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

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

ha, i'm going to be in that audience this week. stoked for the homogeneity.

I saw the pale millennial hordes leaving it when I went to BAM for Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim Friday night

(GBH will run for months, maybe my last chance to see that one on 35mm)

i am gonna start saying "pale millennial hordes" more often

sounds like a zeppelin lyric

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with-less-a-lot-less.html?_r=0

Oh duh that's over a year old.

Still, timeless quidagity.

I LIVE in a 420-square-foot studio. I sleep in a bed that folds down from the wall. I have six dress shirts. I have 10 shallow bowls that I use for salads and main dishes.

he forgot to include: 1 vest.

Jill Abramson got fired, effective immediately.

I hope she starts an explainer site.

maybe the wrong place for this but whaaaaa
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/fashion/modern-love-role-playing-Lets-Not-Pretend-to-Be-Who-We-Arent-.html

I know Julia Child isn’t French, but as we had just watched “Julie and Julia” the night before, I suppose she was on my mind that afternoon. It was a warm spring day and the sun shined through our bedroom window. For a few precious hours, our daughter was at someone else’s house, and my husband and I lay on the bed like lazy cats, alternately reading the newspaper and napping.

Something about the feeling of sun on skin seems to revitalize the bones and awaken the spirit, and soon we began caressing and kissing. I fell into my usual grateful silence, but then I decided to give Ms. Gabriel’s advice a try. I mustered all the courage I had, and then, gazing lovingly at the top of my husband’s head, I let rip a jovial, “Bon appétit!”

He looked up at me and groaned.

What in the...

dear new york times, this never happens to me but...

It sounds like she's in denial about being vanilla.

Lily White lives in Brooklyn, where she is a writer and saxophone player. She is currently working on a novel about the wedding industry.

lol

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/realestate/middle-class-finds-few-affordable-manhattan-apartments.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

“In New York, it’s not just the poor in Jacob Riis-type conditions who endure housing stress,” said Professor Lasner, 

Fascinating range of 'middle' incomes in this thing, and nary a mention of what median income in New York might actually be. It is actually crazy how unaffordable parts of Manhattan now are, obviously, so I don't mind the NYT noticing that (albeit without much attention to causes and real possible solutions) but clearly some of the sad, frustrated characters in that article are more sympathetic and less wilfully attached to a certain froufrou lifestyle in a certain spot than others. Much as I want to mock their horror at living in another borough, the couple they open with really should, in a just world, be able to stay in Manhattan for less than that.

500 square feet is fucking tiny for a family.

its funny that 100 years ago desperately poor european families immigrated to new york and lived in 500 square foot apartments and now... fairly wealthy people are having the same experience?

These residents fear, often correctly, that if they lose their current berth, they will be forced not just out of the borough but out of the city, a move that may result in a longer commute and less family time.

A real concern there at the end, but the supposed justification for it is nonsensical. Steps from Central Park? Yeah, well...pick another park, New York has 1700 of them.

With a big dog, too!

Doctor Casino OTM. But then also rmde:

“And nails, eyebrows — they’ve gone out the window,” Ms. Dormand said. “I use box hair dye. I eat dollar pizza, and I’ve learned to like it."

I mean on $110,000 for 2 ppl and a baby, I'm sure it's true that their lives aren't "fancy," at all! No one kill me please but that's not a lot of money to stretch to life in the "west 90s" unless you're a true pro at stretching one dollar into several. I've couch-surfed up there, groceries are mfing EXPENSIVE at nearby stores. BUT THEN THEY NEED TO NOT LIVE STEPS FROM CENTRAL PARK IN THE WEST 90S.

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