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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

OMG TV: New York, Revisted

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New Amsterdam

Maybe it is because I am in the process of moving there, but everything on TV tonight seems to have a distinctly New York vibe. If you play your cards right, you can see several very different versions of the Big Apple.

8:00 pm – New Amsterdam (FOX)

See New York through the eyes of a Dutch soldier who, in 1642, was granted immortality. Today, he is an alcoholic detective who broods a lot. He will only begin to age and die when he finds true love. Standing in his way is the fact that he insists on wearing wooden clogs.

11:00 pm – Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo)

This spin-off of the smash hit (maybe?) The Real Housewives of Orange County looks to be so unpleasant and grating it can only be brought to us by Bravo. This review spews vitriol at a level we at 2.0somethings can only aspire to. This is a view of New York that embraces the worst aspects of rampant consumerism and gross overspending.

8:00 pm – Death Wish 3 (AMC)

Finally, a version of New York with street crime. Charles Bronson plays an Architect who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, vigilante-style. If only he would leave the drugdealers alone and start targeting the Real Housewives of New York City.

Late Night

The big guys continue to be on vacation. Ralph Nader stops by the Daily Show to announce his Presidential campaign, again, but this time to kids who are too hungover to get up for Meet the Press. Colbert has author Jennifer 8. Lee, maybe he will ask her why her middle name is a number.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

The Time I Flew 3000 Miles Away From New York

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Editor’s Note: Greg has been contributing to the site for a little while now, building up to the day when he would emerge as a beautiful butterfly…err… columnist. He will be balancing out Chris by providing us with insight as to what it is like to be young and broke in Los Angeles (apparently it is not like Entourage). That is why his first column is about New York. It will all make sense in time.

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When you’re raised in and around the east coast, specifically the tri-state area (which in all fairness should be referred to as the bi-state area because Connecticut is just…), you tend to develop a very love-hate sort of relationship with your surroundings. Take, for example, the first city I ever knew, the city that I still refer to as “the city” even when I’m 3,000 miles away from it, the first place I had ever traveled to outside of New Jersey: New York.
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