Comments on: Art Fag Scared Off by All of Bushwick’s ‘Real’

By: Big D

Big D — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:59:31 +0000

Geez y’all are a fickle bunch!

http://bushwickbk.com/2009/08/28/the-beating-at-my-front-door/

By: Grown-Up Bohemian

Grown-Up Bohemian — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:05:07 +0000

Poor reading comprehension my ass: I saw your later posts expressing a teaspoon of sympathy. But your original post, with its troll-ish name-calling–’ultimate hipster douche’ and ‘tard’? what are we, in the third grade?–and question-begging snap judgments, hardly seemed like the appropriate response under the circumstances.

Oh, and just because you’re ‘not anywhere alone’ in your assessment of his lifestyle doesn’t exactly prove you’re right. If you wanna judge somebody by the apartment they can afford, then you *should* be in real estate.

By: Old Brooklynite

Old Brooklynite — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:10:13 +0000

Boy, give me Bushwick Buddies to talk about neighborhoods. We remember Bushwick when it was a great place to live up until the ’60s. You could walk the neighborhood then and not worry.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:45:36 +0000

:-D

By: Dresden

Dresden — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:25:16 +0000

He’s not in real estate or a teacher, but he sure can cook. Maybe he’s a chef!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:22:35 +0000

The “bohemian ideal” is under attack by reality. But this is neither here nor there.

I repeat — yet again, for the benefit of those with poor reading comprehension or who skim a bit too much — he did not deserve to be attacked, and it angers me that he was. The fact that he wrote a whiny little article about it makes him fair game, not the mugging itself.

Spout platitudes to the effect of “to each his own” with the intent of making me seem intolerant of other lifestyles and boringly bourgeois, but I’m not anywhere near alone in my assessment that 40 years old + Bushwick slumming + chasing “Rent”-inspired experiences in 2008 + running home to momma = LOSER.

And I am not in real estate. Who is running the rumor mill about my career? Someone else accused me of being a teacher last week!

By: Grown-Up Bohemian

Grown-Up Bohemian — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:09:37 +0000

I passed by this ‘tard’ shortly after he ran smack into the brick wall of the ‘real’; the police and the paramedics were already there. It never occurred to me then that someone might be so biliously self-satisfied as to voice some of the judgments you render here, Jeremy. Lemme see if I’ve got his catalogue of sins right:

1. Moved to Bushwick ‘in search of a mock of 1970s Soho’, a.k.a., embraced a bohemian ideal of living he believed to be under attack in the rest of the gentrifying city.

2. Let his guard down.

3. Moved back to SF–his hometown–shortly after getting his skull bashed in.

4. Was living in a ‘shithole [apartment] in an industrial district’ while pushing 40.

Sorry, this is just ridiculous. I’m not sure what your vision of the good life is exactly, but it seems to have a lot to do with investments and some dubious conventions concerning life-stage appropriateness. Good thing you’re in real estate and not grief counseling.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:21:53 +0000

varetron, you need to lighten up.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:06:22 +0000

Varetron – making fun of him is the ONLY productive thing here!

He DISSED our neighborhood!!! HARD!!!! FUCK HIM! HARDER!!!!!

If you can’t suck it up after getting mugged and learn a lesson, then get the fuck out… oh wait, he did. Thank the forces that be.

By: varetron

varetron — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:54:13 +0000

the point is, don’t be mean! making fun of him isn’t productive, and isn’t even very funny.