Gothamist: SLNY: Lost in Translation?

martian

Sat, 29 May 2004 23:46:13 -0500

i believe the "*" refers to the trend amongst "pretentious" design, fashion, sporting, city guide and architecture magazines to put an asterix in their title.

jmc

Fri, 28 May 2004 17:37:46 -0500

damn, crabstick in lobster rolls, I got jibbed. this is what happens when I leave the island of Manhattan. lunchbox is better for their fried stuff (clams, oysters, etc).

to holmes

Fri, 28 May 2004 10:42:19 -0500

Holmes, Your post got me curious and so I did a little digging of my own. I didn't find much about SLNY, but...can it be true that you haven't worked at VH1 in nearly three years?

to holmes

Fri, 28 May 2004 09:50:04 -0500

what you say rings true.

jake

Fri, 28 May 2004 09:35:15 -0500

jmc- i was just thinking about that place the other day- back in college my girlfriend worked there every summer. she'd come back smelling like crabstick, which is what they use instead of lobster in their "lobster rolls". still, most of the food there is very good.

jmc

Fri, 28 May 2004 09:23:08 -0500

I believe "the lunchbox" refers to an open air food stand/restaurant slightly past Amangansett where folks go for lobster rolls and that sort of thing. It's not bad, but it's no Pearl Oyster Bar.

amy in paris

Fri, 28 May 2004 09:02:11 -0500

Kittichai gets a mention in the June issue of Vanity Fair (p. 48), apparently written by Daily Candy's Dany Levy...

Robinson

Fri, 28 May 2004 07:06:04 -0500

L.I.E S (no period after the "S") refers to the Long Island Expressway - the most direct route to the Hamptons. A common source of agita for weekend commuters as its hardly an express-way (thus, a lie - and why you would stay city-bound).

Master Cleanser

Thu, 27 May 2004 23:41:54 -0500

Sorry...I'm on ADD overload...I have to change the channel now.

Master Cleanser

Thu, 27 May 2004 23:41:39 -0500

Sorry...I'm on ADD overload...I have to change the channel now.

Doctor Memory

Thu, 27 May 2004 23:35:07 -0500

Humble Patience: sadly, the answer to that question is almost always "yes". Simple translation strategy for SLNY-ese if you are an actual human being: write down, on a sheet of lined paper, only the words that are actually the names of restaurants or bars. Memorize them so that you can be very careful never to accidentally enter them, lest you be forced to share valuable oxygen with anyone involved in the production or consumption of this bilge.

Holmes

Thu, 27 May 2004 19:25:41 -0500

I work with the idiot who "writes" that hideous Blog....he's a smarmy little fuck who parades around and has a shit eating little smirk on his face all day. Everyone hates him at VH1 where he works. We all laughed when he labeled himself "a creative executive"....He's a flunky who does nothing.

Not So Hipster

Thu, 27 May 2004 18:49:56 -0500

I'm going out on a limb and saying that this matty of whom he speaks is Matty Karas, a producer/writer type at VH1. They must be in cahoots.

Humble Patience

Thu, 27 May 2004 18:03:34 -0500

sometimes i wonder...can this city get any more pretentious?

Jellyguy

Thu, 27 May 2004 17:12:24 -0500

abbe, I wasn't scolding you for cashing in. I was scolding all these other bloggers for frowning upon it without exception. See, I think you would be considered a bit of a pariah by some around here. You may take my cash anytime - I've got no use for it.

yojimbot

Thu, 27 May 2004 16:16:53 -0500

Proving the old adage...that which is understood is obsolete.

Ginger

Thu, 27 May 2004 16:10:02 -0500

"lunchbox -� slightly to the north, for open air drinks post pier" There's a tiny little diner on West Street just north of Christopher called Lunchbox, I believe.

AO

Thu, 27 May 2004 15:45:08 -0500

Shameless shilling, Gothamist.

Jenn

Thu, 27 May 2004 15:09:39 -0500

It's all explained on the slny site. Well, almost all explained.

abbe

Thu, 27 May 2004 15:06:22 -0500

well if you read the book you would see the term "lice-market" really evolved from "flea-market" but i will shut up now because this is supposed to be a SLNY thing not a pxthis thing although i will add: that "good-looking bungalow-8 dude" can come on and brang it anytime

abbe

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:56:10 -0500

heyyy first of all i had a "journal" before there was ever such a thing as online bloggety-blogs so i'm not allowed to try to ca$h in ??? sheesh. and my blahg came way AFTER the book thingie. so nyeeaah grab me a quarter-pounder with cheese? thanks. and thanks for at least clicking. really i mean it

Jellyguy

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:53:50 -0500

Oh, and abbe, "Lice Market"? Classic. Now I'll be reading your site for days.

Brian Van

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:46:31 -0500

You mean a SLNY dialectizer? So I can talk like everyone at a cocktail party?

Jellyguy

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:45:20 -0500

Here we have all these blogger-cum-authors protesting that their published work(s) will not be related to their blogs, and dear abbe goes and sells her "online journal" as a book. Amanda Hesser, SLNY, and abbe. The trifecta is complete. I'm going to McDonald's.

Pato

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:41:57 -0500

Looks like the handy work of computerized translation. Maybe it's written by some ambitious, enterprising new-arrival who writes in his/her native language and then hits the google translation button with blind faith in technology...

Ruidh

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:29:28 -0500

Do I really have to explain some of this stuff? The * on pretentuous without a corresponding footnot is a horribly pretentious thing to do. "In a decidedly flips flop motivated gait" means "on forward, no backing up". You can't back up in flip flops because they fall off your feet. "The New Black" is "the new hip thing". The "New Black East" is new hip stuff in the Hamptons ergo the Suffolk area code. Now, I'm not in the slightest bit hip and I got it. I think IHBT.

Diana DeGarmo

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:16:38 -0500

The 'Resy' is the factor someone decided to measure a restaurant's hotness, based on the number of rings it takes for the reservationist to answer the phone and what times are available. I'm sure you can find more details about it somewhere, but wouldn't you rather use your phone for something useful, like calling 866 IDOLS 01? Thanks to all my fans!

abbe

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:12:02 -0500

umm. yes i'm pimping. sorry. but if you like this SLNY stuffs then maybe you'll like me better. actually, most assuredly, you will. yeah that's right. what best of all i speak english

Jen

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:37:30 -0500

Sac, we'd never expect links from you - that'd be like asking Michael Jackson to admit to his plastic surgery or asking Jodie Foster about John Hinckley Jr. or Nicole about Tom's gayness - offlimits, we know. And thanks for explaing to us what 631 is. We were *kidding*, but the explanations are great just the same.

Brian Van

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:33:37 -0500

The 631 is probably the Hamptons' area code. Just a guess, as I'll be "summering" somewhere very unpopular this year. But I once read about the Hamptons. For those of you visiting the Hamptons this year, watch out as you cross the street, try not to get hit by any publicists/piano men/mulatto actresses...

Jellyguy

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:33:34 -0500

I was somewhat interested in the jargon at first, until I explored the site and came upon the directives on how to be a gentleman and treat a lady. Now, I am known among my friends as the most anal of gentlemen. I go out of my way to familiarize myself with and practice the nitty-gritty by-laws of opening doors, holding elevators, lighting cigs, and entering/exiting vehicles WRT women. My friends complain I am too gentlemanly, and that I need to chill out a bit (I agree). So when I read the SLNY pages on etiquette, I nearly vomited from the instant rush of tension and stress as it gripped me by the brain stem and started tossing me about. And I thought I was anal! I couldn't understand half the instructions and guidelines, and those I could decipher were ludicrously complicated. While some guys are trying to adhere to these rules, some smelly, nose-picking schmuck is stealing their date... If the SLNY resy email is going to encrypt the names of restaurants, then it is useless too me as well.

Admitted Long Islander

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:32:00 -0500

Hope you're kidding about the 631 question. That is the area code for Suffolk County, where the Hamptons restaurants are located.

Admitted Long Islander

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:31:56 -0500

Hope you're kidding about the 631 question. That is the area code for Suffolk County, where the Hamptons restaurants are located.

Admitted Long Islander

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:31:33 -0500

Hope you're kidding about the 631 question. That is the area code for Suffolk County, where the Hamptons restaurants are located.

nash

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:31:28 -0500

The 6-3-1 refers to the area code of Suffolk County in Long Island.

sac

Thu, 27 May 2004 13:28:59 -0500

I am on the case. I am on. The. Case. As always... Also, still cannot link.