Not necessarily, Pete. The Commerce Clause of the Constitution limits the powers of the Congress specifically.
There is also a state's rights issue about Obamacare placing an unfunded mandate on the States.
There should be a decision by late summer, and in any case before the election.
Oops, June:
The Court maintains this schedule each Term until all cases ready for submission have been heard and decided. In May and June the Court sits only to announce orders and opinions. The Court recesses at the end of June, but the work of the Justices is unceasing. During the summer they continue to analyze new petitions for review, consider motions and applications, and must make preparations for cases scheduled for fall argument.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/procedures.aspx
he looked dead. i kicked him and he's alive. we were discriminated against last night at that lame ass beuaty bar in park slope last night btw! for not being moonfaces. they wouldnt do our nails. wtf?
I can't stop, rf. I don't even know why I'm doing it any more. I think there was a reason at some point but if there was I don't know what it was. I spend something like 7 hours a week running. It interferes with playing with the kids, sleeping, and drinking.
i have a psychological theory about your running, but i shan't share it, cuz it's not pretty and borders on rudeness. me and krazey almost jumped some 12 year old moonface for his iphone earlier lol. it would have been SO easy, but morals prevailed :-/
Long tradition of long distance running being a respite for deep thinking, that is, a time to do it (think over things without explicitly thinking over things) and get into "flow" mode. Nothing to be scared of. A sign of intelligence.
im sitting in the laundry room on st. patty's day doing laundry reading Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York (best book ever!!! it was written in 1972) but it's SOOOO good. it's basically a 200 page suicide letter. wtf, who kills themselves for such silly reasons? am i loser for sitting here doing my laundry on a saturday night alone in the laundry room or is this just what life IS about? i dont care one way or the other. im listening to cyndi lauper on the ipod that a coworker donated to me and im making my clothes clean. what else am i supposed to be doing? shockingly, i <3 my life and how i live it. from the outside looking in i can see how i look like a giant loser, but i dont feel that way.
the thing that pisses the most people off is seeing others actually be content with themselves. it boggles the mind of many. i think only 1 in 10 people (in america anyway) are fully self-actualized. that's ruff!
Surprisingly, for a city where everyone is "spiritual but not religious,", saying "I am self-actualized" is not understood by a lot of people. People run for the Clark Street subway when the elevator opens although they hear it rushing away. Huh?? People are idiots. To me, self-actualization is one of the primary forces in life. And it doesn't imply selfishness; just being your optimal self.
And every day is the same in NYC, Saturday, today, tomorrow. In the words of my new favorite novel, "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand other matches have gone out."
Congratulations to the Irvington girls high school basketball team! State champions three years in a row - only time any high school team in any sport has been New York state champion three years in a row. The fire and police departments met them at the tappan zee bridge tonight and escorted them through town on their way back from the game. The town is quite proud.
Maslow considered self-actualizing people to possess "an unusual ability to detect the spurious, the fake, and the dishonest in personality, and in general to judge the people correctly and efficiently."[10]
Common traits amongst people who have reached self-actualization are:[11]
They embrace reality and facts rather than denying truth.
They are spontaneous.
They are "focused on problems outside themselves."[12]
They "can accept their own human nature in the stoic style, with all its shortcomings,"[13] are similarly acceptant of others, and generally lack prejudice.
From DCB: If you don't go blind from auto-eroticizing, then self actualizing is sure to drive you mad.
And profound congratulations to the Irvington Girls Basketball team for their victory on the court. And for all the sex that they are rumored to be having, too.
I just self-actualized by making pancakes with hippie-dippie ingredients and then sitting down and reading the Wall Street Journal. I'll self-actualize for 4 miles on the aqueduct trail later today. I will also plant grass seed and fertilize the lawn, but that's not self-actualization, it's compromise for the sake of marriage. If I were to use the lawn as a vehicle for self-actualization I would just let it grow however it damn well pleases.
OY. It's too early for Maslow, and if you start talking about Myers Briggs and EST, I'm disowning you all. : P
In other news, (rob, pay attention) I was just watching Sunday Morning, re: Video Game Museum (http://www.icheg.org/) and some jackass was talking about how video games 'help us find the answers to life's questions'. I almost threw up.
But the real reason I bring this up is...rob, you should be packing all your video games and consoles up carefully, and take very good care of them, they may help pay for your retirement one day.
One of my neighbors two doors down from us just bought another house in Irvington (upgrade to something fancier). They are putting their place on the market in a couple of weeks. I'm guessing it will trade somewhere in the 700s. Easy walking distance to both the village and the train station, stone's throw from the elementary school. Very close to the aqueduct trail. Thought I would give you all the early intel in case you know anyone who has little people and is thinking about escaping from Brooklyn. This place won't stay on the market long.
"I'm guessing it will trade somewhere in the 700s." -- I hate when people use 'trade' instead of 'sell' for houses.....reeks of too much wall street on the brain.
I also hate spiritual and self-actualization. All reeks of egocentrism.
Sell is just one side of a trade. I'm on neither side of it, so from my perspective it will trade in the 700s. I guess I could say I expect he will sell it somewhere in the 700s, or someone will buy it in the 700s, but honestly, this can't be that hard a concept.
You mean how much does a gallon of milk cost this week? No one says "how much is a gallon of milk selling for." You say cost. And no one says how much does a house cost. Dork.
I bought a gallon of 1 percent fat milk at Fairway on Friday for $3.49. The half-gallon was $2.29, up from recent price of $1.99. I think the full gallons were $3.29. Hoping it will stay good for as long as it takes for me to use it.
Charles Tyrwhitt is having a big sale on shirts, $39.50 each. Even though I'm retired, I couldn't help buying more, french cuffs and monogrammed, of course.
"Arkady, that article filled me with inexplicable rage."
I think I understand the rage. A couple of moonface twits by a fixer upper in the hood on a romantic notion, but have no idea what they are getting in to or how much it will inevitably cost.
I think DCB is spot on. You can tell they're trustafarians, even if they don't have much money. No sense of where their money came from, how to manage it, living an oblivious and consequence-free life. "ooh we just love period detail.". Twits. People like this get their ideas from places like the brownstoner blog.
It really pisses me off to see people being careless with money they didn't earn, especially when they are of limited means. Spending welfare money dumbly is like blowing a modest inheritance on a fixer upper in the hood and then wondering what happened.
I thought the ticks comment was funny, too. But otherwise, if they are happy, after a long search for the home that they wanted, then good on them. Why get all worked up over it?
people of limited means? that bought a house for nearly $800k, he has a good job and they didn't say going broke but seem happy where they are? so if that is limited means to you, sounding more and more like romney.
I bought a house needing lot of work and knew nothing about fixing, repairing, whatever and borrowed money for downpayment. It can work out fine.
Squandered is going out and buying a $100k mercedes.
Returned from the UAE this morning, 19 undergrads in tow - no deaths, injuries, arrests, or illnesses. One severe case of immature/off-the-meds kid who we would have sent home if the trip lasted a day longer, and two cases of manageably annoying kids. Sixteen outstanding kids who made the whole experience worthwhile. I've been to the UAE many times, lived there for awhile, and studied its history extensively, but it was a real joy to watch these kids' reactions to their first visit. The itinerary was superb and I got to see lots of things I've never seen, and the cultural exchange aspect was well done too. We also went over the border into Oman for an afternoon. Pictures coming soon.
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In other news, (rob, pay attention) I was just watching Sunday Morning, re: Video Game Museum (http://www.icheg.org/) and some jackass was talking about how video games 'help us find the answers to life's questions'. I almost threw up.
But the real reason I bring this up is...rob, you should be packing all your video games and consoles up carefully, and take very good care of them, they may help pay for your retirement one day.
last week the Smithsonian opened up a history of video games show. i really really want to go down to DC to see it, but the write up in the times made it seem extremely awful. a few years ago the museum of the moving image in queens also had a video games exhibit (maybe it was way more than a few years ago now that i think about it) but i was completely unimpressed. ralph of atari (who's like 100) gave a lecture tho and i enjoyed that immensely. im thinking about selling some of my video game collection on craigslist this week because i have 32 dollars in cash and 42 dollars in the bank that has to last me for another 9 days. ugh. i HATE ghetto week. HATE IT. it comes every two weeks like clockwork. two weeks out of the month i live like a fucking homeless person and the other two weeks out of the month i live like a normal person. this has been going on for years... what's that thing about the definition of insanity again!?
i just woke up, but last night i had a dream where i was "cashing in" my train tickets. i say cashing in cuz that's what the lady conductor told me to and i was like um i cashed them in in the blue machine and she was like no sorry honey (she called me honey) these tickets are incorrect. ugh! i was like oh well whatever just let me cash them in and ill be glad to go wherever it is this train is taking me and she said Honey, that place doesnt exist. wtf, i dont even know HOW to interpret that dream nor do i want to.
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One of my neighbors two doors down from us just bought another house in Irvington (upgrade to something fancier). They are putting their place on the market in a couple of weeks. I'm guessing it will trade somewhere in the 700s. Easy walking distance to both the village and the train station, stone's throw from the elementary school. Very close to the aqueduct trail. Thought I would give you all the early intel in case you know anyone who has little people and is thinking about escaping from Brooklyn. This place won't stay on the market long
im so glad im not blessed with money. i would totally buy that house, all cash, and turn it into a crash pad for vagrants and hobos. but one of the bedrooms id turn into a high end clothing shop that they can purchase clothing on a debit card (for free) where they can wander about town in swanky clothing. i would love so much to be an eccentric millionaire. i really fucking <3 those people. being borderine destitute in park slope is, well, rather fucking lame. i really enjoy living here, and my dog REALLY enjoys living here, but at the same time i think im being a total financial masochist.
i can go on with a 5000 word essay on that one, but i won't. i, too, question that sometimes. i really fucking wish i had my ear to the ground, i could have EASILY made the stupid video game exhibit at the Smithsonian 100x better than what it is. fyi. i already (just visiting it on the internet found multiple factual mistakes :-/ )
Rick Santorum doubled down Sunday on a campaign promise to crack down on the distribution of explicit pornography if elected president, saying exposure to the content "can be very damaging."
A position paper on Santorum's campaign website argues that current obscenity laws already prohibit the distribution of "hardcore (obscene) pornography," and that the Obama administration has failed to enforce these restrictions. As president, Santorum says he would instruct his attorney general to prosecute those who distribute content his administration deems "obscene."
"We would, of course, as president enforce those laws, because obviously Congress in its wisdom understood that hardcore pornography is very damaging, particularly to young people, and that exposure on the Internet can be very damaging," Santorum said during an interview on ABC's "This Week." "There are laws against purveying hard-core pornography. And that--we have attorney generals in the country, at least under the Bush administration, who did prosecute that. And this administration isn't. And I simply said I would follow the law, which I know in the case of Barack Obama can be somewhat of a hefty challenge for him, but we're going to do it as president."
Santorum, however, has yet to provide a specific definition of what kind of pornography his attorney general would prosecute. Under former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department focused primarily on small distributors that produced what it considered extreme content, but largely left the major production studios alone.
rob - You could get off the train in DC on your way back from SC & tell them what's wrong. (No point doing it on the way down because the worker bees won't be there on the weekend.)
yes, great day. thankful for wireless internet. am sitting on deck enyoying the sun and the view. no pornography though. I'll wait until I am inside behind closed doors.
agreeance, but not everyone's brains are wired to think that money is the end all be all commodity in life (retarded, i KNOW cuz it really IS). there is a certain amount of freedom in being broke that people with money cannot deal with. tell me, who in the end is going to survive? those with money who pay for every stupid little random thing to get done for them or those without who experience life without that? personally i WOULD rather have gazoods of cash, but at the same time i very much enjoy not having it. mo money mo problems! im not a welfare case, i pay my way in this Universe. i just dont like the problems that happen with money and it seems like there are many!
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Rick Santorum doubled down Sunday on a campaign promise to crack down on the distribution of explicit pornography if elected president, saying exposure to the content "can be very damaging."
YES! let's focus on pornography and birth control instead of jobs and the economy :-/ ugh. i swear these republican candidates are totally backed by BRIC and pandering to all kinds of people who are just upset about the state of affairs in general. fucking idiots. anyone who votes in this upcoming election is a MORON. you really dont see what's going down these days!?!
no, rf. leaving soon for brooklyn heights. it may actually have to wait untilnext weekend unless you could do it tomorrow around noon or tuesday afternoon
another santorum comment: "“Because you don’t live in New York City. You don’t live in Los Angeles. You live like most Americans in between those two cities, and you know the values you believe in.”
about to take my dog out for a poop and a pee. i find this kind of relationship strange these days. i dont ever want to have to take take something out again to do their duty. cats are just as bad cuz they piss and shit IN YOUR HOUSE and you still have to escort their droppings anyway. i don't like the thought of having something dependent on me in this way. obviously, i can make it work, but i dont think i enjoy it all that much. no more dogs for me in the future unless they can piss and shit on their own. and feed themselves. everytime i pour his kibbles into a metal bowl ON THE FLOOR, i die a little inside. guh-ROSS.
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"“Because you don’t live in New York City. You don’t live in Los Angeles. You live like most Americans in between those two cities, and you know the values you believe in.”
omfg LOL he's totally pandering to moonfaces' parents! good luck with that, santa!
at least a few republicans have a sense of humor---from sen. scott (the hot one) brown :
"I see that both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum now have Secret Service with them on the campaign trail," Brown said. "And in Santorum's case I think it's the first time he's actually ever used protection."
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They really should come to NY for winter. much more pleasant.
.i LOVE the cold, but im gonna be honest, i did not miss snow. snow is gross unless it's fresh. i cant tell you how many times i wanted to cry because i stepped in a giant slush mound. blech. this was kind of amazing winter. it did however fly by WAY too fast, but i think everything flies by when youre my age and old.
Thanks Arkady and Pete! Pete, I have a friend who teaches in Yemen - your post scared me for a minute, but my friend is safe and sound.
At customs at JFK there was a long line and CNN on a big screen. What greeted me on my return home? Rick Santorum talking about pornography and Iran. I can guarantee you he knows nothing about the latter.
Lechacal, I don't know why you think the couple in the Times article have inherited money. They were moving from a 700-sq-ft coop with historic details in Ft. Greene. Doesn't say how long they owned it--if it was a long time, they probably could put down half the money the house cost. They guy works as an information technology manager for a real estate finance company. Not very moonface.
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At customs at JFK there was a long line and CNN on a big screen. What greeted me on my return home? Rick Santorum talking about pornography and Iran.
trains > planes. i know there are no trains from where you were, but still... planes seem like they strap you into your seats. hells no! i wouldnt be able to deal with that. also i cant stand planes that go over the air in park slope cuz they make internet porn videos kinda freeze when they are right overhead. what is up with that? why/how does that happen? it's not AS bad these days as a few years ago tho, ive noticed. but like a year ago every two seconds a plane would fly overhead, you hear it (loud) and the porn youre watching freezes! frustrating! what are you supposed to do in those frozen moments?
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Lechacal, I don't know why you think the couple in the Times article have inherited money. They were moving from a 700-sq-ft coop with historic details in Ft. Greene. Doesn't say how long they owned it--if it was a long time, they probably could put down half the money the house cost. They guy works as an information technology manager for a real estate finance company. Not very moonface.
um, sorry, but that IS very moonface. and even still, their first apartment in fart greene, SCREAMS moonface. whatever, they left the city. good riddance. of course the people who moved into their apartment in fart green are fer SURE more moonfaces. im not being a hater, im just being a realist. im just not a fan of young suburban (even when they live in the "city") white families. they annoy me.
does mail get delivered on sundays!?! i got a package in the mail in the mail thingie in the kitchen from my friend manda in san diego. it's decorated INSANE (she wrote on the actual package that she lost a pair of scissors in her vagina!) i havent opened it up yet, will do that later when i get back with Duke. we had a falling out a while back but are now on good terms i believe.
We just got back from the BBG. Lovely afternoon. Turns out—it's super convenient to new apt., a block or so from the Q train on each end. Fantastic!
Beautiful Magnolias and Daffodil Hill was in full bloom, some other nice daffodils in the Herb garden. Beautiful Camellias, and a couple early Azaleas. A few other flowering trees, and these lovely japanese bushes, called 'Pieris japonica 'Dorothy Wycoff'' blooms. Lots of little kids being herded around.
Here's a potential friend for Lechacal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/nyregion/the-man-with-a-plan-to-rebuild-after-the-apocalypse.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=all
was just out with duke, ran into my roommate and then we both ran into one of our neighbors in the building and she asked my roommate if he got the lease renewal. ugh. UGH. their rent was raised 175 bux a month and they said that the owner is completely not even open for negotiation. our lease renewal apparently is in may. i thought it was august for some reason :( maybe it starts in august but we get the lease renewal in may? 175 bux FUCK. apparently everyone in the building who had lease renewals in the last year got screwed and the owner was like, well you have to pay for this neighborhood. :-/ im already paying way over half my net income on rent, i cant pay anymore. this totally sucks. i mean i guess i can but i cant afford to get even more broke ass ghetto than i already am. there's no way in hell im going to be able to find a comparable living situation. me and my dog completely lucked out living here, perfect goodness of fit for both of us. if the rent goes up too much im thinking about moving to california, but how can someone move to another state completely broke? with a dog? i also dont want to live alone so looking for my own apartment (in the ghetto) is completely out of the question. what should i do? should i just not worry about it until may or august? i guess i can handle a hundred dollar rent increase (my part) but that's seriously pushing it. i feel like our rent increase is going to be way over 175 a month because it's a duplex 2 bedroom that can easily be renovated into a three bedroom. i hate this city sometimes. it's so nice out tho, im going to go back out with duke and take him to the park and not worry about this, things sorta have a way of working out i guess.
hey landlords: you suck! good luck with turning all your buildings into housing for moonfaces, you reap what you sew, bitches.
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Just goes to prove that rob can indeed sh*t on everything on earth.
i dont shit on everything. maybe i do. i dont try to or anything. ugh. sorry i shat on your flowers. im seriously worried right now. you were in the same boat a few months ago, no? this sucks. at least you had BH to rely on in some ways (not saying you relied on him totally, but it's totally different for people like me who has no one). not to mention i have an elderly dog. FUCK. at least i was approved for that credit card to pay for his vet bills which im sure are going to hit me in the head like a ton of bricks sometime soon. if i have to move in a few months im going to completely lose it. on a lighter note, i opened manda's package and in them was a packet of seeds for tomatos (lol). wtf? how do you even grow them and do they really turn into tomatos and what kind of tomatos? there's like three kinds at associated and i like the middle priced ones.. the beefsteak tomatoes are GROSS but the cheapest and the biggest, the vine ones are the tiniest and usually the most expensive, and there's one kind that is in the middle that im blanking on the name of.
i think im going to spend this week selling my video game collection on craigslist or ebay. once that is no longer a monkey on my back i have nothing but my journals and books, i can get rid of the books. then get rid of clothes that i dont wear, and superfluous furniture. i have like 4 or 5 suitcases that can probably fit everything else that i own. am i selling the pony before the slaughter tho? omg, i cant deal,. okay going to the park and gonna sit and stare at people in that bench area in GAP and wonder why it is that people like that get to live here but i dont. of course if worst came to worst, i could alwsays just be homeless with duke in prospect park. im not that shameless.
rob, DO NOT PANIC. You can be a resourceful fellow when you want to be. You found this place, you can and will find another if you need to. Stash a little extra cash in your bank account as you can after your trip. Don't sell your stuff, unless you really want or need to.
I'll keep an eye out to see if there are any studios opening up in my building. What amount of rent can you pay most comfortably?
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What amount of rent can you pay most comfortably?
realistically no more than 1200. my current part of the rent is 1265. but i dont know if could pay all utilities on my own, it's currently half that i split, which is fine. my roommate kinda subsidizes duke's dog care i.e. the dog walking, i pay 2/3'rds of the bill he pays 1/3. (bless his soul im not sure why anyone would do that), but duke sleeps with him every night and i guess they have a bond. i think im just gonna bite the bullet and find a boyfriend. all bills in this stupid city are set up for couples, that unless youre making mad moola, a single person is SCREWED. im not sure i can deal with waking up next to someone i find ugly every morning (and the only kind of boyfriend i can snag these days will assuredly be ugly). grrrrr. does anyone know of anyone who needs a greencard or something? im totally open to marrying a chick, i dont really care, as long as she got money or an apartment. thumbs up if she's totally insane btw. they investigate (the feds) when people get married for green cards. she cant have kids tho, no way.
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I'll keep an eye out to see if there are any studios opening up in my building.
sitcom, GOLD! my rent is always paid on time, usually a month in advance (nothing comes first more than the rent), im super anal about recycling and if i see random stuff that is not sorted out correctly i take it upon myself to sort it. my apartment is always clean, and i contribute to the free stuff type of living situation, i.e. once im done with a book i put it out for someone else to read. i can get good references i guess if you dont mind that they are not landlords proper. (i usually pay in cash but if that's a problem i dont have to). i can do any kind of super kinda work, i.e. taking out the trash, cleaning the lobbies and stairs, etc. also when it comes to non smoking apartments i have no problem going outside to smoke, in fact i prefer it.
downsides of having me as a tenant? i cant deal with white walls, i will need to paint. i'll store my shoes in the fridge (not that it matters i guess) and my journals in the freezer.
upsides: im clean, always pay rent on time, dont have parties, the only ass sitting on your toilet bowl will be me, and im not gonna be calling you in the middle of the night for some moonface problem.
hells no. im more leaning toward jersey if i have to stay in this area. the people of queens should be left alone. im not a moonface, but i think that in some areas i would be considered one. i dont wanna do that to anyone. especially the nice people in Queens. if only more people thought the way i do, things would be cheaper and half of brooklyn wouldnt be infested with mega annoying ultra-white people. is that racist? i dont know, but i know i dont like the kinds of white people that i see all the time in NYC.
omg my roommate's boyfriend turned me onto this .. real housewives of south boston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3MmThj_PU
about to head to the park with Duke, is Zucotti park still going on? my phone was stolen in that park,. a lame ass phone to boot. a bunch of privileged types gonna make a big fuss about life again this spring? yay
im all for civil disorder but not when it's those kinds of people. mollys, megans, and joshes? get the fuck out of peoples' faces no one gives a shit enough to look at your lice beards and cupcake cankles.
I didn't mean limited means like they are poor, I meant it's not the kind of money that will never be gone. There are all of these people walking around with something from somewhere in the family - maybe it's a few hundred grand, maybe it's a few million, but it's not the kind of money that will always be there no matter how stupid you are. These people don't learn discipline early so they're pretty much financially crippled righ out of the gate. Step one - I love brownstones with period detail! Step 15 or 20 - oh my god I'm lower middle class, what happened and who can I blame?
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I didn't mean limited means like they are poor, I meant it's not the kind of money that will never be gone.
money that "will never be gone" lmafo
okay for reals going out with Duke now. we will walk up douglass street and go to the park and lol our asses off and cry a bit that we cant afford it here anymore. cuz this is the beverly hills section of brooklyn :-/ wtf? lame. people better not get in our way, im already dancing.
Rob, for the life of me, I don't understand the relevance of the women you illustrate your points with. I have no idea who the blonde(s) are, or the Asian woman, or for that matter that black woman with her arms crossed. It's like a secret language, or something. Something tells me it's good I have no clue who they are.
Most trust fund recipients aren't smart enough to effectively manage their money and they run out of it. Ten they are worse off than most because they have no job skills.
lech @ 5:58. I'm so glad there are so many people like you, that made it to the 'big time' and believe they know better than everyone else. I'm sure you've worked hard to get where you are (or maybe it wasn't that difficult for you, I don't know), but you've been lucky. Very lucky. And you might stop for a moment and appreciate that rather than sh*tting on the people that didn't make it to where you are in this life.
People have dreams, people aim high. Sometimes they miss. It's not the end of the world.
Chicken in a pot in the oven! YUM! I love this recipe, all the work is upfront. Then you toss it in the oven and 80 minutes later....Voila! Yummy chicken! And the juice makes a lovely light gravy for rice. Steam some veg and you have dinner. Couldn't be easier.
The truly brilliant people I've met have been very very focused on what they want to do, the subject/thing that intrigues them most. To the exclusion of many other things we might call normal daily life. It's a kind of introverted world they live in. The ideas of things absorb them (more or less, depending on the person) more than people around them.
I'm too distractible. I've never found that one thing that I could focus on above all others.
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Rob, for the life of me, I don't understand the relevance of the women you illustrate your points with.
strong women, that's all (i think). just got back from prospect park with Duke. i dont know how to answer your question, MM, other than saying strong women. if i had picture of my grandmother i would use that as my avatar. maybe my mom too (maybe not). dont read too much into it, i dont think there is any meaning there other than the obvious.
dont be judgemental. i dont have anything to offer (or at least nothing that gay guys think are the most important thing in life). c'mon at least im honest about it. i wouldnt wish myself on ANYONE (and that's fine) gay or straight.
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I'm sure you've worked hard to get where you are (or maybe it wasn't that difficult for you, I don't know), but you've been lucky. Very lucky.
do you go around always feeling this way about people have more than you? im just asking. i do, and it's not healthy. in fact it's very unhealthy. you seem a tad bitter. im bitter too but at least i can own it. nothing wrong with admitting youre jealous of people, hells i so am.
"lech @ 5:58. I'm so glad there are so many people like you, that made it to the 'big time' and believe they know better than everyone else. I'm sure you've worked hard to get where you are (or maybe it wasn't that difficult for you, I don't know), but you've been lucky. Very lucky. And you might stop for a moment and appreciate that rather than sh*tting on the people that didn't make it to where you are in this life.
People have dreams, people aim high. Sometimes they miss. It's not the end of the world."
Cobble, I had penned (typed) a similar response, and then said, "why bother." I'm glad you wrote that, I agree completely. Both of us, and others we know and love, have had our well planned lives turned completely upside down. I'm not asking anyone to feel sorry for me, especially since compared to many others, my life is still golden, but it would be nice to not be subjected to the withering scorn of the successful.
I can say, with complete certainty, that I won't be here, in the situation I'm in, forever. I hope when I'm well beyond where I am now, I don't forget a minute of what it was like, and do my best to help whomever I can.
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I'm not asking anyone to feel sorry for me, especially since compared to many others, my life is still golden
you are one of the MOST self-actualized people that exists. money is amazing but money still is hard to have. you cover old ass buildings like no one else does, and yes you do it on the internet, that's great! chances are if you visit those buildings you share on the internet one might fall down the stairs or a brick might fall on their head. MM, i actually printed out one of your posts about my stupid trip to SC and it's stuck in a pocket hole of my man purse. and im going to read it at Penn station, and then again on the train.
I couldn't have said it better, MM. (Darn you and your pen!! ; ) )
rob, I'm not 'bitter' about my situation (although I have many reasons to be), disappointed perhaps, but I tend to try to focus on the fact that I am still very lucky. Much luckier than many. My life will be just fine. I'm in a 'down', but I know there are still 'up's to come...it's just taking a really effing long time to get there! : P
well you have this general aura about you that seems negative. sorry if that comes across as being mean, i dont mean it to be, i have some mad negative energy surrounding me as well.
that comment was for cobble, not MM. life is tough, i think it gets weirder the older you get and not much more fun unless you have a gazillion dollars or can prove yourself as being different. problem is that most people cant do that and the older you get you realize that life is whoa so awful.
I have to point out, rob, that you have only known me for the past 3 years since I lost my 'good job', had my own money, lived a very different lifestyle, and have since struggled to find a new line of work and good income. So I would say you have only seen me on the downswing. It's been a difficult time. If I come across as negative, it's likely more that I'm struggling not that I am bitter. (Or maybe I'm just happy right now because BH is home! : P )
I have been very lucky.
I have also been very unlucky.
I have made plans.
I have had plans blow up.
I think the above applies to every single huemon on the planet.
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I have to point out, rob, that you have only known me for the past 3 years since I lost my 'good job', had my own money, lived a very different lifestyle, and have since struggled to find a new line of work and good income. So I would say you have only seen me on the downswing. It's been a difficult time. If I come across as negative, it's likely more that I'm struggling not that I am bitter. (Or maybe I'm just happy right now because BH is home! : P )
okay makes sense. also i guess youve only known me since ive lived in brooklyn. omg gotta run, my dog is barking and there are random people in the living room!
OK, well I admit my post was pretty judgy and kind of assholish. But as far as I know it wasn't aimed at either MM or cobble, since as far as I know neither one of them is a trust funder. (are you? serious question, I didn't think you were and didn't think I was talking about you). Anyways, my point stands even if I was kind of an asshole when I made it. A lot of trust funders travel a predictable path that starts with a liberal arts degree, where their heads are filled with all kinds of totaly impractical ideas, and then moves on to a job situation that fulfills some desire other than economy. It's sort of like what happens to a wild animal when you give it lots of food when it's young. It never learns to hunt. Fine if you have enough to last forever I guess, but when I see some creative professional in his 30s who is buying a money pit that's just dripping with period detail I feel like screaming in his face STOP!!!! YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THE MONEY TO DO THIS!!!! DON'T YOU SEE??? ISN'T IT TOTALLY OBVIOUS TO YOU??? FOR FUCK'S SAKE, JUST LIVE LIKE A REGULAR MIDDLE CLASS PERSON, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE!!! THE TRUST FUND IS A BIG FAT LIE, IT'S SUCKING YOU INTO A FALSE FEELING OF COMFORT!!! But of course I don't do that, and they inevitably buy the house, and it inevitably costs more and more and more, and inevitably this and inevitably that. I feel like Park Slope is chock full of these people.
Lechacal, I don't understand what you have against these people. You have absolutely no idea about their balance sheet nor the source of their money. They bought a house in Bed-Stuy. You bought a house in Irvington. So what??? Are you much smarter because you own some land with lumber on it?
What I have against them is their smugness, their sense that they are superior to people who live ordinary, unartistic middle class lifestyles with nothing built by artisans. The fact that they think they are better than a guy who lives in a boring new condo with no period detail who works for a bank in middle management. If they weren't so smug I wouldn't have to judge them.
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I feel like Park Slope is chock full of these people.
totes. i see people my age who are SO flush with parental money it's barfy. it's also way easy to make fun of them tho and looking at their crotchfruit and actually say out loud CROTCHFRUIT! they make faces (the breeder parents) but whatev. what are they going to do? people like me make their lives in gentrified areas less nice. that's my goal in life.
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What I have against them is their smugness, their sense that they are superior to people who live ordinary, unartistic middle class lifestyles with nothing built by artisans.
HA! totally. that's why i hate brooklyn, well New Brooklyn (barf). so many of those people need to be punched in the face
he is making all that crap up that he never read. the guy is an IT manager - I suppose that could be 'creative' but not what usually called creative. that met working overnight shift in restaurant -- doesn't sound trust fund-like to me.
they sound perfectly content to fix up when they have the money...not doing it now. and it wasn't a brownstoner --- it is a vinyl sided house. Just trying to make them fit some crazy stereotype you have of some people. Forget it.they don't fit it.
Do you need validation from others for choice you made or something? that all white college educated folks with kids must move to suburbs when kids are old enuf for school?(unless filthy rich).
how do you know (and rob seems to know this trust fund folks) so many? I can't think of anyone I know that ever admitted or seemed to have trust fund. Are they really so unsuccessful? do you have any stats?
"You have absolutely no idea about their balance sheet nor the source of their money."
I think that's more to the point, rf.
lech, Would it truly make any difference if I were/had been a trust funder? If my family had given me money at any point in time? (Yes, they have.) My post stands either way.
Judging how anyone goes through this life is a losing game. 'There but for the grace of g*d' go most of us, in my view.
It's the lack of understanding and holding yourself above as judge when you have no actual knowledge (in this case: zero) of any particular person's circumstances that shows a clear lack of awareness of life's fragility. Yes, you're making a killing right now, and perhaps you are making good decisions which are working for you at this moment. But I have seen successful people like you build on the assumption that *they* *know* the right way to do things. And then I've watched them fall...and all the harder. Some humility is in order.
This isn't about living in Brooklyn vs. living where I live. That's barking up the wrong tree. I'm making the observation that there is a class of people that is heavily represented in places like Park Slope that shares some unappealing traits: lack of hunger, lack of practicality, lack of economy, and totally misplaced snobbery (they really think they're better than the insurance salesman who eats at TGI Friday's and doesn't drive a hybrid, but they aren't - the joke is on them).
I'm not saying that success means you're right, that's totally missing the point. In fact I'm saying that the humility of accepting yourself as an average middle class joe, when that's what you are, is worthy of praise. I don't think I've ever held myself out as fancy around these parts.
here's 1bedroom in bayridge for rob for less than 1000...and doesn't need to worry about whatever color he want to paint it.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/2908595635.html
it does kill me often how people can be fiscally irresponsible. case in point --- other half's sister and nephew.
He is separating from his wife, moving into own apt, approx 30 y.o., has job chef in restaurant, was without car but we sold him cheap our old one for $1000, didn't have the cash waiting for his IRS refund.
But instead of moving back with mommy and daddy to save up some $$, he is out shopping for new furniture for the new apt. with mommy.
#1 How many are you for the apartment ? - um ONE
#2 How many will be providing income ? um, ONE
#3 Annual Income(s) ? none of your business
#4 Do you know what your credit is ? uh, again noine of your business
#5 What would be the soonest that you are looking to take the apartment ?
#6 Do you have a dog - yes, but isnt this just as ilegal as asking if you have crotchfruit? i mean really. yeah duh, i have 48 children and plan to bring them all in to live in your stupid ghetto ass apartment :-/ why can they ask if you had DOGS but not kids? it's illegal to ask if you have kids but not dogs? even tho kids are the things that ruin property values in a neighborhood. so i can be asked if i have a dog but not if i have 10 kids and dont know their baby daddies? bitch please.
#7 Any Questions you may have? can i paint those walls?
#7 Please provide contact name & phone number & anything personal you would like no
Watch out for Leprechauns.
Ok, I'll kiss a leprechaun. Hey DIBS, get over here...MWAH! There, I did it! : P
Took 2 attempts to safe boot/standard, then new attempt to safe boot with terminal screen so I could see the line-by-line code. All better now. Phew!
SCARY!
LOL! Yes, it's apparently acting out and missing him, too! ; ) (4.5 hours and counting...)
Short people don't scare me as much as mean people.
Inside - check
Wallet - check
Phone - check
Broke - check
There's a free pint of Guiness to first who knows where those names came from!!!!
Murphy
Killian
Foster
Porter
See a trend???
This is going to be very interesting.
BH is currently passing through Phila.! : D
mean Romneycare in Mass. would also be unconstitutional?
There is also a state's rights issue about Obamacare placing an unfunded mandate on the States.
There should be a decision by late summer, and in any case before the election.
The Court maintains this schedule each Term until all cases ready for submission have been heard and decided. In May and June the Court sits only to announce orders and opinions. The Court recesses at the end of June, but the work of the Justices is unceasing. During the summer they continue to analyze new petitions for review, consider motions and applications, and must make preparations for cases scheduled for fall argument.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/procedures.aspx
Anyone want them???
BH is passing through Newark! Amtrak is running ahead of schedule! Bringin' ma baybee back—Gov't subsidies workin' for me! ; )
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the thing that pisses the most people off is seeing others actually be content with themselves. it boggles the mind of many. i think only 1 in 10 people (in america anyway) are fully self-actualized. that's ruff!
<3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYqxsDz3aYI&feature=related
*rob*
And every day is the same in NYC, Saturday, today, tomorrow. In the words of my new favorite novel, "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand other matches have gone out."
*rob*
The town is quite proud.
no offense, but probably screwing them too. those suburban nyc towns are ALL about that.
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Maslow considered self-actualizing people to possess "an unusual ability to detect the spurious, the fake, and the dishonest in personality, and in general to judge the people correctly and efficiently."[10]
Common traits amongst people who have reached self-actualization are:[11]
They embrace reality and facts rather than denying truth.
They are spontaneous.
They are "focused on problems outside themselves."[12]
They "can accept their own human nature in the stoic style, with all its shortcomings,"[13] are similarly acceptant of others, and generally lack prejudice.
From DCB: If you don't go blind from auto-eroticizing, then self actualizing is sure to drive you mad.
And profound congratulations to the Irvington Girls Basketball team for their victory on the court. And for all the sex that they are rumored to be having, too.
Dumbass. Lawns aren't 99%. Working on your own lawn is.
OY. It's too early for Maslow, and if you start talking about Myers Briggs and EST, I'm disowning you all. : P
In other news, (rob, pay attention) I was just watching Sunday Morning, re: Video Game Museum (http://www.icheg.org/) and some jackass was talking about how video games 'help us find the answers to life's questions'. I almost threw up.
But the real reason I bring this up is...rob, you should be packing all your video games and consoles up carefully, and take very good care of them, they may help pay for your retirement one day.
Though I'm probably the first man in history to whom dave has said, "ZIP UP your fly".
damn, damn, the one race I run every year (15k) closed registration already (race isn't until july).
I agree, because those people that actually do spend time self-actualizing don't spend as much time navel gazing and self-glorifying!! : )
I also hate spiritual and self-actualization. All reeks of egocentrism.
http://tinyurl.com/7q3kqgg
It's Sunday morning, stop bickering and go outside and play!
(Sorry, just channeling my Dad! : P )
Carry on.
I think I understand the rage. A couple of moonface twits by a fixer upper in the hood on a romantic notion, but have no idea what they are getting in to or how much it will inevitably cost.
rf, when you coming over for the coffee press??? You need any other kitchen things???
I bought a house needing lot of work and knew nothing about fixing, repairing, whatever and borrowed money for downpayment. It can work out fine.
Squandered is going out and buying a $100k mercedes.
In other news, (rob, pay attention) I was just watching Sunday Morning, re: Video Game Museum (http://www.icheg.org/) and some jackass was talking about how video games 'help us find the answers to life's questions'. I almost threw up.
But the real reason I bring this up is...rob, you should be packing all your video games and consoles up carefully, and take very good care of them, they may help pay for your retirement one day.
last week the Smithsonian opened up a history of video games show. i really really want to go down to DC to see it, but the write up in the times made it seem extremely awful. a few years ago the museum of the moving image in queens also had a video games exhibit (maybe it was way more than a few years ago now that i think about it) but i was completely unimpressed. ralph of atari (who's like 100) gave a lecture tho and i enjoyed that immensely. im thinking about selling some of my video game collection on craigslist this week because i have 32 dollars in cash and 42 dollars in the bank that has to last me for another 9 days. ugh. i HATE ghetto week. HATE IT. it comes every two weeks like clockwork. two weeks out of the month i live like a fucking homeless person and the other two weeks out of the month i live like a normal person. this has been going on for years... what's that thing about the definition of insanity again!?
i just woke up, but last night i had a dream where i was "cashing in" my train tickets. i say cashing in cuz that's what the lady conductor told me to and i was like um i cashed them in in the blue machine and she was like no sorry honey (she called me honey) these tickets are incorrect. ugh! i was like oh well whatever just let me cash them in and ill be glad to go wherever it is this train is taking me and she said Honey, that place doesnt exist. wtf, i dont even know HOW to interpret that dream nor do i want to.
*rob*
One of my neighbors two doors down from us just bought another house in Irvington (upgrade to something fancier). They are putting their place on the market in a couple of weeks. I'm guessing it will trade somewhere in the 700s. Easy walking distance to both the village and the train station, stone's throw from the elementary school. Very close to the aqueduct trail. Thought I would give you all the early intel in case you know anyone who has little people and is thinking about escaping from Brooklyn. This place won't stay on the market long
im so glad im not blessed with money. i would totally buy that house, all cash, and turn it into a crash pad for vagrants and hobos. but one of the bedrooms id turn into a high end clothing shop that they can purchase clothing on a debit card (for free) where they can wander about town in swanky clothing. i would love so much to be an eccentric millionaire. i really fucking <3 those people. being borderine destitute in park slope is, well, rather fucking lame. i really enjoy living here, and my dog REALLY enjoys living here, but at the same time i think im being a total financial masochist.
Right. Spending significant money on depreciating assets is for the 99%.
is pacman considered a video game?
i can go on with a 5000 word essay on that one, but i won't. i, too, question that sometimes. i really fucking wish i had my ear to the ground, i could have EASILY made the stupid video game exhibit at the Smithsonian 100x better than what it is. fyi. i already (just visiting it on the internet found multiple factual mistakes :-/ )
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A position paper on Santorum's campaign website argues that current obscenity laws already prohibit the distribution of "hardcore (obscene) pornography," and that the Obama administration has failed to enforce these restrictions. As president, Santorum says he would instruct his attorney general to prosecute those who distribute content his administration deems "obscene."
"We would, of course, as president enforce those laws, because obviously Congress in its wisdom understood that hardcore pornography is very damaging, particularly to young people, and that exposure on the Internet can be very damaging," Santorum said during an interview on ABC's "This Week." "There are laws against purveying hard-core pornography. And that--we have attorney generals in the country, at least under the Bush administration, who did prosecute that. And this administration isn't. And I simply said I would follow the law, which I know in the case of Barack Obama can be somewhat of a hefty challenge for him, but we're going to do it as president."
Santorum, however, has yet to provide a specific definition of what kind of pornography his attorney general would prosecute. Under former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department focused primarily on small distributors that produced what it considered extreme content, but largely left the major production studios alone.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
agreeance, but not everyone's brains are wired to think that money is the end all be all commodity in life (retarded, i KNOW cuz it really IS). there is a certain amount of freedom in being broke that people with money cannot deal with. tell me, who in the end is going to survive? those with money who pay for every stupid little random thing to get done for them or those without who experience life without that? personally i WOULD rather have gazoods of cash, but at the same time i very much enjoy not having it. mo money mo problems! im not a welfare case, i pay my way in this Universe. i just dont like the problems that happen with money and it seems like there are many!
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Rick Santorum doubled down Sunday on a campaign promise to crack down on the distribution of explicit pornography if elected president, saying exposure to the content "can be very damaging."
YES! let's focus on pornography and birth control instead of jobs and the economy :-/ ugh. i swear these republican candidates are totally backed by BRIC and pandering to all kinds of people who are just upset about the state of affairs in general. fucking idiots. anyone who votes in this upcoming election is a MORON. you really dont see what's going down these days!?!
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also--- snowstorm closes interstate in Arizona. They really should come to NY for winter. much more pleasant.
*rob*
"“Because you don’t live in New York City. You don’t live in Los Angeles. You live like most Americans in between those two cities, and you know the values you believe in.”
omfg LOL he's totally pandering to moonfaces' parents! good luck with that, santa!
*rob*
"I see that both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum now have Secret Service with them on the campaign trail," Brown said. "And in Santorum's case I think it's the first time he's actually ever used protection."
They really should come to NY for winter. much more pleasant.
.i LOVE the cold, but im gonna be honest, i did not miss snow. snow is gross unless it's fresh. i cant tell you how many times i wanted to cry because i stepped in a giant slush mound. blech. this was kind of amazing winter. it did however fly by WAY too fast, but i think everything flies by when youre my age and old.
At customs at JFK there was a long line and CNN on a big screen. What greeted me on my return home? Rick Santorum talking about pornography and Iran. I can guarantee you he knows nothing about the latter.
At customs at JFK there was a long line and CNN on a big screen. What greeted me on my return home? Rick Santorum talking about pornography and Iran.
trains > planes. i know there are no trains from where you were, but still... planes seem like they strap you into your seats. hells no! i wouldnt be able to deal with that. also i cant stand planes that go over the air in park slope cuz they make internet porn videos kinda freeze when they are right overhead. what is up with that? why/how does that happen? it's not AS bad these days as a few years ago tho, ive noticed. but like a year ago every two seconds a plane would fly overhead, you hear it (loud) and the porn youre watching freezes! frustrating! what are you supposed to do in those frozen moments?
Lechacal, I don't know why you think the couple in the Times article have inherited money. They were moving from a 700-sq-ft coop with historic details in Ft. Greene. Doesn't say how long they owned it--if it was a long time, they probably could put down half the money the house cost. They guy works as an information technology manager for a real estate finance company. Not very moonface.
um, sorry, but that IS very moonface. and even still, their first apartment in fart greene, SCREAMS moonface. whatever, they left the city. good riddance. of course the people who moved into their apartment in fart green are fer SURE more moonfaces. im not being a hater, im just being a realist. im just not a fan of young suburban (even when they live in the "city") white families. they annoy me.
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firstworldproblems
We just got back from the BBG. Lovely afternoon. Turns out—it's super convenient to new apt., a block or so from the Q train on each end. Fantastic!
Beautiful Magnolias and Daffodil Hill was in full bloom, some other nice daffodils in the Herb garden. Beautiful Camellias, and a couple early Azaleas. A few other flowering trees, and these lovely japanese bushes, called 'Pieris japonica 'Dorothy Wycoff'' blooms. Lots of little kids being herded around.
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Just goes to prove that rob can indeed sh*t on everything on earth.
Oh? Do tell...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/nyregion/the-man-with-a-plan-to-rebuild-after-the-apocalypse.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=all
hey landlords: you suck! good luck with turning all your buildings into housing for moonfaces, you reap what you sew, bitches.
*rob*
Just goes to prove that rob can indeed sh*t on everything on earth.
i dont shit on everything. maybe i do. i dont try to or anything. ugh. sorry i shat on your flowers. im seriously worried right now. you were in the same boat a few months ago, no? this sucks. at least you had BH to rely on in some ways (not saying you relied on him totally, but it's totally different for people like me who has no one). not to mention i have an elderly dog. FUCK. at least i was approved for that credit card to pay for his vet bills which im sure are going to hit me in the head like a ton of bricks sometime soon. if i have to move in a few months im going to completely lose it. on a lighter note, i opened manda's package and in them was a packet of seeds for tomatos (lol). wtf? how do you even grow them and do they really turn into tomatos and what kind of tomatos? there's like three kinds at associated and i like the middle priced ones.. the beefsteak tomatoes are GROSS but the cheapest and the biggest, the vine ones are the tiniest and usually the most expensive, and there's one kind that is in the middle that im blanking on the name of.
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I'll keep an eye out to see if there are any studios opening up in my building. What amount of rent can you pay most comfortably?
What amount of rent can you pay most comfortably?
realistically no more than 1200. my current part of the rent is 1265. but i dont know if could pay all utilities on my own, it's currently half that i split, which is fine. my roommate kinda subsidizes duke's dog care i.e. the dog walking, i pay 2/3'rds of the bill he pays 1/3. (bless his soul im not sure why anyone would do that), but duke sleeps with him every night and i guess they have a bond. i think im just gonna bite the bullet and find a boyfriend. all bills in this stupid city are set up for couples, that unless youre making mad moola, a single person is SCREWED. im not sure i can deal with waking up next to someone i find ugly every morning (and the only kind of boyfriend i can snag these days will assuredly be ugly). grrrrr. does anyone know of anyone who needs a greencard or something? im totally open to marrying a chick, i dont really care, as long as she got money or an apartment. thumbs up if she's totally insane btw. they investigate (the feds) when people get married for green cards. she cant have kids tho, no way.
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Green card thing won't work. You wouldnt pass as straight.
I'll keep an eye out to see if there are any studios opening up in my building.
sitcom, GOLD! my rent is always paid on time, usually a month in advance (nothing comes first more than the rent), im super anal about recycling and if i see random stuff that is not sorted out correctly i take it upon myself to sort it. my apartment is always clean, and i contribute to the free stuff type of living situation, i.e. once im done with a book i put it out for someone else to read. i can get good references i guess if you dont mind that they are not landlords proper. (i usually pay in cash but if that's a problem i dont have to). i can do any kind of super kinda work, i.e. taking out the trash, cleaning the lobbies and stairs, etc. also when it comes to non smoking apartments i have no problem going outside to smoke, in fact i prefer it.
downsides of having me as a tenant? i cant deal with white walls, i will need to paint. i'll store my shoes in the fridge (not that it matters i guess) and my journals in the freezer.
upsides: im clean, always pay rent on time, dont have parties, the only ass sitting on your toilet bowl will be me, and im not gonna be calling you in the middle of the night for some moonface problem.
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Queens!!
hells no. im more leaning toward jersey if i have to stay in this area. the people of queens should be left alone. im not a moonface, but i think that in some areas i would be considered one. i dont wanna do that to anyone. especially the nice people in Queens. if only more people thought the way i do, things would be cheaper and half of brooklyn wouldnt be infested with mega annoying ultra-white people. is that racist? i dont know, but i know i dont like the kinds of white people that i see all the time in NYC.
omg my roommate's boyfriend turned me onto this .. real housewives of south boston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3MmThj_PU
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(No sarcasm)
im all for civil disorder but not when it's those kinds of people. mollys, megans, and joshes? get the fuck out of peoples' faces no one gives a shit enough to look at your lice beards and cupcake cankles.
:-/
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You wouldnt pass as straight.
oh whatever, and you do? dont get me started tonight on what "passes' for straight
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I didn't mean limited means like they are poor, I meant it's not the kind of money that will never be gone.
money that "will never be gone" lmafo
okay for reals going out with Duke now. we will walk up douglass street and go to the park and lol our asses off and cry a bit that we cant afford it here anymore. cuz this is the beverly hills section of brooklyn :-/ wtf? lame. people better not get in our way, im already dancing.
feet dont fail us now
*rob*
People have dreams, people aim high. Sometimes they miss. It's not the end of the world.
Chicken in a pot in the oven! YUM! I love this recipe, all the work is upfront. Then you toss it in the oven and 80 minutes later....Voila! Yummy chicken! And the juice makes a lovely light gravy for rice. Steam some veg and you have dinner. Couldn't be easier.
I'm too distractible. I've never found that one thing that I could focus on above all others.
Rob, for the life of me, I don't understand the relevance of the women you illustrate your points with.
strong women, that's all (i think). just got back from prospect park with Duke. i dont know how to answer your question, MM, other than saying strong women. if i had picture of my grandmother i would use that as my avatar. maybe my mom too (maybe not). dont read too much into it, i dont think there is any meaning there other than the obvious.
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A non practising (sic) homo!!!!!! Sad
dont be judgemental. i dont have anything to offer (or at least nothing that gay guys think are the most important thing in life). c'mon at least im honest about it. i wouldnt wish myself on ANYONE (and that's fine) gay or straight.
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I'm sure you've worked hard to get where you are (or maybe it wasn't that difficult for you, I don't know), but you've been lucky. Very lucky.
do you go around always feeling this way about people have more than you? im just asking. i do, and it's not healthy. in fact it's very unhealthy. you seem a tad bitter. im bitter too but at least i can own it. nothing wrong with admitting youre jealous of people, hells i so am.
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People have dreams, people aim high. Sometimes they miss. It's not the end of the world."
Cobble, I had penned (typed) a similar response, and then said, "why bother." I'm glad you wrote that, I agree completely. Both of us, and others we know and love, have had our well planned lives turned completely upside down. I'm not asking anyone to feel sorry for me, especially since compared to many others, my life is still golden, but it would be nice to not be subjected to the withering scorn of the successful.
I can say, with complete certainty, that I won't be here, in the situation I'm in, forever. I hope when I'm well beyond where I am now, I don't forget a minute of what it was like, and do my best to help whomever I can.
I'm not asking anyone to feel sorry for me, especially since compared to many others, my life is still golden
you are one of the MOST self-actualized people that exists. money is amazing but money still is hard to have. you cover old ass buildings like no one else does, and yes you do it on the internet, that's great! chances are if you visit those buildings you share on the internet one might fall down the stairs or a brick might fall on their head. MM, i actually printed out one of your posts about my stupid trip to SC and it's stuck in a pocket hole of my man purse. and im going to read it at Penn station, and then again on the train.
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rob, I'm not 'bitter' about my situation (although I have many reasons to be), disappointed perhaps, but I tend to try to focus on the fact that I am still very lucky. Much luckier than many. My life will be just fine. I'm in a 'down', but I know there are still 'up's to come...it's just taking a really effing long time to get there! : P
Amen, Sister Cobble. Amen!
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I have also been very unlucky.
I have made plans.
I have had plans blow up.
I think the above applies to every single huemon on the planet.
; ) Love ya, MM!
I have to point out, rob, that you have only known me for the past 3 years since I lost my 'good job', had my own money, lived a very different lifestyle, and have since struggled to find a new line of work and good income. So I would say you have only seen me on the downswing. It's been a difficult time. If I come across as negative, it's likely more that I'm struggling not that I am bitter. (Or maybe I'm just happy right now because BH is home! : P )
okay makes sense. also i guess youve only known me since ive lived in brooklyn. omg gotta run, my dog is barking and there are random people in the living room!
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I feel like Park Slope is chock full of these people.
totes. i see people my age who are SO flush with parental money it's barfy. it's also way easy to make fun of them tho and looking at their crotchfruit and actually say out loud CROTCHFRUIT! they make faces (the breeder parents) but whatev. what are they going to do? people like me make their lives in gentrified areas less nice. that's my goal in life.
*rob*
What I have against them is their smugness, their sense that they are superior to people who live ordinary, unartistic middle class lifestyles with nothing built by artisans.
HA! totally. that's why i hate brooklyn, well New Brooklyn (barf). so many of those people need to be punched in the face
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And I really wasn't talking about mm and cobble (again I assume you guys aren't trust funders, but hey what do I know).
they sound perfectly content to fix up when they have the money...not doing it now. and it wasn't a brownstoner --- it is a vinyl sided house. Just trying to make them fit some crazy stereotype you have of some people. Forget it.they don't fit it.
Do you need validation from others for choice you made or something? that all white college educated folks with kids must move to suburbs when kids are old enuf for school?(unless filthy rich).
I think that's more to the point, rf.
lech, Would it truly make any difference if I were/had been a trust funder? If my family had given me money at any point in time? (Yes, they have.) My post stands either way.
Judging how anyone goes through this life is a losing game. 'There but for the grace of g*d' go most of us, in my view.
It's the lack of understanding and holding yourself above as judge when you have no actual knowledge (in this case: zero) of any particular person's circumstances that shows a clear lack of awareness of life's fragility. Yes, you're making a killing right now, and perhaps you are making good decisions which are working for you at this moment. But I have seen successful people like you build on the assumption that *they* *know* the right way to do things. And then I've watched them fall...and all the harder. Some humility is in order.
Uh.... speaking of assumptions....
I'm not saying that success means you're right, that's totally missing the point. In fact I'm saying that the humility of accepting yourself as an average middle class joe, when that's what you are, is worthy of praise. I don't think I've ever held myself out as fancy around these parts.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/2908595635.html
He is separating from his wife, moving into own apt, approx 30 y.o., has job chef in restaurant, was without car but we sold him cheap our old one for $1000, didn't have the cash waiting for his IRS refund.
But instead of moving back with mommy and daddy to save up some $$, he is out shopping for new furniture for the new apt. with mommy.
quote:
Please provide the following Info.
#1 How many are you for the apartment ? - um ONE
#2 How many will be providing income ? um, ONE
#3 Annual Income(s) ? none of your business
#4 Do you know what your credit is ? uh, again noine of your business
#5 What would be the soonest that you are looking to take the apartment ?
#6 Do you have a dog - yes, but isnt this just as ilegal as asking if you have crotchfruit? i mean really. yeah duh, i have 48 children and plan to bring them all in to live in your stupid ghetto ass apartment :-/ why can they ask if you had DOGS but not kids? it's illegal to ask if you have kids but not dogs? even tho kids are the things that ruin property values in a neighborhood. so i can be asked if i have a dog but not if i have 10 kids and dont know their baby daddies? bitch please.
#7 Any Questions you may have? can i paint those walls?
#7 Please provide contact name & phone number & anything personal you would like no
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Hmm. I agree with you there.
I did not think you were talking about me, per se, but your comments regarding the BedStuy house people and trustafarians struck me in a personal way.