Zoning laws be damned, porno is returning in Times Square. I’m all in favor, as I’ve said many times before, of sleaze. These stores are managing to open by being technically non-adult businesses: they have less than sixty percent of their store space dedicated to porn, so they count as regular old video stores. Still, if I was running a video store in Times Square, I’d try to run it as a good independent video store: lots of neat directors, good wacky TV series, employee recs, and, yes, an Adult section. But if you’re going to dedicate 41% of your store to something, you might as well have it be something that will sell, not a thousand copies of “Worlds Greatest Golf Swings.”
It’s a weird strategy of revenge, in which the porno vendors take that economic hit more or less to insult the point of the law. Take that, battleship! they seem to say.
OK, that didn’t fit at all, but I really wanted to link to the shirt because it’s so cute.
Secretly Ironic 