James, the New York Times is an addiction. I, like many other Brooklyn Proletarians, grew up believing we could become sophisticated and elite people if we read the Times religiously. My Mother solemnly intoned that Reading the times was the equivalent of a college education. We believed in the times the way poeple from the East End of London thought that speaking Posh English would make them gentlemen.
And just to finish off, The TImes has love love loved Mouthpiece Manny Macron ever since he got in, giving him wide room on any subject that obsesses him, whether French labor law or African policy. The fact that he's a hopeless failure doesn't seem to bother the editorial board. Brooklyn mothers and their sons deserve better.
Sure, sure, sure. David, I'm sure I'd like your mother, too but while there are still posh gentlemen around, the Times is now widely regarded as the hopeless mouthpiece of a liberal intelligentsia gone off the rails. It's a scandal a week there, you don't have to be Trump to say it, you can take your pick. You know all that.
The demoralizing article gave us a portrait of Paris that seems common to almost every major metropolis in our world today. Gentrification, skyrocketing rents, metastasizing chain stores, and of course the pandemic are robbing the Urban west of the verve, vibrancy and highly charged valence (yes, I do overdue alliteration, but I fucking love it) that once made our cities sparkle like champagne. Tell me: Does it cost a fortune to live in a habitable abode, one with hot water and no rats. Does it swing, or is it becoming a banquet of bougeois banalities instead of "A movable feast."
James, the New York Times is an addiction. I, like many other Brooklyn Proletarians, grew up believing we could become sophisticated and elite people if we read the Times religiously. My Mother solemnly intoned that Reading the times was the equivalent of a college education. We believed in the times the way poeple from the East End of London thought that speaking Posh English would make them gentlemen.
And just to finish off, The TImes has love love loved Mouthpiece Manny Macron ever since he got in, giving him wide room on any subject that obsesses him, whether French labor law or African policy. The fact that he's a hopeless failure doesn't seem to bother the editorial board. Brooklyn mothers and their sons deserve better.
Sure, sure, sure. David, I'm sure I'd like your mother, too but while there are still posh gentlemen around, the Times is now widely regarded as the hopeless mouthpiece of a liberal intelligentsia gone off the rails. It's a scandal a week there, you don't have to be Trump to say it, you can take your pick. You know all that.
I would like you to address an issue, regarding your beloved Paris, that was addressed in a recent issue of the New York times, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/world/europe/latin-quarter-paris-bookstores.html?searchResultPosition=4
The demoralizing article gave us a portrait of Paris that seems common to almost every major metropolis in our world today. Gentrification, skyrocketing rents, metastasizing chain stores, and of course the pandemic are robbing the Urban west of the verve, vibrancy and highly charged valence (yes, I do overdue alliteration, but I fucking love it) that once made our cities sparkle like champagne. Tell me: Does it cost a fortune to live in a habitable abode, one with hot water and no rats. Does it swing, or is it becoming a banquet of bougeois banalities instead of "A movable feast."
David, I thought you knew by now not to believe what you read in the New York Times.