tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post115072739376845997..comments2023-12-29T01:04:14.708-05:00Comments on a cat and twenty.: monday morning outrageousness.kate.d.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09967162934828397188noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post-1150752417222549742006-06-19T17:26:00.000-04:002006-06-19T17:26:00.000-04:00Let's try that again, weirdcommentssectionwhohates...Let's try that again, weirdcommentssectionwhohateslinks and wants to make me handcode it.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2006/06/decoding_dynami.html" REL="nofollow">McCracken</A>jayniekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893956452502304978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post-1150752235302078072006-06-19T17:23:00.000-04:002006-06-19T17:23:00.000-04:00Grant McCracken took a nice crack at this same sub...Grant McCracken took a nice crack at this same subject a few days ago... thought I'd pass it along:<BR/>http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2006/06/decoding_dynami.htmljayniekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893956452502304978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post-1150744456455095682006-06-19T15:14:00.000-04:002006-06-19T15:14:00.000-04:00I was going to write something nasty about Dallasi...I was going to write something nasty about Dallasites, but I deleted it. I'll just say that the comment that dude made wasn't a surprise to me, having grown up in the area and having spent more time than a person should have to in Dallas.<BR/><BR/>Back when I was in grad school, near the end of my time in Columbus, Ohio, a big development project was created out in the northeast of town called "Easton." It was meant to replicate the feel of the actual revitalized downtown area, The Short North. Because it was too hard to drive in from the suburbs to downtown. And then there was parking to deal with. Parking and "riffraff."<BR/><BR/>Alternately, Manhattan is turning into a gigantic suburban shopping mall with a GAP, Banana Republic, and Starbucks on every corner.dorothy rothschildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13732990831552864423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post-1150743852420157572006-06-19T15:04:00.000-04:002006-06-19T15:04:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.dorothy rothschildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13732990831552864423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post-1150743626076836812006-06-19T15:00:00.000-04:002006-06-19T15:00:00.000-04:00The whole idea of fake cities is mindboggling to m...<I>The whole idea of fake cities is mindboggling to me.</I><BR/><BR/>yeah. for me, i think it's the level of willful head-in-the-sand ignorance that really gets me. like in regular suburbia, there's a kind of implied "i live here because i don't like the dirt/crime/crowdedness/evident poverty of the city" (suburbanites, this is not a diss of suburbia. just pointing out that by nature, suburbia is different than the city and that's why many people choose it). it's not an out-and-out denial of caring about those who might be less fortunate.<BR/><BR/>but this whole fake urban thing? that's just like, let me have my cake and eat it too. let me live in a place where i can forget that poor people and hungry people and mentally ill homeless people exist, but give me all the nice aspects of city living, please. i am thoroughly unwilling to compromise a bit of my comfort or stability to gain these things.kate.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09967162934828397188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post-1150739733695784462006-06-19T13:55:00.000-04:002006-06-19T13:55:00.000-04:00The whole idea of fake cities is mindboggling to m...The whole idea of fake cities is mindboggling to me. I can see the appeal, due to the domestic disturbance that lives across the street from me and the stabbing on block over on Thursday night, but it is so superficial. Without these things leading us to our neighborhood watches and clean-up days- how can they really build a community? A Starbucks on every corner and the isolation of suburbia all at once. Yuck.DancingFishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10309494766930447380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17027941.post-1150728772525240392006-06-19T10:52:00.000-04:002006-06-19T10:52:00.000-04:00Um, does anyone actually say "riffraff"? I though...Um, does anyone actually <I>say</I> "riffraff"? I thought they just used words like that on The Love Boat.educand -https://www.blogger.com/profile/15433689851502817493noreply@blogger.com