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[jough]

Hoboken is actually a nice place now - it's been way developed and rents are getting higher by the year.  I was looking at living there for a while, but Jersey City is the new Hoboken - cheap living and easy access to The BIG CITY.

[Carlos del Vaca]

My brother lives in Hoboken.  From what I've seen, it's not so bad.

[Drastic Action]

Yeah, I basically hate cities, but as far as cities go, Hoboken is pretty nice.  If you stay on Washington street and east of it, you pretty much can pretend that the whole place is just this happy little yuppie/college town.  A lot of my favorite bands seem to play here, though generally when I'm not actually present, so this is a change of pace.  And yeah, when it comes to hoboken, parking and rent are just retarded.

[AugustWest]

I haven't the vaguest idea what Hoboken is actually like.  Just reading the word evoked the image of Bugs Bunny at the South Pole with the little tap dancing penguin whom he returned home in the mistaken assumption that that was where he lived.  Then the penguin hands him his business card with his Hoboken home address. 

So, I'm not trying to badmouth anybody's hometown.

[wombat]

I, on the other hand, am a native of New York City and it is therefore my birthright to make fun of Hoboken and similar locales. The description of it as a 'happy little yuppie/college town' made me giggle.  But hey, you go, Jersey.

[jough]

Oh, it's total yuppie-ville now.  There's a similar area of Philly - Manayunk - that used to be slums until developers bought up all of the slums and put up high priced condos and new shoppes and restaurants and stuff.  Now poor people can't even afford to look at Hoboken and Manayunk.

[pmcd9]

Oh, it's total yuppie-ville now.  There's a similar area of Philly - Manayunk - that used to be slums until developers bought up all of the slums and put up high priced condos and new shoppes and restaurants and stuff.  Now poor people can't even afford to look at Hoboken and Manayunk.

It must be yuppi-burgh if they have 'shoppes.'

~Paul

[jough]

My favourite yuppie-ism is a strip mall that is named something like "The Shoppes At ________" where the blank is something like "Haven Meadow" or "Manayunk Hills" or "Monument Valley" or something.

There is a shitty apartment complex near here called "The Ridley Mews."

What the fuck is a mew?

WTF?

[Hobot]

Oh, it's total yuppie-ville now.  There's a similar area of Philly - Manayunk - that used to be slums until developers bought up all of the slums and put up high priced condos and new shoppes and restaurants and stuff.  Now poor people can't even afford to look at Hoboken and Manayunk.

Manayunk is quite nice; my parents and I ate at a restaurant there and walked around a bit when I was considering Bryn Mawr as a college choice.  I was amused that there was a Vespa dealership across from where we ate dinner.


Also, from dictionary.com:
"3. mews (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
     a.  A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments.
     b.  A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand."

[wombat]

"Mews" :  Incredibly pretentious fake British thing to call a crummy apartment complex.

[Mite]

Was it Dave Barry who proposed a tax on superfluous Es in store names? I think we should do that.

[CortJstr]

Was it Dave Barry who proposed a tax on superfluous Es in store names? I think we should do that.

It was indeed. $50,000 per superflous e/ye. But 3 in one store name gets the death penalty.

[Drastic Action]

The world/inferno show was completely ridiculous.  They are an incredible band.  Unfortunately, too many people seemed to hurt themselves by crowd surfing that the people running it cut their electricity.  So, the singer and the accordion player just waltzed about in the audience for a bit instead, singing and playing without the aid of electricity.  It was great.

Also, one of the bands on before them was Mischief Brew, a one-guy outfit.  Really good stuff, sort of a traditional folk-punk of some sort.

I'm not very good at describing bands, am I?

And then I ran off to the pietasters, who were an hour and a half late, so the two shows overlapping worked out fine.  They put on an even better show, if that is possible, in spite of all the yuppies in the audience, giving glares at the people who were there to actually have a good time.  I was first trying not to bump into any of the people who decided that the front row was a good place to stand still, but then I decided, fuck it.  If they don't appreciate the motion, they can move.

It was kind of weird that some of the speakers were held up with milk crates.  I'm surprised we didn't destroy them.

[Nabubrush]

Frank Black (great show), and I very nearly beat a guy who was smoking (in a non-smoking club) senseless. Also, resurrecting a long-dead thread? Love it.

[wombat]

We thought Nabu was working his butt off in some lonely cold place with no Internet access for all these months, and it turns out it's just that he's been too busy going to clubs.  Is that my heart I hear breaking or just the cats knocking something off the dresser again?