the list

This is all I saw when I clicked on that link:

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Yeah.......................................................every once in a while, I force myself to read her even though she drives me straight up a wall. I knew that she was compiling something, but wasn't aware that it was complete. It's very...celeb-u-tastic, no? But not entirely surprising.

http://gawker.com/news/park-slope/park-slope-100-cements-our-desire-never-to-live-there-219897.php

also:
Speaking as someone who spent 20+ years growing up in Park Slope, I'd like to point out that exclusive, name-dropping, ego-flexing lists like this are completely antithetical to what used to make Park Slope great-- that is, a spirit of equality and fraternity between everyone who lived there.

Instead of calling it the Park Slope 100, it would have been better to title it "100 people OTBKB is friends/colleagues/associates with". Seriously, it's so endlessly biased and self-serving that there's really no place to begin commenting on it-- but it's worth observing that while your husband made the list, people who do a hell of a lot more for the neighborhood did not.

So, please, do us all a favor and never put something like this together again. It's just a ridiculous idea, and makes you look silly.

Posted by: Park Slope Old Schooler | December 06, 2006 at 05:55 PM

Instead of calling it the Park Slope 100, it would have been better to title it "100 people OTBKB is friends/colleagues/associates with".

"...or who give me the 'Special Blogger Discount' at their businesses, if you know what I mean."

She might have taken the time to find out that the Blue Haired Woman at Shawn's Liquors is named Hillary, and maybe she does know, but then she couldn't impress us with how cool she is by thinking blue hair is cool.

Subject: One Wins, One Dies (well, hopefully both die)

Sheesh. Gawker vs. OTBKB. The ultimate battle of starfucker assholes. Talk about a fight where there's no one to root for.

It was pointed out to me about 10 minutes ago that OTBKB has posted a response to criticism of her List, including Dictionary.com links for the definitions of "elitist" and "sycophant".

She has a very thin skin. Much as she annoys me, it's her blog and she should put up whatever kind of list she wants and stop apologizing and being defensive about it. Her desperate need to have everyone's approval is a big part of what makes her annoying.

Oh, it's more than 100 now. See, that's good, because there wasn't quite enough filler before.

the idea is so lame, soundsl like something a seventh grade girl would spend hours doing with her friends at slumber parties. The "cool people and why we like them list". makes you cringe. Her son must be mortified, or at least he should be at his mother's continued attempts to be a "hip cat" or whatever she calls herself as she clops around in her Park Slope clogs.