Web currents and left sharks

Kingston Daily Freeman, Feb. 19, 1906.

I thought we were done with Left Shark, but here are some journalism lessons?

'New Brooklyn' won't die. 'New Brooklyn' is a zombie.

DIE pic.twitter.com/DnLwqrz9qe
— Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) February 2, 2015

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where the New Brooklyn article was born, and what that lousy meme was like, and how news writers were occupied and all before they had a New Brooklyn article written, and all that hipster kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Unfortunately for me and you, here's The Daily Beast reanimating that whole 'Catskills is the New Brooklyn,' thing.  And here's All Over Albany wonderfully deconstructing that terrible zombie meme.  It should be dead, but it creeps up and scares you all over again when you least expect it.

It could be worse, though. We could be talking about the left shark.  Or both sharks.  Welcome to journalism, everybody.