Tell me about your job.
I’m a costume character. I work at birthday parties, corporate events, nightclubs, conventions and more. For example I recently dressed up as a parrot for carnival theme night at a nightclub. For the record, I’m not a furry. There’s a difference between costume characters and Furries. Costume characters are for entertainment, fun, Furries are just creepy.
How did you get into it?
I’m in college right now, at Hunter for Business Marketing. I got into this to make a little money on the side while going to school. A friend of mine hooked it up. I’ve been doing it for four years.
What’s the best part about the job?
All jokes aside, when you’re working a job, and people really believe that you’re the character that you’re playing, it’s a great feeling. You’re making people happy, who doesn’t love that? When you make that connection, it’s nice to know that people appreciate the job that I’m doing.
Have you dealt with New York’s bedbug epidemic firsthand?
I’m bedbug free-thank God, I don’t even want to think about it.
What’s your opinion on Park51, the proposed community center/"mosque" in Lower Manhattan?
People should pray wherever they choose. But, under the circumstances, it’s a touchy thing. They should move to a better location, someplace less controversial. It’s a touchy situation.
What’s your favorite thing/place/neighborhood/hotspot in New York?
I love Coney Island. Something about the atmosphere there, the beach right in the middle of the city. The people there are great, it just has such a good feel to it. I don’t know if it’s old timey or what. It’s a very cool place.
What’s your least favorite thing about your job?
Sweating. Well, not the sweating, but when the sweat gets in your eyes, you can’t see! It’s dangerous! Also the occasional condescension, people who don’t appreciate what you’re doing. You get parents sometimes who ruin it for their kids, who tell them to stay away because it’s just a guy in a suit. I don’t get that. Why would you want to ruin that illusion for your kids? It’s like telling your kids that Santa Claus isn’t real. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Kids need to have imagination. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Previously: Candice Preau, Dating Expert
Andrew Piccone is a photographer in New York City.
Here's a riddle: Todd Henderson's household makes north of $400,000 in a city where the median household income is $46,748. Yet Henderson says his family is "just getting by despite seeming to be rich." How can this be?
The Hendersons don't "seem" rich. They are rich. They are one of the richest families in the country. Their country is the richest country in the world. And the world is richer than it's ever been before. The Hendersons are thus one of the richest families in the richest country in the richest era the world has ever known.
Which doesn't mean that they don't worry about money. The implication of our rhetoric about taxes is that no one making more than $250,000 will feel a tax increase. That's not true. Our economy has adapted to having rich people, and now there's lots of stuff for them to buy. Private school, for instance. Fancy cars. Dinners at Alinea. Only a very select few make so much money that they cannot figure out how to buy enough stuff to make them feel financially stressed. This is Henderson's argument, and he's right: You can make $400,000 and still worry over the checkbook. You can make $400,000, in fact, and be terribly in debt.
Now, most of the things you're buying at $400,00 aren't the bare necessities. Your house is fancy, and in a desirable location. Your television is large, and flat. Your kid's school is only available to those with a lot of money, because you're paying for a wealthier peer group and higher-paid teachers. These purchases may seem like luxuries to people making $60,000, but a family making $60,000 a year will seem to be living in incredible luxury when faced with the median family in Mexico. It's all relative.
And it's relative to Henderson, too. "The super rich don’t pay taxes," he complains. "They hide in the Cayman Islands or use fancy investment vehicles to shelter their income."
And so there it is: Henderson may be rich. But he's not "super rich." That's where the president should be focusing. Not only do they have a lot of money, but they're cheats, too.
This is one of the problems with the debate over tax cuts. The effort to separate support for popular middle-class tax cuts from unpopular upper-class tax cuts has let a sort of moral language creep into the conversation. As if rich people "deserve" higher taxes because they're somehow bad, rather than because their share of the national income has gone up and their tax rates have gone down.
Which is all to say that this debate has gotten a bit confused. The argument for taxing people who make more than $250,000 isn't that they're bad people, and it isn't that they won't notice the tax increase. It's that we've got a very large budget imbalance, and we're going to need to do a lot of things to correct it. Taxes on the rich have dropped even as the incomes of the rich have skyrocketed. So one of the obvious things to do is update the tax code to correct for that drift. But eventually, we'll need to do much more than just increases taxes on the rich, and though politicians have tried to sell this one as a change that most Americans won't notice and needn't worry about, eventually, they're going to have to start talking about changes that people will notice, and should worry about.
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Tell me about your job.
I’m a costume character. I work at birthday parties, corporate events, nightclubs, conventions and more. For example I recently dressed up as a parrot for carnival theme night at a nightclub. For the record, I’m not a furry. There’s a difference between costume characters and Furries. Costume characters are for entertainment, fun, Furries are just creepy.
How did you get into it?
I’m in college right now, at Hunter for Business Marketing. I got into this to make a little money on the side while going to school. A friend of mine hooked it up. I’ve been doing it for four years.
What’s the best part about the job?
All jokes aside, when you’re working a job, and people really believe that you’re the character that you’re playing, it’s a great feeling. You’re making people happy, who doesn’t love that? When you make that connection, it’s nice to know that people appreciate the job that I’m doing.
Have you dealt with New York’s bedbug epidemic firsthand?
I’m bedbug free-thank God, I don’t even want to think about it.
What’s your opinion on Park51, the proposed community center/"mosque" in Lower Manhattan?
People should pray wherever they choose. But, under the circumstances, it’s a touchy thing. They should move to a better location, someplace less controversial. It’s a touchy situation.
What’s your favorite thing/place/neighborhood/hotspot in New York?
I love Coney Island. Something about the atmosphere there, the beach right in the middle of the city. The people there are great, it just has such a good feel to it. I don’t know if it’s old timey or what. It’s a very cool place.
What’s your least favorite thing about your job?
Sweating. Well, not the sweating, but when the sweat gets in your eyes, you can’t see! It’s dangerous! Also the occasional condescension, people who don’t appreciate what you’re doing. You get parents sometimes who ruin it for their kids, who tell them to stay away because it’s just a guy in a suit. I don’t get that. Why would you want to ruin that illusion for your kids? It’s like telling your kids that Santa Claus isn’t real. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Kids need to have imagination. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Previously: Candice Preau, Dating Expert
Andrew Piccone is a photographer in New York City.
Here's a riddle: Todd Henderson's household makes north of $400,000 in a city where the median household income is $46,748. Yet Henderson says his family is "just getting by despite seeming to be rich." How can this be?
The Hendersons don't "seem" rich. They are rich. They are one of the richest families in the country. Their country is the richest country in the world. And the world is richer than it's ever been before. The Hendersons are thus one of the richest families in the richest country in the richest era the world has ever known.
Which doesn't mean that they don't worry about money. The implication of our rhetoric about taxes is that no one making more than $250,000 will feel a tax increase. That's not true. Our economy has adapted to having rich people, and now there's lots of stuff for them to buy. Private school, for instance. Fancy cars. Dinners at Alinea. Only a very select few make so much money that they cannot figure out how to buy enough stuff to make them feel financially stressed. This is Henderson's argument, and he's right: You can make $400,000 and still worry over the checkbook. You can make $400,000, in fact, and be terribly in debt.
Now, most of the things you're buying at $400,00 aren't the bare necessities. Your house is fancy, and in a desirable location. Your television is large, and flat. Your kid's school is only available to those with a lot of money, because you're paying for a wealthier peer group and higher-paid teachers. These purchases may seem like luxuries to people making $60,000, but a family making $60,000 a year will seem to be living in incredible luxury when faced with the median family in Mexico. It's all relative.
And it's relative to Henderson, too. "The super rich don’t pay taxes," he complains. "They hide in the Cayman Islands or use fancy investment vehicles to shelter their income."
And so there it is: Henderson may be rich. But he's not "super rich." That's where the president should be focusing. Not only do they have a lot of money, but they're cheats, too.
This is one of the problems with the debate over tax cuts. The effort to separate support for popular middle-class tax cuts from unpopular upper-class tax cuts has let a sort of moral language creep into the conversation. As if rich people "deserve" higher taxes because they're somehow bad, rather than because their share of the national income has gone up and their tax rates have gone down.
Which is all to say that this debate has gotten a bit confused. The argument for taxing people who make more than $250,000 isn't that they're bad people, and it isn't that they won't notice the tax increase. It's that we've got a very large budget imbalance, and we're going to need to do a lot of things to correct it. Taxes on the rich have dropped even as the incomes of the rich have skyrocketed. So one of the obvious things to do is update the tax code to correct for that drift. But eventually, we'll need to do much more than just increases taxes on the rich, and though politicians have tried to sell this one as a change that most Americans won't notice and needn't worry about, eventually, they're going to have to start talking about changes that people will notice, and should worry about.
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Good morning, AP and welcome to the weekend. As always, you'll find today's Kansas City Chiefs news below. Lots of love today. The O-line, Crennel, Happy Haley, and our Rookies should be feeling pretty proud of themselves according to ...
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Various News Tidbits. ... Various News Tidbits. Tiny by Matthew on Oct 1, 2010 4:25 PM PDT in Miscellaneous � Tweet. 3 comments; Story-email Email; Printer Print. Even Felix's hugs are powerful � More photos » Elaine Thompson - AP ...
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Pulse <b>News</b> Reader for iPad 2.0: More sources, better organization
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