WTF Observer, or cancer is, like totally different from gentrification

So there is this nugget from an inchoate lament about how Brooklyn is changing:

Brooklyn’s overwrought mustaches and handmade ice cream in upcycled cups are now well-established facts of life. It’s as if the tumor of hipster culture that formed when the cool kids moved to Williamsburg had metastasized into a cluster of cysts* pressing down on parts of the borough’s brain.

I can remember when the Domino's on Atlantic was a viable dining option, and I share the author's sense that some aspects of Brooklyn ca. 2011 are irritatingly twee. But. I've had handmade ice cream shops open near places I've lived. I've watched someone die of a cancer that metastasized to the brain. Really, the two experiences are quite different. Stupid, careless, lazy writing like this concerns me a good deal more than the alleged Portlandification of Brooklyn. 

* I am not a professional oncologist, but I don't think tumors turn into cysts. 

Comments

[dubarry]

Jeez Cod, I gotta most of the time you are nice polite New England WASP, but every once in a while you pull one out of your ass like this, and you are FUCKING RIGHTEOUS.

Via con dios kid.

[Marco]

I read the Observer article that was quoted in this post: http://tinyurl.com/44278jn

You're right. It's not very well written. I think Jeremiah Moss was trying to work the strained metaphor of the child eating its mother and the reversal of sequence.

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