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

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/realestate/a-white-glove-state-of-mind.html

Some prime quid/ag holiday reading right here

New hires take a weeklong course to learn how to color-code residents based on their personality type. A red-coded resident needs to be validated and heard, whereas a blue resident simply wants the facts.

'is he cool?'

I feel like that's not only a class thing but also a generational class thing, with the increasing mentality of "service" as a "product"

Yeah the baseball chitchat with the help is very old-school noblesse oblige.

where a three-bedroom rental apartment was recently listed for $22,995 a month

What?????

oh, it's been a while

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/nyregion/as-shop-owner-woman-sees-troubling-sides-of-herself.html?_r=0

that's a gem

I can't even read past that fucked-up lede about emotional landscapes.

sort of reminds me of the big firm lawyers who complain about how they'll never be "truly rich" like their clients

Silby otm

this is classic:

http://nypost.com/2014/01/21/upper-east-side-residents-feel-spurned-after-plow-delay/

fwiw, the city claims this was partly false perception due to busted gps not updating the plownyc website. As for the traffic excuse, I work in the area and can attest that it was complete gridlock for hours.

http://observer.com/2014/01/let-them-eat-kale/

nice crossover with "shit that looks like an onion article" on that one

fuck, that observer piece is so long and says so little

Silicon Valley billionaire compares treatment of America's rich to Nazi persecution of Jews

A billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been condemned for "ghastly and disgraceful" comments after he compared criticism of America's rich to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Tom Perkins, 66, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which was published, in which he likened the Occupy movement to Kristallnacht, the infamous pogrom of Nov 9-10, 1938

check the occupy wall street thread for deets on his porn novel

Oh good I was going to link that article here. Wow.

quiddities and auchwitzes of the ruling class

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-myth-of-sex-drugs-and-money-on-wall-street-2014-02-18?link=MW_story_featstor

amazing find

I love that we are supposed to simultaneously feel sorry for them because money turns out to not make them happy AND because they make less money than they used to!

Unhappy rich people should use some of their money to pay off my student loans. It will make us all feel good!

cosign ^

You know what, I do feel sorry for people with that kind of warped worldview, in a way. They are wounded people.

yeah they're somewhere near the top of my list

everyone is wounded, but not everyone chooses the psychopathy of wall st

don't you see, they had to. they just couldn't not ~despite themselves~

this is the problem w/ pathologizing good/evil

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/fashion/the-monocle-returns-as-a-fashion-accessory.html?ref=fashion

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/garden/the-wildebeest-in-the-room.html

"“I got it just to have my own style, bring something new to the table,” said Jose Vega, 23, an aspiring Miami rap musician... “Also, I’m nearsighted.”"

that wes anderson piece is some vile shit

coming from someone who doesn't really have any time for wes anderson

Wes Anderson cosplayers apparently a lot more respectable than the sci-fi/fantasy kind.

There's something very Q/A about this standardized test resistance article. It has that anti-vaccination feeling to it--like, she just has this gut feeling and all of a sudden it becomes really, really important that her kids don't take standardized tests.

yeesh, what a long and boring story

standardized test resistance is some real-ass shit though

like, individual well-educated families not taking them is not like a fight for justice, but high-stakes testing is basically poison for schools sold as medicine

like an entire campus in chicago is boycotting the ISAT exam, thats some gangster shit right there

you're never gonna take our test scores alive, copper!!!

In the past 24 hours two people I know - both lit professors, one a big film snob, one really into steampunk - have posted on Facebook heaping praise on the Wes Anderson and monocle articles, respectively.

"james is the one with the copper monocle"

a college friend of mine has been doing this:
http://anadvanceddegreeinquiet.tumblr.com/

he's a little bit tl;dr but nonetheless it's a heroic anthropological project

there's some good writing in there

In your bitter past, if someone dared be so bold, you’d most likely have been playing D.I.Y. bowling with their decapitated head in some Bushwick loft at around 4a.m. Now, the reformed you simply shrugs, strokes the balaclava’s elegant, face-hiding contours, and says “I got it at Our Kind Of People. It’s a new Williamsburg boutique with a very helpful sales staff.”

no one in any of these articles comes off well

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/nyregion/brooklyn-communal-cool-the-brand.html
http://observer.com/2012/11/the-truth-about-brooklyns-overhyped-undercooked-food-scene/
http://bedfordandbowery.com/2014/03/one-word-for-the-observer-editor-who-thinks-brooklyn-is-over-junglepussy/

a college friend of mine has been doing this:
http://anadvanceddegreeinquiet.tumblr.com/

i had friends in graduate school who saged. and who otherwise made so as to clear the uh space of a room through some kind of undertaking which didn't involve burning sage.

i was too polite to ask them why they were not embarrassed to do this.

why are so many of those wes anderson nuts in post-production

the audience at Grand Budapest Hotel at BAM Rose was probably the most narrowly homogeneous film audience I've ever seen