Sunset and Twenty Six, Sept 26, 2014

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York

It's a city of Ghosts.

When I first moved there
(1997)
The laments were constant, and you felt glad to be able
to grab onto your piece of the island before moneyed erosion hit it
But things have chnaged more now
Int he past 5 years
And now the city that best embodied the idea of the internet
has mirrored its progress.

Ads and corporations have taken over,
and all the weird voices have been marginalized
And left ot hide in dark alleys
until they are crowded into the Hudson and East Rivers
and are now only speaking underwater
and in New Jersey.

Books about the Era

Try this one:

Lady Gaga was hovering around the same time Fringe was, but we never quite crossed paths.  Even though Stanton & Ludlow was the centerpoint for both of us!

http://www.rivingtonwasours.com/

The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side

Look up the SONG!! Steven Merrit/Magnetic Fields

Adult Dependant Children-DS character

She could relate the Republican argument thoroughly.  Even when it went directly against her own experience.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/poverty-in-america-is-mainstream/?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_PIA_20131104&_r=0

She spouted old headlines, Soviet space shuttles were trash (even in the presence of those from a former Soviet republic)

Democratic Republic

She believed in the myth of "You just need to Work Harder".  She held herself to pretty high standards.  And held everyone else to them as well.  No excuses.
"If I could discover my Mom hanging in our bathroom at age 8, if I could learn how to do my own laundry from then on, then you can learn to balance your friggin checkbook!"

When You Trust in Small Orgs, and Your Paycheck Bounces

3rd Ward's sudden Closing

http://gothamist.com/2013/10/14/3rd_ward.php

Memories of LES Fringe (Aaron Beall)