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Although it has yet to reach the five boroughs, Katrina is on the minds of New Yorkers. She isn't predicted to descend upon our fair city, but reports of her wrath down South have shaken many to core - looking for some sort of distraction from the onslaught of disaster-related news updates. Gothamist Food wants to do our parts to help fill up the nation's network of food bank pantries to assist Katrina's victims. Here's a link to America's Second Harvest, if you'd like to make a donation.
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this article is totally offensive and trivial, your lousy website should be ashamed
Yeah, I'm sorry, I just think this is in poor taste. What about a menu of suggested foods and drinks for a hurricane party where everyone donates money to be given to the Red Cross or another charity? I went to one of those in January following the Indonesian tsunami. I hope to attend a few more for Katrina's victims.
Yeah that entire post was a little on the tasteless side.
The whole idea of a hurricane party sounds stupid, especially after a few thousand people may have died, even if it is for a good cause.
This is completely and utterly tasteless. I'll no longer visit this site.
Not funny. Make good by hosting a relief event.
good lord, WHAT IS HAPPENING TO GOTHAMIST. This is the second if not the third imappropriate story it has published. Irony and Disaster is NOT funny. Please.....stop...
Kojak, I think it's a great idea and it worked just fine for tsunami relief. It's not like you'd be celebrating the hurricane and its destruction. It's a relief event on a small scale.
It especially helps if someone hosting the party has a family member who works for a large corporation that's willing to match donations from its employees, as was the case with the tsunami relief party I attended. Either way, though, every little bit helps.
This sounds like some STUPID, IGNORANT, hipster wrote this. I bet Im right. They love to be all ironic about things. For people reading this not from NY, this is not how all nyers think. Or write.
Ok Meredith, I hear you.
I guess when the word party comes to mind, I think celebration.
Not funny.
I normally enjoy your blog's content.
I have to agree with the other comments that this goes beyond in bad taste.
Most people who have been affected by this disaster don't even have water let alone provisions, nor a house to "hunker down in" as you put it.
Merely adding the link for people to donate does not reduce the insensitivity that you have displayed.
The concept of taking this as an opportunity to build up emergency supplies is quite thoughtful. That's for anyone who misread "pantry" as "party."
I don't have anything nice to say, though, about the desire to enumerate upper-middle-class spoilings (black and white cookies?) as a reaction to human suffering. There are words I could use to describe my reaction that would likely horrify my mother, so I won't use them.
I know you enjoy your knishes, and I don't want to ruin that for you while you're fortunate enough to enjoy them, but in the face of disaster you're not going to be thinking about freaking knishes. And you've probably figured out by now that, although all those miserable people being dump-trucked over to the Astrodome would love to have a knish, they'd settle for canned potatoes and a dry blanket right about now.
No need to feel like Satan for the rest of the day (as surely the other asshole-rippers around here will make you feel like), but do try to gain some perspective from this experience.
Don't forget a six pack of smugness. Come to think of it, maybe you can get that to go.
To be fair, I did actually misread it the first time. Then I realized what it actually said, and suggested that Gothamist post something a bit more constructive.
Pantry, Party, either way.
Absolutely Offensive. Vittles Vamp, you suck.
Oh, and by the way. Why don't you start with large amounts of clean drinking water, and foods that will keep when the power goes out.
Your suggestions are an f'ing joke.
ed note: We have removed the earlier post, as we understand how it might have been perceived. The donation link remains, and we hope that you join us in donating to the relief provided by America's Second Harvest.
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Anyone have a copy of the original post? I seriously would like to see what caused the ire.
Seriously, after the post yesterday that oddly focused only on the zoo animals and got it comepletely wrong and now this... I really think Gothamist should step back and realize the true enormity of hurrican Katrina. Nobody really thinks jokes are appropriate. The city is a complete disaster to say the least. And the true death toll cannot even be made.
When a city is abandonded and survivors who stayed behind are taken in yellow school buses from one stadium TO ANOTHER in another state, this is not good to say the least. Show some damned tact.
I've seen tons of heartfelt 'Save this..." local cause posts on Gothamist. CBGBs, photographers rights on the subway, Republican convention protest arrest coverage, etc... Why the f--k is it so hard for Gothamist to show anything but a twee-yuppish detatched tone towards this tragedy?
Silly boy, Jack. Don't you know that it's not as sad when Southerners die? Geesh.
Jack good post. Im all for poking a little fun at things at times but lately gothamist has been poking fun at all the wrong things. LES Overdoses, midtown car accidents, recent shootings etc in ny among other things. Im all for free press but understand that your readers will have to say something if we think its gone too far. Seriously Ive seen more articles this week about saving freakin Cbgb's then donating $$ to the red cross. its like whoo hoo, NY is edgy again, why is that funny?! Why is it cool to say that? Whats so fun about drugs, crime, rising rent etc?
FWIW, comedy is tragedy with a twist. And in this case, the biggest joke of this whole mess is the fact that it was the ONLY event that pulled George W. Bush away from his 'working vacation'. I'm sure families who had relatives swept away in the current felt heartred as they sat foodless on partially submerged highways and gazed up and saw Air Force One flying by.
I really hate politicizing tragedies, but if there has ever been a straw that should break the collective camels back about George W. it should be this sad event. Yes, you can't control Mother Nature, but I think anyoe with half-a-brain should read this:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html
"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."
Jack - If you "really hate politicizing tragedies" then maybe you shouldn't.
i hesitate to post b/c i'm sure everyone has already made up their minds-- but i feel compelled to register my own opinion. gothamist's writers are some of the most generous, open-hearted people i've met-- i can't tell you how many "donate to the red cross" emails I've received this week already. we've run a number of posts asking people to consider donating, and we've given personally to the charities that we support.
let's keep our eyes on the ball here-- rather than pile on vittlesvamp for the post, let's direct that energy where it can actually help someone-- take the five minutes it will take you to leave a comment and email your friends asking them to give as much as they can to the redcross or one of the other charities. or give yourself-- that's what i'm doing.
Rather weak apology by the way.
"[w]e understand how it might have been perceived."
Is it so hard to admit you were insensitive? Guess so.
Everyone makes mistakes, but maybe VittlesVamp should just apologize instead of having daddy flack for her.
I don't understand why all the sanctimonious attacking of the vittles vamp. I find the vittles vamp delicious and nuitrition filled.
Gothamist being lame as usual . Stupid ass hipsters . I hope your office gets flooded . This Blog has gone to shit . Where do you find these people who write these little stories . Dumbasses !
I actually wrote the original item well in advance of Katrina hitting the U.S.'s shores. All of Gothamist's food-related stories are actually filed in advance. Once Katrina hit the South, I asked my editor if it could be edited, and something added about making donations to Second Harvest. She agreed with those changes. And, in retrospect the item solely should have concentrated on food bank donations from the start. My sincere apologies.
"Jack - If you "really hate politicizing tragedies" then maybe you shouldn't."
Sorry. In the great scheme of things, if I'm given the choice between being sensitive to the fragile ego of writers/bloggers or the plight of people who truly are f--ked (ie: victims of Katrina), the people who are really in harms way are the ones who win.
If that upsets you my deepest apologies. I'm sure the people in New Orleans who have lost their homes, families and even their own lives could really care.
Hey, you know the Superdome was rendered uninhabitable due to the inordinate amounts of 'human waste' (ie: sh-t) and dead bodies? I guess fans of urban decay might have a field day there! Woo hoo!
Nice to see the apology after the fact. But it's a dubious claim it was filed waaay in advace due to the original reference to the tragedy itself. But you know what. If Gothamist can spend inordinate amounts of space reporting in the murder outside of Teany--simply because Teany is Moby's place--they could spend a fraction of that energy to truly review what they post. It's as simple as that.
Perhaps Moby should have been airlifted to the Superdome so people could really pay attention?
Bono! Bob Geldoff! Moby! WIthout your guidance how can the hipster masses decide how to react.
Sorry for the sarcasm and slight venom. I've actually tried to be less critical of Gothamist since it has gotten lots better in many ways. But if the original piece were as flippant to the 9-11 tragedy as it was to the havoc of Katrina I think some of the New York centric masses would have a 'clarifying moment' and finally understand the response of readers.
PS: And for those who only pay attention when celebrities are involved, nobody knows what's happened to Fats Domino in the middle of all the wreckage. Is he alive? Dead? Nobody knows.
"let's keep our eyes on the ball here-- rather than pile on vittlesvamp for the post, let's direct that energy where it can actually help someone-- take the five minutes it will take you to leave a comment and email your friends asking them to give as much as they can to the redcross or one of the other charities. or give yourself-- that's what i'm doing."
Jake we've tussled in the past, and I've personally gotten past that. I genuinely think Gothamist has matured in many good ways over the years.
But how can you implore people to donate when your own site (ie: Gothamist) is currently filled with self-promotional ads for your own personal street art site and other branches of [city-name-here]ist? Seems quite hypocritical to say the least.
During this time of national tragedy jack has posted comical photographs of squirrels on his website. Why the f--k is it so hard for jack to show anything but a twee-yuppish sanctimony tone towards this tragedy? While the world's focused on helping the survivors Jack is tinkering with squirrell photographs.
Pugsley, the word troll comes to mind. If you care to know I will be dontating funds tonight. And even before that I donated blood on saturday without needing much of anyone to tell me to do so before the hurricane even hit.
To quote Minor Threat, "What the f--k have you done?"
PS: If you have some personal issue with me pugsley go to my site and contact me directly. At least I'm open with who I am and how to contact me. What's your excuse?
Jake, deleting comments including your own apology?
Some things never change.
Quite lame all around. Especially since the site has gotten better in many ways.
My foot is in my mouth on the 'deleting comments' comment. Something weird happened. G'night!
Vittles Vamp and Gothamist -- I submit that your apology would appear a lot more genuine if it was front and center on your blog, and not buried in a comments field that disgusted readers might not have taken the trouble to look at.
So Jack isn't politicizing a natural disaster, he is speaking for the poor and oppressed! Nice try, you phony. Some people just can't comment on an event without trying to score political points.
I think Gothamist should issue a full apology as well. This posting was really awful before it was edited. Not only was it shockingly innapropriate, it was also dead wrong. Cherry fucking soda, pizza and knishes for hurricane survival? Just because your are a blog, and supposedly exempt for such things as standards, class, accuracy, etc., does not mean than you are outside the realm of responsibility.
just to be clear on the facts:
- the original post contained a link to relief support
- the post was pulled soon after it was put up and replaced with an even more prominent link to relief support (the 5th post this week that linked to relief charities)
- vittles apologized for any misunderstanding (above), i explained the situation (above)
that, i believe, is enough-- you can disagree- but we've consistently tried to do the right thing-- just as we've always done.
Gothamist, you apologize like Pat Roberts.
If anyone has links NYC blogs with better heads on their shoulders I would love to hear about them, and take my surfing elsewhere.
I'm satisfied with the action that was taken on that post. They realized it was in poor taste, took it down, and issued an apology.
What more do you people want? Yes gotham-ass, please take your surfing elsewhere. No one wants to read your dickheaded comments anyway.
The focus of this post should be to bring help to the victims of this disaster, not with the content of the original post. Please move on people
Hey look, it could be worse. You could be a producer for the Tyra Banks show trolling for Katrina victims:
Tyra Banks
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Reply to: see below
Date: 2005-09-01, 6:00PM CDT
If you or your family have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, or if you know anyone who would like to get help & discuss their experience with Tyra Banks' new show, please call me immediately at 1-888-569-1546. My name is Dani; I'm a producer, and would like to hear your story.
Uuhhh...I don't get why people are mad. Unless it really is just that they misread 'pantry' for 'party'.
It must be irritating to do anything that's publicly viewed.