Brandon Stanton's Blog, page 458

BREAKING: Yeti spotted on 3rd Avenue, heading south.

BREAKING: Yeti spotted on 3rd Avenue, heading south.

"He emptied the entire clip into me. I spent two years in a...

"He emptied the entire clip into me. I spent two years in a rehab hospital."

“Were there any ways that the shooting improved your life?”

“Lots of ways, actually. It slowed me down. Things were going too fast for me. It got me off the street, made me a better father, and I’ve held down a job ever since.”

Humans of New Yorkthey are the most best humans to ever get...

Humans of New York

they are the most best humans to ever get tossed

in the cauldron

the long ladle of the tall witch

stirring and stirring

scraping it off the bottom

a handful of magic here

a pinch of the miraculous here

in the concrete world of right angles

the humans of new york

dream and chase the dream

they are the carrot

and they are the stick

and they are spell bound for heights

they are here

because they have flavor

and they are being moved by magic no one sees

but every one knows

each and all of them

are a distinct flavor

in how beautiful it is to be

a star

in the human universe

of new york magic

"I’m the original John Lennon! I was born 18 months...

"I’m the original John Lennon! I was born 18 months earlier."

In the spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Capitalism, Barnes and...

In the spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Capitalism, Barnes and Noble has marked HONY books down 50% nationwide, all weekend long. ($14.99) This freaked out Amazon, so they marked them down too. Pretty sure that’s about the same price they get them from the publisher, so they are literally “giving them away.”

So, anyway, $14.99 HONY BOOKS at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Guaranteed to be this season’s Tickle-Me-Elmo, except you can’t tickle it. Nowhere near as many people are going to buy it. And it’s not Elmo.

AMAZON: http://amzn.to/10sbtW5

BARNES AND NOBLE: http://bit.ly/16SycBf

"I work so many hours at the factory. I need to find a way for...

"I work so many hours at the factory. I need to find a way for my daughter to live a better life than me."

“How do you do that?”

“I’m not sure. No time to think about that.”

"I used to be a three sport athlete, but then I went through a...

"I used to be a three sport athlete, but then I went through a rough period and put on some weight. The toughest part has been my mom. I feel like she doesn’t like me anymore. I know it’s out of concern, but she says things like: ‘Other people have commented.’ And: ‘If your friends were really your friends, they wouldn’t let this happen to you.’ I know it’s out of concern, and I know she loves me, but it feels like she doesn’t like me anymore."

"I’ve had a lot of magic in my life."“Tell me...

"I’ve had a lot of magic in my life."

“Tell me something magic.”

“When they were young, my parents met an American couple in a sunday school in Shanghai. Over the years, they kept running into this same couple, as they traveled through different parts of the world. So they jokingly made a pact that their firstborn children would be married. Then my parents had me, and the other couple had a son. I didn’t meet the man until late in life, when I was already deeply in love with another man. But I fell in love with him and we got married.”

“Wow, that is cool.”

“That’s not even the craziest part. Want to hear the craziest part?”

“Absolutely.”

“My husband had three previous engagements. And the morning we met, he was cooking three eggs, and each of them had double yolks.”

"I’ve been a nanny for 6 years."“Do you think...

"I’ve been a nanny for 6 years."

“Do you think you’ve heavily influenced the kids’ personalities?”

“I like to think so. I’ve tried to read to them as much as possible, and I’ve taken them to a lot of Broadway shows. I can’t be sure exactly how much influence I’ve had. But I did turn around in the kitchen yesterday, and saw the oldest one standing like this.”

"So what separates a great barber from an average...

"So what separates a great barber from an average barber?"

“Well, I can only speak from my own experience. But I learned a lot of rules in school, and I didn’t really get good until I had the confidence to break them.”