Monthly Archives: June 2015

Good Morning New York City

Yesterday, I get off the train at New York Penn Station, walk a couple blocks and see this bum barfing yellow chunks into a street puddle (7th and 35th).

I don’t know what’s worse…him puking or me watching him.  I feel like Jeff the Vomit Guy from the Howard Stern Show…well, maybe not that bad.

It’s been raining for days so the yellow puddle is still there.

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Visit to Saturday Night Live The Exhibition

Today, we visited Saturday Night Live The Exhibition.  I knew it would be good, but not this good.  Tons of costumes, mold, props, simulated show experience hosted by Tina Feye.  Nothing I say can fully describe the well thought-out details put into the layout.  It’s super high-tech.

Attached to the gift shop is the Weekend Update studio.  They take your photo and you go to a computer to select which news host you’d like superimposed next to you.

If you purchased the tickets through one of the coupon sites, your ticket also includes $10 towards your gift shop purchase.  In addition, they hand out buy-one, get-one half-off coups in Times Square.

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Apple Store Upper East Side Grand Opening New York City

Today, Apple opened a new store in New York City.  The building was a bank in the 1920s.  Apple tried their best to restore the original structure, but it as a mess.  Instead, they did a great job replicating it.

The store is beautiful.  It’s the first Apple store to have a Beats headphones listening station, many of which were receiving their wireless feed from the iPod sitting beneath.  The audio was choppy, but I guess that’s to be expected with the amount of traffic in the store today.

In addition, it’s the first store to have pull out iPhone case drawers, reminiscent of bank safe deposit boxes.

Last, but not least, it’s the first Apple Store we’ve been to where there’s a public bathroom.

Apple’s Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores, Angela Ahrendts, and other retail execs were on-hand observing.  Most people probably didn’t recognize her.  Of course, we did.

Typically, Apple gives t-shirts to the first 5000 people that enter, which has the name of the store on it.  No shirts this time.  Instead, visitors received “Portraits of the Upper East Side” a great book of photos taken around the Upper East Side, using an iPhone 6.

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Les Paul 100th Anniversary Exclusive Photos and Video Live on the Red Carpet

Tuesday evening, the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City’s Times Square hosted Les Paul’s 100th Anniversary Celebration.  Numerous people from the music industry were on hand.  Too many to count.

Danny Count Koker (Count’s Kustoms/Pawn Stars/Vamp’d) and his band, Counts ’77, were there to perform. However, Danny went above and beyond by donating a custom bike to the Les Paul Foundation.

We’ve identified as many people as we could below.





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