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

For starters, adjust your expectations. Everyone wants to have lunch at 12.30 p.m. and dinner on a Saturday at 8 p.m. Chances are the other diners calling are just as affluent, willing to spend and unknown as you.

that's a funny starter I don't care how shit hot the restaurant is

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socialite is obvious and standard code for "married someone rich" or "family money" right?

"bold face name you haven't heard of"

this was my inspirational story of the day for some weird reason. she's just awesome and she looks awesome and has this awesome life in an awesome house and does all kinds of awesome stuff. every story about people with money should be this cool:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/realestate/karen-allen-at-home-in-the-berkshires.html?hpw&rref=realestate&WT.nav=bottom-well&module=CloseSlideshow®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-10&action=click&contentCollection=Real%20Estate&pgtype=imageslideshow

sorry, doesn't really belong here i guess. she's just cool.

She sounds super sweet and nice, and I had a huge crush on her as a kid. Can't really hate on anyone for being deeply into their interests/hobbies.

meanwhile...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/realestate/the-millennial-commune.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-0&action=click&contentCollection=Real%20Estate®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

gives a new meaning to "socialism for the rich"

http://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/silicon-valley-coliving#.tjj5wZdN1

IA^10 @ that. It never feels good to root for a crash, but wrt silicon valley right now I feel like it's long overdue.

http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-08/1/17/enhanced/webdr12/enhanced-mid-2258-1438465089-1.jpg

At one such party, none of the 30 guests knew one another, but most embraced when the night was over, Mr. Jackson recalled.

most

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/dining/hannah-kirshner-of-sweets-bitters-and-her-omelet-pan-for-the-backyard-bounty.html";>This one seemed pretty tailormade to the thread</a>; here's a highlight selection:

Now 30, she has three chickens of her own: Cookie Dough, a Mottled Java; Hillary Chicken, a Rhode Island Red; and Black Bettie, an Australorp. They live in her backyard in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and lay about a dozen eggs a week. These she sometimes shares with the neighbors, at once an act of good will and a peace offering. (She said that the chickens don’t squawk much.)

Ms. Kirshner studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she once made a dress that looked like a cupcake, spreading paint on the skirt and the bodice with a spatula for an impasto effect; she wore it while handing out cupcakes that looked like the dress. She went on to train as a competitive cyclist, then found that she preferred the pace of life as a bartender and baker. (At one point, she sold cupcakes from her bicycle.)

She started Sweets & Bitters in 2012 with a focus on desserts and cocktails. She envisioned a quarterly; the current publishing schedule puts it closer to an annual. “It was a really terrible business idea,” she said with a laugh.

That year, she lost a garden-level apartment to Hurricane Sandy. She would have lost the chickens, too, if not for a neighbor who braved a chest-high flood to rescue them from an unmoored coop. Since then, one of the crew, a Columbian Wyandotte named Chicki Minaj, has died.

Ms. Kirshner has other jobs, as a recipe developer and a food stylist. Having a steady supply of eggs to fry eases the bills.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/dining/hannah-kirshner-of-sweets-bitters-and-her-omelet-pan-for-the-backyard-bounty.html
rather

rip chicki minaj

She stows the eggs in a hen-shape wire basket (that she bought for herself)

“It was a really terrible business idea,” she said with a laugh.
“It was a really terrible business idea,” she said with a laugh.
“It was a really terrible business idea,” she said with a laugh.
“It was a really terrible business idea,” she said with a laugh.
“It was a really terrible business idea,” she said with a laugh.

An earlier version of this article and a picture caption misstated the material of Hannah Kirshner’s omelet pan. It is blue steel, not cast iron.

jesus fucking christ, NYT, how could you possibly fuck *that* up?

oh my god

in the first NYT article about these ppl, it is revealed that Cookie Dough is also called Salt Hen Peppa

oh my god

holy shit that these people get two articles
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/nyregion/displaced-by-storm-couple-seeks-rental-with-access-to-chicken-coop.html

“It was just sitting there,” said Leisah Swenson, one of the restaurant’s owners and a professed animal lover. “Why not have chickens?”

“Here’s a chicken sitting on a coffee table,” Ms. Kirshner said, displaying a photo on her iPhone.

I don't exactly feel OK snarking here because I have kept (rental) chickens in my (urbanish) backyard.

i am okay with anyone keeping poultry but "chicki minaj" and the cupcake dress tho

those puns are so unworthy

One in the chamber,
thirty-two in the clip
Motherfuckers better strip
Before you find out
how blue steel feel

That's a carbon steel pan, not "blue steel" (which should be "blued steel"). I appreciate that the Times knows that pieces like that aren't worth editing.

Those chicken names are awesome!

(my cat is named Cat Benatar)

http://dujour.com/news/andrew-warren-tiffany-trump-gaia-matisse-kyra-kennedy-reya-benitez/

fuck these people

"It’s about us being fucking amazing people and loving each other"

they seemed bored and boring.

“Money was never talked about.”

How could the RBF article not have been talked about here yet?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/nyregion/how-bentley-meeker-lighting-designer-spends-his-sundays.html?_r=0

tags: Burning Man, Edison tugsten spots, Transcendental Meditation, coconut water, massive truffles, wine cellar, electronic dance music, life coach

his use of dude lingo (freakin stoked etc) sounds like my mom using the term "mod" about ten years after the swinging sixties

“devastating” is the word I like to use

KICKING IT And then everybody boogies out and Alicia and I will kick it. I’ll give my son a call. We’ll do an evening meditate. We’ll talk about the day, our dreams. My life coach Lauren Zander is all about designing your life. We’ll talk about our day and if it came back as we designed it. We’ll talk about the highlight. Then we hook up.

Pretty sure "hook up" is lighting design biz jargon.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iCXxTIM2k7c/UfkM5qJhptI/AAAAAAAAEho/57qJgJz5gWM/s1600/ian.jpg

"We’ll talk about the highlight. Then we hook up. I mean, we'll meet up. For tantric sex. Sometimes we'll kick it old school with a few strapon lava lamps but my go to is a naked bulb hanging right between our gently rocking temples of promise."

If there’s anything that even resembles something braised I’m pulling out a Côte-Rôtie or an Hermitage. I happen to like an artist called Shlohmo, and Dr. Toast.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/fashion/the-cabin-porn-commune.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

Unlike the vicious, trollish tenor of, say, the internal communiqués of Manhattan co-ops, Beaver Brook residents write with civility and a regular refrain of “awesome!”

it's cool, he's giving something back. to himself.

"Awesome!"

  Boards, .............................. $8.03½, mostly shanty boards.
  Refuse shingles for roof and sides, ... 4.00
  Laths, ................................ 1.25
  Two second-hand windows with glass, ... 2.43
  One thousand old brick, ............... 4.00
  Two casks of lime, .................... 2.40   That was high.
  Hair, ................................. 0.31   More than I needed.
  Mantle-tree iron, ..................... 0.15
  Nails, ................................ 3.90
  Hinges and screws, .................... 0.14
  Latch, ................................ 0.10
  Chalk, ................................ 0.01
  Transportation, ....................... 1.40   I carried good
                                                 part on my back.
       In all, ........................ $28.12½

i had no idea that you could buy land in the woods and then build houses on that land. what will these tech start-up millennials think of next?

http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/212464/file-29226812-jpg/images/outside-the-box.jpg

impressed that these youthful thoreaus still look like ll bean ads after such a time of primitive latrines and no shower

maybe they trucked a stylist in for the shoot

Well, there is a hot tub.

tbh, I would do this if I could.