Does Al comment anywhere but Yglesias's place anymore?
People get worked up about real estate. That article isn't very interesting though.
See, I could have been a contender, if I was in New York. Wobegonians never catch a break. Look at poor Lileks. Stuck in the boonies, and not only that, represented in Congress by a black Muslim.
Someone was reading that article very intently at a Memorial Day barbecue I was at, but I couldn't really figure out what it was that interested them.
the What and McManus must read the same material. I wonder if they are ever seen together.
It's not a terrible idea for an article but it would have dragged at 1/3 the length. If the author had located the troll (rather than ending on that "he walks amongst us" angle), it might be another story.
That was a *cover story*? Damn. Yet more proof that if you're a mediocrity that wants to make it in any area of media -- even the lowly calling of internet troll -- you need to do it in NYC.
7: That's what I said, PGD, but without the cruel edge. Some here believe that the troll's calling is highly to be honored.
The cover story is Brooklyn gentrification and class wars, this is one instance of how it plays out. I think, but maybe it's the only instance.
Some here believe that the troll's calling is highly to be honored.
Many are called, but few are chosen, after all.
I confess to sometimes reading both Brownstoner and Curbed.
OK, I'm going to look at the story, but the illustration at the top sucks.
The cover story is Brooklyn gentrification and class wars
Isn't this, really, the subtext of every New York Magazine and New York Times cover story ever written?
Brownstoner's posts tend to read like the reportage of a particularly smart and opinionated community paper. The comment section, by contrast, has become a rolling transcript of the borough's new anxieties, shameful prejudices, and secret fears.... which, for a community paper, would be a step up. Almost every time I find myself reading the comment section at the closest thing there is to a local daily paper, I gain a little more appreciation for the comment sections at Ezra Klein's and Matthew Yglesias' blogs. Maybe I just notice the bad comment sections, but it seems like newspapers get all the conservative resentment, almost all the venom, little fun low-hanging fruit to pick at and none of the wit or rare good point made by Al or whatever Ezra's pet troll calls himself this week. When someone took a Colbert-esque attitude towards other commenters on a recent story about religion in school, I was almost crying in relief.
I couldn't really figure out what it was that interested them.
Shoot. Everyone loves a mystery. As mxyzptlk said in 6 though, it fizzles without the reveal. I think it was very well written otherwise. I found a couple real gems to steal. The trick to stealing gems is to not use them for ten or twenty years and people think you own them.
Look at how Elvis Costello ripped off Bob Dylan who ripped off Woody Guthrie who (I'm sure) ripped off people who never recorded.
Mary Catherine:
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Many are called, but few are chosen, after all.
In Minnesota that is "Many are called but few are frozen."
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