Following YM™

had to get it in, now we’re done. fuckitbye.

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:35:22 -0400

had to get it in, now we’re done. fuckitbye.

tempted to think that meeting us for drinks is a dirty ploy to take us down, make us stop, nu? well:...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:45:00 -0400

tempted to think that meeting us for drinks is a dirty ploy to take us down, make us stop, nu? well: eh. we ran out of gas. it’s hard on the back making points and talking gibberish even we don’t understand.

The Following YM delegation will be there in full effect. We look forward to it.

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:31:00 -0400

The Following YM delegation will be there in full effect. We look forward to it.

also, please don’t jump us. we’re pretty defenseless.

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:06:38 -0400

also, please don’t jump us. we’re pretty defenseless.

youngmanhattanite: FYM: One of our crew is up for a drink. Spitzer’s at 10pm tonight? No...

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:03:32 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

FYM: One of our crew is up for a drink. Spitzer’s at 10pm tonight? No dodgeball, please. This scene is bad enough as it is.

This reminds me of that “assmble your crew” Prince basketball bit that Chapelle did. “Game: blouses.” No winners.

The FYM crew is committed throughout the weekend, unless 11 to 12ish tomorrow night works. We all have our individual caves and shitholes and late night-ish jobs to crawl back to, you know. But we’re glad to take you up on the offer.

Audio

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:08:10 -0400

Well, I guess it’s that time for us, too. Seacrust, out.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:37:46 -0400

Well, I guess it’s that time for us, too.

Seacrust, out.

In loving memory.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:31:09 -0400

In loving memory.

i know. i eat shit-on san loco every night. you’d think they could come up with something...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:28:56 -0400

i know. i eat shit-on san loco every night. you’d think they could come up with something better. can’t man up for the showdown, can they?

youngmanhattanite: I’m pulling a D.R.Adams. The Midget Holocaust has done me in. This is the last...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:27:23 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

I’m pulling a D.R.Adams. The Midget Holocaust has done me in. This is the last tum post by me, Krucoff. You people (not you, the other you) have won the war and should be congratulated. Ten pounds of defecated Bud Light-sprinkled San Loco will arrive on your doorsteps soon. I won’t delete this account (sounds nervy, eh?) but I’m removing it from the YoungManhattanite.com sidebar - a fate worse than “unsubscribe” - where I will resume my usual Jew and music blogging. Internet Week New York is on the horizon and I must prepare more MP3s. Swing by, leave a comment!

You’ve got to be kidding me. That’s it?

youngmanhattanite: Holy cow, FYM, how old are you? I am fully fucking aware of the fate of CBGB,...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:42:00 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

Holy cow, FYM, how old are you? I am fully fucking aware of the fate of CBGB, which, like GG himself, lost its relevance when you were still in short pants. (I passed up the chance to see GG’s last show —which was at the Gas Station on Ave B and 2nd St.; probably a bistro now— and I don’t remember why. No great loss. I still have the issue of MRR with his funeral photo on the cover, come to think of it.) Feel free to school me on musicals, Ethel, but don’t hector me on this subject.

We’ll conceede on GG, fine - though we knew CBGB was done when they started selling CBGB shirts at Hot Topic - but we won’t take you calling them out when (A) you try to pull the John Varvatos navy-wool three button over our eyes and (B) when there’s so much better stuff to choose from than the glasses thing. Like the fact that he spells it with a “Z.”

youngmanhattanite: Query to FYM: what do you hope to gain from this? There is little we can do...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:26:10 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

Query to FYM: what do you hope to gain from this? There is little we can do other than give you the time of day, and even then we’ll probably be 5 minutes late. If you think you can finagle your way to internet infamy this way, you are barking up the wrong shrub. These are the dregs of a dissipated revolution.

Query to the general public: which is the more overrated, Aziz Ansari or Aziz Ansari?

It’s a tree of life (Jewish camp songs, anyone?).

And we ask for slightly more respect than to think we would do this for fame. I mean, jesus christ: we’re following Young Manhattanite. There’s a level of obscurity to this that even we’re not completely attuned to.

We figured we’d help you out on this one. There has to be...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:22:09 -0400

We figured we’d help you out on this one. There has to be a manual that someone, somewhere is reading.

See, the real problem here is that every time we find you being cockfaces, we find that we dislike the people recieving the brunt of said cockfacity even more.

youngmanhattanite: Query to FYM: what do you hope to gain from this? There is little we can do...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:19:53 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

Query to FYM: what do you hope to gain from this? There is little we can do other than give you the time of day, and even then we’ll probably be 5 minutes late. If you think you can finagle your way to internet infamy this way, you are barking up the wrong shrub. These are the dregs of a dissipated revolution.

Query to the general public: which is the more overrated, Aziz Ansari or Aziz Ansari?

if all we wanted was the time of day, we would have been out the door already - something which has already been proposed - but even we’re not sure what we hope to do via this besides getting people to follow you. gain? i don’t know if a showdown in hell square at high noon merits a gain, but we’d take a date, and afterwords, we can all get on the bull at mason-dixon.

also, the universe collapsing in a fit of ironic-post-meta-2.0-clusterfuckery would count for something.

see! not so bad!

youngmanhattanite: Gotta admire BV: he’s going from Gawker commenter sex to Tumblr sex (dude, did...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:16:30 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

Gotta admire BV: he’s going from Gawker commenter sex to Tumblr sex (dude, did you so totally go to Whisky & Ladle?). And she’s friends with cat guy!

In regards to Gawker sex, does that count the blowing of past and present editorial staff?

“I’ll totally admit, my life is sad enough such that random blog posts from Balk or Choire literally make my day. So a chat conversation between the two of them certainly is a rare treat. However, my dilemma in re-blogging their shit is this: everyone I know is following them.”

My good god, man. Even we don’t like them that much. And while we do appreciate your spirit and moxie for all things Gawker and YM and Following YM related, this worries us, should worry them, and should truly worry you.

youngmanhattanite: I gotta admit, the FYM people, or that Knox fella, or whatever technology they...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:09:38 -0400

youngmanhattanite:

I gotta admit, the FYM people, or that Knox fella, or whatever technology they use (look for names scrawled on the walls of Ludowick’s lower intestine?), but they sure know a lot of assholes. Like this one, who seems to love the sexy imagery of the destitute (so Williamsburg!) but not the reality of diminished ability due to inadequate education. But you keep buying $700 glasses dude; I’m sure they will put it all into perspective for you.

Listen: our methodology is - if nothing else - completely transparent. We know as many of these assholes as you do, which is to say, none. And the ones we do know: marginally. Also, you wear Varvatos. Speaking of G.G. Allin, he’d be ~~rolling~~ shitting in that grave of his if he knew about what’s happened to the Bowery (it’s illegal to shit on the streets, now; also, CBGB is now a high-priced boutique where they sell modded Chuck Taylors for $100/pop).

Yeah, sure, but Young Israelite doesn’t have a Tumblr yet.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:19:01 -0400

Yeah, sure, but Young Israelite doesn’t have a Tumblr yet.

being “ahead” of what we were before is like being a step...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:18:38 -0400

being “ahead” of what we were before is like being a step above…well…lorenzo’s oil jokes, which, really, we’re not. i think we can ride this thing out to it’s inevitably anti-climactic conclusion. it isn’t the shakedown on 118 rivington deez is hoping for, i’ll tell you that, now. the best we can hope for is tumblr collapsing on itself, or getting YM on the tumblr radar for every newly transplanted murray hill resident to follow.

Thinking about throwing in the towel, no joke. Our man on the boat says what needed to be done is...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:14:21 -0400

Thinking about throwing in the towel, no joke. Our man on the boat says what needed to be done is done, or getting there. I mean, where do we go after this? Do we quit while we’re ahead?

peterwknox: I follow these two tumblrs purely on their names...

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:36:04 -0400

peterwknox:

I follow these two tumblrs purely on their names alone, but look how freaky it is for them to show up like this on my following page!

But do you follow YM, Peter? DO YOU FOLLOW YM?!