thelonious Monk." "He's decided to endorse Harold Ford for Senate." "He's really Fred Armisen."

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