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I take the Metro North train out of NY City every night, and I’m allowed to just walk on the train with an open bottle of beer. I’m allowed to drink said beer on the train, openly. Why? Why do they trust me, or the others on this train? Are we that unthreatening?
“Oh, the dorks heading home to grass and tree country? Let ‘em get sauced. What could happen? Maybe they fall asleep on a copy of the Financial Times? Soil a pair of Dockers? If they do something bad, it’ll happen in their own towns ayway.”
I WILL NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED. That’s why I’m going to do something rash right now, before this train leaves the station. I’m going to chuck this bottle at the head of one of the conductors…here goes…
(PAUSE.)
(SIP.)
Naa.

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Google, the site that gets like 978 gajillion internet searchers per minute, and YouTube, the site that plays 100 million videos a day, many of which involve some form of crotch trauma, are merging.

I spent a long time to trying to make my main job writing for TV. Now I am, and I can't help but wonder if the industry's going to be entirely gone in a matter of weeks. Because who needs to tune into television programs when you will soon have a video repository of every possible thing that could have ever been filmed?
A Samoan guy enjoying marmalade? You got it. The intro to the A-Team? Your video is loading. Cow hockey? Give that one time, but it will be there.

This is a weird time. TV has improved greatly in many ways, and so has the quality of the viewing experience, but the biggest story today involves a website where people watch grainy-quality, random, often homemade stuff, in 5 inch wide windows.

There's going to be a lot of squinting going on out there. Make some cash off this one, cmon, be smart. Or, just be like the rest of America and go search for "Ferret on surfboard."

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