Early to extricate my son from his Williamsburg preschool (a feat as difficult as pulling a snake out of its hole) I decided to while away the minutes window shopping for my wife. Headed toward the shoe store I passed a mom pushing what my mind remembers to be a Bugaboo stroller (but sometimes my mind lies) wearing this t-shirt. I found it funny, because as a new parent I had designed this t-shirt (based on this t-shirt) as a tongue-in-cheek response to the influx of moneyed moms to the once sketchy neighborhood. But who am I to criticize? After all, I did willingly grace the cover of New York magazine representing what a grup is (was?). So as I’m firmly located at the intersection of Williamsburg hipster and Park Slope parent I’m not sure if I should have found humor (which I did) or humiliation (maybe so) in this woman’s one-person tirade… Then again, this might just have been another case of misinterpreted irony–once a frequent occurrence in the ‘Burg’s heyday.
