tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post6707299590844841114..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: 500 words of furyPhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-41170311452615412142009-10-24T08:08:08.963-04:002009-10-24T08:08:08.963-04:00I gotcher provincial complaint right here, miss: &...I gotcher provincial complaint right here, miss: 'impossibility of renting an apartment' - here is some dog-in-manger jerk keeping a cheap rent controlled apartment for TWELVE YEARS for his hobbies, while others can't find a place to live: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/fashion/13love.html?scp=1&sq=gave+notice+landlord+apartment+marriage&st=nyt. And then, of course, there is the role of rent control in making this possible, and driving up the price point which people who actually need a space to live in must face. dave.s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-15106671452313732972009-10-20T09:35:44.982-04:002009-10-20T09:35:44.982-04:00Provincial complaints are the point here.Provincial complaints are the point here.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-63345159623274020732009-10-20T09:19:07.313-04:002009-10-20T09:19:07.313-04:00I think the discussion you and Jo had about the ex...I think the discussion you and Jo had about the extent of the rebuffed suitor's investment in the enterprise--full fare vs. unlimited Metrocard--deserves wider circulation.<br /><br />--EHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-8563690739001672742009-10-20T07:57:36.048-04:002009-10-20T07:57:36.048-04:00very provincial complaintsvery provincial complaintsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-47196457274250504742009-10-19T19:16:30.715-04:002009-10-19T19:16:30.715-04:00Isn't everybody on some level jealous of 20-ye...<i>Isn't everybody on some level jealous of 20-year-old models?</i><br /><br />If there are any who eat like I eat and still look like that, I am so jealous I want to stab them with a pitchfork. (But not before using them for laboratory experiments and extracting whatever serum allows them to do it.) However, from what I understand most models live in a near-constant state of hunger. I'd rather have pumpkin spice frozen custard than the attentions of strange men who follow me into the subway.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-26975876060430474242009-10-19T18:20:44.178-04:002009-10-19T18:20:44.178-04:00Isn't everybody on some level jealous of 20-ye...Isn't everybody on some level jealous of 20-year-old models? That said, I agree that the fury over French tourists is more specific to me than the model complaint - I'm not actually so bothered by the models, whereas the crowds in Uniqlo...<br /><br />I may have to investigate these food suggestions!Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-24327337417613351502009-10-19T17:06:06.680-04:002009-10-19T17:06:06.680-04:00I am not sure there is a way to write about the Ho...I am not sure there is a way to write about the Hott issue in the de-contextualized environment of 500 words in the NYT, without an onslaught of readers claiming that you're just jealous of 20-year-old models.<br /><br />Incidentally, a not-bad deal running this week that doesn't involve going to a restaurant: deliveryweek.com. And the $5 menu at Fishtail, which if you eat downstairs has booths spaced nicely far apart, but does the sardine thing upstairs.<br />http://www.davidburketownhouse.com/dish/5%20Octoberfest%20Menu.pdfPGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-52203594903803446852009-10-19T16:20:17.034-04:002009-10-19T16:20:17.034-04:00You're probably right. I was most annoyed by t...You're probably right. I was most annoyed by the Hott issue yesterday, what with the above-mentioned anecdote, but overall, tourists who look like they're about to spout Proust lining up at Foot Locker, yet receiving universal adulation for their paradoxical thinness and whatnot, is the much greater issue I have with NY life.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-26992796916744448742009-10-19T16:03:03.992-04:002009-10-19T16:03:03.992-04:00I like the French tourists, overly-elegant foreign...I like the French tourists, overly-elegant foreigners one. The others seem like stuff that lots of people would come up with, but noting the trans-Atlantic price differential of sneakers, and the general demystification-without-Francophobia of the topic, is probably uniquely Phoebe.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.com