Good morning peeps!
Thanks to those of you who joined us last night at the Ritz for the Will Clark Show featuring P*rno Bingo! We raised a few hundred dollars for Housing Works and had a good time hanging out with Volttage.com's Jack Mackenroth and our newest friend, Beardonna who not only gave us a few chuckles with his renditions of Madonna songs turned inside out, but I was also the recipient of a rather unusual piece of art - Beardonna's framed undies complete with uhm dried liquids and crotch hair. It's as ... uhm interesting as it sounds. Thank God it wasn't scratch and sniff! :)
New York continues to be, as many have called it, a tale of two cities - above, let's say, 34th Street, the trains are running, the streets are dry and the power is on and it's almost as if the storm didn't happen.
Below 34th all the way down to the bottom of the island, things are seriously fucked up - no power, water damage, food in delis and restaurants rotting, no transportation and a growing desperation for life to return to normal. People evacuated to friends' place uptown but without communication, it's hard to know who needs help (and really how to offer it to them).
Below is video that was taken by some truly brave/crazy souls who rode around lower Manhattan during the storm on bikes and took the most amazing video of flooding. It's quite beautiful if you can get around the fact that the water is filled with sewage and gasoline (from generators in flooded basements). I know many of these locations first hand and to see them underwater is incredibly weird.
Hurricane Sandy on Bikes in NYC from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
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