"He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn't worn anything but jeans in a year, and won't shut up about the latest Death Cab For Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up w

Does that mean I can act indignant until I hit 25 this month, then try to act discreetly?

$800 fucking strollers = total dud.

yeah the bugaboo thing is pretty silly. but i will say that for city living, a good stroller is worth spending some cash on. we had to upgrade because the lightweight one we bought first was probably fine for mall-walking but lacked the all-terrain capacity necessary for navigating new york sidewalks. we don't have to have a car here, so i don't mind springing for a pricey pram.

HUH? are these people bisexual, spend all their time on myspace trying to get laid and have no interest in politics WHATSOEVER? do they listen to panic at the disco? hawthorne heights?

I am going to assume the author himself is a grup? get over it dude, grow the fuck up and call your grandpa, for chrissake. and your music is music for wet blankets.

the "r" (also the indef.article) 's optional, methinks really.

except it's called Up with Grups and it winds up pretty much approving of them

Thank god I don't have to raise my kids in New York.

i'm not completely adverse to this idea!
so long as the monocule (sp?) and a brandy snifter involved, and the setting of a den w/ a fire- i'm there!

tally ho, chaps!!!

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You know - at $1.50 a word, I don't really care! BWAHAHAHAHA

i'd know that evil laugh anywhere.

-- team jaxon (jaso...), April 4th, 2006 11:14 PM. (jaxon) (link)

OTM

Good thread, though. I'm 32 and fit some of the descriptions, but I don't have a kid.

hey now, new york's a fine place to raise kids. nobody forces you to buy $200 jeans or deathcab cds. i think all the jeans i've bought in the last three years might add up to $200.

OTM

wrong

typical myspace generation teenagers apparently:

part of emo culture
myspace profile with loads of dorky emo bands listed
no interest in politics
uses myspace to get laid
listens to panic at the disco and hawthorne heights
reads alternative press

vs

typical US indie rock robot 30something

reads magnet magazine and paste
reads pitchfork
uses friendster
reads stereogum daily
is a yupster: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yupster

indicative music tastes

Stereogum Readers Poll: Top 20 Albums Of 2005
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002180.html

On the one hand, I recognize that it can only be good for my book to have it identified by New York Magazine as a key document of a genuine sociological phenomenon. On the other hand, I sound like a lunatic nimrod in the article. Perhaps I was drunk when Adam Sternbergh interviewed me. Or high, which is sometimes a possibility. Regardless, people are going to read the piece and think that I'm a guy who sits around telling his kid that the TV shows he watches "suck."

...To me, the main tenets of "alternaparenting" are as follows: General skepticism (but not total rejection) of mainstream corporate parenting culture, encouraging creativity and imagination above all else, and, like the New York article hammers home, an unwillingness of the parents to completely put their own youth behind them. But it doesn't neglect the basics, either. Any decent parent of any aesthetic needs to provide their kids with food, clothing, shelter, discipline, and love. It's just that this generation of parents has added "sharing your DVD collection" to that list of essentials. I have trouble seeing how that's a bad thing.

A couple of other points, related to the article: I don't own a pair of jeans that cost more than $30. And I really do reject this idea that our kids are going to "become Republicans."

...So anyway, in the end, I'm proud to be part of this generation of parents, even if I'm already well on my way to being canonized as that generation's most clueless idiot.

I guess I just picture 20 kids running amok and parents sipping blood orange martinis and not paying attention. I don't have any problem bringing a kid to a bar.