mr the-dream
― dayo, Saturday, 5 February 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Seems that Sylvester's journalism is far more creative than his chops.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 5 February 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I knew that Sylvester had been involved in a minor journalistic scandal some years back: He’d been caught fabricating some details in a story he’d written for the Village Voice.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Monday, 25 June 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
There is the theory of the Moebius.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 June 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
It feels shitty anytime your bike is stolen, but it’s doubly shitty on your birthday—tripley shitty when the temperature is 97 F and the birthday in question is your 43rd.You could argue that my bike was a midlife-crisis purchase in the first place. It’s a three-speed Chief cruiser made by the California-based manufacturer Felt. The Chief isn’t expensive, as bicycles go, but it’s flashy. It has a sleek metallic-maroon retro-style frame with an old fashioned “tank” and a pretty brown leather saddle with matching handlebar grips. The pièces de résistance are the tires: enormous white Thick Bricks, a good deal bigger than the average balloon tire and a lot more eye-catching. In short, it’s a cheeseball retro-ride—a friend called it “the PT Cruiser of bicycles.” The Chief is a fish tank and a couple of flat-screens away from being the bike that West Coast Customs would make, if they were in the business of pimping two-wheelers.
You could argue that my bike was a midlife-crisis purchase in the first place. It’s a three-speed Chief cruiser made by the California-based manufacturer Felt. The Chief isn’t expensive, as bicycles go, but it’s flashy. It has a sleek metallic-maroon retro-style frame with an old fashioned “tank” and a pretty brown leather saddle with matching handlebar grips. The pièces de résistance are the tires: enormous white Thick Bricks, a good deal bigger than the average balloon tire and a lot more eye-catching. In short, it’s a cheeseball retro-ride—a friend called it “the PT Cruiser of bicycles.” The Chief is a fish tank and a couple of flat-screens away from being the bike that West Coast Customs would make, if they were in the business of pimping two-wheelers.
excellent universal writing that makes references everyone can understand and enhances empathy dude, good job
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
why did you bold those things
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
to enhance empathy
― Misc. Carnivora (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
want to rewrite the slate article from the pov of pee wee herman
― some dude, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
'the wire' as rebooted by zach braff
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
2nd par: because I have little to no idea what instant associations he expects anyone to make with them, but he obviously expects ppl to
1st par: what makes the 43rd different from other ones?
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
i get why 43rd is kinda provoctive
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
but i know nothing about bikes
i guess i didn't get the 43rd bday thing either since i thought if you've had that many birthdays 1) you don't care as much 2) hopefully it's more likely you can afford to buy a new bike?
― Misc. Carnivora (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
i enjoyed the article btw because i like his writing but i can see the ways it's also annoying
― Misc. Carnivora (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
"what's the identifying mark?"
haha thank you for remembering my bike, seeing the tweet, backtracking your steps, and finally tracking it down but I'm going to need a little more from you, because, you know.
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
oh c'mon it's good that he was thorough after he was finally close enough to get a really good look
― some dude, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
i love jody but btdthttp://www.whatever-whenever.net/blog/2010/08/justice-in-brooklyn/
― maura, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
He is my least favorite Jody Rosen.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
i like the part where he sees the bike is parked outside a social services building and gives a kind of knowing sigh as if to say "times are tough pal, but not on my watch."
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
quite honestly, all I can think of is a 43-year-old man riding around on a bike that looks like this:
http://2009.feltracing.com/09/images/catalog/xl/8984.png
all of the conservative style neurons in my brain are overloading
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
When I saw the picture on Slate, I thought the lettering on the body read THIEF.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think he realizes how bad riding the pt cruiser of bikes actually is
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
it looks like a tricycle
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
for babies
how ageist!
i'm 44 and i ride a bike that looks like this. if you have a problem with that, it's yr problem!
http://bikereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/electra-super-deluxe-3i-2010-city-bike.jpg
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
I guess you didn't make it to the all of the conservative style neurons in my brain are overloading part of that post?
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
(also, your bike is distinctive-looking without being painfully fugly)
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2669805-md.jpg
― buzza, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
i did read that part of yr post. i'm just trying to settle into grumpy middle aged man who doesn't give a damn mode but not fully convincing myself.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't Rosen riding that bike because he frequently writes about early 20th century music and this bike fits that old-school ethic
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
I hope not
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
that is a terrible reason to ride an ugly bike IMO
cheesy retro is his thang
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
is there another thread about this? i think the article deserves more discussion. i don't know what type of discussion, but just... more.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
how much more discussion does it need?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
"first world tragedies"
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
/!\ BREAKING: Unlocked bike stolen from city street in NYC /!\
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/make_1175.jpg?w=500&h=548
― am0n, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
"PT Cruiser" and "West Coast Customs" describing the same thing is some pretty heavy metaphor-mixing
― mh, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Ladri3.jpg
― s.clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
fuck bikes
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
fuck bikes were great when they opened for blues control
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2Gk0WuEB4
― am0n, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol. what will u hate next
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.emo-corner.com/forums/uploads_gallery/gallery/album_14152/gallery_145323_14152_57262.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
RIP the old ilx FAQ that said "the jody rosen that posts on ilx is not the jody rosen that writes for rolling stone"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 June 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
Wait so we have him to thank for Shamir?
― jaymc, Thursday, 18 December 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link
he certainly has put his name on the Northtown wikipedia page a bunch of times, hasn't he?
― een, Thursday, 18 December 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Heh.
― jaymc, Thursday, 18 December 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link