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

"He is not alone in his increasing distaste for a life that many married men would say they envy. With the freedom has come certain costs: isolation, regret and the feeling that, although you may still feel 25 in your heart, your knees are starting to ache and the years are slipping by fast."

BREAKING NEWS

“Tonight I’m doing nothing,” he said. “I could go out, grab a girl, have sex, have fun. But the sense of life is to have kids and try to give them as much as you know. I believe in the power of the universe. I believe the day you go somewhere where you aren’t supposed to be, you end up falling in love and having babies. Definitely, I’m not giving up.”

kinda hope that guy doesn't have kids...

also, those guys should file a class action suit against the illustrator of that article.

what a bunch of babies

self-absorbed men unusually slow to notice mortality creeping up on them, what else is new

you guys are harsh. we're all self-absorbed! (choffel sounds kind of awful, but the other dudes don't.) i don't really get how the article counts as news, but style section i guess.

IDK, as someone who married one of the "good ones" at 27, why should I feel sad for someone who has an extra ten years of singeldom and then says "OMG WHY ARE ALL THE GOOD ONES TAKEN?"

"Americans are getting married later and later. The average age of first marriage in the United States is 27 for women and 29 for men, up from 23 for women and 26 for men in 1990 and 20 and 22 (!) in 1960."

i got that from the internet.

and that info just makes me think: go women!

from the comments, omg at this

I regularly encounter those in their thirties who use all sorts of diversions of work, dead end relationships and denial, that in the end, force a too late confrontation with time, mortality and infertility. Depression and regret may ensue. For women this can lead to the decision to get pregnant via technology or a casual friends sperm donation, absent a partner. For men, not so easy.

Yeah, I also just find it extremely hard to believe that it would be difficult for a 35 or 37 or 42-year-old man with a decent career to get married if he really wants to.

lol

my cousin recently had a kid on her own. she's in her 40's. sweet top secret govt job in d.c. cute baby. she's totally happy. never been married. don't think she's against it, just never happened. modern life!

Only in the NYTimes would the most sympathetic character in a story ask someone out to the Canary Islands.

Previously, Ms. Vucetaj’s male clients had their eyebrows shaped — she keeps them clean and straight, with absolutely no arch — alongside her female clients in a salon furnished with antique furniture, flowery rugs and sparkly lights. “The guys were troopers,” she said. “They’d sit with the women and the chandeliers.”

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln3nhsDcKv1qlv2xjo1_500.gif

Not the New York Times but I think this wedding story really belongs here

http://www.vogue.com/13384686/weddings-lauren-schwab-bobby-webster-east-hampton-longhouse-reserve/

The four-day celebration was split between the bride’s parents’ waterfront Southampton home and the dramatic sculpture gardens and art-colliding landscapes of the LongHouse Reserve (where permanent installations from the likes of Yoko Ono, Willem de Kooning, and Dale Chihuly are scattered throughout the property). “It was important that all of the events felt authentic to each of us individually and to our relationship,” Lauren said. “We wanted our friends and family, who were traveling from all over—Australia, London, Prague, Hawaii, and California, to name a few—to feel a part of our lives, deeply appreciated, and connect with the other important people in our lives. We carefully and thoughtfully designed every component of the wedding to encourage these feelings, from our save-the-dates and invitations featuring a picture of us at Burning Man, to the menu at the rehearsal dinner—designed by Bobby with Art of Eating and inspired by his childhood in Hawaii—to the ceremony that we wrote and designed . . . and the wild after-party!”

GGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

it was really hard to figure out what to quote from that

omg that's fantastically onion-esque. especially the "We carefully and thoughtfully designed..." sentence.

oh lordy.

During cocktail hour the butterfly performers (no detail was overlooked, down to the tiny, artificial flutters on their eyelashes!) presented a durational hour-long dance around Kiki Smith sculptures and in and out of the pond. All the while, dancers drew in guests to write wishes for the newlyweds that they subsequently attached to Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree.

thx, thread, for continuing to deliver the goods. sometimes i forget that caricatures of wealth really do exist

http://media.vogue.com/r/h_1600,w_1240/2015/12/23/34-lauren-and-bobby-wedding-selects-vogue.jpg

fun

lol @ monitor wedges

http://media.vogue.com/r/h_2000,w_1640/2015/12/23/27-lauren-and-bobby-wedding-selects-vogue.jpg

If only they'd had Matthew Barney shoot their wedding video.

the caption for that band shot:

"Dan Bailey Tribe, a Montauk-based band with an amazing reggae, island vibe, played during cocktail hour and had little Nakoa mesmerized."

a couple of others:

"Bobby and I wanted the wedding to incorporate unexpected elements (such as performance artists) for entertainment during the cocktail hour. This particular concept was inspired by a Radiolab episode that we had listened to called “Black Box,” about the transformation that a caterpillar goes through during chrysalis and what the butterfly brings from its caterpillar life into its new life. The outfits and headdresses were designed and handcrafted by Shige and Ximena of Leimay."

"Our cake was designed by Lael Cakes’s Emily Lael Aumiller, an adorable Brooklyn baker of vegan and gluten-free cakes. We did a tasting and were so taken with Emily, her confections, and the overall experience that we decided to go the gluten-free route despite not being GF ourselves! We chose a vanilla bean cake with strawberry basil buttercream and fresh strawberries."

it all sounds delightful

I would give anything for the opportunity to meet and befriend some of these people, and then spend the rest of my life attending lavish wedding receptions in geodesic domes and whatnot, it sounds amazing (have to say that the gluten-free wedding cake looks a bit uninspiring in the photos, though)

ego + scads of money == this wedding

an adorable Brooklyn baker of vegan and gluten-free cakes
an adorable Brooklyn baker of vegan and gluten-free cakes
an adorable Brooklyn baker of vegan and gluten-free cakes
an adorable Brooklyn baker of vegan and gluten-free cakes

who even fucking talks like this

Her vegan and gluten-free cakes
May come off as awful mistakes
But she's just so adorable
Dessert good or horrible
She still gets Park Slope double-takes

Bad food paired with Lauren and I don’t match.

allusion to past agonies?

xxp only the most insufferable members of the ruling class

love that their dumb thing couldn't just be inspired by a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, which everyone in the country has known about since kindergarten, but by a RadioLab episode about it.

need to pee in the MoMA pool sometime just to salute events like that pic

lol eephus

"Park Slope double-takes" is a great phrase

I kind of want to something that post -- not exactly excelsior, but...striking imagery?

Dork Slakes pabble-tope

“Desserts were passed around on the dance floor on long, wooden snakelike structures . . . lollipops and cakes dangled like ornaments to be plucked!”

penis

Penis indeed.

not nyt, but i thought of this thread:

http://wanderlust.com/journal/its-hip-to-be-sober/

Light Watkins, a meditation teacher, Wanderlust presenter, and author of The Inner Gym, founded The Shine in 2014 to create a mindful, connected community, without all the booze. An evening at The Shine will include meditation, music, film, and philanthropic enterprises, complimented with healthy nibbles and juices—and specially sourced artisan water.

a very over the top way of saying: yeah, i don't really drink anymore. i'm getting older and it makes me feel like crap.

which is pretty much what i say now. without the nibbles and artisan water and philanthropic enterprises.

artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water
artisan water

every word of that sentence

Margaret Sullivan going IN on her way out:
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/flint-water-margaret-sullivan-new-york-times-public-editor

After all, enough Times firepower somehow has been found to document Hillary Clinton’s every sneeze, Donald Trump’s latest bombast, and Marco Rubio’s shiny boots. There seem to be plenty of Times resources for such hit-seeking missives as “breadfacing,” or for the Magazine’s thorough exploration of buffalo plaid and “lumbersexuals.” And staff was available to produce this week’s dare-you-not-to-click video on the rising social movement known as “Free the Nipple.”

Isn’t it a matter of choosing how to deploy the 1,300 members of the newsroom staff? Call it a question of priorities. Given all that’s happened, especially on issues involving race, maybe it’s time to beef up that talented Midwest staff.