tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post511512831622917111..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Naked CityJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-76388970722531551192010-01-01T11:41:46.156-05:002010-01-01T11:41:46.156-05:00You could call a mental health hotline and explain...You could call a mental health hotline and explain your predicament, but the part-time work/study counselor with no health insurance on the other end of the line will tell you what I’m telling you now: GET OUT.<br /><br />Rabid, soulless, douche bags have overrun the city. <br /><br />And you’re broke. <br /><br />If not financially, then mentally and spiritually. <br /><br />You can’t fight all of them. <br /><br />There was a time when you could fight them, yes, even two or three at once, verbally if that worked, but if not, with a tire iron or a sport sock filled with rolls of quarters.<br /><br />But not now. <br /><br />You can’t beat an infestation.<br /><br />It’s time to get off the anti-depressants. <br /><br />It’s time to leave New York.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-55017860078063198052009-08-28T16:30:35.734-04:002009-08-28T16:30:35.734-04:00Crap, I booked The Standard for an upcoming past d...Crap, I booked The Standard for an upcoming past due visit to my home town (yeah, another displaced New Yorker here), just thinking it would be nice & new with pleasing amenities and a good location and now all these articles I am running into about the superficial/artificial peepshow are putting me off... <br /><br />Can a cynical introvert non scenster enjoy this place or is it officially lost to the naked attention whores?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-28454864383477109702009-08-27T17:19:04.730-04:002009-08-27T17:19:04.730-04:00I think the New York of 2009 is a bunch of try har...I think the New York of 2009 is a bunch of try hards. Everybody is trying to hard to re-create a quirky,<br />eccentric, NYC vibe and it's DEAD.<br />Manhattan barely has any juice left as far as quirky and eccentric. It's filled with a bunch of posers. <br /><br />The only one's with juice are the locals who have been here before the "change" happened, and even the few thousand or so left, are beginning to vacate and soon completely gone. <br /><br />To be honest it really pisses me off that that New Yorkers who have been here for so many years are moving to dead end places like Jersey and Long Island (no offense to those places) but they are retreating! It sucks. <br /><br />To me, just be real and be yourself. Don't come here trying to act like a New Yorker. It takes YEARS AND YEARS to become New York. You can't study it on some online guide. <br /><br />It takes years of molding to the city to understand how it works and meeting thousands of people. <br />REAL RECKOGNIZES REAL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-51754631191412440652009-08-27T12:40:38.181-04:002009-08-27T12:40:38.181-04:00must be a real drag when you spend that much time ...must be a real drag when you spend that much time and dough to think you look that great just to realize nobody cares.....<br />perhaps one day these same people may realize that they themselves are just as disposable as the life they have created.......the aesthetic bankruptcy marches on. Ugly Stalinesque hotel architecture included.<br /><br />btw, great post Jeremiah, I love any reference to that marvelous series.hntrnychttp://huntergatherernyc.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-41877046142802562512009-08-27T12:09:08.938-04:002009-08-27T12:09:08.938-04:00It's OK for the city to ban go go bars and pee...It's OK for the city to ban go go bars and peep shows, but this is OK?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-34091420120459781272009-08-27T11:28:25.318-04:002009-08-27T11:28:25.318-04:00What ever happened to your hamster?
I remember yo...What ever happened to your hamster?<br /><br />I remember you mentioning him in a similar post a few months ago.<br /><br />Having already experienced living in a glass bowl and being seen by different people on a daily basis, how would you hamster feel about all of this?KnicksBasketballNYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-4399857763638232392009-08-27T11:23:10.801-04:002009-08-27T11:23:10.801-04:00goggla, you took the words right out of my mouth. ...goggla, you took the words right out of my mouth. i was just thinking about how this really fits perfectly with the new high line park, which is a sanitized version of the old high line. <br /><br />this neighborhood was once filled with sexual "perverts" (and i mean that as a compliment)--big fat leather daddies, angry trans girls--few of whom were "model perfect." <br /><br />the argument that this display keeps the history of perverse sex alive in Meatpacking is off the mark. <br /><br />the sexual adventurers who once prowled those streets did so because they lived on the fringes of society--they were marginalized. there is nothing marginal about the Standard's guests.Jeremiah Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-54660369167341827232009-08-27T10:36:53.259-04:002009-08-27T10:36:53.259-04:00The weird thing is that the neighborhood used to b...The weird thing is that the neighborhood used to be known for its public displays of lewdness and this hotel (and others) have obliterated that scene. Now they seem to be trying to reclaim the very thing they destroyed, but it's staged and fake - a sanitized and scripted version of the old Meatpacking District for the Thursday Night Prime Time viewing masses...all they need is a laugh track.Laura Goggin Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517481509431547970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-62001308151231665022009-08-27T10:07:26.460-04:002009-08-27T10:07:26.460-04:00Great post, Jeremiah. Recently saw "Rear Win...Great post, Jeremiah. Recently saw "Rear Window" again and was reminded of what a truly great film it is. What's left unseen is so much sexier and seductive than these pathetic loser narcissists who actually believe they're interesting, hot, and are creating performance art by posing nude, having sex and/or masturbating? Yawn. What assholes. I can't wait for this publicity stunt to wear off and the hotel to shut down. Karma's a bitch.Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020787621759727601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-19068618672059986752009-08-27T09:24:25.689-04:002009-08-27T09:24:25.689-04:00This city is full of brats
and/or i'm growing ...This city is full of brats<br />and/or i'm growing old and bitter<br /><br />either way, i dont like it here anymore<br /><br />is it me or has the city shifted too much towards a young (aka 20-something) / wealthy (or at least trying to act wealthy) clique? I mean, there was always some of it, but to me it seemed like at least "the adults were in charge". I dont think thats the case anymore.kingbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00173225743056365184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-31215590321503963972009-08-27T09:20:27.193-04:002009-08-27T09:20:27.193-04:00i get the feeling these PR stunts will backfire.i get the feeling these PR stunts will backfire.Bowery Boogiehttp://www.boweryboogie.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-36176207775331314782009-08-27T08:58:42.136-04:002009-08-27T08:58:42.136-04:00It smacks of narcissistic neediness and it's u...It smacks of narcissistic neediness and it's unerotic. Much like someone on the street dressed in over-the-top revealing clothing, it cries out, "I am desperate for your attention!" <br /><br />I'd say that yunnies and big glass windows are a marriage made in heaven. Or, in the case of the exhibitionists, as close as they'll get to a perfect marriage, since their exhibitionism reveals one thing above all: they get their sexual thrills from exposing themselves, not from actual intimacy. In that respect they are handicapped people with their own special needs.NYC Rhymologyhttp://www.nycrhymology.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-65439345150994165942009-08-27T08:50:28.932-04:002009-08-27T08:50:28.932-04:00are they really hiring models? i'd like to see...are they really hiring models? i'd like to see some chunky people, too. or at least some creative costuming. how about that? there's nothing less sexy than complete nudity. how about some jaunty hats?Jeremiah Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-90888911081686199322009-08-27T08:43:11.008-04:002009-08-27T08:43:11.008-04:00Some clever person will set up a panel and start r...Some clever person will set up a panel and start rating these morons with numbers like in the olympics. <br /><br />Want to stop these frustrated egomaniacs? give them all zeros. LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-42717397642518154912009-08-27T08:24:55.061-04:002009-08-27T08:24:55.061-04:00I haven't read a lot on the Standard's ong...I haven't read a lot on the Standard's ongoing PDGO campaign (Public Display of Getting Off). But is it common knowledge yet that the Hotel is hiring model types/actors/what not/ to do all this? <br /><br />Because I haven't seen any everyday-looking people in the photos. You know, the guy with the beer gut and three-inch chubby, for instance. Or the woman with the breasts that look exactly the same from any angle. <br /><br />Or are imperfect-looking hotel guests given rooms facing the airshaft?<br /><br />And what happened to the days of the man seeming shamed about coming out of the peep booths... hopeful that no one spots him on the street; worried that people might know he was inside jacking off. People might think he was a perv!EV Grievehttp://evgrieve.comnoreply@blogger.com