December 2010
13 posts
Hello Winter
9:00: work
2:00: eat giant Toblerone bar
4:00: become convinced that life is just going to keep getting worse, tweet: “reaching your 30s alone and financially unstable in a city is like being a refugee in the same camp 20 years into conflict. you think it’s all going to resolve just because you’ve been waiting a long time, but then you’re just deeper into the...
Blizzard music: Sweet Thing by Van Morrison
Listening to: Lovesick by Lindstrøm and... →
Happy Birthday!
It’s been a year since I came back from Congo and decided to celebrate the diversity of Brooklyn with this blog. I’ve moved three times — to Vanderbilt and Fulton, then Myrtle and Washington, and now Morgan and Knickerbocker. I’ve lived on the C, G and now L trains. Today I considered buying a sweatshirt with the Virgin Mary spraypainted on it.
Here’s a list of my...
Surprises in the life of an Urban Pioneer Sloane
When you’re an Urban Pioneer Sloane, your domestic life will be full of surprises. For example, it isn’t unusual to wake up one morning and find that someone has thrown cinderblocks over the fence into your backyard.
A Night at the Urban Pioneer Sloane Inn
Well-bred hardy people talk about smart things without being afraid of the ghetto they live in
Park your horse at Roberta’s, an unmarked warehouse on a creepy alley in Bushwick, any night of the week and you will enjoy the Urban Pioneer Sloane Inn.
Tonight there was the usual centerpiece of Sloanes surrounded by their adoring acolytes. The restaurant is long and dimly lit by vintage...
The Sloane Ranger, urban pioneer variety, part I
In England, they have a cultural demographic called the Sloanes. Several wonderfully hilarious books were written about them, one in the 80s called “The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,” and its next gen follow-up a few years ago, “Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: The Return of the Sloane Ranger.” These people are bougie or even aristocratic by class, but have a unique set...
