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

CORPORATE MOHAWK!

I bet he rides a razor scooter to work.

Gross.

This is making me think of the Mayor of Geelong for some reason (the city on the opposite side of the bay Melbourne is on):
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2013/11/25/1226768/160715-paparazzo-becomes-geelong-mayor.jpg

lolololol I know someone from Geelong, I'm totally using this information.

He's a hoot, actually!

lol idk how i un-bookmarked this thread but that def belongs here

We started a new thread when this one reached 8000+ posts!

maybe we should link to it and lock this one

Locking this thread has been repeatedly poo-poohed for unclear reasons.

we must bear witness without ceasing

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/10/all-the-places-the-new-york-times-has-compared-to-brooklyn/381426/

mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/fashion/how-uber-is-changing-night-life-in-los-angeles.html?referrer=

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/realestate/a-greenwich-village-apartment-for-a-creative-soul.html?_r=1&referrer=

^^^
This one should be reposted on this thread every month or so on general principle

from the uber link that didn't embed:

Rick Garcia, 59, a retired Army major who said he became an Uber driver to fund a vacation, starts and often ends his shifts downtown. “It’s changing in the blink of an eye,” said Mr. Garcia, a Los Angeles native raised in Echo Park, as he wound his way along one-way streets lined with Art Deco buildings, some empty, others now home to yoga studios and juice bars. “There’s a lot of New Yorkers here, and they’re saying it’s almost like New York.”

True enough: The district is drawing comparisons to SoHo in the early 1980s, when former warehouses morphed into galleries and artist lofts. In downtown Los Angeles, a visible homeless population (thousands bed down nightly in nearby Skid Row, according to city estimates) crosses paths with European tourists and designers in drop-crotch trousers (the area is also home to the fashion district). In September, a branding agency started a monthly publication, LA Downtowner, to highlight local businesses and street style.

...

“I find myself going down there a lot and taking friends that are coming to visit, because there’s so much cool stuff to do,” said Lara Marie Schoenhals, 30, a writer and Mr. O’Connell’s roommate. On a recent night, she bounced from drinks at the Ace to dinner at a Roy Choi hot spot in nearby Koreatown then more drinks at a new bar in West Hollywood. “I can just, like, YOLO with Uber,” she said.

dibs on new DN

... it is done

The Uber one is fine right up until
“If you’re going to the airport, you use UberX, who cares,” said Mr. Heitzler, the Venice artist. “But if you have to go to a party at the Chateau” — the see-and-be-seen celebrity-magnet Chateau Marmont — “you at least go black car. Or even a giant S.U.V. There’s nothing better than getting out of a giant S.U.V. at the Chateau by yourself.”

when i'm rich i'm going to buy the chateau marmont and redevelop it into a portal to hell

The Uber one is fine right up until
“If you’re going to the airport, you use UberX, who cares,” said Mr. Heitzler, the Venice artist. “But if you have to go to a party at the Chateau” — the see-and-be-seen celebrity-magnet Chateau Marmont — “you at least go black car. Or even a giant S.U.V. There’s nothing better than getting out of a giant S.U.V. at the Chateau by yourself.”

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:59 (Yesterday) Permalink

This is a world I'll never, ever understand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/the-terrible-32s.html?_r=0

hooo boy, you can imagine the daughter of that author being VERY pissed

That was just gross.

That phenomenon is way too far past funny or charming by the time a person hits 32 for that article to be amusing.

in re uber, just saw a story about a woman who took an uber for her birthday not realizing 9x surge pricing was in effect, basically ended up with like a $350 tab for a 20 minute cab, which equaled most of her rent money for the month. (I assume she was probably either drunk or not a regular uber user to miss that, although I wouldn't know, having never taken an uber).

the thing about that dopey 32 piece is it has the same qualities as the onion editorial cartoon piece where the guy is railing about not getting paper money for his empty bottles or whatever; there's the deep despicable andy rooney sickness of an unearned, hateful whiine

The app will tell you if there's surge pricing in effect, but it could be easy to miss and from my experience, there's no real rhyme or reason to why surge pricing goes into effect. xp

The one time I considered Uber I went through the whole process of dling the app and setting up the account and then saw that the price was exactly the same as a yellowcab (which are easy to get late at night by my job). P much the only time I take cabs is on work's dime when I have to stay super late, so it's not much of a thing for me.

hooo boy, you can imagine the daughter of that author being VERY pissed

― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Monday, November 3, 2014 4:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure the authors are not old enough to have a 32-year-old daughter.

maybe. she is responsible for this as well.
http://thehairpin.com/2014/01/the-best-time-i-learned-my-last-name-means-blow-job

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/realestate/an-east-village-apartment-share-for-recent-graduates.html

Can we refer to these people as...quiddiots?

oh hey they almost lived above rosario's!

So they signed on for a year, paying a broker fee of 12 percent of a year’s rent, or a bit more than $4,000. Because all the rooms are comparable in size, they split the rent evenly, at $933 each, with one paying $994 on a rotating basis.

yeah, there's no whining or absurdity there? They sacrificed space to live where they wanted - which you can get away with when you're 23, and lots of people in other parts of the country would say about people living in Brooklyn/etc..

I have no idea what their "means" are, mostly just smdh at the NYC rental market.

(Marge Simpsin voice): "Hmmmm . . . it's true, but he shouldn't say it."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/opinion/sunday/pricey-doughnuts-pricier-homes-priced-out-readers.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1

Jay Kallio
NY, NY 3 minutes ago

I am probably one of the poorest subscribers the Times has, having struggled through two cancers, the second of which is totally disabling and terminal, and I live on approximately $800/month. Being homebound, I splurge on internet access and a Times subscription, although I usually cannot afford to eat the last week of the month. I became a subscriber after the Times paid me $300 to participate in several focus groups last year, as someone who has be a loyal reader for 40 plus years. I had previously been one of the many readers "left behind" when the paywall was adopted. I used the money to purchase a subscription.

I'm delighted to see all the high end coverage of things that bear zero relevance to my life, because I know the advertising so accrued is what lowers the subscription rate so that people like me can afford access. I'm thrilled you can finance the investigative reporting that would not otherwise be possible. I worked in health care all my life and our wealthy patients were essential to paying adequate fees to compensate for the unreimbursed care, and poorly paid services we provide on a regular basis. Many businesses use this model to provide a sliding scale to those who cannot afford full price.

When I see the mansions and luxury goods I know you are not publishing those articles for people like me. You are going out there and doing years of painstaking, dangerous, challenging, groundbreaking journalism for me. That, my friends, is exactly how I like it!

that one has to be a joke, right

http://hometowns.cyber-net-village.com/Orlando/7302/Rick/sportzone/misc/folders/Jean/images/me_frame.jpg

I asked the executive editor, Dean Baquet, whom he has in mind when he directs coverage and priorities.

“I think of The Times reader as very well-educated, worldly and likely affluent,” he said. “But I think we have as many college professors as Wall Street bankers.”

we got both kinds

rich AND well-off

My thoughts exactly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/nyregion/conflicts-in-new-york-city-parks-as-homeless-population-rises.html

two things:

1. you couldn't interview more than one homeless person for this story?
2. unless you're on your own property (or in a dog run), it's never, ever cool to unleash your dogs. that's something that pisses me off beyond belief.

Other areas are still grappling with large clusters of homeless people, which can sometimes lead to clashes. One morning this fall, Cheryl Pientka was walking her cairn terrier, Sasha, in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. While she almost never lets her dog off the leash, on this day she did, near a group of homeless people who had taken to sleeping under the trees between the tennis courts and DeKalb Avenue.

“She went over and started sniffing a man who was lying on the ground, and he jumped up and started swearing,” said Ms. Pientka, a literary agent, who recalled that the man threatened sexual assault. “He was over six feet tall and 200 pounds. It was totally unacceptable.”

Just happened to let her dog off the leash near where some vagrants were reposing

today someone let their leashed dog come up and sniff me while I was waiting for the bus. I recoiled, and they walked away silently mocking my recoiling. In conclusion, dog people are entitled fucking shits.

Pretty ugly article but the readers pick comments are very good, hearteningly so

Guess it's not just profs and bankers reading after all

that reminds me, getting cold out, time to make some donations