The Ritual of the Business Card

Oh Business Cards. You're so silly. Have you ever been in a meeting where a bunch of macho tough guys casually start tossing their business cards onto a table in a passive aggressive manner? It's kind of funny...instead of merely handing the card out with a smile and a "Nice to meet you", they TOSS it onto a table, making YOU pick up THEIR card. Very alpha male. Kind of like this:



At least, thats what they think they look like. All I know is, when I get a business card in such a frightening manner, I make sure not to throw it away for AT LEAST ten minutes. Haha, kidding...it goes straight in the garbage tough guy.

Train of the Dead?

While waiting forever for a train the other day on the way to work, I saw a strange occurrence. A W train, which does not EVER stop in Brooklyn, went through my station, stopped for a while, and left. The doors never opened, and every window was blacked out. Clearly, the next stop on the this ghost train was Purgatory. I didn't get a chance to snap a pic (mostly out of fear for my soul), but it looked something like this:



Spooky, no?