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UrbanDaddy.com&;GetLost
By encinoman
What&;s an UrbanDaddy? Although I am, in fact, an urban daddy (of two) after two years of emails from UrbanDaddy.com, I&;ve decided they are not me. Here&;s their self-description:
We start from the premise that there&;s a lot of noise out there when it comes to your city [they 'cover' New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco]—poor recommendations, shills, plants, promoters, liars, enemies, and exes. Our goal is to be your friend. The kind of friend who knows everyone—the maitre d&;s at all the right restaurants, the bouncers at all the right clubs, the addresses of all the great parties. And the kind of guy who lives to share the wealth. And that&;s what UD does—once a day we&;ll send you a short and quick email with the latest piece of need-to-know information on underground opium dens turned cocktail lounges, brilliant advice from supermodels and how to spend a night at the Guggenheim.
If this kind of pretentiousness turns you on, well, knock yourself out. Here&;s my email to their site:
Dear Urban Daddy:
1. Many hundreds of thousands of us live in the San Fernando Valley or Pasadena and will never go drinking in Beverly Hills, Culver City and the like; it&;s not just the distance but the DUI. If you think that makes me geographically undesirable, then take me off your email list.
2. Many more of us regardless of where we live will not be purchasing the silver-enlaid martinis with encrusted gold olives and the overpriced like. That&;s so&;2006. A serious financial crisis is upon us, if you haven&;t noticed. Yes, Thorstein Veblen is long dead, but when millions are losing their jobs and houses, so should be the conspicuous consumption you advocate in every post. If you think that makes me financially undesirable, then take me off your email list.
That is all.
Tags: conspicuous-consumption, online-lad-media, recession-economics, urban-daddy
This entry was posted on December 15, 2009 at 1:36 am and is filed under Men's Magazines.
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