Papacito's, home of the $1.50 taco.

ASME is the American Society for Magazine Editors. Add another ‘S’ to that, and you’ve got ASSME: the American Society for Shit-Canned Media Elites—a support group and material pool for pink-slipped members of the worlds of word and pictures.

On the ASSME blog today, Brooke Moreland (she’s Broke to us!) writes a fun piece about a whole day’s worth of cheap-o activities you can do in Greenpoint, starting with handball ($1 if you don’t have any of the equipment already), moving on to $7 yoga, $1.50 tacos at Papacito’s, and ending with a 7-and-a-half hour drinking marathon, planned for those with plenty of experience imbibing in the middle of the afternoon and consisting of over half the day’s $25 budget. You’ll have to read the piece to find out where to get $2 pitchers and so much more. Bravo, Ms. Moreland: a day well spent, and with plenty of unemployment-check change left over.

[via the skint]

I’m not wearing any pants right now–and chances are, if you’re reading this website, you aren’t either. While this is somewhat of a longstanding personal habit, being jobless and rattling around the apartment all day wearing my boyfriend’s oversized button-down shirt is making me feel like a drunken landlady.

So what’s the solution? The bottomless scribe urges all afflicted to make an effort today to dress like you’re going to an office, even if you’re just sitting in the living room:

Nice shorts and skirts OK too, but NO boxers or pajamas–you must wear clothes that you could actually go to a job in. (Send in pics if you want!). . . This will give everyone an extra shot of self-esteem and aura of respectability as we continue our job hunting. It’ll make us all feel better.

All the attention will probably make your neglected pants feel better too. Find out more about this brilliant new holiday here. And you know what pants look really great with? Farrah hair!

Then bring “your freebies, your crass promotional trinkets yearning to breathe free”—you know, the useless stuff that used to land on your desk on a daily basis that you now sorta miss. Whether it’s a Pets.com onesie or a Dancing With the Stars headband, the items will be raffled, with 100 percent of the proceeds going straight to supporting homeless people with AIDS and HIV. If you don’t bring this swag you will be asked for a $5 donation (which gets you three raffle tickets.) Open bar with Veev cocktails, from 7 to 8 pm; recession-friendly $3 beers all night. Fontana ‘s NYC @ 105 Eldridge St. between Broome and Grand, rsvp@assme.org.