Tracking Down the Place Where We Lost John Hughes

This piqued my interest:

At 8:55, 9-1-1 operators received a call from one of the witnesses, who summoned medics to the building. Hughes was unconscious when they arrived 15 minutes later. Hughes was raced to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

I don't know Manhattan - is a 15 minute response time for paramedics normal? Excessive?

It doesn't sound that surprising in midtown during morning rush hour -- everything is gridlock, and no one would move for an ambulance.

I'm not sure how well you COULD move for an ambulance.

I'm always anxious when I hear one when I'm driving in the city... because of the canyons I can't really tell what direction its coming from until I see it. My sister and I have joked for years that if we felt The Big One coming we'd get on the ferry to Jersey.

Somewhat relatedly, a coworker who has me pegged as a nerd asked me the other day what TV show used some Echo and the Bunnymen cover (cover by them, not of them, but now I forget what song) as its theme or something, and I totally let her down by having no idea.

Is she thinking of Charmed, which uses a cover of The Smiths?

Didn't some show use E&tB's cover of "People are Strange"?

Remember ages ago (this morning?) when we all laughed at the squirrel who poked his head into a photo a couple was taking of themselves?

Scene-stealing squirrel: the cheeky critter throughout history

Didn't some show use E&tB's cover of "People are Strange"?

That's what it was!

Of course, that cover was originally done for THE LOST BOYS soundtrack.

Ted Kennedy is really doing poorly--he was unable to attend his sister's funeral.

Hey, I was running errands this afternoon and on the return bus there was a 20-ish young woman who was sucking on, I swear, a pacifier. Is this a thing? Or was it candy that looks like a pacifier?

And, you know, wtf?