Montrosini the Great Looks Towards 2010
It’s time for our year end predictions of what’s going to happen in 2010. Has the economy bottomed? Will real estate prices go lower, or start to rise again? Will jobs return to NY, and what kind of jobs and industries are going to fuel our return to the center of the universe? What are…
It’s time for our year end predictions of what’s going to happen in 2010. Has the economy bottomed? Will real estate prices go lower, or start to rise again? Will jobs return to NY, and what kind of jobs and industries are going to fuel our return to the center of the universe? What are we going to see in our neighborhoods? Will people finally stop asking if it’s safe to live in Bed Stuy and Crown Heights, or will the conversation turn back to asking how many people are legally able to share a one bedroom, one bath, brownstone floor-through in Park Slope? Will Miss Muffet buy this year, or will DaveInBedStuy have to sell his 18th century antiques to keep the house? Montrosini the Great predicts many comments. Don’t make me have to wear this hat all week!
Image by Bxgrl.
> I thought you loved me for my slavish devotion to you, as
> well as my biting wit.
Oh, but I do, I do. I was just thinking how fetching your festive garb would be when juxtaposed with a panoramic view and a classic Eames recliner (from DWR, please, no eBay knockoffs).
One last comment. I think that Montrose’s mutton chops were just crying out for a jeweled turban. Kudos to bxgirl for putting this look together for him so well.
$6000 shower curtains? I must have missed that particular bubble.
“I will write at least 5-10 checks with the wrong year on the date.”
lol, me too. Although all of said checks always seem to get cashed. Good old vigilant C*t*b*nk.
“Cobble reveals BH is actually her brother and she has been carrying on with Biff.”
bxgrl!! You have a VERY twisted mind!
“Said zapper will have the power to go through the computer screen and light up and permanently singe the asses of those who tease her by using the acronym “BoCoCa.” The zapper will then turn into a hand that reaches into your wallet and extracts your now defunct FroCoCa.”
Very funny, Snaps! If only I could find the REAL What, I bet he could do this!
“Never again will I, (and countless others) be so arrogant as to think our education and long years of experience are actually valuable. Sending out resume and cover letter one after another for jobs, and not even get a reply that they received the info, let alone want to see or hire me, has been a humbling experience that I’d like to consign to the memory file, and a tale told over a bottle and a couple of glasses.”
You and me, both, MM, you and me both.
“Never again will I, (and countless others) be so arrogant as to think our education and long years of experience are actually valuable.”
So true. Sad but true. Damned overpriced education! Drat.
I will write at least 5-10 checks with the wrong year on the date.
Yeah, really. This year was not good. It started out with the inspiring sight of Obama’s inauguration, but the rest was blech, especially for my personal economic state. I didn’t expect the man to walk on water and fix everything in the economy overnight, but I also didn’t think it would get as bad as it got, job wise. Never again will I, (and countless others) be so arrogant as to think our education and long years of experience are actually valuable. Sending out resume and cover letter one after another for jobs, and not even get a reply that they received the info, let alone want to see or hire me, has been a humbling experience that I’d like to consign to the memory file, and a tale told over a bottle and a couple of glasses.
I predict we will slowly come back to life, but that we won’t be in the spend, spend giddiness of the past. In my industry, that means no more $6000 shower curtains, but hopefully people will still need and want to buy well designed products at prices that will enable us to survive, as well as jump start the manufacturing engines again. I think we will see things starting to be made in the USA again, in part as a reaction to too many cheap imports, in part as a patriotic response to Americans out of work, and most of all, the desire and ability to get something done well locally, without shipping and import headaches.