ALASKA!?!?
Maybe Puffy saw this recent video of Ms. Alaska, in which she states that she doesn’t even know what a VP does. Go figure.
Daily Archives: September 2, 2008
Investigative Reports: Uptown Phenomenon part 5
In part 3 of this series, you saw the pictures showing how the Mighty Nutcracker and DogWater looked in their proper setting. The streets of NY.
What I found most intriguing about the drink, is the fact that those who buy and enjoy them know little of the ingredients. The vast majority just accept it as a sweet, tasty mixed drink that they bought from someones car, bodega, cooler at the beach, back of the barbershop, at a parade etc.
Its fruity taste and potent alcoholic blend is known to make you feel good without drinking too much or spending a lot of money. Drinkers of the mighty Nutcracker usually warn you to, “Be careful where you get them from”.
Aside from the different liquors in the mixed drink, I’ve heard reports of ecstacy, cough syrup with codine, rubbing alchohol(when they run out of liquor), assorted pills like crushed vicodins, liquid morphine, promethazine and even Nyquil cherry flavor added into the equation .
So just be careful where you get them from.
With that out of the way, back to the festive activity which made me notice the Nutcrackers in the first place. It started with me observing people in the ball parks of Harlem having a good time, watching a bball game, listening to music, while drinking something red, out of a styrofoam cup.
A five dollar Nutcracker in a fifty cent cup to be exact.
Although the mighty Nutcracker is most popular in uptown Manhattan, it is also widespread in the Bronx as well as parts of Corona Queens. Its origin though, can be traced back to Williamsburg Brooklyn as early as 1994.
I’ve had many people who’ve been drinking them since the mid 90′s take exception to me calling it an “Uptown Phenomenon”, since it seemed to catch on uptown later in the 2000′s.
After seeing the documentation in the following video, you will see where I’m coming from. There is no where else in the city of New York where it’s “popping” as much in regards to the mighty Nutcracker. When it comes to being a part of the social fabric and backdrop, uptown takes it.
Also, something isn’t a legitimate phenomenon until there is a song made about it. Right? Riiiight.
I’ll warn you in advance, don’t try to figure this out in one sitting. It will take you quite some time to get what he’s saying.
My favorite line?: “Beat walker gave me hunned dolla summons, for a 5 dollar Nutcracker in a 50 cent cup”!
By my calculations that ticket added up to aprox. 18 nutcrackers, but it doesn’t seem like Mr. Lux minds one bit.
Investigative Reports: NYC Bag Lady.
We’ve all heard about New Yorks “Bright Lights-Big City” slogan.
Well what about “Big Stench-Bag Lady”? Thats right, the neighbor from hell. Those of us who live in apartment buildings know what it’s like to have a neighbor who occasionally litters, doesn’t put garbage all the way down the chute or cooks foul smelling meals.
The NYC Bag lady tops them all. She has a problem throwing things away. Especially bags. She has lots and lots of bags.
She’s amassed such a large “collection” of bags that her apartment now looks like a landfill, after an H-bomb went off and a hurricane hit.
The neighbors have complained tirelessly to local politicians and to the landlord, who finally threatened her with eviction if she didn’t have the place cleaned.
Some of those neighbors decided to document the clean up effort and share their living pain with the world.
Take a walk on the wild side:
Keep in mind. This place is not abandoned. She’s been living here for 20+ years!
The bathroom looks terrible and unused. So where did she go, when she had to um, go? Try Snapple bottles and then she tossed them in the corner.
Noooww you got a picture of the smell huh?
What more can we say about this woman’s apartment that hasn’t already been said about Afghanistan? It looks bombed out and depleted.
For more on the NYC Bag lady, check out her out here: nycbaglady
