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September 26, 2013 6:28 AM

Now I Know is a free daily newsletter of incredible things; you’ll learn something new every day! The author, Dan Lewis, links this informative comment by designmartini on how to find an apartment in New York city.
posted by JujuB to MetaFilter-Related at 6:28 AM (14 comments total)

I saw that too this morning. I wonder if he's a "Mefi's Own™."
posted by slogger at 6:36 AM on September 26, 2013

Now we know.
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 6:43 AM on September 26, 2013 [2 favorites]

I was told the only way to find your first apartment was to complete that blood stone ritual in Prospect park and begin the Long Walk, covered in blood, mumbling, as a dark and occult hand guides to your intended home. When you come to, the first building you see will be your building. Payment for the first month is a moonstone and the finger bone of a stillborn child. Security despot required. No pets.
posted by The Whelk at 6:56 AM on September 26, 2013 [4 favorites]

@slogger: Dan Lewis is a friend of mine, and I know for a fact that he is not a mefite.
Occasionally he asks me to send thanks to mefi members on his behalf etc :)
posted by jozxyqk at 7:02 AM on September 26, 2013

jozxyqk, maybe it's time to gift him an account :P
posted by yeoz at 7:36 AM on September 26, 2013 [2 favorites]

@yeoz: I think he was banned-for-life for shameless self promotion, ironically enough.
posted by jozxyqk at 8:04 AM on September 26, 2013

FAMOUS MONSTER: "Now we know. "

I haven't looked yet, but I feel I must inform you that if this is not a link to Mitchell and Webb I shall be disappointed in you.
posted by boo_radley at 8:19 AM on September 26, 2013 [1 favorite]

Security despot required.

So you have to bring the director of the TSA with you to get the apartment?
posted by medusa at 8:35 AM on September 26, 2013 [2 favorites]

So he links to advice that really boils down to "be Zoey Deschanel"?
posted by Ideefixe at 8:41 AM on September 26, 2013

I don't see ukulele or rainy soup eating anywhere on that list.
posted by The Whelk at 8:47 AM on September 26, 2013

Hey! I did a post about Dan Lewis's other thingy, "Fact and a Photo".
posted by not_on_display at 9:09 AM on September 26, 2013

Now we know
posted by Ned G at 9:51 AM on September 26, 2013

So he links to advice that really boils down to "be Zoey Deschanel"?

Feel free to snark. I've never seen that comment before, but it's almost exactly what I do when apartment hunting (except that I pull my credit report before going to see any places). It's how come I'm living by myself in Chicago in a large 3 bedroom apartment that only costs $675 a month. The system works.

And I don't even know Joseph Gordon Levitt.
posted by phunniemee at 1:27 PM on September 26, 2013

In your heart, you do. JGL lives within us all.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:40 AM on September 27, 2013 [1 favorite]