October 2007
22 posts
I was rocking out last night to the Golden Triangles and Mulitudes…and random rockabilly records…
That’s it, I’m going to Paris next spring. I’ve decided. This sounds like too much fun.
David Brooks has lost his mind…literally…
NYC is not in danger of this fate any time soon (at least, most of it isn’t…Times Square is an obvious exception…SoHo and WTC are sorta exceptions, but not as much). Fortunately or unfortunately, the New York mag story from the previous link is a major reason for this.
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Young writers have always had the option of making their name by meting out character assassinations—I have been guilty of taking this path myself—but Gawker’s ad hominem attacks and piss-on-a-baby humor far outstrip even Spy magazine’s. It’s an inevitable consequence of living in today’s New York: Youthful anxiety and generational angst about having been completely cheated out of ownership of Manhattan, and only sporadically gaining it in Brooklyn and Queens, has fostered a bloodlust for the heads of the douchebags who stole the city. It’s that old story of haves and have-nots, rewritten once again.” —Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass — New York Magazine
A Mock Columnist, Amok - New York Times
Stephen Colbert does a NYT Op-Ed
“There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. Of the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood.”
Brooks is missing a lot of what is problematic about this development, particularly how the WWII generation had the GI Bill, the boomer generation could get a job out of public high school, and the predatory, profit-oriented educational system growing more insidious each and every year.
Burma’s junta claimed that peace and stability had been restored following its crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests in which at least 30 people, but likely far more, were killed. Up to 6,000 monks had been arrested, Internet service to the country was almost completely cut off, and the army was paying 20,000 kyat to the families of non-protesters who had been accidentally killed. “Myanmar people,” said a demoralized taxi driver, “have no blood in their veins.” 12345Sylvester Stallone, filming the sequel to “Rambo” near the Burmese border, described the country as “a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams.”6
Should we? Shouldn’t we? I’m not really sure…
