the privilege of being able to throw away shit
― marcos, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
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, 28 May 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
Not sure how writing a book about yourself is a step toward minimalism.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
― ▴▲ ▴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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
sunday routines of the successful & insufferable: a continuing series
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Sunday, 22 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
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, 22 June 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
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!
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Sunday, 22 June 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
i wasn't sure just how irate to be until i found the phrase,
'on social'
― j., Sunday, 22 June 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Sunday, 22 June 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Cairo is an awesome name fwiw.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 June 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
hoping these names commemorate the sites of conception
― j., Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
did i tell you guys that i know someone named Dalston?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
i also met two siblings in London Fields the other day named Odin and Perseus
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
shut up
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
that is great
can you imagine how difficult it must be to raise gods from different theological traditions
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
perseus was only half god u should know better.
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
xpost Perseus not even a god, will surely complain about this to therapist for years.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
close friend of mine has kids named Indr@ and 0rion; both cool names imo
― Dan I., Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
ah, but I just realized one of those isn't a god
― Dan I., Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
naming your boy odin is on a par with naming your daughter Medusa; prob not a great idea
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
you'll shoot your eye out, kid!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
"and croissants for my son, Tubal-cain"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
SHIIIIIIIIIVAAAAAA dinner's ready
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 June 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
see, you laugh but
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
There were a pair of twins (male and female) in my year at school called Thor and Blaize
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
heeeee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
― nickn, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover)
Harry Hamlin was all god.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I went to school with a guy named Thor - og Scandinavian silent h pronunciation though, which is cooler
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
I once worshiped a guy named Jesus.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Had a professor named Pericles once
― 龜, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Has someone ever gone all out and just named their son or daughter Yahweh or Allah?
― silverfish, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Ms. Roney and Mr. Liu and their children, Havana, 16, Cairo, 10, and Dublin, 6, live in Dumboi can't even― zombie formalist (m coleman), Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:10 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― Je55e, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
That reads like the famous misunderstanding dialogue in White Noise
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
lol
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― building a desert (art), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
a++
― johnny crunch, Friday, 27 June 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/6284/62841_0.jpg
― j., Friday, 27 June 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/magazine/a-mothers-journey-through-the-unnerving-universe-of-unboxing-videos.html?_r=0
love this
― ian, Monday, 18 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― polyphonic, Monday, 6 October 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
first against the wall
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 October 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
ha i just posted this in the privilege thread
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 October 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Cate Blanchett has certainly played a major role in most of my life decisions.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 October 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
We eventually swallowed hard and custom-designed our own batch—and then had to wait three months for it to arrive on a ship all the way from Morocco. When the interior was finally finished, we painted the exterior, trim and all, a spooky gray-green color that looks almost black, called New York Café Noir (very Woodstock), which, ironically enough, we found at Walmart (not very Woodstock). Our contractor refuses to shop there, so he had it mixed somewhere less offensive to the local anti-corporate sensibility.
Jesus fuck.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link