Thank you, Gawker, for doing more than most other media outlets to bring home the hideous financial reality that "everything is FUBAR" (a World War 2 Army slang term for "fu@ked up beyond all recognition," and how cool is it to know that our dorky parents and grandparents employed wicked, Gawkeresque humor during their own dark days?).
Yeah, I know this sounds suck-uppy, but, other than Gawker, HuffPo and MichaelMoore.com, everyone else in the media is afraid to spill the real beans that this is a depression. And if you think it's awful here in NYC, my friends who live out there beyond the bridges, out there in America, wish to assure us that the recession is equally scary there too.
We in the media just have the added fillip of seeing our careers crumble because of structural as well as cyclical declines.
So, is anyone going to The Showdown in Chicago to get tear gassed and have their ears split by LRAD sonic crowd control bombs by government storm troopers outside the bankers' convention next Monday? Like they did to the protesters at the G20 in Pittsburgh last month? Sounds like it's going to quite the scene. #recessionomics
Hollywould closed down a couple of months ago, too. Their stuff was usually way overpriced, but when their stock was marked down for clearance at 75% off, I got some pretty sweet shoes for Payless prices. Ah, nothing gives you that warm glow quite like sucking personal advantage from others' failures.
@EdnaOverhill: You mean make the idea of shopping in Nolita so much fun. If you have the money to actually shop there, you shouldn't be wasting your time on Gawker (or The Internet, for that matter), you should be... shopping in Nolita and saving all those pretty stores dammit!
When I was growing up there was no "Nolita," it was just the section of Little Italy where you could buy fresh pasta, mozzarella, and sit in a cafe a long while and check out the cute, ruddy-faced, soccer ball-bouncing high school boys who argued with each other, going back and forth between English and Italian. With their Catholic school ties half on and half off and their shirts pulled out of their pants.
Holy shit, you guys have an investigative reporting desk! You mean you're not just going to sponge off the resources of those creaky Old Media institutions anymore, and you're actually going to step away from your computer and hit the pavement? Not that sending an intern out to jot down notes while on her coffee run is worthy of a Pulitzer, but you've gotta start somewhere, right?
@GrumpyMcGillicutty: I thought it was kind of fierce. And it's a lot of work yo! But then again I'm an architect who does retail who has mixed feelings about that part of town.
Can Whitney please head west of Broadway and give us the run down of current discounts over there? Let me know when Marni and Vera Wang's markdowns have reached 95% off. Thanks.
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Yeah, I know this sounds suck-uppy, but, other than Gawker, HuffPo and MichaelMoore.com, everyone else in the media is afraid to spill the real beans that this is a depression. And if you think it's awful here in NYC, my friends who live out there beyond the bridges, out there in America, wish to assure us that the recession is equally scary there too.
We in the media just have the added fillip of seeing our careers crumble because of structural as well as cyclical declines.
So, is anyone going to The Showdown in Chicago to get tear gassed and have their ears split by LRAD sonic crowd control bombs by government storm troopers outside the bankers' convention next Monday? Like they did to the protesters at the G20 in Pittsburgh last month? Sounds like it's going to quite the scene. #recessionomics
10/22/09
It's just a shame that Delicatessen appears to be in no trouble at all. #recessionomics
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Did it just get hot in here?
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Not really the point of your comment I know, but hey, I reply to what I can relate to.
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