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

my favorite part tho was this:

This is the second in a series of articles about traveling alone.

is "traveling alone" a special genre of travel writing? can't all travel writing just be applied to whatever your situation is?

and the feeling you get from the piece is 'weird! chicago is not like new york!' which surely can't be what people want from travel writing

I assumed most travel writing was 'travelling alone'

She actually comes off as so PROVINCIAL, like those people who say "OMG, the McDonalds in Arizona had quesadillas! It was so weird!"

I assumed most travel writing was 'travelling alone'

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 6, 2012 10:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

well travel writers travel alone, but i guess the implication is that they write about things that are to be done for people that are travelling in a group? but that really doesn't matter at all. almost anything you would or could do while travelling in a group you could or would do while travelling alone. if the NYT travel editor thinks that's novel, that person is not very good at his or her job.

Wasn't there some article where a young Sulzberger traveled around the midwest and wrote about it or something? Perhaps even in this thread?

is it true abt the mcquesadilla

I linked to this thread on the Chicago thread so we're talking about it here.

i don't think i have ever looked at a chicago thread. seems like it would be rude to.

Well hey, *y'all* Chicagoans are welcome here on our thread. I hope it's not too intimidating and different, this is a BIG city, not like Chicago!

lol at thinking nytimes is ny-specific

joeks

I don't think that at all, my parents always subscribed and we lived in DC

I game their system for the weekday shit and occasionally subscribe to Sunday edition

Oh god I just came in here to mock that fucking corn cob sentence. Fuck you forever, lady.

what bums me out the most is I finish read it and I *don't* want to visit chicago. Chicago's a cool place!

*reading

"You could spend a whole weekend in places like Wicker Park and Bucktown with their neighborhood bars and denim-and-flannel dress code."

What? I mean, what???

I don't think she actually went to Chicago. She just read five or six previously published shitty Chicago travel articles and was like, "The Loop, Millenium Park, the Pump Room, call it the 'windy city' and file it!"

"People in their 20s and 30s adorned with clunky 1980s-style headphones and glasses were reading and eating alone on couches, or clacking on their Macs."

Oh wait no. She nailed it.

Also she stayed in the business district and criticized the lack of foot traffic on the street at night. Also she can't read a map and she wrote this: "Yet I was foiled again and again like a video game avatar."

what bums me out the most is I finish read it and I *don't* want to visit chicago. Chicago's a cool place!

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, July 7, 2012 3:54 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't either!

wait which chicago mcdonalds have mcquesadillas??

I shivered. This time, it wasn’t because I was chilly. It was because the Windy City blew me away.

no idea why but i heard this to the tune of "wkrp in cincinatti"

wkrp in cincinatti reboot

voiceover reads 'single in chicago' nytimes travel piece

wkrp theme plays

I have no idea whether any McDonalds has ever actually served a quesadilla, I just meant lol regional differences like "OMG there's a grocery store here called Piggly Wiggly" -- those kinds of disgusting savages who say that kind of stuff.

where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho

cleveland mcdonalds serve pierogies

and degradation

mmm degradation

Mchumiliation wraps

mcdilla

I just meant lol regional differences like "OMG there's a grocery store here called Piggly Wiggly"

http://cdn.discountqueens.com/uploads/2011/05/hellmans.png

Granted, I'm not single, but when I read that piece to my wife she wondered why the writer spent half her stay hanging at the Wit and other spots a block from her office. Really? The denim and flanel line cracked her up, too. She asked if this was an article from 1994. I can't believe the editor OK'd something so boilerplate and cliched, from loading up the iPod with Sinatra to all the attention paid to the politeness of the midwest.

"[A New Yorker is] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."

"[A New Yorker is] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."

lol even here New Yorkers are so oblivious as to how obtuse they really can be.

truly all new yorkers think with one mind

the ones who write lifestyle articles for the NYT certainly seem to be!

oh no doubt.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/images/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-003-20080627-121656-medium.jpg

http://gawker.com/5922392/i-used-to-love-her-but-i-had-to-flee-her-on-leaving-new-york

Was that quote above posted on account of this article?

http://live.wsj.com/video/dont-forget-to-pack-a-photographer/DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766.html?mod=wsj_hps_tboright#!DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766

wau that Gawker piece

Her parents had proposed the idea of buying us an apartment somewhere in the Bay Area

tbh I was still back on "whaddaya gonna do, it's New York *poops on sidewalk*"

when in rome

"[ A New Yorker is ] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."

Her parents had proposed the idea of buying us an apartment somewhere in the Bay Area

Many of us here in New York are so blindered that we don't even stop to consider how easy it would be to have our girlfriends' parents buy us apartments.

Tourists and brown nannies with white babies are constantly in the way of your giant steps, keeping you from getting to all the great readings and gallery openings you need to attend (often it seems as if New York has no parties, only "events").

According to a 2010 report from the Daily Beast, LA is quantifiably "smarter" than places like St. Louis, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Tampa, and yet none of those locales faces quite the level of international scorn heaped upon LA.

i have discovered the worst sequence of words.

I really dgi. Isn't LA much like NYC in its overpriced-city-that-idiot-twenty-somethings-come-to-live-a-fantasy-in-ness?

Worse than the people who outright insult LA, though, are the ones who do so indirectly by suggesting that LA is just a sad mound of glitter trying desperately to be New York. That slur says we're worse than nothing, because we're nothing with absurd dreams of being great, like a high school laughingstock daring to think he could be the prom king.

this is the worst, why is this happening