quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

Elvis was master of the preferred-food commute, iirc

As for the private plane thing, I'm kind of ambivalent -- if it's a corporate jet going into major airports, that sucks. If it's a private hobbyist plane and they're jumping from one podunk field to another for a burger, it's pretty much the same as most of their flights.

Hobbyist airplane ownership has definitely dropped, but it was more of a thing post-WW2.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/nyregion/in-montclair-elections-cause-town-to-re-examine-itself.html

come on, at least PRETEND to evaluate the arguments

that article is straight out of central casting

The WSJ has a nice little nugget from the quiddities and agonies of yore.

http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2012/05/08/was-the-scream-inspired-by-munch%e2%80%99s-tax-return/

if the Teabags weren't such a bunch of philistines who were proud of their militant & willful ignorance of all things non-American (b/c then they'd be "elitist liberals" see), they could add the agonies suffered by Edvard Munch and Ingmar Bergman at the hands of Scandinavian tax authorities to their list of "socialist sins."

fwiw I think "The Scream" is one of the shittiest famous paintings in art history.

It's probably pretty amazing if you haven't seen four million "The Scream" coffee cups

On the airline thing, I know a woman whose husband is an airline mechanic and they get free passage pretty much anywhere. But they can't really afford to stay long in any of the places they travel to, so they do things like weekend jaunts to Paris or Buenos Aires.

http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article/diageo-v-brewdog

As for Diageo, once you cut through the glam veneer of pseudo corporate responsibility this incident shows them to be a band of dishonest hammerheads and dumb ass corporate freaks. No soul and no morals, with the integrity of a rabid dog and the style of a wart hog.

Perhaps more tellingly it is an unwitting microcosm for just how the beer industry is changing and just how scared and jealous the gimp-like establishment are of the craft beer revolutionaries.

We would advise them to drink some craft beer. To taste the hops and live the dream. It is hard to be a judas goat when you are drinking a Punk IPA.

Walk tall, kick ass and learn to speak craft beer.

lol "craft beer revolutionaries" ... methinks someone has taken the Samuel Adams beer label a little TOO seriously.

also, i can't help but think of this when i read the brewdog's post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiirbLQ0dwI

http://i48.tinypic.com/20zoh91.png

l-r Avril Incandenza, Hal Incandenza

lol kid is white because mom can see his bonar

wait wait wait

Jeanne Sager set up a separate computer login for her 6-year-old daughter, Jillian, to protect her from objectionable material after Jillian stumbled upon a graphic video while watching “My Little Pony” videos.

Skrillex strikes again

who lets a 6yo on the internet? wtf

haha that skrillex thing made me laugh and then I realized I didn't get it

click here for a picture of skrillex having sex with a my little pony

no, thank you

"home and garden..... and kids and stuff"

a quick potted history of a given newspaper's "soft" section goes: society page >> women's page >> 'variety' page. in most papers the variety and arts coverage got mooshed together at some point, but, the nyt being about nyc, arts coverage was a bigger deal and always has been.

anyway this post started as "home and garden, lol woman stuff, amirite" and i kinda sidetracked myself

http://i49.tinypic.com/azjtiw.png

oh, dammit! someone already posted it. anyway.

he will never look at his mother's pearl necklace the same way again

Then there are those requests that are legal but morally suspect, said Mario Buatta, who still feels guilty about designing a bedroom for the mistress of a man to match the bedroom he had already designed for the man and his wife.

“I didn’t realize he had a mistress,” Mr. Buatta said. “It wasn’t nice. I’m Italian! But I replicated the bedroom that was obviously done in a floral chintz. Curtains hanging from the ceiling. A trellis carpet. The husband felt comfortable in it, and I had that middle-class guilt. I could never face the wife. I felt very icky.”

inside Mario Buatta's apartment, where maybe the guilt isn't so middle-class:
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/nysdhouse/mario/P1400299-copy.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/nyregion/nepalese-pedicurists-must-overcome-aversion-to-strangers-feet.html?_r=2&src=rechp&pagewanted=all

Ms. Lewis was surprised when she was told that many Nepalese pedicurists were initially hesitant to touch strangers’ feet. She gestured to the woman ministering to her toes, which were separated by cotton balls, and said, “You would think she was born to do this.

:O

"I mean _I_ would at least"

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/travel/a-mother-daughter-spring-break-on-fisher-island-florida.html

I can't even believe that thing is real, it keeps taking a knowing tone for like two sentences and then...?!??

At least there we weren’t surrounded by drunken, half-naked college students racing Segways along Ocean Drive. “I know I sound like I’m 90,” Emma whispered, “but I just want them to put some clothes on and go to vocational school.”

ALESSANDRA STANLEY is the chief television critic for The New York Times.

Ta-Nehisi Coates defended the writing in that Stanley essay.

Meanwhile it's been raked through the coals here: http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/05/new_york_times_writer_discover.php

I was trying to figure out what college her daughter goes to - my guess is oberlin

I want to know what her kid was up to during the trip!

Also, she really missed out at this point:
I considered driving our golf cart off the villa grounds to the Golf Grill, overlooking the nine-hole course, but that, Emma said primly, would set a bad example of maternal drinking and driving.
..then she later talked about how the kid loved to drive the golf cart around. Uh, you have a built-in chauffeur, lady!

She also doesn't want her daughter to see her drink, I think you're forgetting.

The daughter also had a little piece:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/travel/5-tips-for-traveling-with-your-mother.html?ref=travel

I want to know what her kid was up to during the trip!

being a spoiled, sulky brat - ie. a teenager?

Also, I have a deep suspicion about this:
La Trattoria, a pizza and pasta place near the golf course that looked as though it belonged in a Scottsdale, Ariz., mall.

I would guess all rich white people leisure/retirement enclaves look pretty much the same, with the exception of the surrounding landscape, no matter where you go. tbf, there are parts of suburbs in most areas of the country that try to approximate this aesthetic.

Laurel, I mean her daughter could drop her off! She could feign sleepiness or something when the kid picks her up later, I don't fucking know. And exactly how "irresponsible" is letting your college student kid see you drink like an old woman? It's not binge drinking, so it's a relatively great role model experience

Daughter sounded pretty cool until the vocational school crack.

it's kind of thoughtful, college debt is a big deal these days

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/fashion/justin-ross-lee-party-animal-seeks-fame.html

kill it with fire

There’s also an endorsement deal. A few weeks ago, LugLess, a start-up that ships luggage for travelers, named him its spokesman. The company noticed his Twitter messages about lost luggage and high jinks in first-class cabins wearing pajamas.

“He flies about 200,000 miles a year and is always posting glamorous pictures of himself, and that works for us,” said Ben Luntz, a founder of LugLess. “Justin gets attention for better or for worse. He gets people talking.”

this is funnier and sicker when you think about it

ha, there are so many of these assholes in manhattan

occupy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/realestate/midtown-penthouse-at-one57-sells-for-new-york-record.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/05/21/business/men/men-popup.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/increasingly-men-seek-success-in-jobs-dominated-by-women.html

“I hated my job every single day of my life,” said John Cook, 55, who got a modest inheritance that allowed him to leave the company where he earned $150,000 a year as a database consultant and enter nursing school.
His starting salary will be about a third what he once earned, but database consulting does not typically earn hugs like the one Mr. Cook recently received from a girl after he took care of her premature baby sister. “It’s like, people get paid for doing this kind of stuff?” Mr. Cook said, choking up as he recounted the episode.

you've gotta be fucking kidding me re: "pink collar"

also, that dude has a wake-up call coming if he thinks nursing is all hugs

http://www.selectism.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/thomas-pink-spring-summer-2009-front2.jpg

^^ pink collar.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/20/business/pink-collar-opportunities.html