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    Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores

    Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich

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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    It's like Walmart for people who need to pay too much.
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    09/21/09

    @Mediahohoho: Outwardly I cringe when I have to admidt that I shop at Wal Mart - but really, Tide, Bounty and all other household essentials don't change from store to store, and if I can get it $5 cheaper - that's five bucks I can put towards something else - like booze!
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/21/09

    @DeadliestSin: I experienced it for realz when I visited my wife's family in Kentucky a few weeks ago. Booster chair for my kid for $22. A decent two-foot sub for six bucks and a butt load of macaroni salad for another five? Holy shit. Not something most New Yorkers or Brooklynites have any kind of access to.
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    Image of flathead flathead
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    i live there, have been in all those places (and BGH is not a brewpub, if that means brewing its own beer, which so far as i know, it doesn't do), and with very few exceptions, all of these groupings are overpriced and, in some way or another, obnoxious and countrary to the neighborhood's traditions, at least those more than a one-year lease old. I know some of these folks have deep roots, but they all project a snobbery, arrogance and entitlement that attracts the wrong sorts of stockbrokers messes things up for the rest of old media types.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/21/09

    @flathead: I lived in Carroll Gardens in 1987 and will attest that the local vendors have always been, without exception, rude, unhelpful, service-averse and keep hours that would make a lazy banker blush.

    So...out with the old, in with the new, same shit different day.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    Frankie's Spuntino and Prime Meats.

    Relax, don't do it.
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    I wouldn't live there if you paid me

    [online.wsj.com]
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    Smith Street HAS a Rite Aid. So, like, visit Fact Checking Iz Us.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    09/21/09

    @Carol Gardens:
    I'm ok with some yuppie boutiques as long as there's a healthy mix. Yet another high-end shop selling eco-friendly lavender soap just isn't that handy when you need actual useful shit like a shoe repair/locksmith/hardware store/etc.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    09/21/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: My friend is opening an organic locksmith next Thursday on Smith.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    09/21/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Free-range deadbolts, I hope.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    09/21/09

    @Carol Gardens: What she said. Also, I never realized that "Area" was some kind of mini-chain. I did know that those Alan Harding restaurants clustered on Smith and Pacific are really pushing the nouveau food court idea.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    to the extent that they don't sell toys made in china with lead paint it's a step in the right direction
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    So glad the confusion is over about this chain. I thought it was a freaking baby clothing store for kids that do Yoga.
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    Image of Larry Fine Larry Fine
    09/21/09

    In reply to Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
    A whorehouse...there's an opium den...oh look, a bandana shop called "Suffer, The Children."

    Well that just seems wrong.
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    Image of SultanaEleusis SultanaEleusis
    04/23/09

    In reply to Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
    Cash fans blur the line between art and commerce, and should be considered the hot new art form of 2009.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/23/09

    @SultanaEleusis:


    This reminds me (since disco is being discussed on the Idol thread) to ask whether anyone could come up with lyrics about cash fans to the tune of Donna Summer's "Last Dance."

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    Image of James Tiberius Quirk James Tiberius Quirk
    04/23/09

    In reply to Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
    Never knew about Koons and tiered pricing but it all makes perfect sense now, from Warhol to Koons to Hirst is a straight line of hucksterism.
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    Image of aurora*raby aurora*raby
    04/23/09

    @James Tiberius Quirk: All great art is nothing more than sleight of hand articulated with a little technique. The three people you mentioned have done their job well: They've held up a mirror and shown us what fools we are.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    04/23/09

    In reply to Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
    I really didn't *get* Murakami and during the Brooklyn Museum exhibit I basically had a bitchfit about his work while my friends shook their heads at me.


    I felt his work was juvenile and slightly mysogynistic. Mechanical planes that transform into naked women with shaved vadges? Really?


    Then again what do I know about art?


    And the whole fact that he was able to get such a visceral reaction from someone which then spurred discourse pretty much *is* the definition of "art".


    I still hate his shit though.

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    Image of aurora*raby aurora*raby
    04/23/09

    @The Real JR: Ornamental art in general may no longer be as relevant as some people would like it to be.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/23/09

    In reply to Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
    Question for Gawkers and fashionistas: do straight me wear YSL belts, the really colorful ones with the white background and multicolored logos? Because i've been trying to suss out this one checker at the supermarket who makes my gaydar ping and he wears a belt like that.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/23/09

    @Hydroceph: Or maybe it's Louis Vuitton. Whatevs.
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    Image of aurora*raby aurora*raby
    04/23/09

    @Hydroceph: Who the fuck knows what straight men wear these days. But best of luck in your pursuit of this fashion-forward young man. How could he not find you absolutely irresistible?
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/23/09

    @aurora*raby: Alas, i'm just trying to figure him out. At 38, i'm too old and married to pick up 20 year olds. But thanks, darling. kiss kiss.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/23/09

    In reply to Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
    In a more perfect world, one of these would have been sold to Kari Ferrell.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/23/09

    In reply to Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
    Thorstein Veblen FTW.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/23/09

    @Smitros: He's either crying his eyes out, or giggling madly. I can't decide which.


    And other than the Mrs. Smitros vs. Mr. Hydroceph thing, i'm really starting to worry that you're me, and i just don't know it.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/23/09

    @Hydroceph:


    That's why we're on opposite coasts, so as to prevent confusion, I think.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/23/09

    @Smitros: Or the implosion of the universe, like in Ghostbusters...you know, how they weren't supposed to cross the streams of the proton beams.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    04/23/09

    In reply to Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
    I think LV bags are the ugliest things ever and just prove that complete assholes will buy crap no matter how hideous if it makes a statement about how foolishly they spend their money. Or something.
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