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Chelsea Hotel Is Like An Old Rolling Stones T-Shirt

We’re tired of all of those people on tripadvisor.com bad-mouthing us so we decided to check DrawerYelp.com.  That’s where the young people post their reviews of the Chelsea. 
    A tourist named Jay Chan H. stayed here recently at the rock bottom price of $195.00 a night.  "Everything is tired and worn," he says, "unlike the pictures on the official Chelsea Hotel website." 
    Actually, though, Jay seems to have had a pretty good time. He got to read some poetry scrawled in the drawers of his furniture, and was entertained by a crack-smoking nut job whose room smelled of pee.  (A long-term resident, he says.  Who could this be? Another Chelsea mystery.) We too are entertained daily in a similar fashion.
     Jay compares the Chelsea to an old Rolling Stones T-shirt that you just can’t bring yourself to throw out. Actually, Jay, it’s a Ramones shirt.  (Ed Hamilton)

 

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    bluehour

    Hmm. Which crackhead smelling of pee was that? There were a few in my day, though not as many as some seem to think. I know a couple of real sweet people who went south fast on crack and meth after witnessing 9/11 up close. Neither, howwever, smelled of urine.
    My floor was a big pot floor so surely any transient guests who stayed there benefitted from the contact high and left happy.
    I feel bad for tourists who miss the point and find themselves longing for sterile, generic hotel rooms. But for every one of those, there are two who stumble into the Chelsea in ignorance, not realizing what it is, and are surprised and delighted.
    BTW, It’s one year since Arnold Weinstein died. To me, he embodied the hotel spirit more than the odd crackhead.

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