On the Clone Wars, these advertising zombies fit right in. Welcome to the 1984 world of flash-mob shills. [Curbed]
Greetings from gentrified Ludlow: "a crumbling eyesore, a haven for rats, and a traffic nightmare." Rodent feces 4 inches deep! [Voice] via HG
It's time to get those vaginas in shape! In a world in which everything must be exercised and prettied up, here comes a spa just for vaginas. Says its founder, “It’s the dental floss of feminine fitness.” [Times] via [Racked]
I just saw Wall-E and highly recommend it. Here's a reviewer who hated it, but his description sums up just how smart and subversively dark the movie is: "Wall-E...supposes that the human race of the future will become a flabby mass of peabrained idiots who are literally too fat to walk. Instead they zip around in flying wheelchairs surfing the Web, chatting on phone lines and stuffing their faces with food meant to be sucked down like milkshakes while unquestioningly taking orders from the master corporation that controls all aspects of their existence." Yes, but they will also have impressively fit vaginas!
The corpse of Florent is open for business. [Eater]
"Starbucks has announced it's closing 600 stores in the U.S., bringing the total number down to approximately 9 gazillion, most of them located in Astor Place." [Gothamist]
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a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
- Jeremiah Moss
- THE BOOK:
"We should all buy Jeremiah Moss’s book, Vanishing New York." --Sarah Jessica Parker
“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and cheap pierogi.” --Vanity Fair
"a vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud." --Kirkus Reviews
THE BLOG:
"the go-to hub for those who lament New York's loss of character." --Crain's
"No one takes stock of New York's changes with the same mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit as Jeremiah Moss." --Village Voice, Best of NY
“Jeremiah Moss…is the defender of all the undistinguished hunks of masonry that lend the streets their rhythm.” --Justin Davidson, New York Magazine
"One of the most thorough and pugnacious chroniclers of New York’s blandification." --The Atlantic, Citylab
"Hyperbolic and combative, tireless and passionate." --Salon
What's wrong with the Ko girls? Not your type, or you'd rather have the men in drags and leather?
ReplyDeleteThose of you "yunnies" coming around here lately to bash the host don't seem to get it... while he may consider your audible/visible behaviors to be obnoxiousness, he's not contesting the right of any one of you to live in NYC or entertain yourself here... rather, he is objecting to the way in which policy decisions and migration trends are rendering Manhattan _culturally monochromatic_... teeming masses of "yunnies" are just symptomatic of larger forces (unfortunately ones extremely difficult to roll back)
ReplyDeletejust another hater
ReplyDeleteWould rather have a "teeming masses of "yunnies" " than a teeming masses of lawyers.
ReplyDeleteSome yunnies are lawyers.
ReplyDeleteI have had many more interesting and entertaining conversations with men in drag and leather than with these SATC-emulating, mindless consuming machines taking over our neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteIf I could choose my neighbors, I can think of many types of people that I would prefer over a couple of leather-faced pork fat enthusiasts. And that list includes men in drag and/or leather (clothes).
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that, in addition to the squeaky voice + valley girl accent, there is also a particular face these gals make? Something like a cross between sucking on a lemon and smelling the funk on their own upper lips.
I wonder if guys A and B were privy to those pictures before they decided to make alternate dinner plans.