"It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can." --Andrew Sullivan
Get your victory dogs at Crif today. [Eater]
Celebrating hipsters jailed for loving Obama too much. [Gothamist]
Brooklyn celebrates Barack. [GL]
Paper isn't dead--crowds clamor for the NY Times. [Gothamist]
Daniel Squadron, the "extremely anti-club, anti-licensing, bad, bad man," who's coming to clean house was also elected last night. Hope overflows... [Grub]
California, however, is still living in the Dark Ages, as they ban gay marriage. [AP]
Bloomberg fixes financial hole he helped dig by making cuts to police, firefighters, child protection, and sanitation. Hello, Bloomberg? It's the 1970s calling. They want to burn down your house, attack your family, and bury you in piles of uncollected garbage. [EVG]
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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
One cause in particular that might get less attention: Bloomberg's move to cut the funding to the Ali Forney Center's drop-in and intake center. The Ali Forney Center works with homeless LGBTQ youth to give them housing and services. Depending who you ask, somewhere between 20% and 50% of all homeless youth are queers, largely queers who had to leave home due to homophobia.
ReplyDeleteThis is the only center that works with queer youth directly. Closing their intake center would I believe be tantamount to closing all of their programs. It's a huge deal to a vulnerable population, and the kind of budget cut that has a huge impact but doesn't get the same attention as cutting more mainstream human services (or the cops or firefighters, but those are less analogous.)
http://www.aliforneycenter.org/about.html#take_action has more information.
ReplyDeleteBloomberg fixes financial hole he helped dig by making cuts to police, firefighters, child protection, and sanitation. Hello, Bloomberg? It's the 1970s calling. They want to burn down your house, attack your family, and bury you in piles of uncollected garbage.
...my favorite blog comment of the week!
California will pay for this sin against God by filing for bankruptcy in the next few months. Rot in hell. Worse: I expect a lot of gays will opt to move elsewhere, and - guess what? - they are disproportionately high earners, which will cut the legs out from under their newly-proposed income tax hike.
ReplyDeleteSuck it down.