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March 05, 2010
The Religion of Hell's Kitchen.
Jacob Riis photo of Bandits' Roost (1890)
Above: Hell's Kitchen, NYC, before it got cute. The work, images and outcry of Riis were all famous at the time. So was this photograph. Next door to Times Square, Hell's Kitchen always seems worlds away. It keeps changing but stays famous: from Irish and German immigrant sub-city to gangland neighborhood to actors' quarter to, these days, more of a yuppie heaven.
But it's still authentic. Real estate brokers years ago came up with the new labels of Clinton and Midtown West--but it did not work. Those handles will never replace the real name. Older neighborhoods, like older people, have personalities--they are feisty as Hell. And they have spirit. If you are in Manhattan some weekend, stroll around there on a Sunday morning early.
The whole 'hood is a Religion, just like the rest of New York City.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
ChatRoulette. Chat hags. Come again?
We have questions. If 87% of players are male, could this be one of those "confused young men" things? Like a post-modern digital Village People community? And the players have names like Chadwick, Raphael, and Little Sammy? Do people somehow sit in circles? Is there a competition? Are Ritz crackers involved? Can you really get nexted if you went to Duke?
Another thing. Kash Hill, a new ChatRoulette player, is a Vision. A babe. A total Betty. What's in it for her? What's she doing with all these, well, losers? Do they have Chat Hags in Manhattan?
Look, if you must play ChatRoulette, please check in first with Kashmir Hill, and read "A weekend of ChatRoulette (Or: I play ChatRoulette so you don’t have to)" at her blog, The Not-So Private Parts. Excerpt:
I lost my ChatRoulette virginity on Friday night. After drinks at Burp Castle in the East Village and a big bowl of ginger-scallion noodles and fatty pork buns at Momofuku’s noodle bar, I came home full and not yet ready for bed. So I decided to give the site — that I had already written about — a try.
I donned red over-sized, goofy sunglasses with stars on them. Both because the site of first impressions rewards gimmicks to start conversations, and because I wanted to browse incognito. Even knowing I would be paired with anonymous strangers, I felt slightly uneasy and the glasses provided protection.
A Contributor and blogger at True/Slant,
Hill is also an Editor at Above the Law.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
A constant barrage of small but powerful ads.
It's the difference between achieving a robust corporate law practice and getting a job scraping barnacles off your ex-partner's new yacht. If you are working, you are marketing. See "Rule Six: When You Work, You Are Marketing" from our annoying-but-correct 12 Rules. Every moment your firm "works for a client"--it sends the client something, it sends an e-mail, it talks with the client, it does virtually anything for or about that client that the client knows about or should know about--it transmits a small but powerful message.
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March 04, 2010
London Stone -- Part II
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And some talented.
All heiresses are beautiful.
--John Dryden (1631-1700)
Dylan Lauren (1974- ) (Rabbani & Solimene)
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