"Ice-T" & Me? We have an understanding.

Several years ago I was sharing a shoebox two-bedroom apartment with three friends on the upper-west-side of Manhattan. Two roommates had to sleep on an air mattress in the living room. They were allowed cheaper rent as they were responsible for moving furniture and inflating and deflating their mattress every night and morning. The apartment [...]

No, assholes. NOW it’s personal!

Another tale from Washington Heights, NYC (the land of no-speak-y-english):
My neighborhood in NYC is populated about 99% by varying degrees of immigrants from The Dominican Republic. I love my neighborhood, but I would be lying if I said that the folks in my neighborhood didn’t occasionally make me want to pull my hair out.
As [...]

Three Steps Back (at least)

(this post is not funny.)
“Pissed & Petty” is growing up, folks.
I started this blog as a way to kill time from 9-5 and it has since turned into, well, a bonified monster. As such, I decided that I am going to start taking serious steps to kick this website up to the next level.
I [...]

MySpace: Telling It Like It Is

[UPDATE: Bianca has responded in the comments section of this post.]As some of you may have seen, I recently found it necessary to put a stop to some atrocious MySpace behavior.
My lovely friend Bianca has a little monkey on her back called “the myspace bulletin”. I swear to god that this chick posts no less [...]

"Daybreak" Shmaybreak

For the past couple weeks, I’ve been looking forward to the series premiere of “Daybreak”, the new series on ABC. It’s about a top-notch-cop (Taye Diggs) who becomes entangled in an international conspiracy while for some reason, unbeknownst to us, he is living the same day over and over again. Only this day is one [...]

Adventure: North Brother Island

I have a new adventure planned.
I am going to sail my ass on a makeshift raft to North Brother Island.
What is North Brother Island? Good question.
I was playing around with Google Earth and was checking out Riker’s Island Penitentiary in detail. You can see the recreation yards and guard towers and all kinds [...]