Underrated Flapper Girls

Flappers are underrated.

They are the female rebels of every new generation.

Holly Golightly, how to marry a millionaire, Thoroughly Modern Millie. that Girl.

There are more, known and unknowns.  They are the ones who are sometimes seen as Manic Pixie Girls, who arrive in the city with a vague dream, like their male counterparts, and get swept up in everything.

It happens.

It happened to This Girl.

How To Be a Manic Fairy Pixie (or Not)

Note that most of the Manic Pixies end up with the Millionaires.  Or at least the "cute" ones.

Annie Hall.
Audrey Hepburn/Golightly
Marilyn Monroe

It takes a little of your dignity, but make sure to play along with the GAME.  Boys/Men like to HELP you.  They like mansplaining, they like SOLVING your problems (Bunting or Punting?)

Whatever you do, DO NOT show them your list of things that you believe in:

1) I want to be appreciated for my creativity.  Picking up a piece of trash from the street and doing something creative with it, like turning it into a piece of art.  Whether it is successful or not.

2) I want to be appreciated for TRYING.  Not patted on the head, just hugged when I fail. And gently encouraged to submit.  Again.

Etc.

#SAVENYC

NYC changes from the moment you first begin to explore it as a resident.

Usually for the worse.

Everything leaves.  Everyone does.

And you can never keep up.

I had an idea of drawing every block around me.  In 2002.  And I should have.

(Always draw more)

2nd Ave, the last time before the explosion

Reading at the Moonstruck diner. Afterwards I went to Kickstarter and heard a great panel of Podcasters.

I had gone to La Mama, showing off my portfolio. Tilting at windmills, I had tried before, and could never get a footing in Manhattan. Not yet.

Tourguiding

Five Pointz is gone completely. Just another dull hole in the sky and empty lot full of nothing. Just a few months ago, the 7 train was the most delightful surprise in NYC, arising out of the underground, beneath the East River you'd see an explosion of color. 

Now nothing.

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.