dpstyles:

“So, why am I writing about all this now? Well, my friend Jeremiah Moss wrote up a post on Vanishing New York yesterday, and dropped it onto my Facebook timeline with the question, “Is your heart still beating?” According to Jeremiah’s piece, Bleecker Bob’s is soon to become a —- WAIT FOR IT — Starbuck’s. … Enjoy your grande frappuccinos, you fuckers.”

—Flaming Pablum: Farewell to Bleecker Bob’s?

I think I’ve been to Bleecker Bob’s maybe once, but it’s ingrained in my head from building dodgeball.com back in 2001.   Bleecker Bob was the edge case that taught me to deal w/ the nuances in the different ways in which people spelled “Bleecker” and the different places on Bleecker Street that all had “Bleecker” in the name (Bleecker Bob, Bleecker Bar, Bleecker Books)

ps:   has anyone ever made a list of “legendary” NYC venues that have been replaced by Starbucks?   (Like a side-by-side “The Bean, East Village -> Starbucks in Dec 2011”)

Hey man, there’s a Starbucks where the Starbucks used to be.

re: disorganized mess

isabelthespy:

for all i think of my tumblr as me vomiting my feelings all over the internet, i actually don’t think i wrote a ton of personal stuff here until the day i decided to drop out of harvard. and that was kind of necessity-born too, but in a different way.

isabelthespy:

anecdotally, back at harvard we got an email whenever there was a mugging on or near campus

(Source: thurston-whore)

“this building is a hundred years older than the country it’s in”

isabelthespy:

it’s a funny line, but actually the oldest still-standing building in harvard yard was built in 1720 - i remembered that it wasn’t as old as harvard, i had to google the date.

BASICALLY I WISH I COULD GET MY B.A. FROM TUMBLR UNIVERSITY

isabelthespy:

you guys are so much better an education than harvard!

wow my dashboard has a LOT of feelings about bad college pedagogy!

isabelthespy:

also i’d like to take this moment to note that i had some really great professors and TFs at harvard 

it’s interesting thinking about how context-specific “unpopular opinions” are

isabelthespy:

but numerically speaking i know a lot of opera-heads because of how i fell into the harvard opera scene (there is a harvard opera scene. yeah, i don’t know either).

when i say literary theory makes me cry that’s actually 100% snark free

isabelthespy:

i mean most english classes i took at harvard, we got some kind of handout with a bunch of basic guidelines which were pretty useless to anyone who had taken an english class before. anyway. the second time around wasn’t any better - i think maybe i cried even more because it was on macbeth and i hated macbeth.