Save the Observer!!

We cannot let the NY Observer Die!! It is a superior newspaper for NY lifestyle.

This article mocking 20-somethings for not understanding the financial crisis is proof of its inherent superiority. Let's compare it to the NY Times article from last May on the same issue.

First: the Observer obsequiously name-drops the editors of Blender and Lydia Hearst.
Second: it shows the true colors of NY's hipsters, wannabes, and Ithaca College Grads.
Third: it isn't contrived and does not claim to have discovered a 'new' subculture of people who dream about moving to NY by reading Bonfire of the Vanities.
Lastly: it is so quietly mocking that it is brilliant. By pretending to be straitlaced and "objective," it catches the subtleties and ignorance of being young in NY as well as demonstrates the stupidity of foreigners (that's 'foreigners' in the NY translated version which means among others: upstaters, Midwesterners, Southerners, Foreigners, and West Coasties. This list, of course, is by no means exclusive)

Here's a demonstration of superiority through case-studies included in both articles,

NY Times demonstrating the 'harsh' realities of City life: A boy earning a paltry' $60,000 a year eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day because he can't "afford" lunch.
NY Observer: A self-described 'artist' explains how a doctor was angered to have been put at the same table as her at a charity event, because his economic stature may not be what it used to be after the economic downturn. 'He was so totally insulted.'

Please, oh please, let us pray that the editor of the NY Observer was not correct when he said that if investors were not found by the end of this month that his magazine would be done for.

SAVE THE OBSERVER!!

UPDATE: and by Observer, I meant NY Sun, which this article is not from..... the Hipster-ish Observer is fine and dandy.... the Sun in all its unmentioned glory is deceased.

Economics of Architecture

Besides loss of money, jobs, livelihoods, pension funds, important things... the effect of this global meltdown on New York's greatest asset, buildings, has yet to be seen. Bear Stearns went out back in March yet 6 months later its building across from the Brooklyn is still vacant (I mean the doors are open and there's a guard there with the lights on and the Air Conditioning blasting, but the only sign I see on the door is Bear Stearns).


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[Ed. Note: google has removed the listing for Bear Sterns that I was referencing in the map above...]

By the way, my theory about the downturn is that right now America is liquidating Investment Banks that haven't updated their logos in 15 years or more. Bear Stearns' definitely was from 1989.













Note: I just realized that Bear Stearns/Brooklyn shares a Building with the Fire Department. There is so irony for the fact it was sold in a fire sale!!!!!

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

This post stems from me wondering what Lehman's electronic ticker said the day they failed.

Also possible:

Hank says No