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

fluffy, velvety water

not much agony here I guess, except for the reader

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/fashion/wythe-avenue-in-williamsburg-is-heating-up.html

Upstairs, a D.J. who resembled Jesus Christ played dub reggae, and when the sun crept below the jaw-dropping Manhattan skyline, it seemed to activate everyone’s internal Instagram clock. A sea of iPhones shot up to capture the blazing pink hues (#nofilter), as if the singer Grimes had just made a surprise appearance at a Skrillex concert.

Since Wythe refuses to do bottle service, determined drinkers (including a group of Swedes who kept barking orders for rosé wine) were forced to bring their own ice buckets to the outdoor tables. This is what passes for V.I.P. in the land of D.I.Y.

BYOIB

a) impressed that one can get that published in the nyt
b) kind of want to kill myself now

xp

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/7582/quojapanesejesusds1.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x230/justoj/DJ_Jesus_by_DeathKlown.jpg

as if the singer Grimes had just made a surprise appearance at a Skrillex concert.

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http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/HadrianVIII/quiddities-agonies.jpg

fwiw I just ate at the restaurant in the Wythe Hotel, the one on the ground floor. It's really good!

How can anyone who writes about New York City for a living still refer to waterfront Williamsburg as "the land of D.I.Y."? You might as well call the West Village "the land of folkies."

Love that caption on the pool pic. It's just like Miami! Except for the weather, the music, and the people.

saltwater pool ew maybe it is diy

Also, they don't have abdominal muscles? That sounds worse than cleft palate, where do I donate

thats why they have to float in a saltwater pool all day, diy treatment

I always hated that that charity was called "SmileTrain." COZ THEY CAN'T SMILE, YOU SEE

I'm getting on the Abs Train

This waterfront scourge must be stopped

I feel like that and the Times article a couple years ago about how it supposedly became *trendy* to have a gut make nice bookends to Williamsburg's late period.

I hopped on that trend, not hopping back off

I had a gut before it was trendy.

Also, they don't have abdominal muscles? That sounds worse than cleft palate, where do I donate

― Hadrian VIII, Friday, July 20, 2012 7:55 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL

Also saltwater pools are kind of amazing. I don't know anything about this "Wythe" or "New York City" though.

Dealbreaker brings the quiddities snark:

http://dealbreaker.com/2012/07/having-george-soros-as-a-dad-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be-well-it-sort-of-is-but-still-it-can-be-tough-sometimes-but-not-usually/

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clowning of the article aside I would totally go to a rooftop pool

i can't get past " as if the singer Grimes had just made a surprise appearance at a Skrillex concert"

in re george soros' kid. sure there are problems involved with growing up with great wealth. everybody has problems. this is not a worthwhile revelation. in his case, in being also yojng and apparently as healthy as most people his age, his problems are all pretty low hurdles to get over.

http://gothamist.com/2012/07/19/wythe.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/nyregion/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-stays-in-on-sundays-and-misses-lady-jaye.html?hp

5 hour energy drinks and Clive Cussler novels under the wolfskin

man this video
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/in-commuters-daily-gamble-dashing-to-victory-or-despair/?hp

The New York Times tells you how to get to the "sybaritic playground" that is Williamsburg

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/fashion/williamsburg-travel-essentials.html?src=recg

like literally, gives you directions. Thank you, NYTimes.

wtf

Are they just fucking with us at this point?

oh man

I was a tourist and I had the entire subway route worked out in like 25 seconds

haha that's a sidebar to the wythe avenue pool party story

tbf you speak english and were too lame to fancy a pint xp

lol, I didn't think anyone cared enough tbh

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/garden/emma-koenigs-so-called-redacted-life.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Ugh, what is supposed to be charming about 24-year-olds who talk about their lives like they're Cathy

there is gonna be a meeting at a production company in which everyone discusses how to animate & flesh out this into a half hour show

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jl6j7VUI1qjm1zlo1_400.jpg

if you think that article is bad you need to look at her tumblr

all the intimacy of postsecret combined w/the searing generational critique of marmaduke

She recalled the confusion on the face of the manager at the East Village sandwich shop where she was working at the time when she told him that she needed a book leave and that she was moving back to her parents’ house in New Jersey. “He was like, ‘O.K., whatever,’ ” she said.

if anyone in any context said the words 'i need a book leave' the only appropriate response is 'O.K., whatever,' tbh

Maybe pour your coffee over their head.

and halfway through it's casually dropped that her brother is in vampire weekend..!

it is so hard to picture these being generated outside of a sandwich shop, numbed by a shift, reduced to just voicing fleeting thoughts with whatever stationery was available. i can't imagine being on book leave, at a desk, with a coffee cooling and a sharpened pencil & then drawing these.

wait she asked for "book leave" at a fucking SANDWICH SHOP

maybe if the book thing takes off she can be emeritus

ha ha. i feel really bad being biting about this, i looked through some more, they are just bad. they seem very lazily calculated though. i know this is obvious but it is a weird counterpart to a bunch of the charges levied against lena dunham, in that some of the specifics are very similar just w/the quality of the work being infinitely lower.