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Posted on 07.10.07 by joy @ 8.44pm
What is it about brownstones and bucolic tree lined sidewalks that make people go completely insane? I’ve had many a friend living in “the Slope” wax poetic about their enclave, dating back to the mid 90s when 16th Street and 7th Avenue was sort of “borderline”. This latest incarnation as a middle-class, family ghetto is pathetic. I’m now actually convinced: Park Slope is no longer New York. What’s worse is that the people who move there know it’s pathetic. Just take a look at this article in the New York Times. The author’s inauthentic disdain notwithstanding (I love the fake disdain insurance policy), she would have us believe that the “relaxed” breastfeeding without a modicum of cover in a public restaurant (Two Boots!), taking up the whole sidewalk with a cross-species circus of offspring and canines and waiting until the light turns green to cross an empty “Sesame Street” (where the hell are the cars on Sesame Street anyway?) is what makes her feel like she’s “won the lottery” because she lives in Park Slope. What a fucking crock. Rather than “relaxed”, maybe she meant to type “remorseless” or “rude”. Well I would call it uncivilized, we’re trying to eat pizza here. Why do they have to use that fishing reel dog leash too? You know the one where the dog is walking two blocks ahead? Put your mutt on a leash so he doesn’t jump into my kid’s stroller for god sakes! And by the way, jaywalking is a New Yorker’s god given right. Because unlike the lemmings that need red and green to tell them to stop and go, we think for ourselves. The reality is that Park Slope is a blue chip neighborhood. It’s the people there that suck, big time. And it’s because they have no life other than being parents. Even the gay people there are parents. What the fuck is that? That’s what Park Slope does to you. That’s why it matters that you “take the high road” when someone openly insults you for crossing the street on your own time rather than conforming. If Park Slope was still New York, that woman’s daughter would have got a vocabulary lesson. Filed under: Parental fawning and Breeding and Being an NYCDad Comments: 3 Comments Related Posts:
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Posted on 06.09.07 by joy @ 1.30pm
Originally uploaded by nycdad. Recently, my wife, NYCMom to you, winner of the most improved photographer award got some great shots of the two curious gentlemen who live with us. Notice the dinosaur motif shirt on Zoo. And yes, that is in fact a plush Stegosaurus climbing up Yash at the bottom of the shot. We have a paleontology theme going. Filed under: Parental fawning and Breeding Comments: None Related Posts:
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Posted on 06.04.07 by joy @ 8.05pm
An interesting comparison.
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Posted on 02.23.07 by joy @ 3.30pm
DOB: 2/20/07 Weight: 7 lbs, 3 oz. Hi. ![]() Filed under: Parental fawning and Breeding Comments: None Related Posts:
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Posted on 02.19.07 by joy @ 10.21pm
We went to the hospital today as things got cooking overnight with light, regular contractions. Things continued into the day and we packed up and double-timed it to NYU Medical Center this morning. Monisha was strapped to the fetal monitor for a few hours with 2-3 contractions per hour. After the monitoring session, the doctor came motoring down from the Upper East Side to check on another patient and stopped by at triage. After a quick once over, she declared that the C-section that we had scheduled on Friday should happen now, since we were ready, the baby had reached full term and Monisha was showing signs of labor. Monisha and I huddled up and weighed the options and came to the conclusion to move forward. The doctor came back sooner before the five minutes she allotted us to make our decision. She asked a simple question, “What did you eat for lunch?” “Half a cheese sandwich and pickle, the nurse said I could eat light.” “Pack up and go home.” No surgery on a full stomach. The cheese sandwich extension. More updates to come. Filed under: Breeding Comments: None Related Posts:
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