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

are home renovations writers becoming blogger burnouts? the answer may surprise you! or you may not give a fuck!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/garden/when-blogging-becomes-a-slog.html

haha was reading that while waiting for my bodega pancakes this morning and thinking "if i had brought my phone, i'd be linking this on quid/ag, but if i'd brought my phone, i probably would not have bought the paper to pass the time waiting for my pancakes"

Can't lie. I am a big fan of Young House Love. The whole endeavor should be something that fills me with irritation but they are just so charming I can't help but like them. I sincerely wish them the absolute best.

Guilty here too--although I haven't read their blog in a long time, I remember their wedding and their first house reno and all their wonderful tricks and ideas. I really should hate them, but I don't.

I even bought their book and will probably buy the next one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/opinion/sunday/brunch-is-for-jerks.html

i don't even think i'm going to click on that, the url is perfect

That is impressive I'm actually rooting for his daughter to cut off his head and pour hollandaise down his throat

If it's meant to be funny obnoxious it's not bad tho

And there was the hedonistic all-day affair in Dubai, where I topped off courses of Japanese, Chinese and Lebanese food with a full English roast beef dinner, all consumed while hovering above the desert in an air-conditioned five-star hotel restaurant and guzzling a jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot.

I know right?

we've all been there

left my jeroboam in my jet brb

I'm trying to picture this hovering brunch restaurant I don't understand

i think he means it wasn't on the ground floor?

yeah I think so too, it's just a silly, inflated word to use for merely not being on the ground.

nope p sure it's a brunch spaceship

i mean it's in dubai, what else could it be

it's just standard issue annoying nyt style writing -- same with "guzzling a jeroboam of Veuve Cliquot" -- cramming *distinguished* words into a small space where they don't actually make the description more precise, just more haughty.

All I could visualise after 'hovering above the desert' was this:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091202162508/starwars/images/d/d4/Sailbarge-chron2.jpg

OTM

xp unless he means he was literally guzzling the jeroboam, which I guess is possible

picturing the author of that piece as jabba the hut changes the context a bit.
possibly wise to do that for all nyt opeds

oh man can we get like a meme-generator where you plug in NYT text and it renders it as subtitles over animated Jabba gifs?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DbZZv1DdaEs/UrE1_AAtFxI/AAAAAAAAHQI/tWt6UFMuV3M/s1600/etsyjabba1.jpg

i think i will be a West Village bruncher for Hallowe'en

my gut reaction to that brunch article is "sorry you've been living there for 20 years, but move the fuck out of new york if you don't like new york, what the fuck do you expect"

good opinion

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/10/19/realestate/19HUNT-MAIN/19HUNT-MAIN-master675.jpg

He decorated his bedroom lavishly, prominently hanging an image of himself on one wall. Some of the furniture was custom made; some is antique. “I felt I had never been content with my surroundings,” he said. Now, he absolutely is.

“Home decorating turned into one of my projects,” he said. “It’s a luxurious pop-art environment that reflects my taste and is a true representation of me.”

pretty sure his shirt also features an image of himself

Did he win that ceramic cheetah from Wheel of Fortune?

imagine going home with a guy and he has a painted portrait of himself over his bed

http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/1/11/Lovenasium.png/225px-Lovenasium.png

On the Lower East Side, a renovated two-bedroom in a building with a roof deck and a gym was almost $4,000. “It was pristine,” Mr. Papier said, but small in every way. “The staircases were tiny, the closets were tiny, you open the door to the bedroom and immediately walk into the bed.”

And it was on the top floor of a six-story walk-up. “That is a lot of money to have something that is an inconvenience to you,” said Mr. Papier, who travels often, lugging suitcases. “If it is a dream apartment, you can suck it up,” but this was not.

I know right

https://imgflip.com/i/d5mzd

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/HadrianVIII/d5n4u_zpsaa003edc.jpg

;-;

lol

more plz

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/HadrianVIII/d5tkm_zps6e7d9831.jpg

wow

hahaha

imagine going home with a guy and he has a painted portrait of himself over his bed

Only glossy headshots so far.

"sorry you've been living there for 20 years, but move the fuck out of new york if you don't like new york"

equally applicable to nonbrunchers like me :(

how has the onion not done a jabba nyt oped piece

http://www.theawl.com/2014/11/the-history-of-the-new-york-times-styles-section

good piece, sorry if already posted.

Wait did we miss this one? Probably in another thread, but... wow.

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

active discussion in the willow ILM thread
▼Arbre Mort▼ aka Willow Smith

http://i.imgur.com/ywSivzh.png

This is some creepy shit.

> nightcrawler

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/opinion/the-pain-of-the-watermelon-joke.html

^^ comments box is shameful

from the "reader's picks"

Eating watermelon in the summertime is one of the great American rituals. I've been to parties hosted by African-Americans where watermelon was served, unselfconsciously. I hope that Ms. Woodson can return to that childhood joy that she once experienced.

366 Recommend

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-impracticality.html?_r=0

Dubious advice. Thankfully he almost immediately forgets what he was supposed to be writing about.

there is absolutely nothing impractical about what he describes. that's the weird thing. i also felt the urge to change things as i read it:

"Had I known about unlimited-ride passes, no doubt I would have splurged on one, but even so, unlimited was how I felt: freed from what was, unworried about what came next. I was 150 years old."