Comments on: 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers

50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers

Mean Mr. Bucket — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:31:51 -0800

What, no Kottke?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:35:58 -0800

Musta been a slow news year if multiple bloggers showed up on it.

By: cedar

cedar — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:39:14 -0800

Wow, your mean.

By: found missing

found missing — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:41:33 -0800

My bad. Your mean.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:44:18 -0800

Yawn.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:44:23 -0800

I laughed. If Kottke had been on the list he would have been in the esteemed company of Lindsay Lohan, Olsen Twins, and Tony Danza as people I am vaguely aware of. In fact he may have topped the list.

By: JPowers

JPowers — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:49:56 -0800

You can't hate Kottke. You only envy him so much your ears bleed.

By: sninky-chan

sninky-chan — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:50:03 -0800

Gee, Bloomberg's #1. Whoda thunk it? Now that is edgy critique.

By: 235w103

235w103 — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:52:31 -0800

Well, at least #34 is good. After time spent working for him, I can safely say, "Fuck you, Mr. Kim."

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:52:38 -0800

And the repercussions of Tee's retro fad are still felt several years later, with the L train now a weekend party shuttle that looks like an acid flashback to 1982. True, electroclash has been skewered like a pig at a fourth of July barbecue, and we're not here to pick at its charred flesh. We're aiming our crossbow at Tee's skull because it's only a matter of time before HipsterClash or RetroAmsterburg starts percolating. It's all we can do to gnaw our toenails in baited anticipation of Tee's next trendoid scheme. The electroclash backlash has lasted longer than the subsubgenre itself. Delicious.

By: Postroad

Postroad — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:53:43 -0800

Great! a whore writing for a third-rqate piece of shit badmouthing everybody but those whoring for his rag...which goes to prove that when you have nothing to say, badmouth the shit out of everyone else. I have an idea!! So many bad folks in New Yokr? Move the fuck away and play with yourself if where you are seems so offensive...or: simply ignore that which annoys you, pick yourself up by the balls (have them?) and run for the goalpost.

By: undule

undule — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:01:34 -0800

How naughty! Tee Hee!

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:06:51 -0800

pick yourself up by the balls Ouch!

By: sixpack

sixpack — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:14:09 -0800

Cripes... Neither Steinbrenner nor Trump make this list?

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:15:07 -0800

Obviously the New York Press has not met my boss.

By: salad spork

salad spork — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:19:37 -0800

Wow, your mean. Whose mean? My mean? I'm confused. Unless you're referring to averages.

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:20:04 -0800

37. Mr. Kim Video Store Owner Um, does anybody outside of NYC really care about most of the gripes on this list?

By: edgeways

edgeways — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:21:28 -0800

Kind of a double post eh? Or does the fact that this is a reoccurring topic give it legitimacy?

By: chaz

chaz — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:21:43 -0800

I liked it.

By: Arch Stanton

Arch Stanton — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:24:54 -0800

It seems it's a yearly ritual on Metafilter, edgeways. The 2003 list.

By: ifjuly

ifjuly — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:29:38 -0800

i loved the gopnik/new yorker one. yes.

By: incomple

incomple — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:35:26 -0800

Um, does anybody outside of NYC really care about most of the gripes on this list? Probably not, but it was published in NYP, which doesn't bother to cater to anyone outside of the tri-state area as far as I know. Or are you just annoyed that it was posted here?

By: fenriq

fenriq — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:37:50 -0800

I knew I was going to enjoy it with A-Rod starting it off. The guy is just a big annoying baby. I like that the world gets to see it more and more. Many weren't of interest but it was an interesting read.

By: reflection

reflection — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:49:08 -0800

When O'Reilly suggests that for Valentine's Day we buy each other copies of his lousily written, poorly researched, mendacious tracts, we see a man looking for the love his drunken abusive daddy never provided to the one and only daughter in the family. damn. now that's mean. erm, average, erm, you own the average, erm. nevermind. mean like NOT NICE.

By: postmodernmillie

postmodernmillie — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:52:25 -0800

My median, if you're nasty.

By: pixelgeek

pixelgeek — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:54:53 -0800

Seems like its just a list of 50 people more popular than the author. Interesting how far envy will drive a person. Spite isn't that interesting. Aside from the good 'ole days of Spy of course.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:55:43 -0800

Hmm. A list talking smack mostly about very regional public figures. Awesome post. Hah! Only in New York!

By: flashboy

flashboy — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:59:08 -0800

Because of her caustic personal habits, the turnover rate of ReganBooks employees breaks the sound barrier. How can anybody possibly argue with the taste and opinions of people who write with such precision and beauty?

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:59:52 -0800

what? no Trump? or does he no longer live in NYC? or was his publicist asleep on this opportunity?

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:17:56 -0800

Musta been a slow news year if multiple bloggers showed up on it. Apparently they have a rule that you only make the list once, so in its third incarnation they're rapidly running out of notables and are reduced to council members no one's ever heard of. We linked to these last year and the year before, and it's interesting how the conclusion of this being a prissy inside-joke "look we own a paper and can do whatever we want" wank-fest comes quicker every time.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:26:01 -0800

RE the Olsen Twins: They're still a couple more drug addictions and anorexic relapses away from being forced to munch sisterly snatch, thereby fulfilling the one-handed fantasies of 74 percent of male America and falling. hmm...ouch. Well its just an alt-rag's shitlist, the Stranger does stuff like this, as does every major alternative newspaper. Since I don't live in NY most of these are foreign to me, but they're not pulling the punches at least.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:26:16 -0800

I knew I was going to enjoy it with A-Rod starting it off. That's where it lost credibility for me. Anyone who prefers Jeter to A-Rod on the field or off immediately sets off my distrust alarm. At least A-Rod doesn't do commercials for fucking MasterCard^TM. (I admit those Radio Shack commercials make me vomit.) More local news at 11 ...

By: destro

destro — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:29:23 -0800

What no Kerik?

By: pixelgeek

pixelgeek — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:48:32 -0800

What no random poster from newyork.craigslist.org?

By: DeepFriedTwinkies

DeepFriedTwinkies — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:50:01 -0800

Hmm. A list talking smack mostly about very regional public figures. Awesome post. Hah! Only in New York!

See, the problem out here in the Pacific Northwest* is that there are not even 5, let alone 50, annoying and loathsome people to go on a list. We are all erudite, charming, and fully flossed. We would feed Mr. Kim AND the Olsen twins to the geoducks and think nothing of it.

*AKA Where God rests Her twinkly toes every moss-filled day.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:58:20 -0800

what the fuck do I have to do to get on this list, dammit....

By: DeepFriedTwinkies

DeepFriedTwinkies — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:05:20 -0800

what the fuck do I have to do to get on this list, dammit.... posted by jonmc at 4:58 PM PST on March 31

Change your name to quonsar?

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:11:07 -0800

Let's start a campaign to get MeFi's jonmc onto next year's list. C'mon, it'll be fun.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:16:13 -0800

Yeah, man. I'm loathsome with the best of 'em, you filthy bastards. see?

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:18 -0800

20. Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrrl) Socialite, Blogger Would some thin-wristed shoe-gazing bass player please hurry up and fuck this girl? Worth it for that alone. Now David Cross can take his career off hiatus knowing he's off the list. Jon: Bang some groupies and start blogging about it. Maybe you can get on the list.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:44:32 -0800

I don't have no groupies. Any volunteers? WolfDaddy, you don't count, bro.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:55:22 -0800

what?? kottke is delicious! (did I say that out loud?) I have no idea who practically any of these people are, and I'm so okay with that. This seems to be a bottom-scrape probing of New York's character. I like a lot of things about New York, but most of them are functions of its size.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:10:21 -0800

We've got a big bottom to scrape, scarabic. One of the things that makes New York so especially amazing is that the whole world is represented here in all it's glory, not just it's most appealing parts. It's not a resrvation of hipsters and bohemians, it's the laboratory of human relations, my man.

By: berek

berek — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:05:43 -0800

Olsen Twins do not belong on list. Berek likes Olsen Twins. Berek has seen every Olsen Twin's movie. WHAT?! Lots of grown men are Olsen Twins fans! Its not preverted! Its not! "sob" Its really not! Berek hides in closet, curls up in fetal position, quietly sobs.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:32:27 -0800

I've done some crazy things in my time, but admitting to having seen ever Olsen Twins' movie will definitely never be one of them.

By: marvin

marvin — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:08:40 -0800

Isn't Howard Stern a New Yorker?

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:11:34 -0800

Awesome. I missed Kerik too on the list, besides the token mention of him screwing Regan. He belongs more than a few people I'd never heard of. Larry Tee getting such high honors makes me laugh. Sounds like someone got turned down for a date, and is taking it pretty poorly.

By: ifjuly

ifjuly — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:22:46 -0800

Metafilter: We've got a big bottom to scrape.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:53:01 -0800

I'm not a big Ultragrrrl fan (actually, I'd never read her blog before yesterday), but I like her response.

By: davy

davy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:41:15 -0800

May I be the Most Loathesome Kentuckian, please?

By: davy

davy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:42:43 -0800

Oh, I see it IS "loathsome". My bad! I'm not running for wurst spellar, y'know.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:25:18 -0800

Loathsome is the new black.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:14:32 -0800

Someone should do a FPP on Mr. Kim. I didn't know he was loathsome, especially since his store is one of the only sources outside of a rapidly dwindling indie music and underground film scene where kids can get paid anything for keeping astride of new stuff that ain't brooklyn rap. I did hear something about tax evasion, but to me that's a mark of character. That's right you feds...

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:22:07 -0800

Oh and by the way, yes people outside of new york should care about the list because we--loathsome or not--determine what you out there think and do. See post on McDonalds and the quote on 50 cent. Just the way it is.