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As if I needed another reason to hope Obama defeats McCain in November.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Anyone who lives, as I have for years, in the Hudson River villages — Nyack, Piermont, Grandview, Palisades — knows how obnoxious local E-List celebrity Stephen Baldwin can be. Whether he’s trying to shut down adult-video boutiques or making multiple trips to the Starbucks on the corner of Main and Broadway, the star of such Hollywood classics as Bio-Dome and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is simply an annoying presence in an otherwise decent community.

Sure, everyone loves them some Alec. And Billy seems content to keep to himself. Hell, even Daniel has been fun to watch in his latest stint as a manic celeb-reality TV star. But holy hell is Stephen irritating. It’s probably the whole insane, right-wing Jesus-loving shit he’s into that drives me most crazy, but even if he wasn’t a Jesus Nazi he’d still bug me. He’s a slimeball and just sort of creeps me out. I think most people who’ve observed him around town would agree, as well.

And that is why I was so happy to hear little Stevie Baldwin pledge to move out of the country if Barack Obama wins the election in November, as if Obama needed any more help winning this uber-liberal portion of New York State. No one man has done more to mobilize support for Obama in the Hudson River Valley than Baldwin did this afternoon. Right now, there are legions of villagers pledging financial and organizational support to the Democratic nominee. It’s not the politics. We just want Stephen Baldwin to go far, far away.

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Note to Laura Ingraham: Stephen Baldwin only barely counts as an “actor,” and he certainly is not to be considered a “celebrity” guest or Hollywood insider.

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For all my friends who think I went soft moving back to the suburbs.

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

All I have to say are these three words: Nyack. Is. Hard.

25 Arrested in Nyack cocaine raid (click here to read full story)

NYACK - A cadre of police officers arrested 25 people yesterday on felony drug charges in a raid that started at dawn in the heart of the riverfront village.

The raid on apartments and homes was aimed at shutting down a cocaine-dealing crew that sold drugs out of the Nyack senior-citizen and apartment complexes on each side of Depew Avenue, authorities said. […]

During the investigation, police also seized six guns, five bulletproof vests, $74,000 and more than 9 pounds of cocaine with an uncut street value topping $400,000. They also took in 1 1/2 ounces of marijuana and about 10 packages of heroin, as well as scales and drug-packaging material.

The business was being run outside the Nyack Plaza,” Rockland Narcotics Task Force Director Joseph Tripodo said during a news conference in Nyack Village Hall. “The Building 3 Crew was entrenched in the community … and were dealing right in the middle of Nyack. It was an open air market.”

Dubbed Operation Ghostrider, the Narcotics Task Force and other departments began investigating in August based on information about drug dealing from the Orangetown Police Department. … Read more

This shit cracks me up, not because cocaine dealing is funny, but because I went to school with some of the people charged, and, like all self-proclaimed Nyack thugs, I can say with 100 percent confidence that they are all posers. They didn’t grow up in the ‘hood. They grew up on Main Street. They went to Upper Nyack Elementary School, which was the setting for a lovable HBO reality show a few years back called “Kindergarten.” They have no idea what it takes to be a real drug dealer. They watch a few 50 Cent videos and rent “Scarface” and all of a sudden they think they’re American Gangster. In reality, though, they’re just stupid kids who had little incentive to perform well in school, so they’d rather deal drugs than work at the mall. I worked at the mall. It sucks. If I didn’t get that NBA job, I probably would’ve considered slinging coke on the corner too.

The other funny part of this story is the cops. Nyack cops, like most law-enforcement agents protecting the inner-sanctum of suburban townships, are posers as well. Most of the time, their main duties involve breaking up high-school parties and issuing traffic citations. They also patrol the fourth floor of the mall and keep order outside of McDonald’s on a weekend night. Really exciting stuff. The pride of their communities, let me tell you. Most of them are douchebags, though. They get hard-ons watching “NYPD Blue” and “CSI.” They live for the attention that comes with real crime. Operation Ghostrider? A raid at dawn? Are you kidding me? Again, dudes, settle down. These criminal masterminds think Franklin Street is hard, never mind the million-dollar mansions around the corner. This is Nyack, not Bed-Stuy.

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