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

"Shyaporn Theerakulstit, actor and audiobook narrator"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/fashion/montauk-feels-the-effects-of-too-many-hipsters.html

In the meantime, longtime residents are left to harken back to that first crowd that had to endure an invasion of newcomers, the Montauket tribe. As Mr. Devlin’s wife, Eileen, joked on Friday as the restaurant prepared for another busy night, “Now I know how the Indians felt.”

Nope. No you don't.

it notes clearly that she was joking

yah what gives

Another showed a rifle and the words “Defend Montauk.”

printing hipster shirts against hipsters u might be a hipster

also isnt the fedora more of a broish affectation

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/nyregion/four-men-sharing-rent-and-friendship-for-18-years.html

men. living together.

― goole, Saturday, August 4, 2012 1:57 PM

this was hilarious! The comments, though, are mostly horrifying.

quiddities thread has made me insensitive to the real articles, i want all the stupid setup cut so i can get right to the aughs

so by hipster they just mean young money?

http://i.imgur.com/aXnRN.jpg

well

If by hipster you mean a person that doesn't just jump on the patriotic bandwagon, then sure.

wrong thread lol

haha I thought you did that on purpose. it worked.

For the past eight months Mr. Brown has been dating Monica Ross, 25, a bartender and actress. “She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar,” said Mr. Brown of the night they met.

this has to have been intentional, right?? also how do you think she feels about her name being two friends characters

this isn't actually the NYT and sort of not appropriate for this thread but i don't know where else it goes?

http://nymag.com/news/business/themoney/jeff-greene-2012-8/

couldn't get past: “I wish we could spend more time here,” he says. “Honestly, we have so many great homes.”

Mo homes you got, the mo agonies you have

Greene calls his loss “a huge mistake on behalf of the people of Florida.”

“I wasn’t as crazy as I was perceived to be,” he says in his defense.

hahah

Etc. etc.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/education/a-hamptons-summer-surfing-horses-and-hours-of-sat-prep.html

haha the url alone has so much Q&A crammed into it

not the new york times but its a slow news week and this is sooooooooooooo courtney:

http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/05/courtney-love-new-york-diet-includes-babbo-brooklyn-fare.html

like, let them eat cake x infinity.

"Then someone always gets chicken potpie and potato salad from D.D., you know, Dean & Deluca. If I can't afford D.D., I just don't eat."

so many quotable lines though. would end up just cutting & pasting the whole damn thing.

literally lots of cake. awesome,

'Sometimes I forget to eat'

'Me and André were going to open a salt store.'

i want her and all the people she talks about in her stupid thing to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

haven't actually read this

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/act-like-a-writer/

love molly but i couldn't read that whole thing.

I think there is a natural curiosity that many people have when they hear about an actor writing fiction.
lol

That post is like the main character's flashback monologues in Airplane -- I'd wind up hanging myself before it was over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzItX3UmduQ

ethan hawke seems even more like his character in reality bites than his character in reality bites does

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/garden/if-summer-goes-why-wont-the-guests.html

is crashing with strangers with air-conditioned suburban homes a "thing" in New York?

slash do New Jersey homeowners frequently allow strangers to wander in and sleep there for no reason?

"crazy person takes advantage of feeble-minded riches" is so far from a trend that I don't know what to think about what's going on here

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-arent-twentysomethings-buying-cars-or-houses/261490/
motherfuckers

'tell us your story' how bout you fuckin pay me for it you cheapass motherfuckers

On Sunday, Ms. Schwab drives the guest to the train station.

“As she’s getting out she says to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I didn’t have time to get to the cash machine, so I went to your purse and took some cash,’ ” Ms. Schwab says. “It was basically everything I had taken out of the A.T.M. the night before, $100.”

WHO DOES THIS NOBODY DOES THIS EXCEPT SCAM ARTISTS AND CRIMINALS WTF

I kind of like the beginning of that guest article, it's like they present it as though it's going to be a quiddity thing but instead it is a nightmare

True, you could snatch one of the soggy towels left on the newly finished floors of the guest bedroom, hold it firmly over the guest’s mouth and nose, and bring your misery to an end, but the courts frown on such behavior and you’d have the problem of getting rid of the body.

Houseguests can be a real pain! For example, some are sociopaths!

yeah but why do you let them into yr house in the first place?

Because they're friends of friends IE presumed members of the ruling class. Possibly holding a copy of the New York Times in their convulsively clutching hands.

If you show up at any house in the Hamptons with a print copy of your wedding announcement from the NYT they are required by law to let you stay in the guest room for one week.

Can't keep up with all threads. Is there a UK quiddities? Has this been linked yet?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2085486/As-family-led-life-privilege-face-5m-debt-said-upper-crust-recession-proof.html

that cleveland clinic ad on the ipad version is going to drive me away

all i ask is for my newspaper to sit the fuck still

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/fashion/maude-apatow-is-growing-up-writing.html

“The story behind that tweet is that, at my school, there’s a lot of Jewish kids,” said Maude (her father is Jewish, her mother is not). “Last year, I probably went to 40 bar-bat mitzvahs. They started in mid-sixth grade, and they kept going into eighth grade. And I remember, at one of the last ones, I was like, I don’t want to go to this. I’m going to get into a fistfight. I was so sick of them.” When Maude expressed the thought aloud, she said that her father told her, “Tweet that, that’s funny.”

We’ve all seen this bizarre Olivia Nuzzi puff piece right

https://archive.is/HWEn9

They chose favorite parts of each other, she writes: He chose her mouth. She chose his nose. They shared a “common language, common skepticisms, common ideas about what was beautiful, common beliefs about what was valuable.” She didn’t care that he was 39 years older than her. She liked him just the way he was. They both “moved through the world with amused detachment and deep sensitivity, contradictions that worked somehow in concert.”

This is about animated corpse RFK Jr btw

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ok lol

https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/world/middleeast/hillary-clinton-tucker-carlson-riyadh.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.zmJY.H7dBAnflwrJR&smid=url-share

I know that's not really what this thread is for, but sheesh

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/dining/food-delivery-apps-doordash-uber.html

Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job in Atlanta, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in.

“I am so burned out and tired, I would rather just throw my credit card at the problem and delay that unhappiness until the bill comes,” he said.

His 4-year-old son doesn’t read yet, “but he can put together an order” on the Chick-fil-A app, said Mr. Caldwell, 39. “I am impressed, but I am also terrified.”

He frets about the waste he’s creating with delivery boxes and bags. He’s frustrated by the rising cost of ordering in, even though he’ll often opt to pay extra to get faster service. And he misses entertaining guests as often as he once did. His formal dining table, he said, is “collecting dust.”

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Evocative of the New Yorker cover from this week, which I considered posting to “Is the US a dystopia” even though it seems like it’s intended to be an admiring, sentimental winter scene

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/6973e746a8ae567cdc5f717f/master/w_960,c_limit/CoverStory-DeSeve_SnowDay.jpg

not the times but this is great https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fake-rockefeller-fake-cartier-party-crashers.html

the comments section is *chefs kiss*