 We can't be that mad at this week's blizzard, because even though our car is stuck under snow drifts, our commute took us twice as long and all of our friends are still stuck in airports waiting to fly home, we were introduced to the comedic gold that is the stuck snow plow. We've heard a number of excuses for the plow inaction, but now there is a bona fide conspiracy! Many city residents (including commenter Bob Moses) say the city's Sanitation Department conducted a massive slowdown as revenge for budget cuts. One Staten Island resident said, "My best friend works for Sanitation and so does his brother—both told me it's a slowdown. They said some are calling in sick and others are working as slow as possible.'' But if it's true, can we blame them? [MORE]  | A short film shot in Astoria, Queens during the blizzard is getting high praise from Roger Ebert, who says it deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject. The short, titled "Idiot With a Tripod," is an homage to the 1929 short "Man With a Movie Camera"... [ MORE ] |  | Are these people driving into nothing? (via Rachel Pincus's flickr stream) Last we checked, despite the blizzard traffic was still slowly moving on the Holland tunnel. But you certainly wouldn't know it if you asked Google Maps. In fact, if you try to get directions to Jersey from the... [ MORE ] |  | Rangel (AP). Everyone's favorite censured congressman, one Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-Manhattan), has some hefty lawyers bills to pay after all that ethics violation bother. So he is turning to you, his friends and neighbors, to help him out in a tight spot (worked great last time?). Today Rangel announced... [ MORE ] |  | At a press conference at the Office of Emergency Management Headquarters in Brooklyn yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg sought to counter the public's perception that Sunday night's blizzard caught his administration flat-footed. Coming on the heels of Monday's testy presser, during which Hizzoner defensively shrugged off the storm's impact, yesterday's appearance... [ MORE ] |  | (via NYCMayorsOffice). When people are getting upset, what's a politician to do but go out and press flesh? That is certainly what Mayor Bloomberg has been doing since yesterday's press conference. His Twitter feed has pictures of Hizzoner yesterday visting folk in Brooklyn, Queens and even Staten Island. The... [ MORE ] |  | A stuck cab in Brooklyn Monday. Behind it an ambulance going the wrong way is also stuck (jharriscohen). As the scope of the Boxing Day blizzard became apparent and word of the 911 backlog started to spread— it hit 1,300 at its peak— we knew there would be casualties.... [ MORE ] |  | Sources say Natalie Mendoza will get a "substantial exit package." Producers of the battle-scarred Broadway mega-musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark have yet to issue an official statement, but sources confirm that leading lady Natalie Mendoza will be leaving the production. Insiders tell the Post that Mendoza, who suffered... [ MORE ] | | |
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