"There has never been a time when there were so many interesting places to visit, shop and eat, when the rivers and the parks were so beautiful, when there were so many vibrant neighborhoods across all boroughs"
What's the over on how many times in the past year Brooks has set foot in Staten Island, the Bronx, or Queens? (Airport, Yankees, and Mets don't count.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
"Second, the elite we do have has to acknowledge that privilege imposes duties. Wealthy people have an obligation to try to follow a code of seemliness."
This guy...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
"After you shit on the poor, be sure to give them a towel to wipe your ass"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
a code of seemliness!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Don't buy luxury cars for your kids? What else ya got for us, Comrade?!
― bnw, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
"when there were so many people paying 40-60% of their income in rent"
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
a code of seemliness a little too close to a code of socialism amirite
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
did you know: rivers have "never" been so beautiful as they are today.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
One thought occurs as I walk around these days: The city has never been better. I have never been wealthier or more pampered.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
or more seemly
― music for cryonic suspension (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
How does it seem to seem
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Frankly agape that he actually wrote A CODE OF SEEMLINESS
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
ghosted for him by intern frank lee agape iiuc
― music for cryonic suspension (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
let brooks be finale of seem
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
The main problem with plutocracy is its unseemliness, this is true.
― jmm, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
xpost lololol
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
Yes it's quite fortunate that we're not up against any civilization-threatening crises in these contemporary times.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
I remember a few days after 9/11 when he called on males of NYC to look to the example of Nero Wolfe's factotum Archie for the good-humored, undemonstratively ass-kicking attitude the coming times would demand.
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
oh here: from his October 2011 column:
Sixty-five miles from where I am writing this sentence is a place with no Starbucks, no Pottery Barn, no Borders or Barnes & Noble. No blue New York Times delivery bags dot the driveways on Sunday mornings. In this place people don't complain that Woody Allen isn't as funny as he used to be, because they never thought he was funny. In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose. The people here don't buy those little rear-window stickers when they go to a summer-vacation spot so that they can drive around with "MV" decals the rest of the year; for the most part they don't even go to Martha's Vineyard.
The place I'm talking about goes by different names. Some call it America. Others call it Middle America. It has also come to be known as Red America, in reference to the maps that were produced on the night of the 2000 presidential election. People in Blue America, which is my part of America, tend to live around big cities on the coasts. People in Red America tend to live on farms or in small towns or small cities far away from the coasts. Things are different there.
Everything that people in my neighborhood do without motors, the people in Red America do with motors. We sail; they powerboat. We cross-country ski; they snowmobile. We hike; they drive ATVs. We have vineyard tours; they have tractor pulls. When it comes to yard work, they have rider mowers; we have illegal aliens.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
they have rider mowers, we have illegal aliens
tomato, tomahto
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
this fucking guy x10000 billion
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
read america
― Lamp, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
oops typo: October 2001 column.
that helps
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
Fuckin vintage
The weird Archie Goodwin bit was in an nyt ed
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Marvel Comics Archie Goodwin?
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
No, that was also the name of Nero Wolfe's side kick who brooks wanted us to emulate in the post 9/11 universe
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
I actually keep forgetting to check whether the marvel editor took that as a nom de plume after Rex stout
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
for the most part they don't even go to martha's vineyard.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
they wear infinity gauntlets
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
People in Red America tend to live on farms or in small towns or small cities far away from the coasts.
YOU'RE RIGHT THAT IS EVERY POSSIBLE TYPE OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
"Occasionally one even finds a village, or a mere hamlet."
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Don't people in "red America" mostly live in suburbs? I mean almost no one fucking lives on farms in any color America, he's just trolling his DC neighbors so hard with that.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
some people say "undocumented workers from latin america," david brooks says "illegal aliens."
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
man everything is so much worse than i always forget that it wasn't.
― busted (art), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
I just love the title.
http://gawker.com/david-brooks-son-is-a-gigantic-bro-1644052311
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
http://gawker.com/david-brooks-son-is-a-gigantic-brony-1644052311
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
That's kind of shitty and gross imo (to publish that, I mean).
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
the Podhoretz family is shitty and gross
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
dude's life is probably hard enough with such a sanctimonious moron as a father
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
The info's all from his Facebook page; if anyone's going to go "His privacy!" about this I'm going to ask about this wonderful world you live in which is not here.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
It's too bad about what Gawker has done to our world then
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Privacy isn't the issue. Publishing a mocking article about someone who isn't in the public limelight and who hasn't done anything to deserve it is shitty and gross.
― jmm, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις,
David Brooks' kid too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
John Podhoretz, the son of former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, tweeted: “Everybody who thinks David Brooks has to ‘reveal’ his son, who’s 23, has joined the Israeli army can go fuck himself.”
yeah
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
and hurting / jmm right about this cheapshit article
And people who know me know I fucking hate David Brooks
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Gawker blows
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
It's definitely shitty and gross and I doubt anyone would be defending this if it was someone who wasn't the douchey son of a douchey columnist.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 9 October 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
fuck gawker
― Treeship, Thursday, 9 October 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link