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How did U-Haul that?
Spotted on Atlantic Avenue: A great discount for the people who escaped from the Gulf Coast to Brooklyn and are in dire straits because they have no place for all the extra furniture they took with them.
Posted by Charles Star on 09/29/2005 | Permalink
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Most storage places around here offer a month of free storage for new customers anyway!
Posted by: carrie | Sep 29, 2005 11:29:48 AM
Or is this FEMAs grand concept for outsourcing mortuary services?
Posted by: WisdomWeasel | Sep 29, 2005 2:03:14 PM
Yeah, I thought this was clearly a pitch for bodies
Posted by: Mark | Sep 30, 2005 12:51:00 PM
30 days free storage might mean something to someone who is crashing in strangers homes and is slowly trying to build up a life again. Can't carry everything everywhere.
While most places offer 30 days for new customers how sure are you that it's not just 30 days with no obligation in any way?
Not to bring up points of the past, but this is a great example of Stay Free! dictating what is and isn't good and condeming others without specific ad hominem attacks. Stay Free! has made a judgement. Stay Free! dictates this is crass and a lie. Stay Free! then implies that anyone who might not agree with Stay Free! is unwelcome. And when you come down to it Stay Free! = Carrie and that's it. There really is not other opinion. Ergo, any criticism against Stay Free! is a personal attack even if it isn't explicitly a personal attack. And Carrie's interprettation of a personal attack is often something that she does not like and everyone else is really not tolerated in any way.
When you front yourself with a publication that fronts itself to the world with a 'royal we' mentality such as "We at Stay Free!" when there is really only one person you set yourself up for personal attacks or interpretting everything pesonally.
Is that a personal attack? Maybe not. But it sure is judgemental without a constructive alternative.
Regarding Katrina, what has Stay Free! done in any way beyond mock others? I have seen the postings about fund raisers to help Stay Free! but what about Katrina victims. What does Stay Free! do except sit attop a self-created pedestal and hurl criticism at things Stay Free! does not like. You even have mocked the Park Slope Food Coop in the past. Which is funny becuase they actually do something to help and change things in the community. What does Stay Free! do but complain and bitch and moan and promote itself?
Very witty and creative. But ultimately dour and self rightgeous. Stay Free! that is.
Posted by: Victor Dubinsky | Sep 30, 2005 1:04:08 PM
Ladies and gents, may we present the world's angriest wedding planner?
Here's to the opinion-free, contradiction-free, snarky aside-free nerdvana. What a better, more Scandinavian place this would be once this is achieved...
Posted by: Dr. Troutbridge | Sep 30, 2005 5:04:20 PM
I thought it was offering them a place to stay. Free.
Posted by: Rich Garella | Sep 30, 2005 5:15:16 PM
