October 12, 2011

• oh el oh el

  I'm looking for a new place to stay by the end of this week, otherwise I'm in deep shit. I've been hopping all around looking at places and today I went down to the Bushwick/Bedford area of Brooklyn to check out two sites.

  So my friend tells me Bushwick is 'gentrified' and a safe place to live... I ask him, 'Oh have you ever been there?' And he tells me, 'No, I haven't.'

  Mind you, this is the same friend who tells me to man up but is also afraid to sit next to a black person on a subway. 

  So I take it that his advice is coming out of his ass. 

  Anyway... Regardless of that, I still go to check out the place and as I get off the subway station I run into 3 bums asking for change and when I walk out to the street, I see this thinly guy huddled up in the dusky corner smoking crack. Gentrified indeed. Looks like I've found my home. 

  It literally looks like I walked onto the set of The Wire. 

  I see these groups of men just hanging around loitering and they just give me this staredown as I walk by and I'm like 'uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... (~_^)V ah-shaaa!' AHAHAHA.

  I ask two of the guys I might be living with 'So how's the neighborhood?'

  They both exchange these uncomfortable glances with each other for a split second and go, 'It's..... alright....'

  You know shit is really fucked up when even the black people think shit is fucked up (Yes, my potential roommates were all black. Go me! Token Asian guy living in a 80% African-American community!)

  No, but seriously, I'm not fucking living here unless I have no choice. There was trash and shit everywhere. EVERYWHERE! The neighborhood looked like one of those types of places where you'd have to be a fucking idiot to walk through at night, and considering how I like to spend most of my nights in the city and come back around 2-3 AM, I don't think I'm going to like having to walk backwards to watch my back, then forwards to watch my front, then backwards again, then spinning all around and doing the hokey pokey.

  And I'm going to have to say no to Chinatown too. This asian lady tried to strong-arm me into accepting her offer, 'This great place to live, you live here. YOU LIVE HERE NOW!!!'

  Realistically, I am probably going to move to South Brooklyn or Queens. I never thought I'd say this, but I kind of miss living around Asian people, that is, I kind of miss the feeling of not feeling like you're going to get beaten up and robbed for simply walking home late at night.

  • 8:27 pm
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