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Call me Dick Wolf! #standardhotel
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Jesus Christ.
Who says that's the hotel policy? You DO realize that guests can always put up a "do not disturb" sign, or turn the cleaning staff away?
I'm pretty sure the cleaning woman didn't have to force her way into the room to clean if he didn't want her there, but I AM sure that he tried to force himself on her after she said no.
I'm not trying to attack you here, but come on. #standardhotel
11/11/09
Basically its fairly common thing to be cleaning a room at that time. But it may not have even been that. He could have requested turn down service (no pun intended but only because someone already made it.)
11/11/09
I do in fact realize guests can put up a "do not disturb" sign, however, whenever I've forgotten to, the cleaning person always offers to return later and never has suggested cleaning while I'm there. I think the hotel policy might be a little weird - major hotels have a policy about just about everything. A closed bedroom door w/ a stranger? If she acted inside of it, she may have grounds for a lawsuit. #standardhotel
11/11/09
As @scouts honor points out, if the guest agrees, it's not uncommon for a cleaning to happen with them in the room.
Like I said, I'm not trying to attack you, but just think before you type. #thehighline
11/11/09
um, you're reading into my comment by suggesting that I thought other than, "he was wrong, no matter the situation." Read my reply again and digest it this time. #standardhotel
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Yes - just look at those seductive drapes on the windows. #thehighline
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It was drape-rape. #thehighline
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And another $10 he eats it. #thehighline
10/21/09
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Maybe graffiti is supposed to be a more ephemeral art-form. Even the artists don't seem to last for too long (Haring, Basquiat, Dash Snow). #thehighline
10/20/09
The reason people don't like graffiti is because it makes them feel like they have no control. Illicit graffiti is a power grab by the artist. That's what makes it great.
Oh, and lets can the tired argument that it's not art. It is indisputably art. It may suck aesthetically or it may not. But it's obviously art. #thehighline
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Neck Face's rebuttal.
10/20/09
The question of whether or not graffiti is art seems way less important than the question of whether, even if it's not art, the city couldn't find about a million better ways to spend the insane amount of money this surely cost taxpayers. #thehighline
10/20/09
The shitty stuff is The Broken Window Theory come to life. The good stuff is transcendent. Along the LIRR right of way near Arris Lofts, there's a series of graffiti stick figures who look for all the world like they're running. Very cool. There also used to be a whole prose story written on one of the retaining walls, and I would hope that the train would slow down long enough for me to read it. (It did - typical LIRR - and it was very fun to read.)
Where it crosses the line into vandalism is pretty clear - we all know it when we see it. #thehighline