Isn't It Sweet That A 23-yr-old NYU Cinema Sudies Student...

Hey I'm not that much older than her and I can afford park slope just fine... without 15 room mates. Why are people so bitter about 20somethings moving to park slope? We're not all trust funders, ya know...

We should all find consolation in the fact that she'll be paying back those student loans for the next 50 years. So lets not be bitter.

20somethings don't deserve to make any money. They should be straight edged dumpster divers saving their nickels for bad tattoos and dime bags. It builds character.

:P

It's hard for me to say who I feel sorrier for- the gal who is spending so much money for a graduate degree in cinema studies or the gal who went to Yale and finds herself writing these kinds of stories for TONY.

Imagine taking this class (and taking it seriously):
"The Spring 2009 version of Cultural Theory and the Documentary has three distinct but related goals: 1.) to trace the
international development of documentary film as a form of art, social knowledge, and politics; 2.) to study the varieties
of cultural, social, and aesthetic theory that have accompanied this development; and 3.) to rethink the history and
theory of documentary through the paradigm of re-enactment, a practice with renewed appeal for makers, curators, and
scholars of documentary film, television, and video." Tisch cinema studies graduate course description.

The beacon in this story though is TONY keen observation of the latest trend...Urban hiking. Here's a trend I can get into. Do I need crampons for that or just some tampex? Is this kind of like Urban Homesteading?

http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com/watch?v=3TLjjoTLe_Y

http://www.urbanhomesteadingproject.org/

According to their website, it looks like it was Greenpoint, but I thought of Sunset Park too.

Now we just need an Urban Hiking video...preferably a how to. Or perhaps a saga, Krakauer-style. (Author of "Into Thin Air" and "Into the Wild")

For a minute, I thought I recognized 45th St. One of the spots where they picked up furniture was 44th and 4th.

I absolutely cannot wrap my head around people taking out thousands of dollars in student loans to get shitty, non-specific undergrad degrees. Here's a thought- if you can't afford the school with some reasonable amount of financial responsibility, go to a cheaper school...

sorry, this is a sore subject for me.

Subject: Re: Isn't It Sweet That A 23-yr-old NYU Cinema Sudies Studen

Livetotravel wrote: Can Afford Park Slope, Or, Why I Hate TimeOut New York and the New Trenoids Being Visited Upon Me.
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/i-new-york/70193/nora-tennessen-23

I don't get it and you never specified - is this supposed to show why you hate either of those things?

I DO love Slopers hatin' on Slopers....that's...that's just AMERICAN is what it is! I tell ya!

Because I think there's a chance that the girl in this article might get wind of this thread I wanted to offer something positive in her article. She and her boyfriend were going to the butcher to buy meat for dinner. Hey, they are shopping local and cooking dinner at home--two positive trends perhaps? Also, people on this site did offer empethic responsis re: the cost of paying off student loans and such. It is not all about hate.

Carnivore--

Thanks for the link above. I was just thinking about the different responses to the original article here and how they differed from perhaps the intent of the original poster. When I saw the post and checked out the link, I immediately thought about how annoying TONY can be, wondered about who was writing the article and if they might be happy with their job and commented about the possibility that they might not be, you posted a link about student loan debt, which got people thinking for however long about that topic and so on. I found it to be an interesting exchange in some way and for the most part not too mean-spirited to the girl featured in the article. When I saw the "vapid" comment by Meredith above, I wondered if it was meant for the student in the article or the article itself in TONY. I assumed that it was directed at the girl in the article (hey, TONY is practically the spokestermag for vapidity) so I went back to the article to see if I could pull something from it that might be positive. I wonder if anything else will come next. Perhaps vegetarians will have something to say about butchers.

Perhaps message boards and internet junkies aren't the end of the world as we know it afterall. Thanks again Carnivore-I may be swayed. You kids are allright on here afterall.

er, and the edge bit. that sure lasted...