In Defense of Park Slope
“But overall, this is a neighborhood that makes New York living startlingly desirable. The park is close and lovely — getting cleaner and better all the time. Subway access is fairly spectacular (less so on weekends). Many mom and pop businesses are still intact. There’s decent coffee, good produce, and community theater. On a sunny…
“But overall, this is a neighborhood that makes New York living startlingly desirable. The park is close and lovely — getting cleaner and better all the time. Subway access is fairly spectacular (less so on weekends). Many mom and pop businesses are still intact. There’s decent coffee, good produce, and community theater. On a sunny Saturday, the farmer’s market at Grand Army Plaza is as life-affirming as a place can be.
Most of all, it feels like a real neighborhood. Friends bump into one another. They chit-chat. They have impromptu picnics. Small boys climb trees! This is one of those neighborhoods that has kept a whole generation of would-be surbanites from becoming suburbanites. That’s a good thing, no?”
— David Shenk writing in The Brooklyn Paper
“white people themselves did”
Them white people. Always up to no good tricks.
“But is there a neighborhood of Black sterile circus
performaers?”
Not sure – but i’d rather live in a neighborhood of Sri Lankan NASCAR drivers.
are they gainfully employed black sterile circus performers?
“So what does one consider an “interesting” person nowadays?
– can’t be white
– can’t have kids
– can’t have any sort of traditional job that would classify them a yuppie
– can’t be young (they’re all hipsters you know)
– can’t be an artist (they’re just hipsters with trust funds)”
But is there a neighborhood of Black sterile circus
performaers?
hey if people have a white check box and created by the majority of people who also happen to be white, its okay. I didn’t create the term, white people themselves did.
“So what does one consider an “interesting” person nowadays?”
There are some super-charcteristics that can make you interesting in spite of the disabilities of being trust fundy/white/etc.
e.g. a white transexual banker with three kids and a pet bonobo.
Oh, and as you’ll see by armchairwarrior’s post above, “white” is a perfectly acceptable denigrative adjective in polite society.
So what does one consider an “interesting” person nowadays?
– can’t be white
– can’t have kids
– can’t have any sort of traditional job that would classify them a yuppie
– can’t be young (they’re all hipsters you know)
– can’t be an artist (they’re just hipsters with trust funds)
lol ditto.
I didn’t have those questions on my citizenship interview. Just stuff like “what colo(u)rs are the flag?” (from a very nice immigration officer who kept talking about how much her daughter loved David Beckham).