Die NYT ist alles was nicht der Fall ist.

As for Hastings-on-Hudson, Google Maps informs me that it’s home to the Sisters of Street Francis. I imagine they devote themselves to cupcakes in the manner of the monks of the Grand Chartreuse.

If that’s true (given the climate) that demonstrates an impressive commitment to fashion/lifestyle choice!

But, as regards hipsters, it’s a place where I could probably pass as hip, if I tried. Then again, no one tries too much here. We were laid back avant la lettre, thanks to the climate.

Interesting that priests play so little role in this short. The marginalized (relative to Catholic priests) — two nuns, a Jewish tailor and two late-adolescent “Talmudic scholars” (one of the older nun’s moments of half-understanding — still she, with Marcus Pincus, is the closest to wisdom we get here, and I appreciate her respectful optimistic designation of these sweet young men — like Marcus’ licking his finger then tamping down of that lapel), and (as a wonderful coda, the young Muslim women) — they all participate in the arena of exchange (no matter how confused the exchangers are about the standards of exchange).

But those priests at the opening, do they play so small a role? That shot of the church near the opening, the bells in the sound-track…. No, they have their role. In Brooklyn, at the margins. Like Manhattan’s NYT. (But, hey, be careful, Brooklyn, maybe those priests really are in control: Bloomberg?)

Hear you there.

Although there are no hipsters living in Northcote and Brunswick now – they’re the melbourne equivalent of Brooklyn.

I suppose the next line has to be about how you were into Banach-Tarski back before the XKCD comic when it hit the mainstream.

“Melbourne’s nice, rf. I have a cousin who lives there.”

I actually did get to go once, a few years ago when I lived in New Zealand, but only for a week, and I happened to catch a cold, miss my plane and forget to book a hostel during Melbourne cup week..so it wasn’t the best trip, but definitely a nice city, and it wasn’t overly expensive back then, as far as I can recall. I think most people I know who have moved there generally like it, but they’re coming to the realisation that they’ll probably be relocating for the long term, rather than just a couple of years, and aren’t particularly happy with that reality. But what can you do

Whether or not Wittgenstein misunderstood Goedel is the subject of some dispute. Floyd and Putnam have an article claiming he did understand incompleteness just fine, for instance (it’s on scribd).

I can’t tell if this is meant in earnest or as a satire on the spirit of hipsterist one-upmanship.