Closing Bell: Punk's Not Dead
Miss Heather spotted a baby stroller outside of Ferdinando’s Focacceria on Union Street paying homage to New York City’s grittier days. Sometimes people make blogging way too easy! Carroll Gardens Gentrification Watch: OMFUG [NYS]
Miss Heather spotted a baby stroller outside of Ferdinando’s Focacceria on Union Street paying homage to New York City’s grittier days. Sometimes people make blogging way too easy!
Carroll Gardens Gentrification Watch: OMFUG [NYS]
Maybe GG Allin could make a big poop in that baby carriage and rub his bloody face in it for the owner
Gee, fsrq, I think by stating that this picture made “blogging way too easy” the writer was referring to a pretty funny picture that would generate some diverse commentary among the readers. I think that is the purpose of a blog, is it not? Lighten up, “people”!
“P.S. Jester, I saw it in person. Ramones in ’78. I still like pre-Spector Ramones, early Clash, Marquee Moon”
Jealous!!
No, headline is wrong. Punk is most certainly dead when the CBGB moniker is being used to coolify a stroller three plus decades after the fact. Like a concert T, it only means something if you actually saw the show.
P.S. Jester, I saw it in person. Ramones in ’78. I still like pre-Spector Ramones, early Clash, Marquee Moon, but don’t listen to it that often, though my daughter has Blitzkrieg Bop on her shuffle (not representative of her playlist overall, I’m afraid). Just finished re-reading Please Kill Me, Legs MacNeil’s oral history of punk. A counterweight to Patti Smith’s fun, but somewhat self-aggrandizing memoir of her time with Mapplethorpe. I still can’t quite figure out how she got Warhol inner circle to let her in. Love the story in her book about how Allen Ginsburg hit on her at the automat until he realized she was female. But I digress.
well if it wasn’t dead before it sure as heck is now (as is the gentrification of Carroll Gardens… hasn’t that been over for a while?).
yeah i dont think the stroller on union street is real, and it’s definitely tacky and classless if it WAS meant as art.
*rob*
Nokilissa, thanks, I got the feeling it couldn’t be real. Would have heard the news, and can’t imagine a grieving parent doing this, and it looked too staged. Very disturbing, if it’s still there, perhaps I’ll ask the guys at the firehouse to saw it off.
Whoever did it is neither creative, profound, nor entertaining.
BSD, I think it is some macabre and despicable ‘performance art’ — probably aimed at the stroller set in Park Slope, and playing off of the ghost bike memorials. To say it is ironic wouldn’t be enough. So pretentious.
There was a similar incident on the UWS in Manhattan with a child’s bicycle, painted white with a memorial to a non-existent dead 9 year-old on the seat. Much research turned up nothing.
So perhaps it is the same ‘artist’, perhaps not, but whoever is doing it has his or her moral compass askew and should stop. It detracts from the power of the ghost bike memorials.
“Sometimes people make blogging way too easy!”
By “people” I assume you mean the people who will flock to this meaningless picture and project all their insecurities, jealousies, anger and prejudices on an empty stroller. Thereby running up your hits and allowing you to charge more for advertising and thereby make your blog more valuable?