05-05-2008, 12:26 AM
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Actually, it's my former neighborhood. Apparently--and please pardon me, as there may be just a teensy little bit of bile forming in the back of my throat (and it's NOT morning sickness)--the creator of Melrose Place are considering another such type show set in, gag, Park Slope. For those of you unfamiliar with the Slope, it's in Brooklyn, New York. The people who live there think it's the bomb--the epitome of making it in, well, at least Brooklyn if not New York.
People move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, specifically, to have their babies and clog the sidewalks with their OBNOXIOUS (note, I didn't use the word annoying--it's not annoying; it is, in fact, OBNOXIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!) double-wide strollers and brag to each other and anyone else endlessly about how wonderful they are from all their righteousness and do-gooding. None of which is mixed with an ounce of altruism.
And I used to be one of them. Well, sort of. I fled to Windsor Terrace (sort of like the older cousin of the Slope whose been around the block and knows better) long before I thought about babies--my own, anyway. See, you can't live in the Slope without at least one kid. They'll scorn you otherwise. Seriously. And regardless of cost, they must have the best of everything--you will be snubbed for a simple Maclaren umbrella style stroller like the one I have when you could have shelled out $800 for whatever Euro design is hot this week. I'm basically considered a bad parent by these people because I don't have one. But mine folds up. Easily. With one hand. Sounds like it's just up Darren Star's alley. I can assure you I won't be watching--I get to live it every time I go to work, or Barnes and Noble, or attempt to eat out. What's funny, though, is that no one thinks they're like that who comes from the Slope. And a lot of them aren't. But, many of them are, and they annoy the rest of us in Brooklyn.
Now they can annoy you, too!
Ah, I guess I'm being too hard on them. After all, they're not really doing anything that bad, other than giving Starbucks all their money (and I am guilty of that too!) and taking up entire sidewalks with their REALLY wide strollers while yammering on their cell phones, oblivious that everyone else gets to use the sidewalk, too. They drive about as well as their toddlers. But they're basically good people trying to make a dent in navigating their way through the strange universe that is Brooklyn, that is New York. And if they get there one latte at a time it's ok. I do it too!
If Darren Star has anything to say about it, though, they'll be plotting murders and ring leading drug circles and heaven knows what else. Hey--the Slope could be fun again!
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Actually, it's my former neighborhood. Apparently--and please pardon me, as there may be just a teensy little bit of bile forming in the back of my throat (and it's NOT morning sickness)--the creator of Melrose Place are considering another such type show set in, gag, Park Slope. For those of you unfamiliar with the Slope, it's in Brooklyn, New York. The people who live there think it's the bomb--the epitome of making it in, well, at least Brooklyn if not New York.
People move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, specifically, to have their babies and clog the sidewalks with their OBNOXIOUS (note, I didn't use the word annoying--it's not annoying; it is, in fact, OBNOXIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!) double-wide strollers and brag to each other and anyone else endlessly about how wonderful they are from all their righteousness and do-gooding. None of which is mixed with an ounce of altruism.
And I used to be one of them. Well, sort of. I fled to Windsor Terrace (sort of like the older cousin of the Slope whose been around the block and knows better) long before I thought about babies--my own, anyway. See, you can't live in the Slope without at least one kid. They'll scorn you otherwise. Seriously. And regardless of cost, they must have the best of everything--you will be snubbed for a simple Maclaren umbrella style stroller like the one I have when you could have shelled out $800 for whatever Euro design is hot this week. I'm basically considered a bad parent by these people because I don't have one. But mine folds up. Easily. With one hand. Sounds like it's just up Darren Star's alley. I can assure you I won't be watching--I get to live it every time I go to work, or Barnes and Noble, or attempt to eat out. What's funny, though, is that no one thinks they're like that who comes from the Slope. And a lot of them aren't. But, many of them are, and they annoy the rest of us in Brooklyn.
Now they can annoy you, too!
Ah, I guess I'm being too hard on them. After all, they're not really doing anything that bad, other than giving Starbucks all their money (and I am guilty of that too!) and taking up entire sidewalks with their REALLY wide strollers while yammering on their cell phones, oblivious that everyone else gets to use the sidewalk, too. They drive about as well as their toddlers. But they're basically good people trying to make a dent in navigating their way through the strange universe that is Brooklyn, that is New York. And if they get there one latte at a time it's ok. I do it too!
If Darren Star has anything to say about it, though, they'll be plotting murders and ring leading drug circles and heaven knows what else. Hey--the Slope could be fun again!
Pic of the Slope pre-gentrification by pingnews.com.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Posted at http://feeds.bloggingbaby.com/~r/weblogs...283304894/
Comments: http://www.parentdish.com/2008/05/04/the.../#comments