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

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

i am presuming this is a joke but honestly can't figure it so much as my English-to-English dictionary is lost under the couch somewhere
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/28/cereal-killer-cafe-attackers-gentrification-londons-housing

the odd US comic book would occasionally turn up in local newsagents when I was a child and I remember looking at the adverts for american breakfast cereals and being sad that I would never get to try them, I would totally visit a breakfast cereal cafe if one opened locally

similar idea as the japanese candy being sent to the states

$4.50 for a bowl of cereal? is the milk extra?

is it true that you can't get Ricicles in Ireland any more?

it's amazing how the look of those cereal guys is just shorthand now for yuck. sorry if anyone here has that look.

i mean all in all it's not terrible or anything. at least they dress up.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/57/17/94/57179470e7a7ba3e5eb7a6523b3c7481.jpg

this is the best picture of them after the attack:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03455/Cereal-Killer_3455072b.jpg

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/141209131823-cereal-killer-cafe-2-1024x576.jpg

I thought you could buy a whole box? I'm not sure if I'm interested if you can only get a bowl's worth, the packet is half the appeal, surely?

th shbagginess, it burns my eyes

The cafe, which charges up to £4.40 for a small bowl

idk what the exchange rate is but I assume it works out to considerably more than $4.50 (which would actually be quite cheap price for a whole box)

okay, i totally didn't notice that the one dude has a huge freddie mercury tattoo until now. kudos.

that's about 7 bucks for a bowl.

We used to have a Cereality cafe in Chicago. No prices on their menu online. Strangely one of their only two remaining locations is in a hospital.

There a cereal and grilled cheese place here called Crunch and Munch, that seems to be doing quite well. I think they added the grilled cheese option after they started.

Woops, actual called Mix N Munch

there's one near the barclays center http://www.kithtreats.com/#about

We've had a cereal restaurant for years -- https://www.facebook.com/theknoxvillepearl. Only open 7 p.m.-midnight (or later). I think it's mostly a place for underagers to hang out before/after music shows. I went in once around 1 a.m. out of curiosity. I got a bubble tea. The vibe was odd, low-key Lynchy. Took forever to get served, but the bubble tea was pretty good.

$6 for a bowl of cereal ... no thanks

There is a little seafood restaurant here that I love (they have $30 all-you-can-eat ENORMOUS delicious king crab legs) that also serves bowls of cereal for some reason. Strange.

I don't think it's that strange. They serve breakfast/brunch, so good to have cereal as an option. It's also a big kid friendly place. Kids like cereal.

kinda the stupidest thing in the world to order in a restaurant. feed your kids some cereal before you go to brunch. and then just let them sit there bored while you eat real food.