by Justine Yesterday after work I decided to cough it up and get a bed. And I also ordered an AeroBed mattress. Both of which should be here by next weekend. My days of mattress on the floor livin’ are coming to an end. Hoo-fucking-ray.
Caught dinner and margarita’s last night with GG and her beau at Taco Chuloin Williamsburg. I’m a confessed Mexican food fiend. Burritos, Nachos, Enchiladas – I love it all. And…
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But what about all the Polish “gringas” who have been in the ‘hood for generations? Does this kid take that into consideration I wonder?
Well I imagine the Polish peeps get another derogatory term… no matter how many generations they’ve been here.
well the poles are white and are one up on the boricuas, the PR’s have been moved out of almost neighborhood they have ever been in…look at the lower east side & east village, south willliamsburg and now bushwick (i’m sure in 10 years there will be few and far between there) not that is any excuse to call YOU a gringa!
I’m sure the Irish and Italians in Greenpoint said some choice words to the little rican’s elders a few generations ago. I guess they don’t like it any less when they are pushed out of their nabe. Except in this case, the neighborhood is “getting better” ie; more expensive and they have to leave. This is unlike when her abuelos moved in and turned it into… – well I’ll let you fill in the blank.