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

pretty sure it's people who mean well who are sending the world to hell in a handbasket

working in unfulfilling six-figure corporate careers at age 30

awwwww poor babies, feel so fucking sorry for them

the privilege of being able to throw away shit

sorry that was a little harsh, i don't know anything about these guys apart from skimming a slate article. those two posts could easily be in the some hellhole comments section. i kind of dig living a simpler life but i found it a little obnoxious the way it was presented, like thse two rich gurus who bought everything and then start telling people not to buy everytyhing

Maybe they should shed their ego a bit and instead of touring the country as self-aggrandising self help hype men they could actually help the poor or something.

Not sure how writing a book about yourself is a step toward minimalism.

so they're making a self-help career out of advocating for what is basically an eating disorder for straight white rich males. this world is fukd up and god is the crul ringmaster.

Maybe they should shed their ego a bit and instead of touring the country as self-aggrandising self help hype men they could actually help the poor or something.

― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, May 28, 2014 5:02 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or just be minimal and chill

sunday routines of the successful & insufferable: a continuing series

Ms. Roney and Mr. Liu and their children, Havana, 16, Cairo, 10, and Dublin, 6, live in Dumbo

i can't even

I’m a parent with three kids, and a big job — always I’m supposed to be somewhere, and always I’m late for something

don't worry, the people you keep waiting understand. they feel lucky to be squeezed in!

i wasn't sure just how irate to be until i found the phrase,

'on social'

this selective voyeurism combined with humblebrags about busy lives, jobs, anxieties, is like a city-diary-ized version of nymag's old sex diaries with all the good bits cut out.

Cairo is an awesome name fwiw.

hoping these names commemorate the sites of conception

did i tell you guys that i know someone named Dalston?

i also met two siblings in London Fields the other day named Odin and Perseus

shut up

that is great

can you imagine how difficult it must be to raise gods from different theological traditions

perseus was only half god u should know better.

xpost Perseus not even a god, will surely complain about this to therapist for years.

close friend of mine has kids named Indr@ and 0rion; both cool names imo

ah, but I just realized one of those isn't a god

naming your boy odin is on a par with naming your daughter Medusa; prob not a great idea

you'll shoot your eye out, kid!

BREAKFAST NO. 2 I always buy a loaf of bread at Almondine and croissants for the kids, our second breakfast. Then I stand at the kitchen counter and read The New York Times. I read the front page first, and then the Styles section, the Business section and then I read the magazine.

"and croissants for my son, Tubal-cain"

SHIIIIIIIIIVAAAAAA dinner's ready

see, you laugh but

There were a pair of twins (male and female) in my year at school called Thor and Blaize

heeeee

I was in a department store many years ago and I swear I heard a mother call her son Shiva. And I'm pretty sure it was a Target, so not ruling class.

perseus was only half god u should know better.

― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover)

Harry Hamlin was all god.

I went to school with a guy named Thor - og Scandinavian silent h pronunciation though, which is cooler

I once worshiped a guy named Jesus.

Had a professor named Pericles once

Has someone ever gone all out and just named their son or daughter Yahweh or Allah?

Ms. Roney and Mr. Liu and their children, Havana, 16, Cairo, 10, and Dublin, 6, live in Dumbo

i can't even

― zombie formalist (m coleman), Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:10 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jaymc's wife read this and said: it'd be better if they lived in any of those places and their kid was named Dumbo

That reads like the famous misunderstanding dialogue in White Noise

lol

anytime i read one of these and i can't tell if it's a new york times article or a gwyneth paltrow lifestyle blogpost, i know i'm getting the good stuff.

a++

i also met two siblings in London Fields the other day named Odin and Perseus

There are kids named Odin and Auden (not siblings) in my kid's 2nd grade class here in the Midwest, I think you overestimate how quid/ag this kind of naming practice is

lol

http://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/6284/62841_0.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/magazine/a-mothers-journey-through-the-unnerving-universe-of-unboxing-videos.html?_r=0

love this

Can I post non-NYT quiddities here, because

http://www.vogue.com/2208057/leaving-new-york-city-country-life-woodstock/

At the risk of sounding appallingly pretentious, it was Cate Blanchett who made me realize it was time to leave New York City. It was a year ago, last October, and we had just finished a leisurely interview over a late dinner in a London restaurant when we found ourselves standing on a rainy street corner, not quite ready to say good night. She asked what I was doing the next day, and I said I had no plans because I have no friends who live in central London anymore. Like my friends in Manhattan, most of them have moved somewhere less ruinous. Blanchett, who’d left London herself a few years earlier, looked a little wistful and said, “It’s a different place.” Having recently turned 50, I muttered something about being older—maybe that’s what had changed. “No,” she said firmly. “The world’s changed. It’s very difficult to know where to be.”

haha

My friend Ellen is still the co-op–board president of the loft building Andy and I called home. She emailed me the other day to say that the ground-floor commercial space, once home to a kooky antiques shop run by an eccentric pain in the ass, has been rented out to Phillip Lim, who is opening a new store during Fashion Week with a big party at which Banks will perform. Nothing against Lim or Banks, but who other than a groupie wants to live above that?

some harrowing stuff for sure

first against the wall

ha i just posted this in the privilege thread