Above and behind Central Avenue, facing southeast
Yours Truly: What? Oh this? Just an article in the New York Times starring moi as the dashing protagonist. Some of you are quoted, too. Too bad nobody reads it anymore.
Mourning, Dove: The hooting we all hear on quietish days in Bushwick (hah), is probably not an owl, but a mourning dove. Owls like more wooded areas, like Prospect Park.
Walnut = Awesome: A new, finely niched blog about furniture and design in our borough, Brooklyn Modern, interviewed local furniture maker (/musician) Roger Benton about his designs, his music, and working at 3rd Ward.
Go Away: Sweet holy fuck. Say what you will about Bushwick hipsters, they tend to be newly minted, fresh from the farm. But I am really hating the priced-out-of-Williamsburg schmucks streaming into Bushwick who have been steeping in hipsterdom for formative years. Only they would come here dressed like assholes and then harass the locals with their stupid questions about other hipsters, like a flamboyant, militant homosexual asking about the local gay scene. And honey, that area across the JMZ tracks the local teen warned you about is called “Bedford-Stuyvesant.” Compared to Bed-Stuy, all of Bushwick is a “green zone.”
josh September 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
if watts is married why do the times refer to her as ms.?
josh September 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 am
(seems like a mistake that would be beyond them)
Dresden September 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 am
I wish all of Williamsburg had one throat, so I could slice it.
- adapted from Caligula
Ando September 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 am
“A crusty, punky, guttery night”
http://www.lolsam.com/?p=667
derwood1976 September 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
re dresden, or perhaps a face so I can smack it forcefully..
MoyJoy September 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!
“reflected the attitude of the location”
that’s priceless. there’s nothing j crew about bushwick?
Dresden September 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I’d like to just note that I saw what can only be described as bridge and tunnel walking down Bogart yesterday.
A man in cargo pants, some sports-affiliated baseball hat, flip-flops. Two women in what can only be described as sorority/jersey shore/hoboken MO’s.
It actually made me deeply, deeply disturbed. Most of us are somewhat-normal people who just want to live in a nice place, eat good food, have peaceful and respectful alliances and friendships with our neighbors – maybe make some art – without the gross idiocy of frat brothers or the eye-rolling inconsqequential faux-LA ‘tude of hipsters -
What is most disturbing about W-burg is that it has hipsters, as well as the Izod-shirted, cargo-panted, white-hatted, flip-flopping Frat boys.
It’s white-bread and neon white-bread. Generic. Made-up personalities.
And it’s coming.
Diego September 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Nice appearance in the New York Times, but I have to agree with you on the blogger’s Bushwick comments – why would anyone move to a place they do not enjoy?
I’ve met too many people in Bushwick that do nothing but complain about their neighborhood – they hate the ground-shaking car stereos, the family domino nights on the sidewalk and even the core population – I’ve met some horrifically racist transplants!
Bushwick is not the only affordable neighborhood in the city. It’s okay if some people don’t like it, but they should really stay away instead of coming here and trying to change things for the sake of short-term personal comfort.
A lot of hard-working families call this place home. Obnoxious blogger: take a look at the events of the last four decades (www.upfromflames.com) and give Bushwick residents the respect they deserve.
Can you tell that garbage blog REALLY offended me?
Lola Wakefield September 22nd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Hi Diego, and thank you for commenting on my blog. Unfortunately, I will not refrain from using whatever words I see fit to describe myself and others on my advanced literary platform, but I encourage you to share your grief over this encounter with other complainers in our profession: http://angryjournalist.com/
Dresden September 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Lola –
Advanced literary platform???
It’s more like head-up-my-ass attention-whoredom.
Same as all of us – we BLOG.
david September 22nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
What a pathetic blog that is. These people will be mortified when they actually grow up and look back on what self centered, obnoxious douchebags they were.
Armstrong September 22nd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Hmmm. You can’t really judge people’s insides from their outsides (and no, I’m not quoting refrigerator magnets) lol.
I’m in my 30′s and dress a lot more conservatively than I once did but although I may often look conventional, I am far from it.
Some of these folks dressed like assholes may very well be doing interesting things with their lives. Live and let live y’all.
Dresden September 23rd, 2008 at 2:03 am
Dressing isn’t what I care about. It’s their insides. I’m Gen X. Gen X is all about the inner terrain. But try to engage that with Gen Y. You get nothing. For them, appearance is everything.
Man September 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 am
“Douche.”
If the NY Times will quote me when they write about that hipster blog please remember it is with a capital D.
Armstrong September 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 am
I just read the “stuff hipsters don’t like” blog. I stand corrected: they come across as totally petulant smarmy assholes!
This generation is about to really get a comeuppance (come-downance?) in this new contracting economy.
I know what Chicago and New York were like in the 80′s and 90′s. After living through that, I think I could survive anything. I am one of those urban rats they describe, lol. I’m not going anywhere.
These Gen Yers and millennials will be packing up their crates and running back to their baby-boomer parent’s homes in the suburbs, unfortunately just as those suburban houses are losing their values, being foreclosed on, and mom and pop are losing their retirement income as well.
Things are about to get real interesting and everyone’s character will be tested. This will be easier of course for those starting the game with a sense of character, fortitude and steel nerves.
Those featured in the blog are sorely lacking imho.
Dresden September 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Nicely done Armstrong.
pierogieconpollo September 24th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
the stuffhipstersdontlike blog is CLEARLY SATIRICAL a la http://www.stuffebplike.com/ and the original http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/. jeez people. it’s not exactly the most sophisticated humor.
i’ve always perceived that blog to be a spoof of the popular stereotypes of hipsters as much hipsters themselves. if this sort of thing gets you all riled up on message boards, triggering the same trite, played-out hipster bashing, then joke’s on you… the blog has done its job. well done, lola wakefield!
p.s.
josh: the title “Ms.” is standard in journalism:
“Ms. is correct regardless of a woman’s marital status, thus relegating that information to the realm of private life, where many feel it belongs anyway.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/ms-2
Jeremy Sapienza September 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
The title of the blog is satirical. But if you read it, the content is clearly not.
Dresden September 25th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Lola Wakefield is a waste of time and organic matter. Trust Dresden on that one. Go no further afield. Consult the I-Ching. Jerk off into your belly button. You’d be saving yourself time and energy.