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Great article, great writer. Can’t wait for more
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“A sneak peek at TPM’s next project, coming in 2015…”
More nude bar stories?
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Not bad, but some points seem muddled and it seemed to lack, the uh, flavor of Norleans. But it’s a good start. You’ll be up against Salon, at least, where some heavyweights have migrated. I agree that TPM needs something to get away from being a sort of minor-league digest and training ground for people who move on to Slate or Salon or HuffPost or one of the “real” newspapers. So good luck!
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Excellent article. I am a gay man who came out in the French Quarter in the early 1970’s. I’ve lived in SF now for 35 years after a sojourn in DC
What is happening in NOLA has been happening here for quite sometime.
The whitebread hippsters moved in because we made things so cool then they turn the cities into Velveeta on white, extra mayo hold the pickles or anything else semi-savoury.
As a long-time SF housing activist once told me, the time will come when San Franciscans will discover their cutting edge ethnic experience in bars, restaurants and other places which are owned by people who look just like they do; staffed with low wage workers who live 30 miles away, and don’t offer any entertainment remotely resembling the world they seek to imiitate
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“Then someone’s fucking boyfriend came,” he continued, and word got to the douchebags that the Country Club was a place to meet women, not to mention naked ones.
Same thing happened to SF’s SOMA and Polk circa 1985-1995. The straights moved in and so did the violence. There went the neighborhoods!!!
It’s an exciting and important venture for us. But TPM has better and more original reporting than either of those places, frankly.
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I come to, and support, TPM for good writing and good reporting, and this article shows both. I think my favorite line is the tongue-in-cheek transition: [quote]There wasn’t a douchebag in sight the day I spent at the Country Club.[/quote]Nice touch–the wit relieves the effect of the finally terrible central tale!
Subject choice and range seem to me to be the biggest factors to manage going forward, and I hope we will not become mired in the hip and trendy.
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