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Each week, a reader comment per day is selected for inclusion and veneration in the Gold Star Motel. Standards of excellence are arbitrary, fluid, and contradictory. The reward is strictly honorary (at best). This week:

Re: Slow Repairs at Plane-Crashed Building Inspire Fretting
• spinachdip - "If we don't rebuild the tower, we're letting Cory Lidle win."

Re: Bad Tagger Arrested, N Trains To Be Perfect From Now On
• 1974 - "See this is why New York was better in the 80s. The bums would rape you and then you could set them on fire. That's the order of the streets that the Disneyfied New York just doesn't have anymore. Now all the rapist bums are former Conde employees and dress as firemen, which is just mixing metaphors and not right."

Re: "Before It Was Cool" Officially Our Least Favorite New York Tic
• Ian Spiegelman - "Oh fucking please Faster. Geez, we have theme joints now. We're still NYC. I don't stick up for the yuppie hordes moving in on the LES for the last 15 years, but by that criteria what American city is still cool? You're sounding like one of those folks who roots for middle America cities with no industry, no culture, no nothing, because you want to announce the "next cool city" in Details. What city is still cool by your standards, you elite douche muffin? Kingston NY? Austin Tx? I really must know where an Austin art grad goes to find hope after spending 20 grand on a degree that won't earn even ten bucks an hour. Fill us in. Please, ass, surprise me."

Re: Brit-Brit Lit-Lit 102: Spears Reflects on 'Antigone'
• ahem - "I de-learned Antigone by reading that."

Re: Your Friday Afternoon Musical Theatre Break
• mothrafairy - "Yep. Jean Valjean is back and will trod the boards for six months at Broadhurst. Interesting that we see this clip on the Megan Mullally Show—a production also associated with misery and/or the need to be put out of it."

Earlier: Drippy Clap