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April 3, 2008
Sex and the Brooklyn
It makes you wonder: Now that much of Manhattan has turned into a theme park version of "Sex and the City," would Carrie Bradshaw and the gang still live on the island? Probably not, since Manhattan is as played out as a pair of last season's Manolos. "It's expensive, and it's not what it used to be," Sarah Jessica Parker tells the Daily News. "That's why the outer boroughs are so desirable. The outer boroughs are pretty sexy. It's just a matter of time before they have their own shows." According to the article, "If 'Sex' were starting over today, Carrie would rock out Carroll Gardens. BFF Miranda started out in Park Slope, but later, she's bound to settle down with Steve, Brady and a brand new car in spacious Red Hook," while Samantha would roost in Long Island City and Charlotte would play house in Riverdale. The article has quotes from Brooklyn residents who say stuff like, "Carroll Gardens or Williamsburg have a little bit of the hip edge that Carrie has, so she'd be able to get away with her funky outfits and no one would think twice about it." Hip, edgy, less expensive than Manhattan: You heard it here first, folks. Also, the apocalypse is nigh.
Trendsetters Set Their Sights on Hip Alterna-Nabes [NY Daily News]
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Keep dreaming - HOT single women in media (and whatever other industries those 4 were in) want to live (and if they can afford it) do live in Manhattan - always have and always will. Brooklyn may be hipper than it was but the idea that chicks like those depicted in this show (or there real life cousins) prefer Brooklyn is just ridiculous. Is there even a store in Brooklyn that sells $500 pairs of shoes?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:39 AM
I don't see the point of this post as these people are all fictional characters i.e. not real.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:41 AM
Hey, how did they get Miranda = Park Slope. I happen to know for a fact that she was living in Clinton Hill because it was my house.
DOH!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:43 AM
I hate that term 'outer boroughs'.
Are there inner boroughs?
And doesn't make sense that 80% of population is 'outer'.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:43 AM
I'm writing a pilot with the working title of 'Asshats and the Boroughs'
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:44 AM
Carroll Gardens is becoming more and more hip. Less and less italians and a lot of French moving in the area. Also That scholl PS58 has become top notch.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:45 AM
They may be fictional, but there are many young, hip women who like comparing themselves and their friends to the various characters on the show (refer to last week's NY Times article). Having said that, I still think Manhattan = Sex in the City and Brooklyn is more like Desperate Housewives. I'll still take Brooklyn.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 10:46 AM
I have to send this link to my sister who lives in soho in her $3600 per month one bedroom apartment.
So many women moved into Manhattan looking for that "sex in the city" lifestyle. Its pathetic!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:47 AM
Didn't Brooklyn and some of the other boroughs already have their own shows...Welcome Back Kotter, Taxi, All In The Family. Do we really need to update these classics????
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 10:49 AM
10:47, she's not alone. Here's the article I referenced, if you didn't already see it in the paper
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/thecity/30sex.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 10:49 AM
God, Biff and Jerri are going to have a field day with this one.
Can't wait until Biff finally realizes that "Jerri came from out on the Island. In the backroom she was everybody's darling..."
Posted by: Brooklynnative at April 3, 2008 10:50 AM
10:45 writes...Carroll Gardens is becoming more and more hip. Less and less italians and a lot of French moving in the area.
Comments????????????
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 10:50 AM
10:39 there's not enough closet space in a 2 million dollar shoe box to store 500 dollar shoes. so folks are waking up and coming over to BK.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:50 AM
would Jerri be Carrie or Samantha?????
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 10:51 AM
Will I see a banner ad soon on this blog?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:53 AM
Neither, Mr. Big.
Posted by: Brooklynnative at April 3, 2008 10:54 AM
Brooklynnative, you forgot to add, "not that there's anything wrong with that."
Please stay on point and stick to the subject at hand.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 10:55 AM
Hey 10:43 -- Miranda lived in your house??!!! Really??! Forgive me for being such a loser, but I think that's really cool. Would you tell us about it -- how did they scout you and how long did they shoot there and so on (I can't help it, I loved the show).
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:56 AM
All in the Family I believe was Queens. The Cosby show was supposedly based in BKLYN.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:56 AM
dave, how could you forget The Honeymooners? Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, baby!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 10:58 AM
Yeah...I don't want to see this thread deteriorate into a discussion about real estate prices, the economy, architectural renovation, blah, blah, blah
I'm still wondering about 10:45 writing about the Italians in Carroll Gardens.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 10:58 AM
Yeah and the Cosby show was certainly a reality show ahead of its time!!!!!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 10:59 AM
WHO CARES?????
These are fictional characters whose lives are supposed to mirror the lives of a teeny, tiny fraction of a percentage of single white women of a certain age and income group in Manhattan. Who cares who they are sleeping with, what they are wearing, or where they live?
This is just escapist fiction. Makes me miss the good old days of Brooklyn celeb watches. Also a shallow waste of time and energy, but at least those celebs are real people.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:02 AM
11:02....this whole post is about fiction...don't you get it
And celeb watching is like train spotting....for losers
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 11:05 AM
And The Patty Duke Show set in Brooklyn Heights. Oops, deepest apologies; even though we're discussing TV shows and Brooklyn, I'm sure I was somehow on a tangent.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 11:05 AM
stay focused Biff. The seriousness of this matter deserves your utmost sincerity as well
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 11:07 AM
"In all of New York City, there was a 66 percent rise in the number of foreclosures compared to this time last year..."
do you think this would have any effect on the viewership of Sex and The Brooklyn.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 11:10 AM
Some magazine nominated Sarah Jessica Parker as the least sexy celebrity in the US. They were correct.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:11 AM
I've always likened myself as a cross between Carrie and Miranda actually. I have been been referred to as Mr. Big once or twice before, however.
I just hope Biff and Dave are nothing like Stanford or Anthony. Those queens are over the top. I like my men manly.
11:02...Sure this is fiction, but New York City is a city of dreams. Lots of people come here to try to fullfill their fantasies and there is no denying that shows like Sex and the City have helped to bolster NYC'S image. Not to mention the image of Magnolia Bakery, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik and many, many others.
There is nothing wrong with a little escapist fiction every once in a while, especially when it translates into billions of tourist dollars every year.
I've happened to meet quite a few tourists from Europe over the years and many of them honestly and truly think that NYC is JUST LIKE Sex and the City. It's a HUGE reason why they came here to see it.
And you know what...as much as that show was fictional...they NEVER seem disspointed, because whether all that stuff in that show was true or not, it's quite difficult to not fall in love with this city.
Showing 4 women having fun, drinking, laughing and trying to meet a guy in this crazy city is not shallow and a waste of time in my opinion. It's real life for many, many people. And there IS nothing wrong with that.
As far as escapist fiction goes, it sure does beat Harry Potter, in my book.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 11:11 AM
Dave, nothing to wonder about with the Carroll Gardens poster. It's always the same misspellings and bad grammar or punctuation with that CG person who shows up trying to convince people to move to CG. Don't know if they have a house they're getting ready to sell or what.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:12 AM
Unwatchable, ruined NYC.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:13 AM
"Also That scholl PS58 has become top notch."
I thought that pretty much said it all...
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 11:13 AM
I'm sure Biff as well is nothing like Stanford or Anthony. I spend my free time in the basement workroom with my table saw, router and chop saw. I prefer beer over Pinot Grigio and I'd rather eat ribs than some tiny Cornish Game Hen.
I only have about a week to go before I'm back in Manhattan for the day working and probably too tired after that to log on in the evening to make my intellectual, useful and helpful daily commentaries on Brownstoner.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 11:17 AM
Please, Brooklyn is already getting overrun with the materialistic, let these SITC clones stay in Manhattan.
While I liked the show when it was on - they are certainly not people I would choose as friends or even neighbors.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:18 AM
Funny though, some of my west coast friends always said that Seinfeld and all the Law and Order shows painted a pretty sorry picture of NYC and were unwatchable
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 11:19 AM
"Is there even a store in Brooklyn that sells $500 pairs of shoes?"
Soula on Smith Street had some $585 boots last fall that caught my eye... until I saw the price tag.
Posted by: janelle at April 3, 2008 11:20 AM
Dave, you have west coast friends? If it wasn't for your previous post asserting your manliness, I would be on the phone to the House Committee on Un-American Activities as we speak!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 11:24 AM
Yes, and some of them were born out there, or even worse, in Asia!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 11:30 AM
Here we go agian another 3 Spoogers rerun.
Brownstoner please create a chat room for these people.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:33 AM
Why do you have such a problem with us? 11:33? We are talking about the subject at hand (whatever that is).
You are like the kid in school who got picked last in dodge ball and then sat in the corner and cried about it for the rest of the day.
If you want to join in, do it and stop complaining.
Personally I think bstoner should create a chat room for people like you who not only don't talk about the topic at hand, but instead make derogatory comments about the other posters.
Personally I think the three of us add more hits to this blog (what bstoner cares about) than you do.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 11:40 AM
Hilarious! I just had a good laugh imagining the S&C gals moving to my decidedly unhip neighborhood of Parkville/Midwood. Then again, not all parts of Manhattan attract a lot of S&C wannabes.. Are there that many Carrie Bradshaw-lookalikes in East Harlem or Washingon Heights these days?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:43 AM
Hi. 10:43 here. 10:56 asked about S&TC scouting and stuff. Not sure how they chose my house, although there was a half naked carpenter hanging out of my parlor windows one day installing new sashes. Later in the day he said there were two women watching him all afternoon from across the street. I guess the shirtless/carpenter pants attire got them thinking. They scouted here a week or two later.
They filmed for the series - two different shoots in 03/04 - and a third time for the movie last fall. The people from the TV show were extremely nice. The movie people were ok too, but less organized.
In this last round, they used some of my furniture, walked off with a tibetan fur hat of mine, a dust ruffle, some good curtain rods, the remote control and all of my jade necklaces but left the place in pretty good shape otherwise. I would like my hat and necklaces back though.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:49 AM
You don't have to imagine what it would be like to have air-headed bimbos like Carrie, Samantha, etc. tottering down the street in their stiletto heels. I've been in Park Slope, Carrol Gardens, etc. on a Saturday night and they're already there.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:51 AM
Isn't this the chat room? Sorry, I must have taken a wrong turn at the Renovations section.
Dave, the HORROR!! Please be very careful. They'll have you speaking Korean (a northern dialect, no doubt) and eating durian fruit before you know it (insert 11:33 insult attempt here).
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 11:52 AM
I can't believe noone has brought up the most outrageous part of the original post! Charlotte in Riverdale???? Charlotte is 100% in Brooklyn Heights - the Upper East Side of the outer boroughs...
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 11:59 AM
Hmm,
44 posts and counting on where fictional characters might live in Brooklyn if they were still alive as fictional characters today, and two comments on a post concerning DOB. Glad the commentariat on this site hasn't lost focus.
Posted by: slopefarm at April 3, 2008 12:01 PM
Christ on a cracker, I just read the Times article. There are women who seriously think Sex and the City is a realistic model for how to live their lives in NYC? I loved the show Northern Exposure, but I'm pretty sure if I went to live in a tiny village in Alaska, I wouldn't find a bunch of leftist, free-thinking philosophers and wanna be filmmakers to pal around with. It was a TV SHOW for f's sake!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:02 PM
These women are young?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:04 PM
WHAT? If that's true, I'm immediately cancelling my trip to the tiny village in Alaska. It sounded like so much fun!!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 12:05 PM
I've met Sarah Jessica Parker on three separate occassions. She is a really lovely woman and NOTHING like her character.
I also find her sexy in that quirky kinda way. And also in that I'm gay and if I weren't, I'd be into her sortof way.
She's a fine woman.
Also used to see Cynthia Nixon weekly when I lived on the Upper West Side. She lived in the 90s before I believe she moved to Brooklyn with her girlfriend.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 12:08 PM
Work 10:43! I remember that well. I lived right around the corner from your house on Clinton Ave. I was very excited to see Miranda 'in the nabe' (on the show of course). Fort Greene/Clinton Hill has been the backdrop for many films for years now. NOTE: Not just Spike Lee movies as some would like to think. It's the greatest most diverse neighborhood I have ever experienced.
Kudos!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:18 PM
(52nd post for those playing at home)
I'm sorry slopefarm. What should we be talking about under this story? Why don't you lead the discussion?
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 12:21 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you don't like what is being said, skip it and move to the next.
Some of you are some of the most narrow minded people on the planet, it would seem. If you find this thread so offensive, why on God's green earth would you find it necessary to comment about how stupid it is?
It makes ZERO sense.
Everyone likes to talk about different things. Is it just your nature to automatically judge anyone different from you??
Go lead a discussion about DOB if that is so important to you.
Hate to feed into the stereotype but it seems the non gays are the real pussies around here.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 12:27 PM
Biff, I think "Arsenic and Old Lace" was set in Brooklyn Heights.
And there are still some of those little old ladies around.
Posted by: sam at April 3, 2008 12:33 PM
I will sheepishly admit to having moved to Manhattan in 2000 because that show made me love the city. I soon realized that in real life, women like the characters on SATC would never be my friend (except maybe Miranda.) And it made sense that Miranda was the only one who (grudgingly) moved to Brooklyn. I always found it bizarre that in a show that somewhat accurately described some of the idiosyncracies of living in NYC NEVER had those women taking the subway. That is such a huge part of my existence here, even before I moved to Brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:36 PM
Who voted for you Three Spoogers to lead the discussion every day?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:38 PM
That's nothing to be ashamed of, 12:36.
The point is you moved here and are thriving it seems. Living here 8 years is a success. Not everyone is cut out for life in the big city.
I don't think it matters at all why someone comes here...everyone has different reasons.
And the amount of airtime New York City has received since the dawn of the television age would make it impossible for most to deny that something they saw on tv inspired them to come here.
Doesn't matter if it's SATC, or one of the other thousands of shows that have depicted New York. That's the great thing about a city like New York...there is literally something for everyone here.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 12:41 PM
Top 10 movies set and filmed in Brooklyn
http://gocaribbean.about.com/bltop10movies.htm
10. Bye Bye Braverman 1968
9. The Lords of Flatbush 1974
8.Sphie's Choice 1982
7. Little Odessa 1994
6.Saturday Night Fever 1977
5.Smoke 1995
4.Prizzi's Honor 1985
3.Do The Right Thing 1989
2.Dog Day Afternoon 1975
1.The Little Fugitive 1953
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 12:42 PM
Agree 100% with 11:59. Charlotte would never be caught dead in a Hymey-town like Riverdale. Please!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:44 PM
Thanks sam. I wonder if those old ladies ran into Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Katie Cox, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand et.al. who recently shot Burn After Reading here.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 12:46 PM
Ha fictional characters have more impact on the city than the real suckers who live here. An entire city was transformed by FRIENDS AND Sex and the CITY and Seinfeld, Law and Order, even Three's COmpany, not to mention Archie Bunker and Gilligans Island, I mean Manhattan is an island you know..Wow And we all thought LA was lame . Funny too these chicks are not that hot.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:48 PM
11:59 wow...that's about as racist as it gets!!! Didn't she actually convert to Judaism and marry a Jewish gentleman on the show
And no, even with the name David I'm not jewish so I've got no personal axe to grind
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 12:48 PM
sorry..i meant 12:44
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 12:49 PM
"You don't have to imagine what it would be like to have air-headed bimbos like Carrie, Samantha, etc. tottering down the street in their stiletto heels. I've been in Park Slope, Carrol Gardens, etc. on a Saturday night and they're already there."
Not really (I know I am always on the lookout for an air-headed bimbo in stilletos) and the few you might see in Brooklyn definitly don't live here - unless they are from Bay Ridge and that is a different kind of women then the SITC chicks
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:51 PM
Seriously this Blog has turned to crap!! If you look the traffic has dropped off big time. BS topics like this one (Sex and the Brooklyn) and the wankers have taken over. People used to say I was hijacking threads, these 3 Asshats (Yes Asshats) have nothing on me. Bring back the text spammer!
This Blog has "Jumped The Shark"
I can call him Brownstoner "The Fonz"
The What
Someday this war is gonna end...
Note to the wankers If I ever see in the street you get punched in the face! No question asked!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:52 PM
Has anyone seen that show The Real Housewives of New York City?
Talk about scary.
That Brooklyn couple is psycho!
They are so IN LOVE on that show (in a gross way) and they live in Boreum Hill and my friend said she just saw the husband out at a bar on Atlantic WITH ANOTHER WOMAN!!!!
The horror.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 12:54 PM
"a show that somewhat accurately described some of the idiosyncracies of living in NYC"
Yes, it was somewhat accurate that a woman with a part-time writing gig for a weekly paper could afford a one bedroom on the Upper East Side, to buy dozens of designer shoes and dresses, and eat and drink in the most expensive restaurants in the city. In the way that "The Flintstones" somewhat accurately described life on Earth in 1000 B.C.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 12:54 PM
back to NJ asshat....pay the congestion toll too
how does someone with such a supposedly high level of knowledge of real estate get suckered into NJ real estate taxes?????
you are one dumb f$%k
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 12:57 PM
"Note to the wankers If I ever see in the street you get punched in the face! No question asked!" PLEASE somebody explain to me how this is entertaining...PLEASE!!! Note to the haters; another off-topic post by The Whatever.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 12:57 PM
Miranda would never, ever move to Red Hook - she couldn't tolerate the snarky hipster dufus types with their little RISD degrees and their trust funds. Maybe Ditmas or Lefferts, definitely not Red Hook.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:03 PM
My bad! Charlotte DID marry a JEW on the show. His name was Harry. What the heck was she thinking? Oy Vey!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:11 PM
Harry was the best sex she ever had.
Need any more explanation than that?
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 1:15 PM
Jews are SO insecure about their nonexistent sex life with non-Jappy woman. Too funny.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:23 PM
Go, Fonzie, Go!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:28 PM
So the one blog I regularly post on has now deigned to post about movies and TV - Oh bother. I was hoping at least here I could stay clear of all the crap that's written.
And yes Jerri I was at a bar (Jake Walk) last Sunday to be precise with another woman. Is that a crime?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:35 PM
Did I miss it, or has no one noted the biggest NEGATIVE PUBLICITIY FOR BROOKLYN IN THE HISTORY OF TV? By which I of course mean the horrible, hideous, hateful housewife on Bravo's Real Housewifes of NYC who lives in Cobble Hill with her even more hateful husband. Everyone at work is talking about how horrible she is and how dreadful the people in Brooklyn are!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:41 PM
Not a crime, no.
Signing up for that television show....
Perhaps.
So you find this talk crappy, yet you signed up for the most ridiculous and shallow show I think I've ever seen on television??
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 1:42 PM
i personally don't think any of the gals except miranda of course would be living in brooklyn. in many ways they represent manhattan archetypes. there's not much outer borough about them. if carrie is so hip and edgy then why did she live on the upper east side!?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:44 PM
Yeah but all you have to do is bang the non-jewish women (preferably married), they LOVE jewish men (even if it is for 1hr at the Red Hook Motor Inn) and wash away any insecurities you might develop
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:45 PM
I don't think Carrie was ever supposed to be hip and edgy, 1:44.
She was supposed to be charming and fabulous if I remember correctly.
Not everyone aspires to be hip and edgy. Some of us don't even know what that means...
Do you?
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 1:47 PM
Put it this way I just laugh at those of you who take it all way too seriously and think you know us or can judge us based on a few minutes (out of several thousand) of highly edited footage. It's entertainment; no more no less and should be taken as such.
If you see me (or my wife) on the street or in Jake Walk and we've been there together too) we're most approachable and would be happy to explain more in person.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:52 PM
Your Wife has a man's jaw
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:56 PM
the article says carrie has a "hip edge."
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:57 PM
You have to be an a$$hole for some period of time - in order to edit it so that it looks like your an a$$hole all the time.
And I wont judge you on your TV show - only saw one episode - I have determined you and your wife are a$$holes based on your "family website"
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:58 PM
Please do not post as guest anymore - I'd like to be able to instantly ignore your posts
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 1:59 PM
1:56 - if you get that impression from a badly photoshopped image put out by the producers I understand why you make that comment but you'd be wrong if you basing your statement on seeing her in person or even on TV.
Listen I can't nor want to get in to too much discussion; I refuse to post on other boards and would like to keep Brownstoner my show free zone. For those of you who live near us, feel free to stop us on the street and talk.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:02 PM
Charlotte would so live in Brooklyn Heights.
Regarding Carroll Gardens becoming more hip and less Italian: Hello, Prada!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:09 PM
Old money doesn't do reality TV.
That axiom - nay, ironclad fact - underlies both the fallacy and the delicious schadenfreude that is the heart of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City (8 p.m. Tuesdays), a knockoff only in the sense that the participants are thin and, ostensibly, female. None will ever be confused with a Vanderbilt or an Astor. If any of them owns a copy of Emily Post, it's only for smacking the help upside the head. Their arriviste natures, laden with money but only a smattering of the disregard the truly entitled show for it, make for repellent and fascinating watching. The most fun: Watching several of the women desperately trying to climb the social ladder, not realizing that if you have to climb, you will never reach the top. The suspects:
Alex McCord
This Kansas transplant is trying so hard you can smell the flop sweat through the TV screen. She and her Australian husband, Simon - a man not unaware that everyone, including the audience, thinks he's gay - are busily trying to get their two children, Johann and Francois, into private school. Also, Johann and Francois have a nanny to teach them French, although neither parent speaks French to them. Because in the 2008 United States, nothing is so important as French.
* The evidence that they are far from upper crust: They live in Brooklyn. They drop nearly $100,000 on a single shopping trip in St. Barth's (old money wears old clothes). They're down to their 16th choice of private schools. Also: They're from Kansas and Australia.
* Telling quote: (Simon, examining a new purchase) "It's a Hungarian designer. Zac de' . . . oh, that's the cleaning instructions."
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 2:10 PM
http://cobblehillblog.com/2008/03/05/real-housewives-of-new-york-premiere-open-thread
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 2:14 PM
Telling quote the journalist from the Rocky Mountains news wouldn't know a joke at his (the viewers) expense if it hit him in the f#^ing head.
We're making good television; which has always been defined as television that brings in the ratings and it's ratings that bring in the advertisers and it's you who watch the show who buy the products that keep the advertisers happy. And the cycle continues. If you hate it so much then don't watch but just don't delude yourself that you can ever know anyone from a couple of minutes of TV.
Over and out - as I said - if you see us in the neighborhood - we're approachable so ask us a reasonable question and we'll more than likely answer it.
And I won't post again in this thread. See you all next Tuesday @ 10.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:17 PM
If you wanted to remain anonymous here why would you identify yourself? Could it be that actually you are a publicity whore?
Please Please move, far far away.
I'm sorry (not really) for coming down so hard on you but while watching that one episode (after recovering from the most intense douche chills I have ever experienced) I thought to myself - My God could there really exist people who are that shallow, that annoying, that pathetic and have ZERO self-awareness? (and please dont blame it on editing - you can only edit so much - they arent splicing together words to make you say things)
And then lo and behold - here you are:
So I have to ask - don't you have ANY self-awareness?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:18 PM
12:51 Maybe they don't live there, but stand outside, for example, that restaurant diagonally across from The Gate and tell me they're not roaming around the neighborhood.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:21 PM
Ok Ok the show is a joke, just entertainment - your really not an A$$ just playing one on TV:
Just one more thing - this website you have:
http://www.mccordvankempen.com/
is that a joke too? Because that makes you and your wife look like bigger douches then the TV show
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:21 PM
chances that was alex or her husband .01%
chances that that was a very excited (oooh goodie, they're watching!) PR person from Bravo 99.9%
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:23 PM
This is easily the most fun I have ever had on this frequently mean-spirited site.
Person whose house is in SATC -- I'm the one who asked about it and you are fabulous.
Jerry, Biff & Dave -- you are also fabulous, whoever you are.
Jewish men are fantastic in bed, as are black men (I'm a white Jewish straight chick). The worst sex I ever had was with a lapsed Catholic I met in a bar in Carroll Gardens. Go figure.
I lived in Carroll Gardens for about a decade. it's not all that (see above).
12:54 -- Carrie had a rent controlled apartment and bought her shoes on credit. Recall she could not make her $40,000 downpayment on her apartment because she had spent all her money on shoes (she said something like, "I'll literally be a woman who has to live in her shoes.") Big first offered to give her the money, eventually Charlotte gave her her engagement ring to sell. And that is how Carrie could afford to live on the UES and have such fabulous shoes.
Is this realistic? Well, why not ask my sister, who lives in a rent stabilized UES apartment and has a fabulous wardrobe.
I can see Charlotte in one of the fabulous homes in Park Slope, facing the park.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:23 PM
I just saw their website. What did they do with the $100,000 of clothes they allegedly purchased?
"Listen I can't nor want to get in to too much discussion". Is that why you identified yourself as Simon? Publicity whore extraordinaire (did the French nanny teach your kids that word yet?)
"We're making good television; which has always been defined as television that brings in the ratings". And because American Idol leads in the ratings, I suppose those are the best singers / performers in the world as well? I thought good television was television that would be remembered for generations. But I suppose I'm looking at it from a viewer's perspective, not an advertiser's.
Nobody will know your name in a couple of months, despite your best attempts.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 2:25 PM
you should NEVER sign up to be on a television show if you have any respect for yourself and your family (except maybe the amazing race) you'll never live down the "reality" that they make for you, no matter how loud you scream that it was a produced version of yourself. NEVER. And the fact that you signed on to be on a show that is about trying to be a socialite probably doesn't help. Not that we won't watch, its like a car wreck you can't help it.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:26 PM
It's 2008, Jerri. So little of any money in the world is old anymore. Even the old money families have to strive to make new money in the new economy.
I love NYC Housewives show. The older married Manhattan women are tacky sometimes but that's the entertainment. They have a great sense of humor about it all. Their teenage kids seem respectful and polite, not brats. They have nice husbands who adore them.
It's the two younger women, Alex and the single girl, who are the climbers. Neither are comfortable in their own skin or content with their lives. They're so full of discontented yearning. The other older women are fine with their lives. They have all they need. They're just doing this show for fun. I don't think they delude themselves into thinking they're the Astors. They know they aren't.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:26 PM
You know the saying about money.
Better noveau than ne-ver.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:31 PM
Stone Park Cafe? - I wish - there haven't been 2 women as good looking as the SITC chicks in that restaurant since it opened 4yrs ago - and I think the SITC chicks are all pretty lousy (except for the one in the middle above)
I know everyone here would like to knock PS and other gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods as nuvo-Manhattan but speaking as someone who loves hot thin women in expensive high heals, it is simply fantasy to believe that demographic has any sizable presence in Brooklyn - much less Park Slope.
The best I'll give you is that you'll occasionally see a cheezy hot, thin Bay-Ridge chick in (cheap) heels stumbling out of the Loki Lounge or a reasonably hot not-fat Mom whose husband couldnt afford Manhattan - walking in flats on 5th Ave.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:31 PM
Gilligan's Island will live forever. That was good television. I've never seen this show and now have no desire to do so. BTW, the goatee is so 90s, or was it 80s
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 2:32 PM
2:23 #2, we love you too! Please get yourself a sign-on handle and join us in our efforts to spice up things and promote kinder, gentler (or at least funnier) blogs worldwide.
"Jewish men are fantastic in bed.."
You've got me singing the Haftorah, my shayne maydela!!
And you live in CG, yet don't think it's the be all and end all, you don't bash PS, and think one can actually live the SATC lifestyle?
Jerri, Dave, we have a winner!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 2:34 PM
daveinbedstuy... Good movie list, but you left off MOONSTRUCK (my favorite-1987) and SWEET NOVEMBER (1968). Although not a great film, SN had some good Promenade/Heights locations.
Posted by: GHB at April 3, 2008 2:36 PM
You guys really have to read that Cobble Hill blog thread. It gets pretty ugly.
The ONLY thing I've heard used to describe this show so far is lowest of the low. The couple times I watched (each only a few minutes) I could literally feel my brain being eaten alive.
It has good ratings (allegedly) because everyone likes to watch a good trainwreck!!! That's all.
And that's just what this show is.
A complete and total trainwreck which highlights how shallow, money obsessed and disgusting many Americans are.
AT LEAST Sex and the City used lots of humor. And at least those were just fictional characters.
Btw, I think Butler Street is in Boreum Hill, not Cobble Hill.
Might want to change that on your wife's resume.
I know it's got the projects, but embrace it anyway.
This show is even worse than MILLIONAIRE MATCHMAKER!!! If you can even believe it.
2:23...You're my new favorite!
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 2:36 PM
Real Housewives of NYC is fabulous TV. Anyway who disdains it is a pretentious twat. Almost as bad as Alex and her Eurotrash hubby.
As for the housweuives, Jill Zarin is wonderful. She's from "the Jewish ghetto" as she says and is totally tacky, but how can not love her!!!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:37 PM
Old money families aren't well behaved. Where did anyone get that idea? Do you know any families like that? I do. Emotionally detached. Cynical kids who are teenage alcoholics. Divorce. Fighting over the will. Speaking of fighting over the will, would the Astor's recent battle make you proud if it happened in your own family? Or look at the tackiness of most royal families. Yuck. Who aspires to that?
Pretty is as pretty does. No matter how old or new your money might be.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:39 PM
GHB, actually jerri referenced Moonstruck during a discussion on Brooklyn Heights yesterday, but it's worth a second mention. Thanks.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 2:40 PM
"Real Housewives of NYC is fabulous TV"=true....and it will also make excellent propaganda films if the Nazi's ever come back to kill the remaining Jews.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:40 PM
When I first moved to NYC, I was making 25K a year, lived in a rent stabilized 1 bedroom (in midtown east...how UNfabulous) and spent every penny I made on Prada clothing and shoes.
I've since wised up, but sure...these things happen all the time.
You know what though...all that crap I once bought at H&M and Gap have long since been sent to Salvation Army or the trash can and the only things left (besides my vintage clothing, which I've been into now for a few years and never spend more than 20 bucks on anything) are those nice, expensive things I bought years and years ago.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 2:41 PM
"Real Housewives of NYC is fabulous TV"=true....and it will also make excellent propaganda films if the Nazi's ever come back to kill the remaining Jews."
But the nicest person on the show is Jill, who is Jewish. And the worst one is Alex, who is a Goy.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:46 PM
Why 2:40, because it shows what a good time they have spending the money THEY EARNED? Because it shows what a good mother this Jewish woman Jill is? Yeah, that's really terrible. And she adores animals. How horrible!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:46 PM
Isn't Jill the one who went to Mercedez Benz Fashion week and STORMED OUT with her queeny friend because she wasn't seated in the first row???
Good times.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 2:50 PM
2:46, there are plenty of fabulous Shiksas out there too - don't judge them all based on Alex.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 2:53 PM
Jerri, give up the attempt to become Queen of the Old-Money Wasps and defend your people from ambitious interlopers. Not sure they want to have you as their representative. I think they'd elect someone with a house on the UES, not in Brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:55 PM
Jerri...faded type insults don't count
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 2:57 PM
"Mercedez Benz Fashion week"? What next, "Dolce & Gabbana International Auto Show"?
I feel so unhip and unedgy!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 2:58 PM
2:46 - no because they are obnoxious twits who enjoy showing off. And if you think that women Jill is a good mother please post your address because ACS needs to come remove your children right away.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 2:58 PM
I never claimed to be in any way associated with old money. Or new money for that matter.
I'm just a regular guy.
And one who happens to like guys.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 3:01 PM
Jerri, there's nothing regular about you. You're super-duper fabulous!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 3:03 PM
wait, i'm confused now
jerri, are you a guy or a gal?? jerri is not a particulary masculine name
please clarify...i'm all confused
Biff, I assume is a heterosexual, and not metrosexual, guy
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 3:05 PM
Well thanks Biff! I think you're pretty special also. And not in a short bus kinda way.
I like myself too.
Which is more than I can say for those floozies on Real Housewives.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 3:08 PM
Jerri may not be a masculine name, but below the waist I'm ALL MAN.
At least that's what the doctors told me.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 3:09 PM
did brownstoner hire 3 Rodeo(blog) clowns?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 3:10 PM
Dave, your assumption, unlike others, is correct. I'm a heterosexual male with a crush on Jerri...go figure. Perhaps I'm trisexual - willing to try anything once?
But I like women.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 3:15 PM
3:10, yes, we're paid handsomely to be here. What's your excuse?
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 3:16 PM
Ok...I'll meet at Excelsior....I don't know where it is but i'll find out...next week Wed or Thurs?
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 3:19 PM
I feel like I just reverse-outed myself.
Dave, I take it you like guys? If only the incredibly brilliant white Jewish straight chick at 2:23#2 identified herself, we could have a nice double date!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 3:21 PM
Oh I see, 2:58, you're one of THOSE mothers. Who spends her entire day searching for ways to feel superior to other women. Yet never searching inside to understand why.
How pleasant.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 3:22 PM
yeah but only 30 year old hot latinos or asians or blacks
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 3:23 PM
"yeah but only 30 year old hot latinos or asians or blacks"
damn.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 3:25 PM
wow. real housewives??? what a stupid show. the whole point of these peoples lives is to make it to the top of manhattan "high society"! pathetic
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 3:25 PM
Is there such a thing as a 30 year old latino, asian or black that isn't hot?
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 3:25 PM
are there some jewish straight chicks that aren't hot??
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 3:29 PM
whats your type jerri???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 3:43 PM
I prefer 23-38, a little scruffy, artsy and a kind heart.
A nice butt never hurt either.
Someone kinda like Biff.
Except gay.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 3:47 PM
You know what they say, all the good ones are straight!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 3:49 PM
Yes Biff and those straight guys always have the same excuse..."Boy was I drunk last night!"
But...lets all get back to the discussion thread that Mr. B posted lest The What or some other asshat starts chastising again
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 3:54 PM
Hey Dave...
This thread was called SEX and the Brooklyn.
I think we're right on track.
For once.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 3:59 PM
B, you fouled up big time.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 4:00 PM
Friends with benefits!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 4:01 PM
Jerri, please tell me you have a (straight) identical twin sister!!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 4:01 PM
She would have to be a fraternal twin Biff
Life is full of disappointments
Ask The What
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 4:04 PM
4:01 guest, 141 posts and counting most of which are on the topic of Sex and the Brooklyn. What's the most of any other discussion today?
Somehow I don't think Mr B considers this one a failure.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 4:04 PM
Dave, mea culpa. Good point. I was never that good at Biology, at least not that part!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 4:05 PM
Wait Biff, you don't think Mr. B had intended this turn into a soul-searching thread on why Carrie wasn't able to bag Mr. Big until the series finale??
God. You are so right, 4:01!!!
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 4:07 PM
No 3:22 - I'm one of those Fathers - you know the kind that has two eyes and a brain and can see that having a Mom who is obsessed with being 'famous' as well as being completely consumed with showing off isn't a recipe for raising a teenage daughter.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 4:17 PM
I guess we could stop and watch the scintillating conversation that would surely ensue amongst posters like 4:00 who keep knocking us and clearly have something more substantive to say about the topic they obviously care for so dearly.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 4:18 PM
man, I am really sick of this bill, jerri, etc crap. is today the last day? now that you know jerri is a guy maybe?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 4:21 PM
and what did you want to add about the OP 4:21?????
you forgot that part
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 4:25 PM
4:21, that's Biff to you. No, today isn't the last day I'm afraid.
You may not believe it, but I can enjoy talking to people even if they happen to be gay. You should try it sometime. You might enjoy it too.
Now please stop attacking and say something on point.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 4:27 PM
In case anyone was wondering or forgotten...Mr. B originally had wanted as many people to sign up for a handle as possible.
With that comes some witty bantor as you are able to talk to and have a conversation with someone who is not faded and anonymous.
The more people like 4:21 insist on trashing others while saying absolutely nothing about the topic, you are only making the guest comments more and more obsolete.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 4:33 PM
I don't know a damn thing about Sex and the City really. What I do know though is chicks who love that show are usually very easy to get into the sack, particularly if they are over 26. If a chick tells you she loves that show, you know 1) She has no problems with recreational sex, 2) She is impressed with superficial behavior designed to impress and 3) is willing to drink expensive, strong cocktails.
If said chick is in late 20s, early 30s group - this means she is likely fearing getting old or better yet, thinks the best way to deal with that fear is to get slutty!
No matter what the case, it's a recipe for an easy conquest.
Sex and the City is probably the best show ever to come out. It has made the lives of men so much easier!
Posted by: Polemicist at April 3, 2008 4:34 PM
You are officially one of us now, Polemicist!
Love to hear a good story about slutty girls.
They're the best!!
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 4:36 PM
Polemicist, I don't know what to make of your comments. Your post is ignorant, crude and misogynistic and I loved every damn word you said! I enjoy your opinions and talk of slutty girls is always welcome and appreciated.
Thank goodness you joined in.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 4:43 PM
Wake me for the "witty bantor"
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 4:44 PM
polemicist.... although your observations and conclusions reek of armchair psychology I think they are the most right on I've ever heard.
i applaud your keen insight and hope that you have benefitted exhaustively from it. I'm sure you're sorry the show is over.
Welcome to the club. The only thing better than slutty girls is horny guys
This is the type of analysis that Mr B was expecting for the OP
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 4:45 PM
This blog's like your favorite bar you go to all the time until these losers start showing up there and getting all drunk and rowdy, playing Bon Jovi songs on the juke box and shouting to each other from across the bar. You can get pissed off but eventually you just have to accept you've lost your bar and move on to another place.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 4:45 PM
I like your style, 4:44.
It's not too late to sign up. You've got potential. Very funny!
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 4:46 PM
4:44, if you don't get it, that's your problem. Grab your binky and go back to sleep.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 4:47 PM
Disagree totally Polemicist - it is the girls who watched the show as teenagers who are now in their mid-twenties that try to emulate the slutty (in the best meaning of the word) lifestyle - once they hit 30+ they realize thats just TV and they start listening to their Grandmother who told them to 'hold out' and then you'll get a guy to marry you.
Then you have to wait till they're married till there willing to get all freaky again (not with their husband however)
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 4:47 PM
I like Bon Jovi. What were you playing? Show tunes???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 4:47 PM
Dave...your last post did it for me.
Will you marry me?
In Vermont, of course...
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 4:48 PM
4:47...As a wise lady once said to me...
"Everybody's got their freaky deaky"
Words to live by, if you ask me.
Which I know you didn't...
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 4:49 PM
Oh...not the showtunes post. The horny guys one...
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 4:51 PM
Polemicist: And the Spitzer thing probably made married men's lives quite uncomfortable for a week or so. I had a great laugh at all that pop psychology analysis from the media on why men seek prostitutes (because they can), why they cheat on their wives with prostitutes (because they can).
However, in the words of Charlie Sheen, "I don't pay women for sex, I pay them to leave in the morning." Same holds true for male prostitutes!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 4:55 PM
this thread is so stupid.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 4:57 PM
4:57 yet you continue to read all the way through it
and like the other faded type unregistered guests add nothing
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:01 PM
Jerri/Dave, can I be your best man?
4:45 guest, you've lost your bar. Please accept it and move on...
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 5:03 PM
Biff...just watching the news...what about Christine Quinn??? she's hot, no?
Just trying to be your wingman!! But Top Gun was one of the gayest movies ever so not sure I really like that monicker
Back to the Sex In The City discussion..............
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:04 PM
best brooklyn film: serpicho.
glad the bold font has the opposite of the intended effect. now i just skip it and read the faded. btw, i heard these two from bkn on the housewives show are just renting. and no way that pos house the live in is 2.2mn. have been waiting for b-stoner to do a piece on it. i would say $1.5-1.7 tops (07 prices). crappy brick-faced chop job. bed in the living room? and those kids' names suck.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 5:05 PM
Dave, correction, and like the other faded type unregistered guests add nothing UNLESS they are white Jewish straight chicks who like us!!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 5:05 PM
Christine Quinn is a lesbian.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 5:07 PM
5:05 guest, I agree with you on your point re: the kids' names and that there's no way these people bought their home on a hotel manager's salary. How pretentious are they? It's unfortunate you're going to skip this post.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 5:08 PM
where are we meeting tonight?
something to celebrate.
But I don't do cosmos...a vert SATC thing.....what whould the drink of SATB be?? Brooklyn Lager???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:10 PM
Now I like Christine Quinn even more!
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 5:12 PM
some faded type guests are OK....5:05 had some real worthwhile input
Yes Jerri, I know our next mayor is a lesbian. I assume that you know she won't be the first gay mayor.
I was under the impression that since Biff was expanding his sphere, then.....
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:14 PM
Gosh Biff...You are such a fag hog!!!
Get it...fag hag...fag hog...
I think Biff and I are partial to the jacky d and cokes.
What about you Dave?
If you can believe it, I have a real, live date tonight.
And no...not with a blow up doll.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 5:15 PM
Oh course I know that Dave.
My list of notable people who have hit on me at bars since my time in NYC:
1. former mayor of nyc
2. alan cumming
3. sam champion
Something to be proud of, no?
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 5:17 PM
Jerri, I'm not sure if that was a homophone or homonyn or neither but it was funny. Yes, I want my fags (and my MTV). I want it all.
Yes, JD and Coke...aaah Jerri you remembered. Good luck on the date! Tell me tomorrow how it went.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 5:21 PM
jerri...did you see the OP yesterday..
W'bg Builders Sue, Say Rezoning Like Eminent Domain"??
With the photo of carlos Isdith and his son John in the backhoe??
I think John is HOT...Alas he'll probably develop his father's gut!!!
Always make sure you get a look at the parents before committing. You too Biff
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:22 PM
Make sure to make it a diet coke for Biff!
He's making sure to keep that strong, masculine, buff body in shape for the Mrs.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 5:23 PM
I guess it's cool if faggits call each other fags.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 5:23 PM
Jerri, Sam Champion isn't my evil twin, in case you were wondering.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 5:25 PM
Is it just me or is this font faded?
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 5:26 PM
"Biff...just watching the news...what about Christine Quinn??? she's hot, no?"
NO
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 5:27 PM
slut it up, slut it up, slut it up!
We have to admit this to ourselves. Real estate is about sex! After this bubble bursts, we just have to decide what to do next!
Your apartment is where your bring your date, and that is simply so you can fornicate!
It doesn't matter if the economy goes down, there are tons of women in whose bosoms we can drown.
Even if I got no job, I'll still have a roof over my head. One chick don't dig me, I'll find another one instead.
Slut it up! Slut it up! Slut it up!
The DOW just dropped 500 points for god's sake, so I decided to get trashed down at Great Lakes.
No hot tail that night, so I set my sites on this old biddy. My beer goggles just set in and then she said "I Love Sex in the City!"
My engine started roarin'; I could feel some heat in my groin! I wooed her with sweet nothings about my sweet condo and banged her till mornin'
I awoke from slumber, hungover with glee. She was readin' through my draft real estate reports and the nshe exclaimed "I am a NIMBY!"
I jumped from my bed, my noodle still a bit sore, hastily took a shot and escorted her to the door!
I just want to build towers to the sky, why is it when I tell this to chicks all they do is cry?
Slut it up! Slut it up! Slut it up!
Posted by: Polemicist at April 3, 2008 5:28 PM
5:27...yet another faded type poster that completely misses the point
How can these people be so incredibly stupid!!!?????
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:29 PM
Jerri & Dave, much to the chagrin of everyone else I'm sure, I have to depart now.
Have a great evening. See you tomorrow for your last day, Dave...sad...
Jerri, have a super time tonight.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 3, 2008 5:30 PM
Polemicist...I think one of the funniest thread of comments I ever saw here was for some real estate listing where everybody started to tear apart the blonde agent with some eastern European name....First it started out that someone commented she was soooo hot and it rapidly degenerated into calling her Euro-trash ethnic slurs!!!!
I emailed it to my real estate agent..it was great.
Yes, real estate is all about sex,,,first you look it over, then comes the offer. Then you close the deal
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:34 PM
Thanks Biff!
I plan to. Thanks for your support.
It's not easy for us singletons in this city, you know.
I'm so Carrie Bradshaw today.
And not in a good way.
Posted by: jerri blank at April 3, 2008 5:34 PM
Sex And The brooklyn: 192 comments
The one about the DOB just before: 2
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 5:38 PM
Dave in Bed stuy what are you worried about comments pertaining to CG? You live in Bed stuy no? Where are all the Park slopers today? they love to bash I guess not today.
Posted by: ronman at April 3, 2008 5:49 PM
well I happen to know that the guy who composes the sex and the city theme music lives in the slope. I suspect a disproportionate number of the creative types behind the show and the movie live in brooklyn.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 5:55 PM
i wasn't making a comment on CG, just the amount of interest in the DOB as compared to the more sociologically relevant SATB posting.
And, I am not one of the commenters that goes around bashing any other neighborhood. I only care about mine but that doesn't mean I need to bash the others. That back and forth between PS, CG,CH and all the others is pretty childish.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 3, 2008 6:02 PM
I see the spamming has taken a new twist.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 6:09 PM
okay, I'm skipping the bold type too now.
to my faded friend: a friend property sharked the Real Housewives' Butler house. I forget the deets, but I think they did buy for 1.2? And anyway, then sold off the top two floors. That part I know for sure.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 6:15 PM
Dave in bed stuy you are right all the fighting between CG CH and park slope needs to end. BTW i love Bed stuy and in the next 10 years will be even better than now. Peace
Posted by: ronman at April 3, 2008 7:10 PM
Welcome to the Cage aux Folles website everyone!
we talk about FABULOUS brownstones and
vintage films and outfits.
It's just too much riotous fun.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 7:25 PM
"I've happened to meet quite a few tourists from Europe over the years and many of them honestly and truly think that NYC is JUST LIKE Sex and the City."
But it IS! It is. For the most part... My experience moving here 15 years ago from the midwest has been a very Sex & the City one. I'm sure that's why the show spoke to so many people.
Oh, sure it all cost tons more than you imagine and you work million times harder for things than they appear to on TV. And my clothes are more Filene's Basement than Fifth Avenue. That's the wish fulfillment part.
But overall, many times I left my house without an idea where the night would take me and found myself hobnobbing with crazy-beautiful rich and famous folk... Or just crazy folk in some run-down hovel in a sketchy neighborhood.
But it was always an adventure.
I met people I never imagined I'd meet as a kid, went places I never imagined could exist.
I even got to spend a day on the set of Sex & the City once!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 8:31 PM
"I can't believe noone has brought up the most outrageous part of the original post! Charlotte in Riverdale?"
I found Miranda in Red Hook more laughable. How is a type-A workaholic going to cope with a neighborhood with almost no MTA access? Naw, she'd be more practical than that.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 8:37 PM
i agree for some strange reason it is a lot easier reading the faded type.
I think 4:45/2 kinda nailed it
OR like The last episode of Cheers.
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 8:50 PM
"jerri, are you a guy or a gal?? jerri is not a particulary masculine name"
Dave, before you get serious with Jerri, you need to know something. His handle is a "tribute" handle. Try googling Jerri Blank sometime.
It will speak volumes of your new BFF--not that there's anything WRONG with that!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 8:56 PM
EVERYONE KNOWS JERRI BLANK LOVES THE POLE AND THE HOLE!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 9:54 PM
To the hijacked bar commentor - you are so spot on. When did this become the biff jerri and dave show? can you guys get a room (or a job?) and get off our blog!
Posted by: guest at April 3, 2008 10:19 PM
THE BLOG IS NOT A CHEAP MOTEL
Posted by: guest at April 4, 2008 12:22 AM
4:45#2/6:09/8:50/10:19/12:22 and the rest of the faded type haters who say nothing about the topic and just complain...
Here's a thought: why don't you add a post that is ON POINT if it interests you? If it doesn't what are you still doing reading posts here? Why would you stay if a) you have no thoughts on the story and b) don't want to read other comments on the topic?
Take a page out of 8:31's book and talk about your own interesting experiences or LEAVE!
Regarding the "hijacking", we pretty much stayed clear of every other discussion with with a minor exception under the muffin topic and a few other random thoughts in other topics.
As I said under the muffin thread, we're just trying to have fun while we DO make points on the topic at hand and we'll continue to try to have constructive input in other topics and not be afraid to lighten things up occasionally.
So if you decide to stay here, you should at least try to add an original thought.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 4, 2008 9:13 AM
if everyone is complaining, maybe it's time to stop blaming everyone and stop the annoying behaviour
Posted by: guest at April 4, 2008 9:20 AM
187 posts is not a minor exception it's a jack move.
Posted by: guest at April 4, 2008 9:21 AM
(211th post)
I'm not blaming anyone for anything other than for attacking me without contributing anything to the discussion, much like 9:20 and 9:21 just did.
It's a jack move to try to talk about the story and have some fun? Ok, guilty as charged, smarty pants. And I was talking about the minor exception in relation to the couple of posts I had in another discussion. Please more closely read what I said next time if you're going to comment on it.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 4, 2008 9:57 AM
That's the problem Biff, most of them can't read. Anybody hear how Carrie's date was???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 4, 2008 10:09 AM
Here's the problem. Nobody wants to have to read thru 50 posts about which of you is a top vs a bottom. You know that kid who raised his hand for every question and took up 95% of the oxygen in the room? That's you! So shut it already. I dont' care if people don't stay 100% on topic. I do care about having to read what is really a private conversation btw 3 people. Take it to a chat room.
Posted by: guest at April 4, 2008 10:37 AM
Dave, I think it went well.
10:37, just because you can't answer the teacher's question, don't be a hater. Go to another discussion. You don't have to read anything we post, including this. Lighten up and move on...
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 4, 2008 10:53 AM
How did this blog get hijacked by Biff, Jerri and Dave who constantly seem to be talking to each other?
Posted by: guest at April 6, 2008 4:30 PM
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