Mchumiliation wraps
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 July 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
mcdilla
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 July 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
I just meant lol regional differences like "OMG there's a grocery store here called Piggly Wiggly"
http://cdn.discountqueens.com/uploads/2011/05/hellmans.png
― MacArthur Parkour (Phil D.), Sunday, 8 July 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
Granted, I'm not single, but when I read that piece to my wife she wondered why the writer spent half her stay hanging at the Wit and other spots a block from her office. Really? The denim and flanel line cracked her up, too. She asked if this was an article from 1994. I can't believe the editor OK'd something so boilerplate and cliched, from loading up the iPod with Sinatra to all the attention paid to the politeness of the midwest.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 July 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
"[A New Yorker is] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 July 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
lol even here New Yorkers are so oblivious as to how obtuse they really can be.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
truly all new yorkers think with one mind
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
the ones who write lifestyle articles for the NYT certainly seem to be!
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh no doubt. http://www.movingimagesource.us/images/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-003-20080627-121656-medium.jpg
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5922392/i-used-to-love-her-but-i-had-to-flee-her-on-leaving-new-york
Was that quote above posted on account of this article?
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://live.wsj.com/video/dont-forget-to-pack-a-photographer/DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766.html?mod=wsj_hps_tboright#!DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
wau that Gawker piece
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Her parents had proposed the idea of buying us an apartment somewhere in the Bay Area
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 July 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I was still back on "whaddaya gonna do, it's New York *poops on sidewalk*"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Monday, 9 July 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
when in rome
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
"[ A New Yorker is ] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Many of us here in New York are so blindered that we don't even stop to consider how easy it would be to have our girlfriends' parents buy us apartments.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Tourists and brown nannies with white babies are constantly in the way of your giant steps, keeping you from getting to all the great readings and gallery openings you need to attend (often it seems as if New York has no parties, only "events").
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
According to a 2010 report from the Daily Beast, LA is quantifiably "smarter" than places like St. Louis, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Tampa, and yet none of those locales faces quite the level of international scorn heaped upon LA.
i have discovered the worst sequence of words.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
I really dgi. Isn't LA much like NYC in its overpriced-city-that-idiot-twenty-somethings-come-to-live-a-fantasy-in-ness?
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Worse than the people who outright insult LA, though, are the ones who do so indirectly by suggesting that LA is just a sad mound of glitter trying desperately to be New York. That slur says we're worse than nothing, because we're nothing with absurd dreams of being great, like a high school laughingstock daring to think he could be the prom king.
this is the worst, why is this happening
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
what is the point of this entire article
i am idiot 40something and if i were rich i would totally live in nyc or la. but only if i were rich. okay maybe just nyc but i would visit la!
― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
I wish I could remember who I was speaking with or reading recently who was saying basically that most people who come to New York with some kind of "dream" confuse living the scene with doing the work, and that the scene and just kind of trying to live what they think is a New York lifestyle winds up eating most of their time and money. Actually it might have been a thought catalog piece, of all things. But it was kind of OTM.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
there are millions of people with hundreds of interests—NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
if i ever end up being one of these people who think NY or LA are literally the only two places in the country that exist, i want you to shoot me in the face until i am dead
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
Follow up to the single in Chicago article
http://chicago.grubstreet.com/2012/07/new-york-times-stephanie-rosenbloom-billy-dec.html
― Jeff, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
can someone tell me if that gawker screed ever ends. chriiiiiist almighty it does go on
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
No it's a bottomless tumblr
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
haw, that piece actually originated on the writer's personal tumblr, so
http://cordjefferson.tumblr.com/post/16982580823/theres-an-aging-communist-at-cafe-tropical-who-wears-a
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
nytransplantcliches.tumblr.com
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
i want to live in a compound in l.a. w/a bunch of cool sexy people and we will have a swimming pool
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
it's a worn subject but i liked the piece. cord is an incredible writer.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
tbf there were good bits
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
i-moved-to-a-crowded-shithole-to-feel-important.html
― am0n, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I don't really see what the problem is (aside from maybe what Jordan just said). I thought it was pretty great.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
x-post - Lots of people do stupid shit when they're young including moving to crowded shitholes.
it was better when he was talking about ny than when he was writing about why he feels at home in LA (thought the ending was kind of a clunker) but i identified with the feelings overall (not that i've lived in either NY or LA)
but if it was just a tumblr post it makes more sense that it wasn't exactly bulletproof
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
x-post - Says the person who went to college in NYC because it was pretty much the only place I wanted to be at 20.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
They offered me the pipe but I begged off, and as the discussion shifted to Xbox versus Wii, I tuned out and stared blankly into the alleyway, where an open trashcan was slowly filling up with rainwater. It looked a lot like the trashcans from my old building in New York, the ones I used to look at from on high, staring disgustedly at the rats brazenly waltzing about. Now the rats playing around the trash were my fellow Angelinos and I, wet, laughing, hungover, stoned. I think my New York self would have cringed at the thought of rubbing shoulders with aging porn actors in a musty storeroom in the Valley. I think he would have considered it a life not worth leading. That day, with those strangers whom I’ll probably never see again, it felt like a real home.
i hate this
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
I also had a crush on Rosie Perez when I was a kid but it was from White Men Can't Jump
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, July 9, 2012 4:05 PM
thankfully most don't write articles abt it
― am0n, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
ny is cool tho most people in cords cohort would prob only admit to the sort of feelings he describes coked up
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
why am I the only one who cares about the blase reaction to the old woman pooping on the sidewalk
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think he does an alright job of capturing the way nyc can be fun when you're poor but young enough to have the energy to run all over the place and stay up late all the time and find everything fresh and interesting.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ yes
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
"poor"
― am0n, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
DJP it's NY don't you see? A little sidewalk pooping is nbd.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, poor in quotes, for sure
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
x-post - lol you really hated this article. You know what he meant.