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MeFi post:
Shut Em Down?
Whenever the subject of race and class shows up on Meta, I just want to ask for a refund of my five dollars.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 3:40 PM on July 24, 2008
MeFi post:
That Golden Girl
In 1999, after my grandmother died, I bought a few episodes of "The Golden Girls" on DVD. The only way I could get to sleep was to pop in an episode because Estelle Getty's wise-cracking Ma reminded me so much of my own grandmother's brassiness. I still watch them to this day.
One of my favorite lines from her:
Dorothy (anticipating one of Ma's favorite "Picture it. Sicily" stories): "Oh Ma, you're not going to tell... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 12:55 PM on July 22, 2008
And another, when Dorothy and Ma were fighting over the television.
Dorothy: Ma, I wanted to watch the "Cosby Show."
Ma: Too bad. Just look out the window and hope some nice black family moves in across the street.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 1:54 PM on July 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Blue Collar Babies
Mayor Curley,
I really don't think they thought that far ahead ... You know that whole evil scheme to bilk the system. Your thinking is so 1970s Claudine.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 3:35 PM on June 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Gospel On Sundays
Sigh. I'm glad I knew it as it was because it's all over now.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 11:57 AM on May 28, 2008
But if someone can come in and restore a little luster to the place, I'd go, and bring my wallet with me, which is kind of the point of development in the first place.
But why does that development have to be the exact same fucking development you can find everywhere else in the country? Why can't the developers create something that honors the unique history (that's much more than bad funnel cakes) that is Coney Island? And... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 12:50 PM on May 28, 2008
"You know, it was a cheesy, profit-oriented development 100 years ago ..."
No, actually it was an accessible and affordable beach that was open to people of all classes. Sure, it's had its problems over the years but I think your characterization of the place is well, dead wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 1:00 PM on May 28, 2008
I'm sure some of those poor people wouldn't mind having a look around a mall or two. Sheesh.
If you could have only seen the look on my face as I read that.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 4:23 PM on May 28, 2008
Jeff,
Did anyone bother to ask the poor people who live there what they wanted or did they simply assume that all they were missing in their poverty-stricken lives was a little Old Navy?
And for me, New York in my youth was this sort of fantasy place. We didn't have money and we didn't need it. The city was my playground (and this was the '70s no less, when the place was really shitty.)
But oooohhhh the day the lights went out and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 5:27 PM on May 28, 2008
Move out of NYC if the existential pain of living among wealthy yuppies is too much to bear.
Already did. Smelled it coming when Starbucks came to Harlem.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 5:54 PM on May 28, 2008
Glad dirtdirt made that clarification ... because I, too, love myself some Minneapolis. It's a wonderfully charming, eclectic city that stole my heart long ago when I was living across the river in St. Paul in a beautiful one-bedroom on Cathedral Hill that cost me $345 a month. Sigh.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 8:34 PM on May 28, 2008
MeFi post:
RIP Mildred Loving
So in Mrs Loving's honor, everyone go out there and love the person of your choice and keep on working for the day when government gets the hell out of our bedroom.
Here, here!
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 2:04 PM on May 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Free Range Kids
My parents both worked full-time and went to school to finish their master's at night. If not for my ocassional MBTA trips, I would have never gotten to school. I was taking two buses across Brooklyn at 9. Granted, I didn't do this every school day, only when I missed my school's private bus. That said, I'm not sure I'd let my 9 year old do this now.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 10:46 PM on April 12, 2008
MeFi post:
One for the History Books
Stirring and so neccessary in these times. I admit that I was one of those walking around feeling all "kumbaya" like because Obama's doing so well. Today, I remembered that we still live in America ... and that is both a good and bad thing.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 9:49 PM on March 18, 2008
And thanks Miko for clarifying that line. I can't believe it needed an explanation.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 9:50 PM on March 18, 2008
but is the following scenario completely impossible
No, but has it happened?
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 10:06 PM on March 18, 2008
Wait, has it even come close to happening? Has the UK had any black candidate ... even one who wasn't viable?
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 10:07 PM on March 18, 2008
either British law nor British national character that would prevent it.
The former might be true but the latter is bullshit. Sorry.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 10:12 PM on March 18, 2008
The possibility he's discussing is not his eventual victory, but the success he's seen so far. Name me a politician ... a successful, prominent, universally recognized politician with his background in the U.K., with the type of support he's seen.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 10:16 PM on March 18, 2008
My final thoughts on the speech and the matter before bed: I bet there's gonna be a bunch of white people at church on Sunday trying to get a handle on what we talk about there (I only go like four times a year so I'm not sure what's said the rest of the time.) I better get there early for a seat. This, by the way, is what they call a joke.
posted to MetaFilter by notjustfoxybrown
at 10:25 PM on March 18, 2008
