Comments on: Sarah Jessica Parker’s High Horse

By: ss

ss — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:25:09 +0000

What’s funny is that the same “gentrification” is happening here in Chicago as well. Anywhere one buys a condo, they’re guaranteed to make something out of it. There’s no area in particular that will be the suprise money maker. Just recently, Wicker Park, Bucktown, Logan Square Ukrainian/East Village all became recently gentrified. Not as posh as Lincoln Park or as fun as Boystown/Lakeview, but getting there. Humboldt Park is getting there, too, even though it’s still ghetto, as well as other places on the near south side, i.e. Bridgeport, etc. *Sigh* I guess I do kinda understand what she’s saying and can’t help but feel like one of the yuppies “ruining” the diversity/culture of our city…

By: ss

ss — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:13:33 +0000

Good entry. Love you, Holly Won’t.

By: Chronic Malanga

Chronic Malanga — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:38:18 +0000

I saw this show once, and I agree with Fuzzbutt. I hated it. I thought it was pathetic, really. I was never a fan of SJP either. Not because of her looks, which is something she gets picked on for a lot. It would be nice to say that it’s cool that someone as weird looking as she is could be a style/girly icon, but she’s annoying, so whatever…

By: Fuzzbutt

Fuzzbutt — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:30:10 +0000

Hey…. not EVERY single 20-something girl in the US liked watching gay men in the bodies of women old enough to be our mothers live tawdry little lives without meaning…. I was forced to sit through it once… more than enough to last me a couple lifetimes. If I’m like that in my 40s, I’ll shoot myself.

By: Holly Won't

Holly Won't — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:08:30 +0000

The book was terrible. Carrie just kind of seemed like an asshole in it.

By: Rocko

Rocko — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:58:23 +0000

Wait, wait, wait … New York City was a financial wreck and that’s the city she wants to go back to? The high crime, the smut and sleaze on every corner, the windshield “washers”. I mean, a year after she got here the Bronx was burning and that’s what she wants to go back to? I am so sick and tired of all these “New Yorkers” who want to go back and recover the “soul” of the city. The “soul” of the city are the people who live here. It has always been the people who live here. It will always be the people who live here.

The reason all those bodegas and coffee shops are gone is because of affluent “New Yorkers” like her who who pay ridiculous rates for rent and have landowners not renewing leases and redeveloping land. If she wants to know where the New York she loved is gone, she need only to take a look in the mirror or watch an episode of her own damn TV show.

As a person who lives in New York, I couldn’t be happier about the relative prosperity of the fair city. Disneyfication, gentrification, whatever you want to call it, you know what you’re getting when you decide to live in New York. And as much as I love the city, I don’t lament the change and I’m not tied down in the identity of their city. I’d go to Atlanta, even L. A., in a heartbeat for better pay, cheaper rents and safer neighborhoods. Then again I grew up in the Bronx not Manhattan.

And Holly, I read the Sex in the City book. I still have it, it was in the free bin of a local library. I didn’t get it. It just seemed to ramble on to me.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:52:37 +0000

I have to admit …. I have never, ever seen this show. I only can recall seeing her in one show - square pegs - at least I think that was her. Anyway I agree with K. She probably does not travel much outside her couple square city blocks and probably she goes by car - driven by someone else.

By: k

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:35:38 +0000

Oh wah. I’m sure there are bodegas and coffeshops in New York, just as she remembers them. I’m sure that the ENTIRE CITY isn’t affluent.

Perhaps these things aren’t in the high-rent area SHE lives in, but you know. Maybe she just needs to venture out more often to places that aren’t in her comfort zone.

By: Simon Scowl

Simon Scowl — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:23:56 +0000

Which one’s the horse?

By: Ale

Ale — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:08:56 +0000

Well, I agree with you. She is right about the New York of today. Its depressing to see how snobby New York has become. How over-rated it is. It still offers so much, but it has lost its soul.

As for Deceiver.com, you guys make me laugh. I appreciate coming to the website everyday to see what else you may have on here… Keep up the awesomeness.