Bushwick Urban Archaeology: Hair Curler
As you may know, some people spend far more time, money, and attention on their appearance than any other aspect of their lives. Their homes maybe falling apart around them, their children running wild in the streets, the cupboards full of expired twinkies, but mmmmm-mm! They look good! So it doesn’t surprise me that the person who used this pink curler for her hair tossed it the first place she saw when she was done using it — her own back yard. You’ll note from this close-up that my soil is mostly crushed trash. Cute?
October 15th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Hair curlers are ten for a dollar. The curler could have been there since the 70s, since no one uses that style anymore and they’re not exactly biodegradable. So a woman living in an arson-plagued hellhole shouldn’t have been allowed to spend a damn dollar trying to be the only nice-looking thing on the block? How dare you mock and judge those of limited means around you.
You are an arrogant, judgmental racist.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:52 am
I can be arrogant and judgmental without being a racist. So you all need to DROP the race card in the intellectual gutter where you got it. The very obvious point is she THREW IT IN HER OWN YARD — not her race, not how much the thing cost, not anything but the fact that she was a goddamn pig.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
She may not have thrown it, it could have easily been in a house that was torched. You have no idea. Even then, your use of racial innuendo is just like Imus talking about “nappy-headed hoes”. Imitating ebonics in a derogatory manner isn’t funny, it’s demeaning.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
word up