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

“I explained to them four times what I’m doing already,” she said. "I finally had to suggest ban them"

Thanks, Jenny. I want to reiterate: Shut up.

Keke Keukelaar laughed when she heard about the wedding controversy.

"If you want to get married in an art museum, you shouldn't complain about whether it matches your dress or not," she said

wkiw

If it hadn't been for the comments dissing the installation (comments made by a person who holds a degree in art history and who worked at MoMA in NYC), I might have felt a little sympathy since the installation blocks the view of the skyline, a view that the Art Institute advertises in rental promotion materials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/fashion/08CHAZ.html?ref=movies

am i wrong for thinking this writer is more than a little rude/ignorant?

― ignore the man behind the parentheses (remy bean), Thursday, May 12, 2011 1:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

chaz comes off really badly, but that's his own fault. what's your objection?

“We’re a lot more house proud than anyone might catch on,” Ms. Meyer said.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/19/garden/19collectors-span/19collectors-span-articleLarge.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/garden/a-live-in-cabinet-of-curiosities.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/05/22/is-anti-white-bias-a-problem

a few days late, but wau re Tania Bruguera and her chutzpah ... slumming is now supposed to be an "art form"?!?

http://onpar.blogs.nytimes.com/

didn't know the NYT had a golf blog

no one did

http://ihatenyt.com/2011/01/15/how-to-write-a-trend-piece/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/greenwich-s-priciest-homes-languish-with-four-years-of-inventory-on-market.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/the-hangover-and-the-age-of-the-jokeless-comedy.html

Riff
‘The Hangover’ and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy
By ADAM STERNBERGH

...riff?

best quote from Alias's linked story:

"David Brooks’ level of mental sophistication makes that one episode of Beavis and Butthead where Beavis gets stuck in a pipe look like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire… crossed with Ulysses!"

link found via ihatenyt: http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/the-most-emailed-new-york-times-article-ever

i lolled in my mouth a little

I like that piece about the hangover a lot

really?

as far as describing the current reigning style of movie comedy, ok, but going about diagnosing that as some kind of problem? rap music more like crap music!!

we already talked about that 'most emailed' piece some months ago upthread? or somewhere else. but it really is pretty fantastic on a sentence by sentence level:

""The toll collectors on the New York Thruway are becoming close friends," cracks Anna's father, referring to the highway connecting New York City to the Catskills."

yeah i think its def been linked somewhere on ilx

the parks and recreation article linked to the "most e-mailed NYT article" story is pretty interesting BTW.

GLAMPING

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/travel/14green-1.html

perfect

glamping sounds like some sort of porn with the elderly subgenre

jfc

Though dismissed by hard-core leave-no-trace campers (who don’t so much as move a rock for fear of affecting the area), glamping can still be an environmentally sound outdoor experience, even if it does include creature comforts (like not having too many creatures inside your tent).

So basically there are two kinds of campers: those who "glamp" and those who not only avoid moving even the very rocks themselves, but actively enjoy have animals inside their tents.

Good research, Jennifer Conlin. Presumably you interviewed some of these "hard core" campers? The ones who "dismiss" your totally fake "trend". Right? Otherwise what dismissal are you talking about?

I know I shouldn't respond. It doesn't bring out the best in me. It's like the New York Times personally trolls me every day just by existing.

Also that article is a couple of years old, so glamping has been going on all this time without our knowledge and it's probably "over" by now.

What are you, some kind of grind-your-own-flour nerd?

Some kind of armpit composter?

xpost the "Beavis and Butthead" pipe episode is comedy gold. Best punchline ever.

arent you like one of those neti pot using flax-eating people who use tom's deodorant and shit stfu

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:28 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cold stone glampin'

i was writing press releases about glamping in 2008, and it was a year-old "package" on one of the hgtv sites back then

as far as describing the current reigning style of movie comedy, ok, but going about diagnosing that as some kind of problem?

smashing my head against the punk rock

that the reigning style of movie comedy foretells the coming idiocracy is the most undeniable truth of American life

idiocracy was not a comedy in the reigning style, fwiw

Glamping it old school:

http://images.screenrush.co.uk/r_760_x/medias/nmedia/18/66/32/78/18930518.jpg

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/start-up-offers-new-hires-ten-grand-lifetime-supply-of-beer/?hp

glampers to the left of me, hipsters to the right, here i am

cold glampin

I would rather go glamping with Dominique Strauss-Kahn than work at "Hipster."

"PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon, for those who are not hip)."

like, just write Pabst Blue Ribbon if you're afraid your audience won't know what PBR is; don't be self effacingly snide

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/nyregion/a-chronicler-of-the-creative-underground.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Doesn't quite count, but I gotta big-up Tod

the hipster thing is amusing because the company is being goofy - but what I wanna know is why would anyone leave Google to go work at a shitty Yelp knockoff?

PBR dood

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/world/americas/04venez.html?hp

this is very hard to understand.

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