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After brunch Apple accessorizing at Grand Central before leaving New York.

Fancy ice and spoon at Little Branch.

richardrushfield:

Reality Bites and the Coming of Age of the Deadbeat Hipster Boyfriend

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Q: At the end of the movie, Winona’s character ends up with Troy after a tortured courtship. If the movie was made today, would that still happen? Or would she end up with Ben Stiller’s ambitious TV executive?

A: You just hit the nail on the head. That movie was probably one of the last moments when the girl makes the decision to go with the poor, self-serious dude. A theme of the movie is how money and corporate thinking was taking over everything.  Today, I don’t think there’s a chance in hell they would end that movie with her and Troy together. The definition of integrity has changed. Now, if a person — or a movie — makes a lot of money, then it’s got integrity.

What Hawke misses is how much this choice has flipped in the past decade and a half. The dichotomy between slacker at the margins of society and soulless executive has completely evaporated.  The slacker’s descendent  (now termed “hipster”) is not a terrifying creature barely tolerated at the margins of society, he has become the arbiter of American culture and feels himself vastly entitled to all its wealth and rewards.  

If there was anything noble about my generation, it was the invention of slacking - captured in Reality Bites “Den of Slack.”  To the extent we made a statement in that era, it was a conscientious objection to enthusiasm about anything.  The most uncool thing you could be was excited - about success, career, relationships, friends, dinner.   We were not a generation waiting to be handed giant recording contracts and street marketing campaigns; we saying leave us alone, we’re trying to sleep. …

generational pride.

Sled army in Central Park.

Maurizio Cattelan: All.

NYC snow.

BAM / Jeff Mangum

A super unique photo of the Empire State Building From Washington Square Park.

Habits.

rickwebb:

Do you miss the “shout” feature of Foursquare? Download this handy app and you can shout once again. 

Shouted last night and it feels so good.

Looks like this sky sledge might just fly.

The latest message from Seattle’s Emergency Operations Center: “City encourages residents to get home before dark: icy conditions may worsen after sunset”

Trying to escape to New York, but transit isn’t being super cooperative.

superamit:

[…]

TODAY

… After over 100 drives organized by friends, family, and strangers, celebrity call-outs, a bazillion reblogs (7000+!), tweets, and Facebook posts, press, fundraising and international drives organized by tireless friends, and a couple painful false starts, I’ve got a 10/10 matched donor!

You all literally helped save my life. (And the lives of many others.)

[ … ] 

Truly astonishing improbably great news.

rickwebb:

evangotlib:

mediahascookies:

Mad Men Little People Playset from Fisher Price.

I wish this was real - *sigh*

(via Paul Sizer and Culture Popped)

Someone please make this for Chloe.  I will pay money.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Sterling Cooper on Madison Avenue, not 5th?

NYT puts SC on Madison and SCDP in the Time & Life Building (1271 Avenue of the Americas — Sixth Avenue — between West 50th and 51st Streets). [nyt]