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

I don't know how I ended up on this article but this guy starts his travelogue humblebragging about not caring about losing expensive stuff (credit cards, cash, laptops, etc.) and how it is really just evidence that he is some kind of absent-minded genuis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/magazine/karl-ove-knausgaard-travels-through-america.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

I saw there were like 3 or 4 articles on this guy, turns out he is a novelist. The NY Times says "He cries all over the place in the first three volumes of his six-part autobiographical novel". The book sounds like a monument to pointless self-indulgence and naval gazing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/books/knausgaards-my-struggle-book-three-explores-fearful-past.html

um, well it's driven by him coming to terms with his abusive upbringing

“Whether he hit me or not made no difference,” Mr. Knausgaard writes. “It wasn’t the pain I was afraid of, it was him, his voice, his face, his body, the fury it emitted, that was what I was afraid of, and the terror never let up, it was there for every single day of my entire childhood.”

he's sort of a big deal

Lol I've never heard of him but after first glance at the URL thought it said Karl Rove

he's apparently the new Proust

that reviewer got malaria from him :((((

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/why-im-a-public-school-teacher-but-a-private-school-parent/386797/?utm_source=SFFB

featuring one of the best taglines I've ever seen

It’s not selling out; it’s buying in.

Only the NYT could set the beginning of their triumph-over-adversity story at Exeter.

And it ends at Scripps ($47K / year)

Somehow she managed to make something of herself

For Yale, Princeton and Brown, that wasn’t enough. All three turned him down.
His mother, Diana, told me that on the day he got that news, “He shut me out for the first time in 17 years. He barely looked at me. Said, ‘Don’t talk to me and don’t touch me.’ Then he disappeared to take a shower and literally drowned his sorrows for the next 45 minutes.”

what 17-year-old doesn't like to 'drown their sorrows' in the shower for 45 minutes at a time amirite

tooooo much informationnnnnnn.........

man I'm glad I don't have to apply to college again

what 17-year-old doesn't like to 'drown their sorrows' in the shower for 45 minutes at a time amirite

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:57 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looooooooool

today i learned that rich kids do that too

For Ms. Ginn skinning and eating rats represents the survivalist instincts she likes to explore in her work. “To have these sorts of skills, it’s very empowering,” she said. “It makes me feel like I have more control over my world.”

― scott seward, Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:00 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!

this is monumentally ridiculous

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/realestate/when-new-york-kids-help-find-the-family-home.html

Teens and preteens are getting involved in finding multimillion-dollar homes for their families, and in a few instances, doing everything but writing the check.

the comments are great

also:
Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn

Fantastic.

"Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. "

like, you know

you know the drill, right?

Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker.

Someday internet archaeologists will exhume examples of people repeating sentences and wonder why they did that. Someday internet archaeologists will exhume examples of people repeating sentences and wonder.....ah, hell

maybe more Late Stage Empire-Decline than quid-ag per se but I don't know where else to put this

WARNING: disturbingly graphic images

None of the people in those photos should count as adults.

Nope.

Maybe at least this is their way of coming to terms with that fact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/nyregion/new-led-streetlights-shine-too-brightly-for-some-in-brooklyn.html

get some blinds yo!!!

Huh, trying to select text to copy results in being redirected to another page. In this case one called "Canine Fashion Paralysis." That's pretty annoying.

Anyway, those LEDs are gross. They're really cold and harsh.

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/24/nyregion/APPRAISAL2/APPRAISAL2-articleLarge.jpg

If only there was a way to stop light from coming in these windows.

That's my neighborhood. I noticed the LEDs only after I saw that piece. Still, it does make the street seem like a big holding room. Get me outta there.

Wish we'd gotten a photo of Skye van Merkensteijn in his middle-school ascot.

Oh yeah the nabe profile in Real Estate this week was Sunnyside, which i can apparently add to the Unaffordable column.

Get you some tinfoil.

Sunnyside's been unaffordable for a good while, I was looking for places there a couple years ago and...yeah, nope.

I don't love LED lights, especially because municipalities tend to really go completely OTT with them and turn once-pleasant streets into blinding nightmares. Columbus and/or Ohio State were doing this while I lived there and I remember it being a big deal when trekking up Woodruff to get Wendy's became like going through an interrogation. The basic idea of energy efficiency is totally reasonable though and TBH I'm sure in a few years it'll just be one of those things where, yeah, there's something kinda magical about old-timey photos that we don't experience anymore, but I have a feeling something similar probably went on with the demise of gas lights or candles or what have you.

The one that drives me nuts is getting CFLs for the house and accidentally getting a way too "cool" temperature. Now that is ghastly.

where should i live, dr c?

If I only knew. I'm doing okay at the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border but it's a compromise situation considering the respective budgets and commute needs of myself and my girlfriend. Would really, really love more trees and maybe more food options, and to not live with this one horrid roommate that's been in the building for nine years, has some insanely low grandfathered-in rent, doesn't bathe, and behaves like a petulant child emperor. I think to achieve all this we'd need to double our annual income, or go back in time and lock in some great place in Lefferts Gardens like my friends used to have.

i don't buy CFLs for my house, i still use incandescents, i can't stand the fluorescent light.

Got to make sure you get the "soft white" CFLs. Except in the bathroom where harsh bright light is necessary for applying makeup and plucking chin whiskers.

Sunnyside is still cheaper than gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods, I think? Tho prices def have gone up over the last few years. We have a nice 1br for under 1400.

Morbs you should move to the Bronx

xps

surprised this wasn't posted yet. shocked that this is a thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/nyregion/as-manhattan-area-codes-multiply-some-still-covet-a-212.html

ime everyone just has cellphones w/whatever their area code of origin is? 408 for me.

man those people at the beginning of the article are such dweebs

Who even knows anyone's phone number. Once it's in a contact, set it and forget it. Never seen again.

idgi - 212 is for landlines! the OG mobile area code is 917

i don't set nuthin

Agonies, but without that unique NYT flavor:

Even worse, nannies “from Tibet or Nepal don’t understand the infrastructure of a building. They don’t understand that a doorman will help you with a taxi.” Many can’t use Uber, she said.

http://pagesix.com/2015/04/21/inside-posh-boot-camp-for-clueless-maids-and-nannies/

vom

lesson one in journalism for dickheads - condescension as a stylistic element