Grossness

You ever notice, in those subway ads for bunion/hammertoe surgery, the before and after pictures are somehow equally nasty? It could have to do with the poor lighting, but I feel that the owners of said feet might be developing gangrene or leprosy or...something. Also, Dr. Zizmor looks like plastic.

Also, last week I saw Tyra Banks and her Top Model minions with Mayor Bloomberg on 18th street and 9th avenue, planting a sickly looking tree on a traffic island as an enormous film crew captured Tyra's every freaky animatronic facial expression. Each model (I believe it has been narrowed down to four at this point) had a pair of work gloves to toss ONE shovelful of dirt over the tree roots. If you've never been there, this intersection is fairly desolate, as far as NYC goes. There's a check-cashing place, a bodega, bad Chinese food, and a metric shit-ton of traffic. And planting a tree basically in the middle of a highway isn't really going to ensure its survival. Now, I'm all for more trees. But that congestion-pricing bill should have been passed last week! It would have made a much bigger difference in the air quality than planting one tree at a time for the next ten years. For those of you unfamiliar with the bill, it was a proposal to charge anyone driving into Manhattan an $8.00 fee, thus encouraging them to use public transportation instead ($4.00 two-way subway card and no need to spend on gas). But oh, Congresspeople cried! That will unfairly hurt all the rich people like me with Hummers and Limos! Let's build more luxury housing and push the entire middle-class to the Bronx! Let's cram them into subway cars tightly, and tell them they really must try the foie gras at Tavern on the Green, it's phenomenal!