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January 30, 2010, 3:59 pm
Is It Really That Tough to Get Credit?
The Times just published a story about small businesses, desperate for credit, who turn to purchase-order financing to keep their operations running. In the article, reporter Andrew Martin talks to business owners who pay interest rates of as much as 40 percent on an annualized basis to borrow money from a purchase-order lender, Hartsko Financial Services, whose New York City offices are in Queens, right above an acupuncture clinic that used to be a massage parlor. Richard Eitelberg, Hartsko’s founder and president, says his business was up 80 percent in 2009.
“For lack of a better word,” the piece quotes one of Mr. Eitelberg’s small-business clients, “it’s almost like loan sharking. But, there’s a need. I had no choice. It’s the only way I was going to get the business. I know I paid them a lot, but without them, I would have been home watching cartoons.”

See the full article from “New York Times (blog)”

… Just know if you’re crying or you’re having a bad day, and you’ve been knocked around, the best thing to do is come back,” she says, empathetically, in a meeting at the outset of New York Fashion Week. “If I stopped this business every time somebody said something mean to me, or I felt bad, or I felt like I was losing everything, I wouldn’t have been in business more than a month.”
Translated into English, this essentially amounts to a blanket license for further abuse.
But to be berated by Cutrone is a thrill — otherwise, why would so many people submit to it? This episode features another of Cutrone’s sacrificial lambs, Ashley Dupré, a former prostitute who had sexual relations with then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (as a result of the sex scandal, he resigned from his office in March 2008). Last spring, Cutrone sat her in the front row of a show for one of her clients, designer Yigal Azrouël. The next day, Azrouël fired Cutrone, though it’s difficult to say whether Cutrone got the short end of the stick.

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”

Though not one mention of The Catcher in the Rye is uttered in Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece (written by Paul Schrader in an inspired fever), the iconic character of Travis Bickle (so memorably played by Robert De Niro) is viewed by many as the incarnation of the future Holden Caulfield, and one so eerily potent that it was (by no fault of the filmmakers) darkly influential for a future attempted assassination on a president. An intensely troubled man who has nearly lost his mind to obsessive thoughts (brilliantly heard in the picture’s monologist voice over narration), Travis is far more humorless than Holden, but that’s what the harsh reality of growing up in an alienating world (and his own type of insanity, though a relate-able insanity — it’s hard not to identify with Travis at times) has done to him. Wanting to, like Caulfield, protect the younger and more innocent from the world’s exploitation (in Catcher it’s Holden’s young sister Phoebe; in Taxi Driver it’s Jodie Foster’s teenage prostitute, Iris), Tr …

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And here’s how I first learn about the American traffic system. Not only does everyone drive on the other side of the road (let’s not drag up that old chestnut again) but it’s also fine for cars to turn into your lane when the “walk” sign is lit. I cannot convey the sense of impotent moral outrage I felt when I learned of this fact the hard way, nor the clammy sadness as a rapidly-cooling stream of urine emerged from my trouser leg, punctuating my homeward trail with tiny puddles of shame.
Currently Googling for “STING HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT FANFICTION.” Note to self: Learn how to filter out results from own website
Maybe you can explain the honking. After all, other countries have a reason for letting off their horns. Greeks do it because they have no traffic “rules” as such, and every journey to work is a thrilling race through carnage and flame. Italians honk because of their wonderful philanthropy, believing that there are no strangers in this life: only prostitutes you haven’t picked up yet.

See the full article from “Cracked.com (satire) (blog)”

They’re a collection of short stories, “Nine Stories,” and two compilations: “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.” They are all works of art.
I remember the punch I felt in my gut after reading “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” in “Nine Stories” (1953). The ending was so inconclusive that I read it about a dozen times. It was genius.
I later learned that critics have long loved “Nine Stories.” John Updike said loved Salinger’s endings, the “open-ended Zen quality they have, the way they don’t snap shut.”
But Salinger wrote his life creed with “Catcher in the Rye” (1951).
Holden hates that his brother D.B. “prostitutes himself” as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Salinger ordered his agent to burn any fan mail. He told the editors of Saturday Review that he was “good and sick” of seeing his face on the “Catcher” book jacket and demanded that it be removed.

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Call Girl: Tiger Woods Plays Weird Sex Games
Updated: Friday, 29 Jan 2010, 8:31 AM ESTPublished : Friday, 29 Jan 2010, 8:13 AM EST
(The New York Post) – Disgraced golfer Tiger Woods liked to play weird sex games, including watching men dirty dance for each other, his alleged call girl told the New York Post on Friday.
Loredana Jolie, 26, also predicted Woods’ stint in rehab probably would not cure him.
“Tiger’s sexual fantasies were not normal,” she revealed. “He likes role playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a suit while there are girls performing girl-on-girl and guys entertaining guys.
“By that, I mean they would dance for each other like girls would do for a man. He’d have different girls all the time, entertaining, role play, fetishes, stuff like that. But he would only watch.”

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