The Best Restaurant In The World Is Disney’s Epcot Center [Gawker]

The late, great Maurice Sendak spoke about upcoming election and much more in an excellent interview from last year, which is featured in the November/December issue of The Believer.

The 9/11 Museum Is Flooded With 5 Feet of Water

On a day in which many New York City residents and visitors rallied to help areas ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, news emerged that the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is flooded with at least five feet of water. The museum, which is still not completed, houses some of the more important artifacts from the 9/11 attacks, including the last column standing from the towers, the famous cross-shaped steel beam, and one of the tower's stairways.

There's a Nor'easter Coming For New York

This has to be an Illuminati conspiracy.

According to New York 1, there is expected to be some wind, 50 mph gusts, and a lot of rain. They do say that the storm is expected to hit New York late Wednesday and last until Thursday and that it "won't be nearly as strong or devastating as Sandy."

There's only one appropriate reaction to this:

It's quite possible that New Jersey governor Chris Christie is the most self-aware politician in the United States right now. This tweet is a prime example of that.

Obama Scraping the Bottom of the Celeb Barrel for His Campaign's Final Days

If you're the President of the United States and you've already used up all the help you can get from George Clooney, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwen Stefani, Anna Wintour, Lena Dunham, and Zach Galifianakis even who do you turn to in your campaign's final push? The Obama team has had some pretty lame celebrity guests during these past few days. C'mon Barry, this is go time.

Dave Matthews

Verizon Employee Arrested for Stealing Naked Pictures Off of a Customer's Cellphone

Dealing with a broken cell phone is pretty nightmarish. The thought of losing your precious contacts and funniest text messages is straight from the devil himself. Hopefully the workers fixing your prized mobile device will treat you better than a Verizon employee that helped a Florida waitress deal with some data loss. Josh Stuart told her that they were just switching the data from her old phone to her new one, but unbeknownst to her, he made copies of some x-rated nudie pics that she was storing on her cell phone.

Chris Rock shot a video for Jimmy Kimmel Live to let voters know that Barack Obama is "the white president you can trust."

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger Is a Total Anomaly, a Mean Canadian

Canadians are supposed to all be super nice. That's what people say when you don't want to go on vacation to Montreal, "but Canadians! They're so nice!" Local obsession and New York 1 Pat Kiernan is the perfect example of a nice Canadian guy. His Norse-like features make him simply lovable and he's funny, but not too funny.

The New York Daily News gave its endorsement to Mitt Romney this morning. They focused most of their editorial on backing Romney's economic policies. Their editorial board says that "Romney’s not perfect," but in this case, "growing the economy takes precedence" over flawed gun control and immigration policies. 

Trump at the Pump: The Full Story of his Post-Sandy Gas Guzzling and an Angry "Apprentice" Employee Responds

Yesterday we wondered if Donald Trump was sending crew members to gas deprived Yonkers to fill up vans for the production of his reality show The Apprentice. Our tipster finally got back to us last night and gave us a first hand account of the event:

Louis C.K. hosted last night's SNL and the most memorable sketch was definitely this Seth Myers written parody of C.K. spoofing his own show, Louie, in character as Abraham Lincoln.

There's no doubt that this was inspired by the classic Joe Piscopo sketch where he played an annoying Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre (here's a transcript of it to jog your memory, no video of it is online).

Also, see @FakeLouieEps for more Louie related parody.

Here's a mob of New York City Marathon runners packed into the Staten Island ferry terminal.

There's no race today, instead, they're all going to help out with relief efforts in the battered borough.

[Image via Paul Sailer]

The New York Times points out the pure stupidity of New Jersey governor Chris Christie's order regarding gas rationing.

Is Donald Trump Filling Up His "Apprentice" Vans While There's A Gas Shortage?

One of the most frustrating parts of post-Sandy life has been the unendingly long lines for gas. Two arrests for violence at gas stations were made in Staten Island yesterday, and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano announced yesterday that gas rations would come into effect today, limiting gas sales to ten gallons per driver.

Romney's New Attack Dog, Rudy Giuliani, Calls For Obama's Resignation

Even though he's being attacked by idiots, Nate Silver is calling the election a complete lock for Obama which basically means it's over. So what's Mitt Romney to do now? Unless all of the state polls are totally off, he's going to be out of a job come next week. He needs one last trump card and the Donald isn't the man for the job. Romney is now hedging his bets on a last minute performance from Rudy Giuliani.

The former New York mayor joined Romney and Paul Ryan onstage at a mega-rally in Ohio last night, as part of a Republican all-star lineup that also included former presidential candidates John McCain, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry.