DICKS: Forclosure Firm Staff Dress As Homeless For Halloween Party [PICS]

  
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There's a good reason people are occupying Wall Street:

On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, meaning it represents banks and mortgage servicers as they attempt to foreclose on homeowners and evict them from their homes. Steven J. Baum is, in fact, the largest such firm in New York; it represents virtually all the giant mortgage lenders, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

The party is the firm’s big annual bash. Employees wear Halloween costumes to the office, where they party until around noon, and then return to work, still in costume. I can’t tell you how people dressed for this year’s party, but I can tell you about last year’s.

That’s because a former employee of Steven J. Baum recently sent me snapshots of last year’s party. In an e-mail, she said that she wanted me to see them because they showed an appalling lack of compassion toward the homeowners — invariably poor and down on their luck — that the Baum firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against. Read the rest at New York Times.

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Cotton Candy Prison [GALLERY]

  
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This is no ordinary padded room — it's 1,600 cotton candy cones strung together to form a prison of pleasure. See the rest at io9.

My Existential Phone Smudge [GALLERY]

  

I looked down at lunch and noticed this smudge on my phone. It's either The Scream by Edvard Munch or The Blair Witch Project. See the whole gallery.

So what does this say about my subsconscious??