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October 07, 2007

cooking bluefish is a new euphemism for something

This weekend I was hanging out with Tony in the West Village, and at one point he went into a deli near his apartment and bought a half gallon of Tropicana Pure Premium® Ruby Red Grapefruit juice for $6.49.

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From Business 2.0 magazine:

Mary Frances Burleson, CEO of Ebby Halliday Realtors, Dallas's largest brokerage, advises buying into gated subdivisions. But she would also target older properties in more urban areas like Lakewood, a neighborhood east of downtown Dallas, as well as the nearby suburb of Richardson. "If I'd won the lottery last Friday, I'd be buying houses on 150- by 100-foot treed lots for $200,000 to $250,000," Burleson says. "Then I'd tear down the houses and build 3,500-square-foot luxury homes with swimming pools. They'd triple in value."

I'm glad she didn't win the lottery, that's for sure.
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When is the revolution coming again?

Posted by eric at October 7, 2007 11:59 PM

Comments

Ugh. Can't we issue a restraining order against her?

Posted by: David at October 8, 2007 08:07 AM

I know New York is the "Center of Everything" TM and it is really not my intention to bash it (cuz I like it) but you and the very handsome and fancy Tony must be two of those NY hedge fund multi-millionaires that I have heard so much about. You can often times buy that juice here in Chicago 2 for $5. I know, I know Chicago is no New York but I mean $6.49?!?!?

Posted by: Boomer at October 8, 2007 09:37 AM

I've been enjoying a glass of Ruby Red each morning with great gusto. Also, the carton came with a faux ruby ring prize inside.

Posted by: Tony Rizzuto at October 8, 2007 09:49 AM

the revolution is coming right after the hedge market industry collapses.

in other words: never!

Posted by: Jack at October 8, 2007 10:25 AM

You will know the revolution is here when Mary Frances Burleson thinks it was her idea all along. Then she will sell you an electric car.

Posted by: burnside at October 8, 2007 11:39 AM

So glad the McMansion trend hasn't reached Tucson yet.

Posted by: homer at October 8, 2007 12:24 PM

Dallas is the seventh circle of materialistic hell.

Posted by: Moncrief! at October 8, 2007 12:37 PM

I don't know when it's coming, but I hope it's televised, because I'd like to see Dallas and all its McMansionized, gated subdivisions on fire.

However, I think I'm more upset about the grapefruit juice. Real Property speculation is something that is (and I fear, will always be) only an abstract concept to me: Something other people do and which I read about. Juice buying, however, is something I do regularly, and I, like Boomer, only buy Tropicana Pure Premium when it's on 2 for $6 special at the supermarket. These urban gays, I tell you... such lives of wanton luxury.

Posted by: Joe at October 8, 2007 01:44 PM

If anybody has the money to buy a few $200K houses in Dallas, surely it's the CEO of Dallas' largest brokerage. If her advice were so sound, she'd be putting her money where her pie hole is, even without winning the lottery. But she wouldn't. High priced homes are sitting around on the market, mostly because they've been foreclosed on. There aren't people enough people out there who can afford a $600K house near Dallas, at least without predatory lending, and the subprime mortgage market has dried up. She's just yammering because she needs fools to buy houses so that she can afford hairspray.

Also, grapefruit juice is foul.

Posted by: TED at October 8, 2007 02:41 PM

I hope readers don't think we merrily went into that deli and paid that outrageous price. We were both horrified and only did so because walking to the supermarket and standing in some long line wasn't possible given the sherry and gin hangover from the previous night.

Posted by: Tony Rizzuto at October 8, 2007 03:15 PM

Haha, I know you've been a Crypto!

Posted by: jason at October 8, 2007 03:27 PM

Tony, is "great gusto" a code word for "vodka"?

Posted by: Huntington at October 8, 2007 04:32 PM

Sherry & gin hangover? What's that cocktail called? A "Weaning Anglican"?

Posted by: Joe at October 8, 2007 04:39 PM

Wow. But I suppose that anyone who has a sherry & gin hangover probably deserves grapefruit juice. At least until the Anglicans decide to embrace sackcloth & ashes.

Posted by: TED at October 8, 2007 04:52 PM

TED, sadly there are plenty of people in Dallas who can afford $600,000 houses; you really don't know the meaning of nouveau riche until you hit Dallas.

My parents' neighborhood here in TX has McMansionized completely. They are guilty of self-McMansionization via "remodel". It's all driven by people with money who want to live really close to downtown, which means in old neighborhoods where the houses are small and especially lacking in the kinds of gigantic kitchens and 400sqft master baths that are normal nowdays...

Posted by: Dagon at October 8, 2007 06:02 PM

A half gallon of any juice for $6.49 seems like a bargain to me. Thats like a euro or something with today's exchange rates, for almost 2 litres!!!! Cheap as chips.
I bought 1 litre of Tropicana Pure Premium Ruby red Grapefruit juice for €3.29 and that was pretty good value.

Posted by: graham at October 9, 2007 08:42 AM

To put things in perspective: $6.49 is kinda cheap to pay for a fashion/lifestyle statement.

Posted by: max at October 9, 2007 03:20 PM

Gated communities are the new Versailles. Any day now, any day... Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons! Marchons! Marchons! Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons!

Posted by: henry at October 9, 2007 04:15 PM