Accolades

I'd just like to thank all the new readers for all the kind words and for popping in and checking out one post and leaving their witty and intelligent commentary, i mean shit man the interweb is a place for the exchange of ideas and while i've enjoyed all the attention they've lavished upon me i thought i'd take this opportunity to thank them and maybe float some ideas that have formed in my little hipster, tourist, carpetbagging, yuppie scum brain...

I love the Rust Belt, the Detroit-Cleveland-Pittsburgh-Buffalo axis that was once the industrial center of this nation and is now crumbling and morphing into something different and while Jonathon Richman loved the old world i understand that we must move into the new, life-death-rebirth, it's obvious right kids? but the new mantra is look forward and fuck history, at least when discussing certain neighborhoods, i mean i'm glad every one cares so much about Lawrenceville, really i am, i'm still confounded by the fact that no one seems to want to accept the fact that gentrification will force some of these people into places like the Hill and Garfield where no one seems to be racing to buy up bars and open new businesses, oh wait scratch that cuz i can think of one, a certain chef who's willing to put his ass on the line and open a place in Garfield and yes a few smaller joints are up there but other than that? hmmm, what i don't understand though is how i'm the hipster when i'm making fun of hipster bars and yinz are the anti-hipsters who love them so much, oh i know we've all read our Derrida and Foucault but really kids i'm finding major holes in your deconstructionist arguments about my hipsterdom and your apparent lack thereof when i'm the douche on my mom's couch and you be the kids making the scene...

Still, i want these places to succeed for the people who invested the time and money in them though i do worry that in a city this size there are only so many cool kid consumers to go round even when none of us are cool kid consumers, comprende? After 15 years i can say (as a fucking carpetbagger of course) that most of Pittsburgh's problem was it's youth who couldn't wait to fuck off to hipper places like Chicago and New York when all they needed to do was open their fucking eyes and realize the gold mine that was in front of them, am i contradicting previous posts? maybe? but not really cuz all along i've stated a desire for success for owners and workers alike and all along i've stated it's the douche bags who sit in said places and talk about how great they are and yet still whine how lame this city is, for the record i fucking love it and have been having a good time since the first time i moved here in 93, and gasp i've seen the same sorta thing happen in Cleveland except the kids didn't whine as much and the made their own scene, invested time and money and rebuilt neighborhoods, pay close attention cuz i'm stating that's a good thing, i've spelled it out cuz i've read the posts that have won me such love and realize people make knee jerk reactions, usually to one sentence...

So while i noticed alot of the younger generation driving the place down i often found it interesting how the old timers talked it up and of course this is why i'm an ass cuz i respect the old timer and keep a wary eye on the kiddies, who whined and bitched about how lame it is and now whine and bitch if someone states that though the investment is great what's the fucking difference if it's all the same place with a different name? But really who cares what i think, i'm just a hipster with a blog. Of course all this non-sense is becoming tedious so i think i'll devote the next posts to examing Pynchon's Mason and Dixon, Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are or breaking down the problems with the US Men's National soccer team. Frank Bartles and Ed Jaymes thank you for your support.