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

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.”

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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.

that margaret sullivan piece is pretty awesome

“Once we get rid of the visual blight, and Tuxedo begins to have this rural, foodie character, other neighbors will beautify as well,” he says. “Beauty sparks beauty.”

To get from here to there, his newly minted Tuxedo Hudson Company (THC) first bought the convenience store — “The ugliest building in town, and that’s what I love about it” — which he’ll convert into an upscale food purveyor, biergarten and antiques emporium. Next, THC snapped up the only restaurant in town, which will be transformed into an upstate version of the Waverly Inn, “my favorite restaurant in New York City.”

“They are seriously undervalued,” he tells me, stopping by a 10,000-square-foot white house “by a prominent architect” on a lake that sold for just $1.8 million. “The real estate here is so reasonable it’s like playing Monopoly,” he says.

http://nypost.com/2016/01/28/this-fat-cat-is-creating-his-own-hudson-valley-kingdom/

sounds like a perfect portlandia sketch. rich guy buys town and makes all the local juggalo kids wear top hats and ride olde tymey bicycles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/fashion/lululemon-chip-wilson-kit-and-ace.html

I don't even know what kind of article this is. Free advertising for a business? Profile of a seemingly excessively rude man? Writing exercise for the author? I guess it doesn't matter.

i don't know but it's mesmerising

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaTxSiUUsAEH4Vz.png

Landmark Forum (mentioned in the Chip Wilson article) is a creepy cult. My boss at my job before this one tried to brainwash his employees into that shit.

The men discussed the charity and the need to train Ethiopian teachers in Landmark principles before the talk turned to Kit and Ace.

tried to read that chip wilson article and had to just quit at "Jewish Standard Time" ; way to be, rich guy.

exactly. wtf

I am not kidding when I say that article is the best thing the New York Times has done in 2016

the seething hatred roiling just under the veneer of newspaper professionalism makes for v addictive reading

Is that even a common Jewish stereotype? I've heard a lot, and I've never heard that one.

god yeah that is a satifying read- he is made to seem like such a piece of shit and yet it's just quoting him and giving him the space to do that to himself. the mystical egotist CEO persona is a thing, and it's so ripe for satiric puncture. I really feel sorry for those people sitting at that table tee-heeing on cue.

I'm sort of wondering whether they guy's Jewish, it seems super-weird in 2015 for a non-Jew to think it's OK to say that, and to a reporter no less.

shaming late shaming

Am I an asshole for wondering how hard it is to be somewhere on time? Presumably she had at least a day's advance notice of the meeting.