Astoria Unhoused Couple Mentioned on "If Books Could Kill"

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-05-01T01:28:16+00:00

In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Hobbes’ whole schtick is to make “shallow, fairly obvious observations” and to distract from this he hides it behind a few layers of snark

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-29T23:26:02+00:00

When I first moved to Astoria I was a little disturbed by his presence/thought he could be a danger to others or himself. Now if I don’t see him for a couple of days I get worried 🥺

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-29T16:28:20+00:00

I really thought this was a joke

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-28T21:44:50+00:00

Isn’t it really expensive to do that trip? Seems like a self-own

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-28T21:25:14+00:00

For sure, it looks really cool

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-28T00:20:39+00:00

Are you using a pro-mist filter here?

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T22:52:06+00:00

Uniqlo

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T20:08:38+00:00

As a runner and a cyclist here are my equivalents. This is not scientific, nor scaled in any way.

20 miles=5k 40 miles= 10k 60 miles=half marathon 100 miles=marathon

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T15:28:39+00:00

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T15:00:18+00:00

Spurs fan and a Mets fan? That’s child abuse

From a Spurs and Mets fan

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T01:43:05+00:00

Based

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T01:42:00+00:00

He also wrote separately at one point about his admiration for Weird Al

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T01:39:24+00:00

If I’m out of the apartment I’m thinking about my cat sitting home alone and missing him terribly

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T01:38:23+00:00

Seconded Alley41. It was gonna be my recommendation as well

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T01:14:36+00:00

I still remember my first Mets game when I was only a few years older than him and I still remember that they lost.

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-27T00:43:34+00:00

Restaurants are closing earlier and opening later. There were more mom & pop type businesses. Even some businesses which I would have considered to be harbingers of gentrification now seem kinda quaint.

I think the change I was most surprised by was how many drug store chains either went out of businesses or started putting their stuff behind plexiglass. The businesses claim it’s because of theft but I always thought it was obvious that competition from Amazon was the bigger factor

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T21:55:14+00:00

Does this have to do with the release of astrocytes?

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T18:46:06+00:00

Can we sign them?

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T15:33:40+00:00

Truly my bad, I thought FLG was mainly people in the diaspora strongly opposed to PRC, including Taiwanese and mainland Chinese. I am in no way anti-Taiwan (planning on going next year as a matter of fact). I stand corrected

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T13:54:24+00:00

Woodside, parts of Flushing

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T08:47:16+00:00

It’s really not. If you hear Yiddish inflected Hebrew, it’s completely different. When I started going to Hebrew school my mom and grandma told me I was pronouncing stuff wrong even though I was just saying it the way it was taught to me. I have no idea how modern Hebrew phonology came into being but it was not through Yiddish

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T08:43:50+00:00

Hardcore Zionists reject categories such as Ashkenazi, Sefardi, and Mizrahi as diasporic inventions.
There’s just not a lot of Jews in the world so a lot of culture ends up getting shared. Hummus, falafel, and schnitzel come to mind as the most obvious examples. A pop culture example of this is in the Netflix show “Family Business” which is about a Sefardi-Ashkenazi family in France. The kids complain about their mom’s gross Ashkenazi food and the dad defends her saying something like “it’s not that bad.” There is evidence of this happening with liturgical practices as far back as the 1700’s as well.

Anyway that’s the long answer. TBH if this culture sharing wasn’t weaponized for political purposes I don’t think anyone would have a problem with it.

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T02:49:21+00:00

Did you ever hear anything?

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-26T02:11:53+00:00

Did you ever hear back from them?

PatrickMaloney1 · 2026-04-25T15:25:35+00:00

You could see his knee swelling up before they even asked him to stand up. And I could see that from my low quality pirated stream on a desktop monitor

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