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

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new keanu, same as the old keanu

Anything goes, as evidenced by a Chicago couple who parked an Airstream trailer in their loft.

Look here, if you can afford 1) a living space big enough to house an Airstream trailer; and 2) to pay someone to move that Airstream trailer into your large living space, your home decor choices are not suffering during a recession.

While modernism wagged a disapproving finger at those who dared breach its formal orthogonal lines and rigid color palette

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tbf theyre talking about modernist design!

the second image there is a wallpaper design

http://images.artnet.com/WebServices/picture.aspx?date=20071121&catalog=126605&gallery=424157700&lot=00627&filetype=2

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http://www.ecscw09.org/images/tn450x_974471486.jpg

come one that is a ridiculous thing to say! it's only there to set up these "undecorators" as somehow original

peche is arguably pre-modernist/"arts & crafts" but even so i dont think "formal orthogonal lines and rigid color palette" is the WORST generalization as these things go

perhaps instead of "modernism" we should speak of "modernisms" but its the nyt style section

they're the same shabby-chic scavengers we've always had but with an extra layer of artistic pretension that this writer has decided to turn into another trend piece about "the recession"

xpost well yes

i guess i feel that if the style section has to exist the editors should stick to rich people's hobbies without attempting to yoke them to subjects they couldn't pay attention to in college, i.e. economics i.e. art history

but i guess none of it works unless there is a faint aroma of education wafting in

TBF, as the NYTimes has often reminded us, 'the effects of the recession' are not necessarily about what you actually can or can't afford as wanting to not look too rich and go with the spirit of the times.

By putting an Airstream trailer in your loft.

how do their blogs fit into the paywall? will looking at the Frugal Traveler's count against me?

By putting an Airstream trailer in your loft.

Oh man this gives me an idea...

classic NYT lede:

AT Easter time, when the shops erupt in a pastel frenzy of chocolate bunnies, candy eggs and marshmallow chicks, I try hard to resist. Unless I’m buying an artisanal rabbit made from single-origin chocolate, most of the confections look a lot better than they taste.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/dining/20appe.html

Good grief.

not even the chocolate Peter Cottontail is safe from the scorn of a foodie who's oh-so-refined palate has been offended.

assuming someone posted about this a long time ago, but when you hit the NYT article limit, just delete everything after and including the "?" in the URL, and reload.

also, you can press ESC as soon as the page begins loading, but before the little pop-up box appears. (again, sorry if this is old news but i thought it might be useful)

The obnoxious lede aside, I think peeps are gross, but the ones she made sound tasty. I'd definitely like to try the green tea ones.

"A small pinch of ground saffron, I hoped, would give a faint yellow cast while adding an earthy, spicy note to my chicks, and pomegranate juice would put the pink in my bunnies’ cheeks along with a tart and fruity nuance."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/nyregion/matching-private-school-insiders-and-parents.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion

think this should go here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-new-yorker-group-a-book-club-for-the-on-the-go-washingtonian/2011/03/03/AFsq2nOE_story.html

total ripoff of an ilx thread imo

"The women ate couscous and discussed an article about Aderall..."

In the room the women come and go,
eating couscous and talking about Adderall...

(or so)

that article J0rdan posted damn

classic NYT lede:

AT Easter time, when the shops erupt in a pastel frenzy of chocolate bunnies, candy eggs and marshmallow chicks, I try hard to resist. Unless I’m buying an artisanal rabbit made from single-origin chocolate, most of the confections look a lot better than they taste.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/dining/20appe.html

― I DIED, Saturday, April 16, 2011 12:21 PM Bookmark

This person needs to DIA(artisinal)F

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703856704576285450222313000.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

wsj but still, choice quote:

"Now, with so much of his or her compensation at risk, the prospect of the banker toiling deep into his 50s or even his 60s is very real."

It's hard to lift those heavy sacks of money in your 60s.

Oh nos working until 60!

TOILING

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/science/earth/28solar.html?_r=2&hp

Nancy and Eric Olsen could not pinpoint exactly when it happened or how. All they knew was one moment they had a pastoral view of a soccer field and the woods from their 1920s colonial-style house; the next all they could see were three solar panels.

“I hate them,” Mr. Olsen, 40, said of the row of panels attached to electrical poles across the street. “It’s just an eyesore.”

giant telephone poles with wires and boxes on them are part of a "pastoral view" but DON'T MAR THEM WITH SOLAR PANELS

I live near their and they're not so bad, kind of cool. fuck these people in the goat ass imo

They have special... goat asses?

yes, if you want to live in new jersey you need a goat ass...don't you know?

lol easterners with above ground cabling. it looks TERRIBLE whether there's solar panel or not.

Fucking Ridgewood can fucking bite me, I HATE that town.

If Bergen Country fell into a sinkhole, we'd have solved like 70% of our "evil and hated people on Wall Street" problems and we could just cover the whole thing over with solar panels. Win/win.

i think fairfield cty is gonna have to go to then

I wonder if there's some astroturfing involved with the opposition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/garden/28moby.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/28/garden/28moby-span/28moby-span-articleLarge.jpg

'Moby, once the ultimate downtown New York musician, now lives in a 1920s castle in the Hollywood Hills.'

yeah, i saw that this morning and retched a bit

ultimate downtown NY musician

well, he typifies an era for sure

along with 50, one of the last of the final generation of big money musicians except he was supposed to be part of an anonymous movement

i went to his apartment in nolita to interview him once, it was nice, hes a very nice guy