So this is weird and, dare I say, unprecedented. In the first week of 2009, Eric Konigsberg wrote an ironic piece about the absinthe "mini-craze" in New York bars. That's right: irony in the NYT Style section, usually a haven for breathlessly UNironic accounts of what the hipsters are doing these days that are based on quotes from three of the author's friends who have had a dinner party lately, or grown a moustache, or started drinking rose. Why the Times is doing a piece on absinthe at all is tragic enough—it already reported on that old craze as far back as 2000, acknowledging that absinthe cool had already swept London in 1998; then, in 2007, it ran two separate pieces about absinthe in January and November. So why devote another whole article to it now, just to take the piss out of it and all the people who still think it's cool?
Don't get me wrong, it was a super fun read—and for a moment I got excited: Maybe the Times would finally stop pretending it was on the cutting edge and simply start mocking all those phony trends out there. But alas. Mere days later, up pops this lazy piece of recycled garbage asking, "Oh golly gosh, will celebs dress down this awards season, what with the hard times and all?" Yeah, right, just like glamour went out the window and all the stars wore black after 9/11. Didn't happen then, won't happen now. The end.
photo courtesy of the New York Times
Not sure if serious........
Posted by: ray ban aviator | July 08, 2011 at 02:36 AM