My Ridiculous Life
I left the house early this morning in a stupor, so I could beat the crowds at Fairway. Of course, I forgot the canvas bags. My wife, instead of castigating me, showed me this. It’s the Brooklyn equivalent of Portlandia.
Not all of this is true to our lives (we don’t pick up stuff left on the curb and I refuse to join the Park Slope co-op), but much else (such as the parking rage) is spot on.
Keith –
Already passed on that clip to a few friends who live in Brooklyn.
BTW – thanks for this link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-zeller-jr/global-warming-cooler-heads_b_1765473.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
It fits well with some of the discussions here.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
And Keith –
Thought you might like this:
http://www.philly.com/philly/food/20120809_A_Brooklyn_buffet.html
No speaky da lingo. What’s ‘key moi’?And which word don’t they use in the house? It sounded like ‘nil’? The mother was holding a baby at the time.Both about halfway through.
Heh, if you told me that was Cambridge I might have believed it too.
@Vinny: I think “key moi” was quinoa. Generally pronounced like keen-wah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa I recently had a multi-day battle over where there was GMO quinoa or not (there isn’t). It’s actually a nice food for many reasons, but it has been raised in the foodie community to some sort of regal status. Some (but not all) is gluten-free so it fits in with that fad too. But the demand has caused issues too: http://www.economist.com/node/21554570
@Vinny,
They don’t use the word “no” in the house. Negative. UnAmerican. Will today’s kids get Social Security when they retire? Yes! 🙂 They’ll get more than half what they pay in! 🙂 Stay positive, Vinny! 🙂
Thanks for this link, Keith – very interesting vis a vis climate change and the binary mentality so prevalent in the climate debate food fight.http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/08/the-perils-of-reason/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterI may have to start becoming a twitter person (twitterite? twitterer?)
I’d have thought that the answer was obvious. It’s ‘twit’ 😉
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No doubt, that applies in some cases at least.
And here I thought every last writer living in Brooklyn had been hired by Slate. 😉
Is this too much of a stretch but the characters in the video remind me of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. The obsessive buying into the latest food, parenting or lifestyle fad has something of the endless listing of clothing labels in the book.
Mary, jim: thanks. Quinoa, no.