Laptops, Tryst Baffle Fox News Reporter
About a week or so back Fox News' Laura Ingraham visited Tryst in Adams Morgan to figure out what all those crazy people are doing in coffee shops with their newfangled laptops and their Twitterbook and whatnot. "Typing," I would've said if they'd asked me, but Ingraham's answer is closer to something like, "Spitting on the social contract by failing to hit on the people next to you." (I had lots of brilliant points to make about how not all third places are created equal, and that third places don't play the same role that they did in Fox News' favorite decade, the 1850s, but screw it---I'm on deadline.)
Anyway, one of the people who Ingraham buttonholed is a City Paper contributor, Cherie Parker; "I hate Fox News," she tells Ingraham in the clip. Understandably, Ingraham dismisses this as failing to be the genuine, neighborly exchange of ideas she was hoping for. Parker has copped to her crankiness, and confesses the deep secret of what she was doing when the news crew arrived: Blogging and surfing Craigslist. Surprise!
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12:04 pm
that's entertaining. "the laptop people". sounds like a tribe from "land of the lost"
1:15 pm
Well, this is all true about Tryst. My favorite part of being a freelancer who comes here to draw and design stuff, is watching people walk in and awkwardly scan the room looking for a place to sit. This is, of course, when i am already sitting somewhere. But, I must say, it is a pleasant place to come and do work and people dont bother you.....or hit on you.
11:03 am
There is absolutely zero crankiness in telling that Ingraham ingrate that you hate Fox Newx. Most people--most sane people---hate Fox News. It is a horrible, stupid station, employing horrible, stupid people. And Ingraham is part of the problem. And what the hell is she doing at Tryst, anyway? What ridiculousness on her part. We all hate Fox News.