about

YM is: a) a beacon on the New York blog and shabbos scenes; b) a putz with a wifi; c) worse than an Anonyblogger; d) a random Tumblr page; e) a media wankfest blog written by a group of new media types who are only slightly less annoying than Julia; f) blogging Illuminati g) the sound of one man crapping; h) an asshole blog; i) cross-posted to your MySpace page; j) talking about nothing and worrying about shit; k) a crying into your shoulder at meetings blog; l) harshing the internet's buzz; m) not intended to be a funny blog; n) like many things on the internet, it was a lot funnier a long time ago o) a group blog or p) all of the above.

In the early ’80s I was in a Manhattan bookstore, and asked about a biography of John Steinbeck I had read about. The young and severely hip clerk (what we would now call a metrosexual) sniffed, then muttered, “Does anyone read John Steinbeck anymore?”