Posts Tagged “Vegan”
brooklyn vegan comment thread of the day
Sure, we've had a bit of fun at the expense of the Brooklyn Vegan comment section in the past. But sometimes, the anonymous, indie-loving hordes over there take a break from sardonically flaunting their "insider" status and general awesomeness in favor of actually trying to be helpful. And somehow, the results are even more hilarious than usual!
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brooklyn vegan comment thread of the day
Despite the threat of thunder, lightning, and pouring rain, yesterday's show at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool featuring MGMT and the Ting Tings filled the place to capacity—even on the celebrity side, as Agyness Deyn and Kirsten Dunst were both in attendance. Alas, I had a date with an awesome Mets victory, so I was not in attendance, but I got a feel for the afternoon's vibe via those sweaty New York City types who can't help but gloat about their ability to stand in line and, therefore, be better than everyone else in the comments section of Brooklyn Vegan. Their writings have been giving me fits of laughter/periods of despair at our future, and naturally, I couldn't help but share some of the "best" comments, with the definition of "best" either meaning "funniest" or "aptly capturing the multitude of reasons I was happy that the Warped Tour was my weekend all-day outdoor concert of choice." (Hey, I am a girl from Long Island. I know my place.)
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MGMT Show Makes The Anonymous Hordes NGRY
Despite the threat of thunder, lightning, and pouring rain, yesterday's show at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool featuring MGMT and the Ting Tings filled the place to capacity—even on the celebrity side, as Agyness Deyn and Kirsten Dunst were both in attendance. Alas, I had a date with an awesome Mets victory, so I was not in attendance, but I got a feel for the afternoon's vibe via those sweaty New York City types who can't help but gloat about their ability to stand in line and, therefore, be better than everyone else in the comments section of Brooklyn Vegan. Their writings have been giving me fits of laughter/periods of despair at our future, and naturally, I couldn't help but share some of the "best" comments, with the definition of "best" either meaning "funniest" or "aptly capturing the multitude of reasons I was happy that the Warped Tour was my weekend all-day outdoor concert of choice." (Hey, I am a girl from Long Island. I know my place.)
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girls, girls, girls
Apparently the folks at Vulture still have the stamina to scroll through the scores of concert pics and peanut-gallery members that populate the heavyweight blog Brooklyn Vegan, because someone over there noticed a recent trend in the site's endless, nearly wordless documentation of shows: "it seems that summer concertgoers—particularly women—now have to deal with blog photographers and their long-lens cameras." Yes, the combination of hot weather and hot women has apparently proven to be too much for whoever's selecting shots for the site these days, resulting in some craziness from all that heat. Quoth Vulture: "It was [Thursday's] recap of Feist's Prospect Park show that really started to edge into creepiness, with a few long-range shots of random women just hanging out.... We're sure the Feist fans in question loved checking in at Brooklyn Vegan to see voyeuresque photos of themselves above comments like 'more pictures of the indie sluts please' and 'I'd mushabang those Feist-type girls.' " Well, with come-ons like that, how could they refuse? Am I right, ladies?
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Is Your Music Blog In Need Of Traffic? Post Some Photos Of Ladies!
yay, journalism!
Ah, trend stories, the bane of every journalistic enterprise. On the one hand, they are handy for editors who want to know what "the kids" who will be taking their jobs and houses are up to. On the other hand, they're generally vacuous glosses on subjects that are way too surface-gleaning to even be called "superficial." Greg Sandoval at CNet took the world of "music blogging" under his trend-story wing this morning, and if nothing else it's a primer in how not to tackle this admittedly knotty, yet way too often completely misunderstood subject. Five anti-lessons after the jump.
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Five Ways To Not Write A Trend Piece On Music Blogs
bleeding cows
You'd think she'd be busy with all her TV appearances and flying through Clive Davis' window every night, but Leona Lewis has found the time to give her oh-so-influential name to a vegan clothing line. I admire how quickly she's gone from having a No. 1 single written by Jesse McCartney to making sure people know where to find animal cruelty-free clothes. I guess she's not forgettable if she's not going away.
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Leona Lewis Expands World Conquest With Vegan Clothing Line
You'd think she'd be busy with all her TV appearances and flying through Clive Davis' window every night, but Leona Lewis has found the time to give her oh-so-influential name to a vegan clothing line. I admire how quickly she's gone from having a No. 1 single written by Jesse McCartney to making sure people know where to find animal cruelty-free clothes. I guess she's not forgettable if she's not going away.
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the inquiring blogtographer
Over the weekend, the Shins' Marty Crandall was arrested for his involvement in a domestic dispute with his now-ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell, a former America's Next Top Model contestant who broke the news on her Livejournal shortly after she made bail. (The post she wrote about the incident, which includes photos of her bruised arm, has been friendslocked at the advice of her legal counsel, but it's been reproduced elsewhere.) Crandall was held over the weekend and has apparently since been released. As is often the case with ugh-inducing incidents involving indie rock semi-luminaries, the Brooklyn Vegan post on the arrest has been the go-to place for the music-blog cognoscenti's reactions, and while some of them actually address the situation semi-intelligently, most of them are about as tasteful as you'd expect from a Web site that allows its readers to post anonymously:
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Shins Keyboardist Arrested; A Comment Section Reacts
Over the weekend, the Shins' Marty Crandall was arrested for his involvement in a domestic dispute with his now-ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell, a former America's Next Top Model contestant who broke the news on her Livejournal shortly after she made bail. (The post she wrote about the incident, which includes photos of her bruised arm, has been friendslocked at the advice of her legal counsel, but it's been reproduced elsewhere.) Crandall was held over the weekend and has apparently since been released. As is often the case with ugh-inducing incidents involving indie rock semi-luminaries, the Brooklyn Vegan post on the arrest has been the go-to place for the music-blog cognoscenti's reactions, and while some of them actually address the situation semi-intelligently, most of them are about as tasteful as you'd expect from a Web site that allows its readers to post anonymously:
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