Comments on: Rant: Sometimes, the NY Times is Full of Shit

By: A Track Bike is a Thing of Beauty at The Poverty Jet Set

A Track Bike is a Thing of Beauty at The Poverty Jet Set — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:05:15 +0000

[...] had the pleasure of redeeming the NYTimes in my own mind after ranting about them the other day. They did it with a great piece about fixie bikes and urban bike culture. I can tell you this, [...]

By: lord_whimsy

lord_whimsy — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:14:45 +0000

My wife wears a coonskin cap to bed on cold winter nights.

I was leaving Adam Wallacavage’s place a couple years ago wearing my favorite winter hat–a large Soviet-ers faux fur ditty–and on the way out some little hipster snot from New York crows, “That look is ovahhh!” I almost turned around and decked him, if for no other reason than to remind him that 1) This is not New York; your personality flaws are not diluted here and so you will be held accountable, 2) Fur hats existed before Hamish Bowles started showing up at Fashion Week in one, and 3) Your sense of entitlement and false sense of security officially end NOW.

These New York kids really have to reel in the New York ‘tude before they move to Philly. They’re going to wreck the place.

By: magdalenus

magdalenus — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:45:43 +0000

I’m buying a raccoon tail tomorrow! Cuz I am such a trend setter.

By: hilz

hilz — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:39:54 +0000

yeah. i had to stop wearing my deer antler tshirt because it just got so … played out. *sigh* i’m moving on. alert the Times that the next big thing in the eco-chic fashion movement is raccoon (or beaver!) tails clipped to one’s ass pocket. started by: me. when: right now. you’re welcome, hipsters.

By: lord_whimsy

lord_whimsy — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:07:35 +0000

Oh, they’re just filling space, M. Personally, I’ve had antlers in my house for years. I make assemblages out of the ones I encounter in the woods; in fact, I have a deer pelvis in the basement I was planning on hanging in the library tonight. I’ll be tinkering with antlers, shells, feathers, etc. long after they’ve been deemed “over”–as if the idea of something being “over” isn’t a passe notion in itself.

As for it being a fashionable motif, I’ve seen them all over the place for years now in galleries, boutiques, restaurants, clothes, etc. Every little shop in Williamsburg seems to have a pair on their wall, staionery, or are selling a polyeurethane antler chandelier. If anything, it’s peaked; that said, who cares.

Why people would get freaked out over antlers is beyond me–kind of like being upset at the sight of a seashell–but good on Norm nonetheless.