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The advertisement we found on the subway for LIM College states that LIM College is “Where Business Meets Fashion.”
But what the ad really told us is this, “LIM College, Where The Fashion Business Makes You Yawn.”
And yes, that woman in the photo made us yawn both while riding the F train, and while we wrote this post. Yawns, they’re contagious!
One of the great things about the Culver Viaduct rehabilitation project for the F subway line is that we, the subway riders, can see the progress of the work before our eyes on a daily basis.
With the northbound side having been completed on schedule last winter, the southbound side appears to be moving smoothly as well. The new trackbed has been lined up and the construction workers are getting it ready for some concrete.
We’ll be happy with everything is finished, because the extra flight of stairs up and then down to the temporary platform grew old, fast.
We came across what, in our humble opinion, is the worst advertisement of all time. It’s a billboard that we snapped a quick pic of as we got on the subway here in NYC, because we needed to see it again to see what we were missing with our bare eyes, and as it turned out, we still didn’t have a clue to what the billboard was advertising. Our wife saw the pic, and without even hearing us say that we thought that it was the worst billboard of all time said, “Oooh! That’s the best billboard of all time!”
So, here it is, the best and worst billboard of all time:
If you think that it’s the best billboard of all time, then you know what the billboard is all about, but, for those who are like us and had no idea what the blank slate and March 25 stood for, the billboard is an advertisement for the return of Mad Men to AMC.
Apparently the guy in the suit is part of the cartoon beginning that Mad Men has. Based off of this newly learn fact, we suspect that the theme for this season of Mad Men’s advertising must have been: let’s only try to get our core audience to return after being off the air for over a year and not even try to get any new viewers, because let’s face it, we’re definitely not going to get any new viewers. To each their own, we guess.
In any event, whether or not you think that this Mad Men advertisement is the best or worst advertisement ever, we can all probably agree that this ad is a graffiti artist/tagger’s wet dream. We can’t wait to see if someone draws a big penis that was used as a diving board and a toilet that will be used as a pool in all of that open white space.
The snowstorm that hit the New York City area yesterday didn’t seem to hit our neck of Brooklyn too bad. If anything, being out in the snowstorm felt much along the lines of being inside of a snowglobe. Plus, the lack of too many inches made the snow more meaningful in photo form, at least for us, because when the snow gets too deep, everything just looks white, bleh, and unrecognizable.
We’d like to tip our hats in jest at the good job that the M.T.A. did in ensuring that the temporary wooden platform at the 4th Avenue F/G subway lines remained clear of snow and safe for passenger use. Someone managed to sprinkle rock salt in approximately half a dozen small patches towards the end of the snow, leaving everything else slippery as could be. Thankfully the metal temporary staircases at the station were built with handrails.
Your eyes do not deceive you, this is still BeehiveHairdresser.com. After waiting for about a year for the right theme to come along within WordPress, we’ve finally found a new look that suits our needs. It’s simple, a lot cleaner, and allows for wider photos. All of which were things that we were unable to achieve with our former appearance.
So, welcome to the new us. The new beginning is here!
*The above photo is of lower Manhattan, taken from the highest point of Brooklyn’s 4th Avenue/9th Street subway station, which is the temporary construction stairs and platform above the Manhattan bound F/G trains.