> But I am puzzled about this impression of drizzle, as well as by the
> Jodi Dean "gotcha" crap. wtf?
I clearly haven't been reading as attentively as I should. Who the devil is Jodi Dean, and why is she important?
A quick Google (thanks for the tip, Doug) suggests that she's a professor at a third-tier school with degrees from a couple of first-tier schools. A case of downward mobility. I sympathize.
Has she spent much time down at Zuccotti? Hard to tell.
Somebody named Jodi Dean -- same one? -- has a blog containing a remarkably stupid and badly-phrased entry about the Great Drum Crisis. The links go to Gothamist and a Community Board brochure-ware web page.
There's much to enjoy here, but my favorite is the lede:
> Tonight's meeting of the full Community Board 1 will test the
> evolving compromise between neighborhood representatives and the
> Occupy Wall Street protesters.
This brought tears of mirth to my eyes. The idea that a Community Board meeting might 'test' anything, apart from the Sitzfleisch of the attendees -- and then, too, the idea that a NYC Community Board consists of 'neighborhood representatives'. Community Boards, as everybody who lives here knows, are evenly divided between landlords and lunatics with too much time on their hands.
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