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

ha i just posted this in the privilege thread

Cate Blanchett has certainly played a major role in most of my life decisions.

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.

Van Meter, in a Burberry London suit and a budd shirt, on his property in upstate New York.

They found the ... paint color ... at Walmart?

Translation: their contractor used his usual paint supplier so he could get his discount and 30-day billing.

When we finally found a source for handmade encaustic cement tile for the kitchen and dining room and then fell in love with a pattern that was already in stock (cheaper), we hesitated a moment too long and Zac Posen bought out the entire lot.

http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt224/supnick/original%20content/KHAN.gif

aw poop

Zac Posen, cock-blocker.

lol idk how i un-bookmarked this thread but that def belongs here

Or caulk-blocker, in this case.

xp

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/fashion/for-luxury-watch-buyers-one-just-isnt-enough.html

Two years ago, Adam Craniotes, a former copywriter, was determined to have the watch, even if its $38,600 price urged him toward painful Solomonic sacrifice.

Benjamin Clymer, the founder of the watch-enthusiast website Hodinkee, has become a timepiece adviser to the stars.With Wristwatches Website Hodinkee, Benjamin Clymer Carves a NicheDEC. 20, 2013
First to go was his Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox Deep Sea Alarm watch. Next he sold his IWC Aqua Timer and, after that, his Glashütte Original Sport Evolution GMT.

When he still came up short, it became clear there was no other option: He would have to put the bite on Mom. Mr. Craniotes’s mother, clearly an obliging and generous parent, agreed to lend him the $10,000 he needed but only if certain conditions were met.

“She said I had to shave off my mohawk,” said Mr. Craniotes, a genial 42-year-old father of two and founder of a weekly cult gathering of watch aficionados called Red Bar, which convened last Thursday at an underground dive in Little Korea. “It was a kind of corporate mohawk, but it drove her nuts.”

NOT THE MOHAWK

parents just dont understand man

a former copywriter

... who has now gone into early retirement to collect watches?

CORPORATE MOHAWK!

I bet he rides a razor scooter to work.

Gross.

This is making me think of the Mayor of Geelong for some reason (the city on the opposite side of the bay Melbourne is on):
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2013/11/25/1226768/160715-paparazzo-becomes-geelong-mayor.jpg

lolololol I know someone from Geelong, I'm totally using this information.

He's a hoot, actually!

lol idk how i un-bookmarked this thread but that def belongs here

We started a new thread when this one reached 8000+ posts!

maybe we should link to it and lock this one

Locking this thread has been repeatedly poo-poohed for unclear reasons.

we must bear witness without ceasing

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/10/all-the-places-the-new-york-times-has-compared-to-brooklyn/381426/

mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/fashion/how-uber-is-changing-night-life-in-los-angeles.html?referrer=

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/realestate/a-greenwich-village-apartment-for-a-creative-soul.html?_r=1&referrer=

^^^
This one should be reposted on this thread every month or so on general principle

from the uber link that didn't embed:

Rick Garcia, 59, a retired Army major who said he became an Uber driver to fund a vacation, starts and often ends his shifts downtown. “It’s changing in the blink of an eye,” said Mr. Garcia, a Los Angeles native raised in Echo Park, as he wound his way along one-way streets lined with Art Deco buildings, some empty, others now home to yoga studios and juice bars. “There’s a lot of New Yorkers here, and they’re saying it’s almost like New York.”

True enough: The district is drawing comparisons to SoHo in the early 1980s, when former warehouses morphed into galleries and artist lofts. In downtown Los Angeles, a visible homeless population (thousands bed down nightly in nearby Skid Row, according to city estimates) crosses paths with European tourists and designers in drop-crotch trousers (the area is also home to the fashion district). In September, a branding agency started a monthly publication, LA Downtowner, to highlight local businesses and street style.

...

“I find myself going down there a lot and taking friends that are coming to visit, because there’s so much cool stuff to do,” said Lara Marie Schoenhals, 30, a writer and Mr. O’Connell’s roommate. On a recent night, she bounced from drinks at the Ace to dinner at a Roy Choi hot spot in nearby Koreatown then more drinks at a new bar in West Hollywood. “I can just, like, YOLO with Uber,” she said.

dibs on new DN

... it is done

The Uber one is fine right up until
“If you’re going to the airport, you use UberX, who cares,” said Mr. Heitzler, the Venice artist. “But if you have to go to a party at the Chateau” — the see-and-be-seen celebrity-magnet Chateau Marmont — “you at least go black car. Or even a giant S.U.V. There’s nothing better than getting out of a giant S.U.V. at the Chateau by yourself.”

when i'm rich i'm going to buy the chateau marmont and redevelop it into a portal to hell

The Uber one is fine right up until
“If you’re going to the airport, you use UberX, who cares,” said Mr. Heitzler, the Venice artist. “But if you have to go to a party at the Chateau” — the see-and-be-seen celebrity-magnet Chateau Marmont — “you at least go black car. Or even a giant S.U.V. There’s nothing better than getting out of a giant S.U.V. at the Chateau by yourself.”

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:59 (Yesterday) Permalink

This is a world I'll never, ever understand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/the-terrible-32s.html?_r=0

hooo boy, you can imagine the daughter of that author being VERY pissed

That was just gross.

That phenomenon is way too far past funny or charming by the time a person hits 32 for that article to be amusing.

in re uber, just saw a story about a woman who took an uber for her birthday not realizing 9x surge pricing was in effect, basically ended up with like a $350 tab for a 20 minute cab, which equaled most of her rent money for the month. (I assume she was probably either drunk or not a regular uber user to miss that, although I wouldn't know, having never taken an uber).

the thing about that dopey 32 piece is it has the same qualities as the onion editorial cartoon piece where the guy is railing about not getting paper money for his empty bottles or whatever; there's the deep despicable andy rooney sickness of an unearned, hateful whiine

The app will tell you if there's surge pricing in effect, but it could be easy to miss and from my experience, there's no real rhyme or reason to why surge pricing goes into effect. xp

The one time I considered Uber I went through the whole process of dling the app and setting up the account and then saw that the price was exactly the same as a yellowcab (which are easy to get late at night by my job). P much the only time I take cabs is on work's dime when I have to stay super late, so it's not much of a thing for me.

hooo boy, you can imagine the daughter of that author being VERY pissed

― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Monday, November 3, 2014 4:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure the authors are not old enough to have a 32-year-old daughter.

maybe. she is responsible for this as well.
http://thehairpin.com/2014/01/the-best-time-i-learned-my-last-name-means-blow-job

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/realestate/an-east-village-apartment-share-for-recent-graduates.html

Can we refer to these people as...quiddiots?

oh hey they almost lived above rosario's!

So they signed on for a year, paying a broker fee of 12 percent of a year’s rent, or a bit more than $4,000. Because all the rooms are comparable in size, they split the rent evenly, at $933 each, with one paying $994 on a rotating basis.

yeah, there's no whining or absurdity there? They sacrificed space to live where they wanted - which you can get away with when you're 23, and lots of people in other parts of the country would say about people living in Brooklyn/etc..

I have no idea what their "means" are, mostly just smdh at the NYC rental market.

(Marge Simpsin voice): "Hmmmm . . . it's true, but he shouldn't say it."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/opinion/sunday/pricey-doughnuts-pricier-homes-priced-out-readers.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1