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Did anyone notice last night when the FOX reporters were interviewing the Yankees in the winning clubhouse how Bloomberg was hovering around practically BEGGING the FOX guys to interview him?? I couldn’t believe it! Stay out of the way, publicity hog! This has NOTHING to do with you! Why don’t you go and scream on some smokers and fat people or something??
“To me, it is a very frightening thing when racially-charged violence as a means of protest is condoned by the government. I respect your right to disagree on that point”
watching cable tv in a brownstone is not period appropriate.
Posted by: bodhi_brooklyn at October 26, 2009 1:32 PM
Actually, I agree with this. In a restored period home, there shouldn’t be a visible TV in the living room and dining room areas. Find a room to devote to the TV apart from these. I’ve had panelled cabinets built into walls in my obsession to be able to cover that big blinking box from the 18th & 19th C furnifhings.
I just noticed the typo in furnishings and decided to keep it as being the more 18th C appropriate style of writing the s in the middle of the word.
Snappy, how bad is the pic? What do you need done? b&w or color? If it’s not crazy, I could take a shot at it. drop me an email.
Duggal and Baboo are big outfits that are not gonna spend a lot of time figuring out what you need. I’d look for a more local person. If I can’t handle it I can probably find someone in Brooklyn.
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BUT…perhaps it wise to refrain from making statements with regard to specific peoples children.
uh, all i said was that what that chile said was not funny. ill stand behind my opinion that it wasnt funny. it’s not like i said it smells or something!
Well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
I fully concede that it all depends upon what one’s criteria is when making a judgement about what is worst. Moreover, I early on in the debate (while it was still rational) conceded that if the criteria is body count, then the Korean Boycott is certainly not the worst in recent history.
My criteria was that the Korean Boycott was the worst because, out of all the incidents discussed, it was the only one condoned by City Hall (though the Crown Heights riot may fall in that category too). To me, it is a very frightening thing when racially-charged violence as a means of protest is condoned by the government. I respect your right to disagree on that point.
Finally, I want to go back to one other point from the recent ugly dust-up. I was not the first to use superlative terms in that debate. Allow me to reprint Montrose’s post from this morning:
“Rudy Guiliani was the most divisive, arrogant, petty, and vindictive mayor this city has had in living memory.”
I’ll believe that I get a fair shot on this site when some of the advice that I receive is thrown the way of those who have the amen choir.
A coupla points on the Italian thang… I was surprised during that time, while listening to either WLIB or another Black-oriented call-in station, to see what was up, that an apparently elderly woman called in and made the same point about Italian-Americans being the cause of a lot of racial problems, that the commentator immediately shut her down and stated they couldn’t allow anything to be said against a race or ethnicity. In fact I was so surprised I still remember it.
Did anyone notice last night when the FOX reporters were interviewing the Yankees in the winning clubhouse how Bloomberg was hovering around practically BEGGING the FOX guys to interview him?? I couldn’t believe it! Stay out of the way, publicity hog! This has NOTHING to do with you! Why don’t you go and scream on some smokers and fat people or something??
“To me, it is a very frightening thing when racially-charged violence as a means of protest is condoned by the government. I respect your right to disagree on that point”
I don’t disagree about that.
Bodhi- Don’t apologize! It cracked me up. I was just being sarcastic back.
watching cable tv in a brownstone is not period appropriate.
Posted by: bodhi_brooklyn at October 26, 2009 1:32 PM
Actually, I agree with this. In a restored period home, there shouldn’t be a visible TV in the living room and dining room areas. Find a room to devote to the TV apart from these. I’ve had panelled cabinets built into walls in my obsession to be able to cover that big blinking box from the 18th & 19th C furnifhings.
I just noticed the typo in furnishings and decided to keep it as being the more 18th C appropriate style of writing the s in the middle of the word.
Snappy, how bad is the pic? What do you need done? b&w or color? If it’s not crazy, I could take a shot at it. drop me an email.
Duggal and Baboo are big outfits that are not gonna spend a lot of time figuring out what you need. I’d look for a more local person. If I can’t handle it I can probably find someone in Brooklyn.
THL, sorry just being silly and using one of shillstoner’s lines…i don’t really think it’s inappropriate..
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BUT…perhaps it wise to refrain from making statements with regard to specific peoples children.
uh, all i said was that what that chile said was not funny. ill stand behind my opinion that it wasnt funny. it’s not like i said it smells or something!
*rob*
Ditto;
Well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
I fully concede that it all depends upon what one’s criteria is when making a judgement about what is worst. Moreover, I early on in the debate (while it was still rational) conceded that if the criteria is body count, then the Korean Boycott is certainly not the worst in recent history.
My criteria was that the Korean Boycott was the worst because, out of all the incidents discussed, it was the only one condoned by City Hall (though the Crown Heights riot may fall in that category too). To me, it is a very frightening thing when racially-charged violence as a means of protest is condoned by the government. I respect your right to disagree on that point.
Finally, I want to go back to one other point from the recent ugly dust-up. I was not the first to use superlative terms in that debate. Allow me to reprint Montrose’s post from this morning:
“Rudy Guiliani was the most divisive, arrogant, petty, and vindictive mayor this city has had in living memory.”
I’ll believe that I get a fair shot on this site when some of the advice that I receive is thrown the way of those who have the amen choir.
A coupla points on the Italian thang… I was surprised during that time, while listening to either WLIB or another Black-oriented call-in station, to see what was up, that an apparently elderly woman called in and made the same point about Italian-Americans being the cause of a lot of racial problems, that the commentator immediately shut her down and stated they couldn’t allow anything to be said against a race or ethnicity. In fact I was so surprised I still remember it.