This response to the NY Magazine article on Jersey City is hilarious! Besides the title, "Fuck You - Jersey City is Not Cool," I like this part:
COOL??? It's cool, is it? Well other people have heard something apparently pointing to this fact, so surely it must be true! Disregard that you actually live there and there are mice in your walls and constant construction everywhere and there's only like two bars you feel at all remotely welcome in and the superchill block you live on is almost entirely populated by Russians who make no effort to get to know you or vice versa. Jersey City is the BEES KNEES and don't you even begin to think otherwise!
and
I've seen Williamsburg recently and you know what?! It's basically a shithole populated with annoying skinny white kids. They have stupid emo hair and thick-rimmed glasses. They're loud and basically epitomize what I would refer to as "tools". Let's face it. When judging whether a place is "cool" or not we're basically saying, "Can a skinny, white, middle class kid move here and find it both cheap and safe?" Because, look! As soon as the cool secret gets out, that's what the place gets flooded with! And lemme tell you somethin'!! I might not have any major interaction with my Russian neighbors, but I prefer to be left alone rather than be surrounded by annoying fucking white kids. I'm already here and I hate myself. Why would I want a bunch of carbon copies around?
HA!
(link from Gawker.)
No comments:
Post a Comment