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

“We’re so privileged to come to these spiritual places – Further Future, Tulum – but not everyone can,” the audience member says, asking Piorkowski how he should reconcile that.

“It’s all about balance. We are the ones meant to be the air, not the earth,” Piorkowski said. “So you have this group who can travel. The purpose can never be to enable everyone to travel because that would create imbalance.”

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 9:27 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

“It’s important what we do here,” Scott said. “That’s what we keep saying. We’re shaping the future. These are the people who not only can do it, but these are the only people who can.”

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 9:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I try to avoid the point-and-laugh threads, but I actually know someone like this from school, a burner/banker (or whatever). Circa our last reunion, he posted on facebook that he was going/invited people to some spiritual self-actualizing event on the side. I commented that I was going/invited people to the climate march. He had a sad.

if like my dad you missed the cartoon in section 4 yesterday, i'm guessing it was censored after a lawsuit threat from the Drumpf people or internally in anticipation thereof

it maybe doesn't REALLY belong here but that picture...and headline...and all the quotes...

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-fo-0528-salt-straw-20160523-snap-story.html

wait never mind i'm gonna put it on the craftsmanship thread.

lol "storytelling" marketing cliché AND mixed metaphors in the headline quote.

i am reading "on that frozen canvas" to the tune of "oh dem golden slippers"

I'm going to open a shop called "It's Just Fucking Ice Cream"

This quid ag stuff is all well and good, but hating on ice cream is where I draw the line

this was in the fucking print edition today
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/arts/sfmoma-glasses-prank.html

Fuck TJ and Fuck Kevin

wow, a blast from the past. VERY important news story here, folks. thank you, new york times, for this in-depth portrait.

"When together, the couple bring to mind a really expensive pair of new stiletto heels and the protective velvet bag that comes with them in the box."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/fashion/lizzie-grubman-hamptons-publicist.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=wide-thumb&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

best part:

Jack, the younger son, who seemed completely at ease in her office, was asked to describe his mother. “She buys us stuff,” he said. “And she talks on the phone a lot.”

(Ms. Grubman laughed it off, but it seemed clear there would be some media training when he got home that night.)

VERY important news story here, folks

better post it on the sfj thread

i think it will gain traction there.

Amid the happy family din, however, there remains just a trace of sadness around the intertwined tragedies of her mother’s death and the car accident that changed her life. When asked to reflect on that fateful night, her normally polite smile sets into a thin, flat line.

“That unfortunate night happened, which I prefer not to talk about, in respect to my children and family, and the people who were involved,” she said.

“I never properly mourned my mother. We’ll leave it at that, you know why.”

In 2007, her husband decided to do something about it.

“Understanding that Lizzie had a really tough time with Mother’s Day,” Mr. Stern said, “I decided, right after we had Harry, that I go to Barneys and walk around with a personal shopper and pick out the best shoes and the best handbags in the place, bring them to the apartment, and I proceeded to fill Harry’s entire crib with all of these pretty special boxes of treats.”

“It was piled high,” he said. “I just wanted to make it seem like Harry was giving her the gift.”

Ms. Grubman said, “He’s changed Mother’s Day for me, and he’s helped me through it.”

this headline

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/02/t-magazine/rebecca-ferguson-aja-naomi-king-margaret-qualley-anya-taylor-joy.html?smid=pl-share

they all look sorta pissed off

i would be too tbh

http://wellroundedny.com/20-under-1-to-watch

Our hot list of 20 influential NYC babies.

no agonies, but certainly quiddities

The whole Lizzie Grubman story reads like an Edith Wharton knock-off. ("Grubman" would have been too obvious a name even for Wharton.)

http://wellroundedny.com/20-under-1-to-watch

Our hot list of 20 influential NYC babies.

no agonies, but certainly quiddities

― mookieproof, Friday, June 3, 2016 8:35 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

belongs on the shit that looks like an onion article thread

Morgan Stanley told its staff on Thursday that it was overhauling how employees are assessed in several ways, including by discarding the number scale in favor of lists of up to five adjectives.

...

The move away from numerical scales toward adjectives was rooted in the practices of James P. Gorman, the firm’s chief executive, who has sought in recent years more effective ways of evaluating prospective and current employees.

His experiment started several years ago, when he began asking job candidates to name five of their positive attributes. Last year, he expanded his test by asking his operating committee to try the new system.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ultimate-staycation-a-second-home-in-the-same-city-1464875847

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/fashion/mens-style/van-life-nomad.html

Please

this guy is the worst
http://thevanual.com/

"With a Dwell-inspired sense of design and help from his father, he made it a rad home on wheels."

The Staycation article really brings out my inner Maoist.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/why-i-quit-my-job-to-travel-the-world

amazing - something relatively funny in the new yorker??

relatively is the key word there

yes the sentence doesn't actually hold without it

still tho

ah this one is so perfect

http://nypost.com/2015/04/08/escalades-hamptons-homes-and-much-more-the-rise-of-the-diva-nanny/

#uppitynanny

perfect, even down to the several-years-old tweets embedded in a 'trend' story

That’s on top of pay that averages $15.79 per hour, according to the Park Slope Parents’ Nanny Compensation Study of 2013. The majority of nannies also received raises, bonuses and an average of 19 paid days off each year, with only 15 percent of employees paid on the books, the report also says.

LOL wait, thats less than minimum wage here, and everyone gets at least 20 days a year annual leave.

$15.79/hour for an 8 hour day is an annual salary of $32,843.

“It felt like we were dealing with the Mafia,” recalls Danielle. “She knew we needed her more than she needed us.”

32k a year for the help, heavens however will we afford oberlin for all the kids

I liked the part about the poor New Jersey entrepreneur who owed her nanny $7K

the servant problem rears its ugly head once more

Everyone should get 18 years of paid parental leave for having a child imo

^upvoted

Free market economics is a bitch when you're on the demand side, eh wall streeters?

the Park Slope Parents’ Nanny Compensation Study of 2013

^^^ underrated straight-to-video anne hathaway movies i have owned

lol

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/fashion/weddings/nathaniel-peters-barbara-jane-sloan-wedding-sound-of-music.html?_r=0

http://postgradproblems.com/this-hipster-marriage-announcement-from-the-new-york-times-is-the-most-insufferable-yet/

That response is also problematic though

i don't actually have a problem with the sound of music guy wedding! they seem nice. maybe you could read it as wes anderson twee or whatever but if maria von trapp was your great grandmother you are certainly allowed to be as twee as you want to be. plus, wow, what a place to have a wedding.

plus, dorky bookworm theology student does not a hipster make. more hipsters should pick up a book.