IFHNY

"I wanna be a part of it...NY NY"

So I came home from work last night and one of my wonderful new roommates was all flustered. “Why are you flustered?” I asked. She was flustered because she had to travel to New York. Plain and simple, she had to go there in order to fly to Costa Rica for the week. And the biggest worry she had was being in NY. Not a new third world country. NY.

Naturally Walker and I were discussing the events of the day during our late night semi-regular recap, and this subject came up.

Los – “Mel’s distraught about traveling to New York en route to Costa Rica, and I don’t blame her, NY sucks.”

Walker - “You don’t like New York?”

Los – “I fucking hate New York.”

Walker – “Why?”

and here is the bulk of the reason for the post.

Y IFHNY.

1. You smell like a combination of homeless pants, urine, rat/chinesefood, sewer malfunction and Jason Giambi’s hair (yes I know he was traded, but that hair is repulsive)

2. You sound like a mechanical automated souless machine stuck in reverse.

3. You are decaying. Your core is rotted and you have been sitting on your laurels (1920-1960) with no positive action since.

4. With the exception of the New York Giants and Peyton Jr.  You have done nothing in the realm of athletics for the last 10 years.

5. Rats.

6. Hipsters.

7. The amount of money it costs to visit…is retarded.

8. The Yankees.

9. You think you are the greatest city in the country, but fail to notice that in all the years that you have been asserting that, you have lost a grip on reality.

10. You killed Broadway.

11. You made Times Square look like a plastic surgery addict gone horribly wrong.

12. Your neighborhoods are so gentrified, and still blase and boring.

13. You are rude.

14. Pushy.

15. Your subway, while the biggest, baddest, most efficient, makes me feel like I’m either a. going to get arrested because someone is saying something about seeing something, or b. shot. (or c. both)

16. You are a soul sucker. People are raised to go there to follow their dreams, and then they are cornered in, and become just another lemming. You promise big and deliver small. Just like the2001-2009 Yankees/Mets/Jets/Knicks.

17. You also stole one of “her” from me.

18. Wall Street. That’s all, just Wall Street.

19. Bernie Madoff.

20. The Yankees.

That is the gist of what i said.

Walker agreed on a factual level, and god bless his soul, those things haven’t led him to hate NY.

Yet.

I found Irony!

taken from Mental Floss -(which I visit daily, and you should as well)

The technical name for the Statue of Liberty is Liberty Enlightening the World, and it was given to the United States in 1886. Grover Cleveland unveiled the statue at a ceremony on October 28, 1886—this was ironic because when Cleveland was Governor of New York prior to becoming president, he vetoed a bill approved by the state legislature to contribute $50,000 to the building of the pedestal on which the statue stands.

Direction. and UP.

I seem to have lost my compass.

Someone once told me, that the best adventurers don’t need one. The one’s with savvy and intuition know how to get there on their own.

I do hope that’s true.

I’ve had this compass for such a long time, and it has been so good in offering direction. Which way is up, which way is down, and which way is definitely right. It never pointed left, but maybe I was just reading it wrong.

I have the occasional feeling of helplessness when i go to reach for it, and it’s not there, but I must make due. I don’t want another one, but it may be out of my hands. If I am meant to find this compass again, then maybe I’ll learn to not rely on it so much. If not, I will wander, something will eventually lead me.

Speaking of direction:

I just saw UP, and it was absolutely amazing. I’m not going to give anything away, but I never knew how much emotion could be sucked out of me from a bunch of pixels on a screen. There were moments that the whole audience was laughing, crying, ooohing and screaming (the latter due to the digital 3D, my first such experience)

I highly reccomend it.

I will update soon with some exciting news.

In the meantime, I’ll use my memory to remember wich way is up.

Los

MBTA. Shame on you.

All of us from Boston know this, but for those of you living in the “other” part of the world, last weekend 2 subway trolleys collided.

This is an awful occurence, but what really grinds my gears is that the “conductor” of one of the trolleys was texting whence it happened.

Absolutely inexcusable, and quite frankly shocking that someone operating tons of machinery and with hundreds of lives in his/her responsibility would act so…so…typical of a mbta employee.

yesterday. .not 2 days after the incident, I was on the corner of Boylston and Tremont, waiting for some friends, when an mbta employee drove by me in his..corolla or civic.

and guess what?

HE WAS TEXTING WHILE DRIVING.

You would think…well never mind..we would think, they apparently only know how to raise fares every other week, while smashing into each other like that damn new sprite commercial.

Way to go MBTA.