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

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.

Yeah I'm actually totally jealous of those cabins.

ditto

I probably wouldn't turn it into a dues-paying club with different levels of membership and chef-prepared meals for my weeklong Amish furniture-making workshop.

The group made art on their camping weekends, including a winsome short film about building a stool from an oak tree, and took enticing photographs that looked like they had been art-directed by the editors of Kinfolk magazine. Since 2009, Mr. Klein had been collecting images of sheds, shacks, cabins and huts into a Tumblr blog he called, cunningly, Cabin Porn, and he also posted Beaver Brook’s embellishments, captured in those photographs, there.

When the blog, an enchanting rabbit hole of tiny handmade houses, quickly went viral, his private utopia became public record, and book publishers came courting, seeing in Cabin Porn the architectural equivalent of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York. The result, “Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere,” is out this week from Little, Brown.

'cunningly'

http://gardenandgun.com/article/energy-efficient-retreat-texas

This is a similar thing in the Texas Hill Country, without the techie twee bullshit. Unfortunately the airbnb rental price is $2400/week IIRC.

The result, “Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere,” is out this week from Little, Brown.

Aaaaaaand there it is.

these people are totally talented at making something out of nothing. hey, let's go camping! hmmm, there is a blog and maybe a future book in this...

kudos!

there are people making money writing books about searching for edible weeds in the woods too. the idea of a new trend in "foraging" - something people all over the world have been doing forever - might have seemed kinda silly at one time, but now everything is gee whiz! look what i can do! and someone will pay you for it if you dress it up in the right way. actually, maybe that is also as old as the hills too...the dressing up of mundane things.

anyway, yeah, i would love a cabin in the woods too. kinda/sorta doable around here too. with a prefab and some cheap land. there is a lot of cheap land around these parts...

I don't think people realize how much upkeep in time and money it takes to keep a second home livable.

People in cities expect all their shit to work al the time and pay good money to other people when it doesn't. You have to be more self reliant when you're in the fucking woods.

^ otm

If I were married or had decided on a life of celibacy I would totally go for a cabin in the woods/desert. Until then I'll rent that shit by the weekend.

^ yes. Let some other poor Schmuck deal with it