something hilarious i can't quite put my finger on about the repeat mentions of cars in this piece - maybe how they always get paired w/some more esoteric pursuit to round off the sharp edges/differentiate the guy from being a nascar fan
― blossom smulch (schlump), Sunday, 3 June 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
i care deeply about swimming in cold water
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 June 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
i care coldly about swimming in deep water
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 June 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
you would think that their lives would sound more exciting. they are young and rich and have traveled and they like to cook in cold water, but they both sound really boring.
― scott seward, Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
i like to read between the lines. she was 16 in paris and he was 20 and he showed her a lot of "attention" and then she wrote him a letter saying that she couldn't go on without him and how she was 17 now and that felt so old and he got freaked out and thought he might get put in jail or something so he never responded to the letter but then they hooked up years later and everyone is happy, i guess. there is a lot they aren't telling us.
― scott seward, Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
and yet there is too much that they are
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
they seem to have the interests of older people and to be rather serious about it? though from looking him up just now, writing a bio of robert cordier seems very worthwhile
her dress is cool
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
thankfully there is no mention of what makes them laugh, or the timbre of their laughs.
― estela, Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
27-year old boring people writing memoirs should go on the innocuous things that inspire irrational hatred thread for me
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 3 June 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
I mean really these people belong on that thread
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 June 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
I think I thought about starting a nyt wedding announcement thread a long time ago but seems super low hanging fruit on this thread The people I know irl who show up in that section are either legit upper crusty types or lower middle class striversI mostly just think this stuff is harmless and lol @ the thought of my wedding showing up there
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
My friend who married an Iranian-American lady was in there at some point. She apparently seemed more thrilled about having her announcement in the nyt than about getting married.
― mh, Monday, 4 June 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
doesnt exactly fit but this paragraph is too ridiculous to pass up and so
“Younger Parisians are really into the New York food scene and the California lifestyle,” said Jordan Feilders, 28, who started Cantine California in March. “There’s a good trans-Atlantic food vibe going on Twitter and Facebook.”
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 June 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/533466_10151590481067137_53653986_n.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 4 June 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
my cousin is the only person i know who got in the NYT weddings. she's fancy. and her husband is $$$.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 June 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
"one on one at center court" ?!?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 4 June 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
"Scott backs down his new bride in the paint."
dude, right in the sixers logo at center court. primo sixers wedding real estate.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 June 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n
'from the start his vision included cupcakes'
― j., Monday, 4 June 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
quiddities and grisly deaths of the yoga class
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/us/mysterious-yoga-retreat-ends-in-a-grisly-death.html?_r=1&hp
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
"kissing and genital touching"
― buzza, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
Strange tales come out of the American desert: lost cities of gold, bandit ambushes, mirages and peyote shamans. To that long list can now be added the story of the holy retreat that led to an ugly death.
What is this I don't even
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
Erik Brinkman, a Buddhist monk who remains one of Mr. Roach’s staunchest admirers, said, “If the definition of a cult is to follow our spiritual leader into the desert, then we are a cult.”
It's probably close enough, best to avoid.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
Was it a genuine spiritual enclave? What happened to drive Ms. McNally and Mr. Thorson out of the camp and into the wilderness? And just why, in a quest for enlightenment, did Mr. Thorson, a 38-year-old Stanford graduate, end up dead, apparently from exposure and dehydration, in a remote region of rattlesnakes and drug smugglers?
ugh just tell the goddamn story you fucking hack
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
mysterious
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
the actual story isn't nearly dramatic enough to justify that opening and would have been better served without the "Dateline"-esque "IT IS A SHOCKING MYSTERY" buildup
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Even the manner in which Ms. McNally and Mr. Thorson left the retreat adds a fresh turn to an already twisty tale. It came days after she made a startling revelation during one of her lectures: she said that Mr. Thorson had been violent toward her, and that she had stabbed him, using a knife they had received as a wedding gift.
:0
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
Three times. I think that explains the mysterious death.
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/bizarro-yoga-cult-death-in-the-desert.html?
the times wrote about these people in 2008!
― goole, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps you remember reading, in 2008, a breezy article in the New York Times that described a kooky, blissed-out Buddhist couple of the unreconstructed hippie variety, who had pledged both to never be more than fifteen feet apart from one another, and also to be celibate. "They eat the same foods from the same plate and often read the same book, waiting until one or the other finishes the page before continuing," you may remember reading. Perhaps you thought ha, they're going to kill each other! and flipped idly from the "Home and Garden" section to "Sports" without giving it another thought.
― goole, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
They also talk about how they continue to struggle with each other’s wills. It is not an easy practice, even now. But they believe that the basic principles of karma and emptiness at the heart of Buddhism can improve any relationship.
― buzza, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
A special joint-production of quiddities and ILP:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/fashion/the-midwife-becomes-a-status-symbol-for-the-hip.html?_r=1
Ms. Sellars is considered one of the more respected midwives in New York, and her patients have included opera singers, actresses, bankers and models like Ms. Turlington. (Disclosure: of the more than 1,850 babies that Ms. Sellars has delivered, my daughter was No. 1,727 and my son was No. 1,798.)
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 June 2012 10:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/06/williamsburg-war-on-brunch.html
― s.clover, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
laughing uncontrollably at this:
Five Leaves, as well as the Lorimer street bistro Lokal, were both issued citations over the past several weeks for hosting outdoor tables on Sunday mornings. Mongell is scruffy, with a patch of a beard, and he left the meeting feeling agitated: “For me, it’s like people being forced to the back of a bus in the fifties. It’s like, why?”
― s.clover, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
In spite of money lines like that one, I have to say I side with the brunchers. Eating on the sidewalk is for the PEOPLE!
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
hahahah omg
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Blacks in the 50s were like "why?"
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
I can't even
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
the civil rights battle of our time
― goole, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/27/08f26c032f8c50384ac95dbd20ff836b/l.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs
― goole, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I go to to get brunchAnd I sit outsidesomebody keep telling me "don't hang around."Its been along time comingBut I know a scone is gonna come, oh yes it will.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
preach
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
i look at a grown woman wearing toddler velcro shoes and I'm like "why?"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
I had brunch on the sidewalk, in a little tentLooks like that brunch special's been runnin ever since
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
considering changing my dn to mimosa parks
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Malcolm Eggs
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
amazing crepes
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Muffin Luther King
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Letter from a Williamsburg bistro
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
Soul on Ice Coffee
okay, i'll quit
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link