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

“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.

plus, free breakfast!

all of these dudes just remind me of the internet billionaire on the good wife. with the hoodie.

http://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/01/the-good-wife-season-6-episode-12-recap-4.jpg

although they are all just sad shadows of miles on 30something.

http://popdose.com/wp-content/uploads/dclennon-vi.jpeg-300x246.jpg

people who are into late shaming have prob never had to take public transit a day in their lives.

people who are into late shaming have prob never had to take public transit a day in their lives.

And yet people who take public transit a minimum of five days a week, and who presumably know how unreliable it is, make some version of this excuse every time they're late getting somewhere, instead of thinking, "This appointment is particularly important - I better leave 30-60 minutes earlier than I might otherwise."

as a regular public transit-taker and somewhat habitually late person (who has improved a bit over the years but has further to go), this ^^^

i am literally always on time but this guy is such a capitalist daddy asshole caricature it's making me seriously rethink my assumption that it's important in every situation.

most curious about those years between competitive swimming and landmark forum. what a sad human being.

if anything it's good to be late every once in a while because it's an easy way to allow others to be empathetic towards you team-building.

Also used the phrase "coconut time" when referring to Miamians.

Not NYT, but incredible: http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/

p sure she is from the actual moon

okay ilxor glenn alerted me to this parody and i am laughing:

https://medium.com/@boobsradley/between-my-hectic-job-and-nourishing-social-life-it-s-not-always-easy-to-find-the-time-to-make-aa9c48a5458b#.c4mv5we4w

"Breakfast is the same thing, every day: denuded feldspar. I soak it overnight in Mexican creek foam to create a pudding, which I suck from a vinegar-soaked sponge. It’s truly hands free, which lets me simultaneously do my sun grunts and marinate my anus in squeezed orange pith."

"Then it was time to visit my west side shop. I spent the shank of the afternoon in a throne made of pygmy bone ivory, focus-grouping new juices and crêmes while picking my teeth with a minature sceptre made from the Dalai Llama’s sundried phlegm."

https://twitter.com/yourauntdiane/status/180354164046569473

please, please god, let schwantz's be a parody.

 I often alternate this with my other lunch staple: a nori roll with umeboshi paste, avocado, cultured sea vegetables, and pea sprouts. This is my version of a taco, and it's insanely delicious. These ingredients are all pantry staples, so I eat some version of this everyday.

the Medium parody one did indeed remind me of Aunt Diane's tweets.

so much real stuff on the internet can remind me of an old mark leyner novel. people striving to be NEXT LEVEL.

^^ omg so OTM

lol fuck, hadn't thought of Mark Leyner in a while but so true

"cultured sea vegetables" is prob dulse or seaweed but i like picturing her chomping on a sea squirt

Mark Leyner had a novel out like two years ago and it's FUCKING AMAZING you guys

This is good to know, I haven't checked in for twenty years.

Is it...something different?

I loved those books, btw, but was ripe for it...dunno how I'd feel now

It really is pretty different. The old ones I thought were funny and crazy, this one I think is funny and crazy and a work of real literary merit