The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

i'd head to manhattan and go to whole earth bakery on st mark's, or babycakes between ludlow and orchard below delancey. i think there's another sugarfree place too, but i forget. i know whole earth do stuff to order, too, so if you wanted some specific kind of sweetener or whatever ...

brooklyners: is fusetron a real shop?, or is it just mail order? i want something from there and it feels kind of silly to buy online.

pretty sure it's mail order. if they have a physical store I've never been

he's just mail-order, last I checked.

sweet site

ok i missed that whole mind blowing matt taibbi exchange when it occurred but let me just say: wtf morbius?

i was kind of hoping it was some guy's living room, and he'd clamber over stacks and mailers to bring something to the front door. i used to look up nagisa ni te records on there from the other side of the world, so it being local but still only postal is kind of bummin'.

but yes cool store.

might try emailing guy and asking if you can stop by?

i may well do that, thanks. i'm housesitting in brooklyn this week, & think it is a good opportunity to utilise its early morning and late night services i miss as an occasional borough toedipper daytripper.

ask him if he wants me to make his site so you can actually like order from it

ha ha. i assume that if i go round to his house i am also allowed to barter, as was customary in the days before the internet.

Chris @ Fusetron is pretty decent about letting ya pick stuff up from him. He's a busy man though, so just make sure you figure out what a good time is.

Anyone have any thoughts about the big public library on Cadman Plaza as a place to study? Thinking about avoiding the law school library for a day (it's a little like a refugee camp during finals)

shd be OK since on a weekday you'll have room to stay away from the occasional homeless crazies (I'm talking about the ones who sit cursing at the computer terminals w/ no uintervention from staff).

wtf @wtf, schef? "Matt Taibbi is worthless cuz he usta write for NY Press," just like my lefty scribe Perrin?

pretty much everyone who has written for NY Press is worthless, btw

cadman plaza library is fine, generally quiet unless there are hyperactive kids running around.

no, matt taibbi is worthless because he's a terrible writer and kind of a moron. you should probably delve deeper into the man's writings before you defend him because one time you saw him talk and he seemed "kinda smart", bro! he's awful. i agreed, in theory, with several of his political rs pieces and the aggressively stupid and obvious and tired and cliched "lol look at me i'm hunter s. thompson" way that is beaten out of normal human beings in j school in which he writes made me want to disagree with opinions like "sarah palin is retarded" which is like UHHHH. seriously i was just wtfing at the fact that you were a) referring to him as a "realist" b) halfheartedly defending him.

seriously it is a big problem in general with ny press AND rolling stone, this "seriously you are 30 years old or older and you still write like this? you must not be very good then lol!" thing, but i don't dismiss writers out of hand for working for either publication, since both still, even today, boast some real talent. it's just that this bro is not one of those ppl.

btw i read taibbis book so im something of a taibbi expert

well i don't read RS, I read him plenty in the "smug" NYP 5-10 years ago.

If anything, he & David Rees went too easy on the Savior-elect, just before the Clinton Restoration appointments began. But you've heard that b4.

i support neo gonzos in their imaginary quest to do something "different" and "edgy" w/o actually reading the crap

srsly tho, interviewing a politician while trippin is pretty hilarious on the face of it, i just dont want to read an essay about it, just watch a 30 sec youtube video, and btw i would laughing at the dude on acid, not at the politician

(I also read political stuff only for content, not style. which is why I now skip gabbnerd's posts)

boo hoo!

i preferred pundneb

like you could ever take the heat

i'm not talking about him going too easy or too hard on anyone in the world, i don't give a damn if he talks up putin (and who wouldn't, with those tigers), i'm talking about the fact that he is a shitty writer whose every other sentence is some kind of horrible hackneyed cliche that was retired in 1983. note that the words "shitty writer" are vastly different from smug, and that i don't give a flying crap what publications he's written for and how that speaks badly of him in like maybe 4 people's minds.

xpost if you can't get to the content because it's written so badly, then what is the point? you sound like ned raggett -- "i pay no heed to lyrics, i listen to music only for the music" well if you are listening to music with words then you're missing half the fucking point, savvy? also gabbneb is a writer so what does that zing have to do with things?

gabbneb is a LAWYER whoops

u want the gabbnerd u cant handle etc so on and so forth

srsly tho, interviewing a politician while trippin is pretty hilarious on the face of it, i just dont want to read an essay about it, just watch a 30 sec youtube video, and btw i would laughing at the dude on acid, not at the politician

― beyonc'e (max), Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:07 PM (3 minutes ago)

^^^ this is pretty accurate. this also completely negates this bs argument about style v substance that morbius is making because what substance comes out of this kind of exchange? i'm sure it's hilarious/really, really irritating to watch but it's purely stylistic maneuvering, and more importantly, stylistic maneuvering that was first done in like 1968 for god's sake.

i often imagine this dude looking like matt drudge, when i read his writing, just because it's funnier that way.

like sexy matt drudge

the substance is that all politics is a farce

omg how cutting edge

or conversely WHOA TRIPPING BALLZ

all the worlds a stage, and men and women merely players

haha gr8 w/ the "savvy," schef. I ddin't know you employed Runyonisms!

Let's say I don't know what kinda writer MT is today and leave it at that.

who's been to Freddy's lately?

life is a tale told by matt drudge, full of sound and fury, and acid, signifying nothing

imo freddys has a weird negative vibe - not sure when i start feeling that way

The Hustler is at BAM movies tnite btw but I can't go.

also plz could ILNFL keep gabby off I Love Baseball?

icey, we shd have a drink sometime, imagine the laffs.

i do my best to please you, dr. m!

i was at freddy's last like a couple months ago? it was kinda crowded, all three times i've been there since i moved, more crowded than i ever remember it being.

yah dawg i would throw some back w/u

one thing i really dislike abt freddy is when theres band in the other room u can here them in the front and the fucking soundclash w/whatevers playing in there is v troubling

i don't know if i've ever been there when a band is playing but i can see that happening for sure. i dunno, i like freddy's ok enough, i mean it's not different to me than most other places i could go to, but...i mean, the thing is that the layout there is fucking awful and now that it just seems to be really crowded all the time it makes it that much harder to navigate/get a place to sit/hang out.

everything is crowded now

morbs we should grab a drink sometime and talk about how to run away from arguments you can't win

I don't argue w/ lawyers anymore than I fuck w/ prostitutes

everything is not crowded, are you matt taibbi?

he's Yogi Berra

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