So(ul-less)Ho

[amalthya]

I spent the majority of Saturday with Yenni in Soho and the Bowery looking for (and buying) a light fixture for my living room that didn't look like it came from a hospital ER.

And I came to realize that a) I barely spend any time downtown these days and b) downtown is not how I remember it.

Madonna made some comments earlier this week that New

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[lampbane]

Funny, we were in SoHo on Saturday too; the fact that the sidewalks were clogged with tourists drove me up the wall.

Right now I appreciate my train rides for being "real" - everyone else is going to Rockefeller Center too, and it's because they actually work there.

[insheepsclothng]

But isn't a yearning for authenticity just another bourgeois pretense?

[redcoat668]

Loyalists: the original New Yorkers. ;)

[paper_crystals]

Harvard Square in Boston used to be more real then everyone started hanging out in Davis Square. I don't think the tourists have caught on yet. Then again the coolness of Harvard Square was dead about 8 years before I was born.

[aylack]

This entry makes me sad :( I haven't been back to the city forever but it's always going to be the home of my heart.

I don't think yearning for the authentic is a bourgeois pretense, it's a natural instinct for people to want things to be true, and above all, to be real --- or at least what they remember as real. Perhaps authentic in this case just means the stuff that one's nostalgia is based on.