Our buddy Ed Hamilton's weekly piece in the Huffington post looks at what happens as Manhattan becomes too expensive for real people, go have a look.
Cowboys and Indians and to Hell With Art [extract]
I believe that, as creative people, we at the Chelsea Hotel offer, not just cultural products, but an alternative mode of living in, and of conceptualizing the world. This has nothing to do with any sort of political orientation on the part of our residents -- who run the gamut from right to left -- but in fact everything to do with an apolitical orientation in which difference is tolerated and respected. As the goal of art and literature is the understanding of self and others, so the creative person cultivates a life of self-reflection and empathy. In the Living with Legends blog, I often joke that this hotel is filled with nuts, and in fact we are all crazy by the standards of the larger society. But that doesn't rule out the fact that perhaps we have something valuable to say to that society.
george michael is in trouble again. couldn't happen to a more deserving ponce! After all the shit he has given Boy George for being 'too gay' over the years I'd be happy to see his career destroyed. There is, IMO, absolutely no excuse for public sex of this kind in this day and age. As Boy so wisely observed-- 'can't he use a computer'?
why do banks take 48 hours to process a payment TO a credit card while they can deduct money instantaneously?
can anybody explain the difference between an incursion and an invasion? if a tank rolled into my neighborhood i think the semantics would become secondary.
who made that hotel what it was! Pretty soon the only people staying there will be rich boring tourists or Britney Spears.
I am My Own Wife is headed my way in the original production. This review from the .au press has a major spoiler- be careful.
Still depressed at the idea that CBGBs will be gone forever. An example of what happens when one becomes a parody of one's self.
Second Life is an overwhelmingly expansive and conceptually dense virtual world allegedly taking the world by storm. It's worth a look. I suspect that I'm a bit too old to grasp the paradigm.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 in Carrie's World, Commentary, Cultural History, Current Affairs, Dee Dee, Dumb People, George O'Dowd, Heroes & Icons, Hotel Chelsea, In the Blogosphere, nobody can hear you scream., mailbag, Manhattanophilia, Paranoia, Trash Celebrities | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)