Brooklyn Gets Really Real
I’m not as familiar with my biblical plagues as I once was, but I think this one comes somewhere between disease on livestock and unhealable boils. Yep, The Real World is coming to Brooklyn.
As I write this, there are thousands of unshaven man-orexics on fixed gear bikes brainstorming the best way to protest this incursion on their carefully manicured epcot-bohemia. Here is a hint: You can never go wrong with giant puppets.
If you are worried about the “reality’ show’s impact on your beloved borough, fear not. We Manhattanites have endured not one, but two seasons of The Real World. In spite of this fact we remain as fundamentally douchey as we were when Peter Stuyvesant first asked for his bagel scooped.
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As a bike commuter and financial contributor to sustainable transit advocacy, I must take issue with your characterization of bicycle-as-fashion-accessory. I must also note that you are sporting a modicum of carefully cultivated scruff today, my friend.
I reserve my god given right to be a pot and call you an ungalvanized steel kettle!
My bike has many, many gears I’ll have you know. Also If you are such a brooklyn hater than I won’t buy you and Dawn that brunch at BLISS i’ve been planning.
Omg. The Real World just turned 21 and will run wild off Bedford. I will quickly empty my bank account buying new clothes and nose candy in my desperate attempts to get some Real booty.
i can’t believe the real world is old enough to drink. i mean, legally. i miss ancient times, when deformed children were left in the wild for predators to eat. that way they can’t embarrass us with their deformed antics at 21. or any other age.
let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater people. unless that baby is a) metaphorical, and b) deformed.
I assume the Real World cast will do lines at The Metropolitan?
I wonder if we are wrong and The Real World will actually be in Park Slope and everyone in the cast will have to be 49 and pregnant.
America’s Next Top Model went to Brooklyn a lot this season too. It’s finally made it!