What exactly is it about Alternadad that's debating? (I'd love to read it but the wife won't let me look at it until she's done).
I think the real issue here is that in attacking Neal Pollack for being a grup (one of the more asinine words I've ever heard some asshole blogger come up with, although the terms yupster, yindie, and alterna-yuppie are coined in the same piece, hitting the superfecta of inanity) the editor attempts to manhandle herself into a position hipper than Pollack so she can flaunt her non-grup-yet-still-hipper-than-thou-ness. How does she do this?
"Reference is made to encounters with, yes, Death Cab for Cutie, among others. You don't get hipper than that."
Later she mocks the guy for writing about his kid's favorite music: the Hives. This is the same magazine that has a column by Mates of State. Colin Meloy was interviewed this week. Hmm, which of these is not like the others?
I guess my only point is that some of us parents aren't trying to be anything, we're just young ourselves. If you're getting old and kind of a little bit out of touch, don't try to fake it or bring anybody down. Just get back to your old lady stuff and leave the rest of us alone.
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That reviewer just thinks that after an entire genereation of bored kids growing up in boring suburbs there is something suspect about a child learning to be cosmopolitian before they are eighteen and move away from home. In fact, back in the 70's, Kevin Lynch wrote a great book called Growing Up in Cities that shows that kids who live in the city will develop a sense of what we call "taste" much earlier from being exposed to more diverse sensibilities.
Anyways, that lady needs to stop gripping that everyone doesn't start shopping at Ann Taylor (or Kohl's) just because they have a kid.
Posted by onetenchelsea | January 31, 2005 7:07 AM
Posted on January 31, 2005 07:07
It's so true. Unlike you guys I grew up in the suburbs and I turned out to be a real a-hole!
Posted by Chris D. | January 31, 2007 10:06 AM
Posted on January 31, 2007 10:06
...so passes the first sentence completely devoid of irony chris has ever uttered...
Posted by onetenchelsea | January 31, 2007 4:38 PM
Posted on January 31, 2007 16:38
Zakcq is a nice person.
There, now I'm back to making ironic statements!
Posted by Chris D. | February 1, 2007 10:13 AM
Posted on February 1, 2007 10:13
it's like rain on your wedding day...
--------Posted by onetenchelsea | February 1, 2007 9:07 PM
Posted on February 1, 2007 21:07