City Weekly · Opinion
Pass the Pie
Private Eye
Wherever you are reading this—at least the physical newspaper version—you might have time for a little quiz. Those of you reading online will be too distracted by pop-up ads, social media notifications, phone calls and other messy attention-grabbers to even finish the column, let alone play along, so just carry on your business until you get buzzed by some guy named Malcolm with a New Jersey accent, but who has an offshore phone number announcing that you’ve prequalified for another $97,000 signature loan, causing you to spill your coffee.
That never happens to people who read from a…
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