Claire Parker
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Vance and Peter Thiel.
yes i am could you for for our listeners our viewers could you sort of just brief overview what's your take on the dime square scene so dime square i believe started because there was a diner called dimes diner dimes restaurant or something and kind of where the lower east side meets chinatown and i think it's actually where if you've ever seen um gangs of new york i believe it's like geographically the same footprint i think that's the i think it's that little like that triangle down there yeah
It's like there's five points that all converge and it used to be run by the Italians and the Irish and now it's run by like anorexic Catholic girls who fuck.
And it is just like the group is very insular, but they think they run culture, but the culture kind of lives and dies.
It's like there's two places Dime Square exists, and it's like Dime Square, the four blocks, and then Dime Square, a place on Twitter.
And it feels much like Lena Dunham.
It's like one of those cultures where every person who's in it is also writing about it, which makes it feel bigger than it is.
And if you have never heard about it, it would never affect you again.
But if you have heard about it, it can be quite...
I feel like a quick Sandy and that you can quickly become obsessed with the cloud of it.
It's very skeptical and ironic.
Is N like the non-playable character?
I've not heard of the fest.
I've heard of the term.
I guess I feel it's so much effort to come up with what, do you know what I mean?
Like, I guess I like to take it back to the Olympics thing of, and yeah, and if you had never written that article and nobody had ever listened, would it have ever happened?
You know what I mean?
It's like these moments, it feels very, everything exists to be written about and speculated.