A new "humor" video ironically anti-sells the city of Oakland as the hipster paradise of the Bay Area. The racism is thinly veiled! But anyway: is Oakland the new West Bushwick and greater Williamsburg of the west coast? Okay no it is not. And if I catch you in your skinny jeans up on MLK Blvd cruising by my mom's house I will carjack you myself.
Friday, July 10, 2009
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You know that nickname the so-called liberals of San Francisco have for the Bay Bridge.....I won't repeat it. But it makes me question that whole San Francisco smugness. If we said something like that in LA, we'd get a slug to the right kneecap.
I've lived here for a decade and never heard a nickname for the Bay Bridge other than "the fucking Bay Bridge" (as in, "the traffic on the fucking Bay Bridge is backed up again). So enlighten us "smug liberals" about our racism! Please!
Oh come on, what's the nickname? Don't be a pussy.
Do they still call it Nairobi by the Bay? (Don't kill me - that's what they called it back when my dad lived there in the 60s).
So Emeryville is Red Hook?
Emeryville is a parking lot, I think.
An IKEA parking lot!
HELL NO and OH HELL NO!
West Coast is so cute! With their "hella" this and "hella" that and their food called "pizza." Adorable!
Also I have the sneaking suspicion I went to high school with the narrator.
aww Oakland, ain't mad at cha. But I am never moving back. p.s GLENVIEW GRIFFINS WUT UP.
Real hipsters live in Richmond, the Inwood of the East Bay.
Of course "Oh Hell No". There's no comparison.
Good music actually comes out of Oakland.
Pffft. Everybody knows that Baltimore is the new Williamsburg.
Aw, I love Oakland, and it's stinky downtown lake! And maybe this video will convince hipsters to take up ghost riding and terribly injure themselves in the process.
Dear God, I love you, Oakland. You gave us the Coup; and all those tunnels leading out--although the one to Alameda makes you even MORE trapped.
And the Clorox plant!
But, hey, effetes, just come with me up to Rockridge, where you'll feel safe and smug and priced out of the market before you can even order your Chilean Malbec. Be sure to wear turquoise.
I am deadly serious when I say this the Oakland in that video is what a post-apocalyptic Minneapolis would look like circa 1989.
"that" the Oaklland. derrr.
I moved to Oakland (Emeryville/Temescal, not far from the "HERE/THERE" signs) in September, 2007. After 5 months of gunshots, constantly-awake babies, and fucking biking to work because the BART is a LIE!, I moved to Bushwick, and have never looked back.
Basically, Oakland is pretty terrible.
Also, stop trying to make Baltimore happen, guys. Just, no.