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

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I gotta date a higher up wall street banker first though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

u know what they say squeaky wheel gets the

lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

fwiw I've never actually eaten in WD-50 or probably almost any other restaurant popular with Wall Street Men

happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

dayo I thought you said you wanted to eat WD-40 and I was all O_o

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:19 (fourteen years ago)

it's all I can afford, that's why I need to date a wall street man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

protip coat yr mouth and throat w/wd-40 and any food will slide down easy w/o chewing

lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

Samantha Daniels owns a bicoastal matchmaking service called Samantha's Table. She is ivy league educated and a former divorce attorney by trade. She is frequently relied upon dating, relationship and romance expert, and is seen regularly on television, in national newspapers and magazines and on radio. She has been a national spokesperson for a number of consumer brands including Crest, Oral B and Febreze. She was also the inspiration for and a producer on the NBC/Darren Star dramedy, Miss Match starring Alicia Silverstone, the show was based on her life story. She is the author of the book, Matchbook: The Diary of a Modern-Day Matchmaker (Simon & Schuster).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:26 (fourteen years ago)

...for which i hope she had a more vigilant copyeditor

the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:28 (fourteen years ago)

People who use "bicoastal" in that way are almost universally disgusting savages: y/n?

happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

im bi..
::shy smile::
costal
::giggles flirtatiously::

BJ O (Lamp), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

y

carl agatha, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

protip coat yr mouth and throat w/wd-40 and any food will slide down easy w/o chewing

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 5:21 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink_

. . . Yeah, "food" . . .

You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:07 (fourteen years ago)

hey now

lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EdMSdw42ptw/ToZv2-NSScI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/YqR_ybBkXEs/s1600/hank-kingsley.jpg

You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

carl how would you feel about 'tricoastal'

mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:54 (fourteen years ago)

trans-coastal

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

carl how would you feel about 'tricoastal'

Mostly confused.

carl agatha, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:04 (fourteen years ago)

i guess it's more a cleveland thing, but i think you also can legitimately claim to be a north-coaster

mookieproof, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah, they say third coast here. I forgot.

carl agatha, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

Any Cleveland/NE Ohio kid who grew up in the 80s was familiar with

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U1menI3veIs/SZo9Ba5kleI/AAAAAAAAA5M/cmsAueP_S0g/s400/michael%2Bstanley%2Bband%2B-%2Bnorth%2Bcoast.jpg

You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:22 (fourteen years ago)

If you live in the midwest, does that make you acoastal?

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:18 (fourteen years ago)

what if you live on lake superior

j., Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:28 (fourteen years ago)

polycoastal?

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

i think 'third coast' has seeped westward from ohio a bit

if you live on lake superior you live 'up north'

i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:31 (fourteen years ago)

OMG MICHAEL STANLEY BAND

Down in Akron we were such losers that we shouted AKRON! after the first line of the chorus of "My Town"

Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:50 (fourteen years ago)

This town is my town
(AK-RON!)
Alright
Love or hate 'er, it don't matter
I'm gonna stand and fight

etc until we all shriveled up in a rubber-coated heap of self loathing

Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:51 (fourteen years ago)

<3 u for that

You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:53 (fourteen years ago)

You guys had Devo, the Dead Boys and Pretenders, what were you doing listening to MSB?

You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:54 (fourteen years ago)

I was a kid, he was on the radio, what can I say?

Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:04 (fourteen years ago)

I know that feel.

You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:18 (fourteen years ago)

Eat yer hearts out, bicoastals. I am supra-coastal.

Aimless, Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:42 (fourteen years ago)

Can I be ex and bi coastal?

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:07 (fourteen years ago)

oh wow you live near a body of water you must be amazing

⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:20 (fourteen years ago)

i live in the world's most isolated island chain so suck it

⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:20 (fourteen years ago)

iso-costal

lag∞n, Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:21 (fourteen years ago)

Can I be ex and bi coastal?

stick with antipodean

mookieproof, Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:22 (fourteen years ago)

that doesn't sound as cool though :(

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:33 (fourteen years ago)

i disagree

mention the aurora australis just to be sure

mookieproof, Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:41 (fourteen years ago)

fiiine

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:49 (fourteen years ago)

Technically the The Pretenders are a British band and the Dead Boys a New York band.

dan selzer, Thursday, 9 February 2012 04:51 (fourteen years ago)

fine you can't touch tin huey or the rubber city rebels or the bizarros so bacdafucup
or devo
or jim jarmusch

Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

;)

Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 February 2012 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

Everyone know's I love Ohio punk rock/new wave! Just being a pedant.

dan selzer, Thursday, 9 February 2012 05:26 (fourteen years ago)

No mention of Ubu? For shame!

nickn, Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:10 (fourteen years ago)

Even though I technically made him a cappuccino (half steamed milk, half foam) he said that I made the best latte he’d ever had, except for this little place in Greece. I never bothered to correct him, because I didn’t want to sacrifice the dollar tip he always tossed in the jar.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/the-baristas-curse/

what this guy lacks in ruling class, he makes up for in quiddities

I DIED, Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:44 (fourteen years ago)

quiddities and agonies of just generally narcissistic and insufferable people

happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:36 (fourteen years ago)

when writers become famous they are definitely recognized around town for being writers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:37 (fourteen years ago)

btw his "piece in the Paris Review" is a short blog post about clothes shopping.

happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:41 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/i58ET.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:52 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.imjasondiamond.com/

this is like a parody blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:53 (fourteen years ago)


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