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Comment of the Week

OlympusNYC asked in the 'Brompton Gets Its Bricks On' post:

“Any details on the building going up at 72nd and 1st?”

A few details have come out, via the company overseeing the site. The structure going up on the southeast corner of First Ave and 72nd will ultimately be an apartment building, which is being built and will be solely dedicated for the nearby hospital Sloane-Kettering. No word on whom at the hospital will be occupying spaces there, but it should be done in 2008.

The Pink Izod Collar Pop Encore

A follow-up to last week's post on the pink collar pop.  After a Burritoville sighting, a few comments, then a "Comment of the Week" post, we were debating the age-old question: "If someone is walking the Upper East Side with his collar popped on his pink Izod, does that make him a douchebag?" I don't qualify as an expert, so I checked in with the brains behind hotchickswithdouchebags, DB1, who answered an inquiry from me to settle the score once and for all.  DB1, if you will? 

From hotchickswithdouchebags, via the "Ask DB1" post:

"The Pink I-Zod (and its compatriot, The Pink Polo) does not in and of itself confer inherent douche status, but it is a warning sign of potential douchebaggery. Like the growl of the Amur Tiger of Uttar Pradesh or a hooker named Candii saying "Hi!" it presages potential disaster if you make the wrong choice.

Any popped collar, on the other hand, confers auto stage-1 douche status

Without exception.

And Pink I-Zod Popped Collar reverberates across the douchological spectrum exponentially, scaring old ladies, causing milk to go bad and punching a really, really cute possum in the face."

'Comment of the Week'

In this week's "comment of the week" we spotlight OlympusNYC, who in the Best Gourmet Grocery Store post asks:

The biggest downer at Agata....the majority of unfriendly cashiers...but that's everywhere...right?

Unfriendly cashiers everywhere? Is there not a single grocery store on the UES with some friendly folks behind the counter? Please weigh-in in the comments with your thoughts.

'Comment of the Week'

This week's 'Comment of the Week' comes via Awolf on the "White Guy Wearing Izod Doesn't Like White People" post. In the item, a guy in Burritoville, wearing a pink izod with the collar up revealed his thoughts on how badly the UES sucks, and how there are too many white people. In the post, I made a vague reference to the Facts of Life and stumbled to a point, never making it very well. To better illustrate, the scenario was very "Tea Partay," minus the pro-New England lyrics and downright hilarious.   

In the comments Awolf asked:

"...what is the problem with a pink Izod? I am a 100% hetero male, but I wear a pink Izod often. I DON'T pop the collar though, that just screams DOUCHEBAG!"

First, Awolf, my not intention was not to offend or make fun of anyone's wardrobe choices, as I am not allowed to make fun of anything anyone wears -- because I wore acid washed jeans in the 80s.

Second, your comment was interesting because it begs the question -- is the collar pop alone a douchebag indicator?  I thought it would be best to check in with an expert, so I spent about 5 seconds at hotchickswithdouchebags to find out if a collar pointed north is a qualifier. The first sentence from the first post I read ("Gypsy Moth"), in which the purveyor of the site is idenifying a new trend, goes like this:

"It's hard to determine exactly when a trend turns into a full blown onslaught. But the mass replication of the Fauxhawk/Mohawk is undeniable at this point. It is rapidly replacing the popped collar as the single biggest giveaway of douche.