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

Yeah actually I don't mind this guy. Also I do appreciate his subtle takedown of the misuse/overuse of the word "surreal," regardless of whether it fit.

this is not quite on-topic (but note 'fine restaurant' passage), but i had to post it here because it's such a weird front-page link for them:

search-result manipulation expose!

it looks like the times INVESTIGATED j.c. penney and narced on them to google and google has PUNISHED them

'New York Times' Moves All Content You Won't Give A Shit About Unless You Make At Least 'New York Times' Moves All Content You Won't Give A Shit About Unless You Make At Least $200K A Year Into One Convenient Section00K A Year Into One Convenient Section

came here to post that

whaaaaat is this http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/fashion/20Modern.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

I dunno, I like that one? It's pretty archly self-aware.

I don’t normally believe in love at first sight, but at the end of that first lunch, I wanted to offer Victoria my sperm.

And I like the little details.

On the outside Victoria was poised, like the banker she is. But the cuticles on her elegant fingers were cracked and scabby, so I knew she had been nervous. I held her hand. She let me.

Are artisanal donuts the new muffins?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/dining/reviews/23unde.html

doughnut plant is og

new one in chelsea!

I swear by Doughnut Plant's tres leches doughnuts. Or was that dulce de leche? Whatever. It was awesome.

Haven't been to Peter Pan in ages. When I moved to Queens there was a place called Alpha Donuts that was just like Peter Pan, but then the donut guy moved back to Greece and they started buying them wholesale, leaving just an archaic charming shitty diner.

I was just there yesterday actually (we found a place in sunnyside btw)

yeah the donuts are just donuts, I like the atmosphere tho

Congrats.

places I will not miss: champion, food dynasty

south sunnyside grocery store options are surprisingly great!

sorry not gonna make this a queens thread

I recently ordered from then went to "Real Sante Fe Steakhouse". Weird place. Going for the gringo chips and margarita crowd but still authentic at the same time. They have tacos al pastor, on a spit with pineapple on top, and in the window they had this weird big pan in which they were cooking pig's ear for tacos. I had a good burrito and an ok steak. Decent delivery alternative to De Mole.

We should probably start a Queens thread.

we always walk by there on the way to de mole, it looks nice but maybe a little pricey?

def need a queens thread, what should it be called?

"54-46, that's my number"?

perfect

that is strangely close to my address

that would tell you that 54th Street is your cross street. See, easy? Or 54th Road. Or 54th Place. It's hard to tell sometimes.

I didn't even notice you were responding to the "what should it be called"!

i think that is the only thread i have ever actually had a hand in naming!! i am quite proud.

Haha it's 54-46 Was My Number but okay!

i don't think there's actually a canonical name, laurel! i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54-46_That%27s_My_Number

Oh, sorry, E! I guess whatever link or record or whatever I learned the name from must have been the re-release.

Larry Garfield, 95, of Key Biscayne, Fla., worked in the carpet industry until he was 83. Asked why he recently ate a rare calf’s liver with mashed potatoes at Joe Allen’s restaurant in Miami Beach (even though he shouldn’t have, given his diabetes), Mr. Garfield said: “You ever walked down the street and seen a pretty girl and thought, ‘Mm! That’s for me!’? Well, I looked at the menu and thought, ‘Mm! That’s for me!’ ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/dining/02Elder.html?hp

feel like 60 year old should eat healthy, but 95? I dunno you're basically playing with house money...

prob more abt appeasing yr bowls at that point

bowl of ice cr?m

what part of the calves liver + potato is bad for diabetes?

The potato, because the starch raises blood sugar levels.

o

So it's not the NYT, but this.

An art enthusiast, Ms. Rachofsky sees her wardrobe as a collection and herself as the curator. 'I hope someday someone will find it important and significant,' she says.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/can-exercise-keep-you-young/
The potential benefits have attractions even for the young. While Dr. Tarnopolsky, a lifelong athlete, noted with satisfaction that active, aged mice kept their hair, his younger graduate students were far more interested in the animals’ robust gonads. Their testicles and ovaries hadn’t shrunk, unlike those of sedentary elderly mice.
Dr. Tarnopolsky’s students were impressed. “I think they all exercise now,” he said.

tone them gonads

Uh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/fashion/03native.html

Foppish scions in their 20s ascended the grand marble staircase, and sipped champagne in couture gowns, velvet dinner jackets and tuxedo slippers rakishly embroidered with Chinese characters. Those disinclined to formal wear still looked clubbable in Burberry check jackets, bow-ties and Hermès scarves.

Set against the intricately patterned oak parquet floors and the robber baron-luxe red velvet sofas of the Rose Club, the affair took on the air of Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred — if Mrs. Astor had been conducting a casting call for “Gossip Girl.”

But this was no ordinary cotillion. The black-tie party was for the Native Society, a new club that is limited to native New Yorkers, many of them city dwellers who might reside in 10021 — the ZIP code of upper Park and Fifth Avenues — or be graduates of certain prep schools.

“You can’t apply,” explained its founder, Oliver Estreich, 24, the son of an architect and interior designer who grew up on East 85th and Park Avenue. He formed the society in October with a few friends from prep school whom he refers to as his “administrators.” It quickly grew to several dozen, mostly by word of mouth, and now claims nearly 400 members.

“It’s the second-degree-of-association,” Mr. Estreich said. “If one of my administrators knows you, likes you, thinks you have the native sensibility, we’ll reach out.”

Those disinclined to formal wear still looked clubbable

I'll bet.

xp think he meant "reach around" not "out"

Clubbable like a baby seal.

they should really at least make their schedule public so we know where to plant the bomb

this is a thing that people write articles about?

Alexa Winner, a 22-year-old stylist and fashion designer. “Anyone can come from a wealthy family...

“It’s not about who you were born,

or, apparently, whether or not you can speak english correctly

To Anne de la Mothe Karoubi, 24, who went to the Marymount School, it’s an intellectual precociousness. “When you grow up in New York City, our minds develop faster,” she said. “You’re not from Wisconsin, you’re not from the middle of America. We’re international, we’re focused, we’re driven.”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/03/03/fashion/03NATIVE-C/Z-JP-NATIVE-C-popup.jpg

very cool look

wonder how many lenape members the native society has...

Likewise, Mr. Estreich found himself hanging out mostly with other New Yorkers at George Washington University in Washington, where he studied marketing and psychology.

lol nothing says "i couldn't get into an elite school but my parents have a shit ton of money" like a degree from GW

"Alexa Winner?!" Are you shitting me?

“When you grow up in New York City, our minds develop faster,”

"Why, they've developed so quickly, we can change from second to first person in the middle of a sentence without skipping a beat!"

I mean, "Alexa Winner" is like the rich person equivalent of a porn name. It's like Homer Simpson renaming himself Max Power.

Like Zen monks marinating on the essence of nothingness, members tried to put their finger on that ineffable quality that makes them worthy of membership.

You can marinate on things now? I thought you usually marinate in things.

In my experience, the people who are nerds about social engagements and professional societies are the worst sort of nerds.