reading the Coates book right now...it is so good.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 18 July 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
horseshoe, it is good to see your posts itt
― not a garbageman, i am garbage, man (m bison), Saturday, 18 July 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
<3 m bise
― horseshoe, Saturday, 18 July 2015 02:57 (nine years ago) link
Man "excessive realism" ought to be the title of Coates' next book!
― tylerw, Saturday, 18 July 2015 03:40 (nine years ago) link
otm, essay comp imo
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 18 July 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
omg the beautiful struggle has a pulp-fantasy-style map of baltimore in the front
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 18 July 2015 05:01 (nine years ago) link
wasn't he going to write a book about the civil war too? almost can't imagine how awesome that would be.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 18 July 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
As a family man, he was surprisingly relaxed and affectionate. We think of him as a man of marble, but he loved having his kids jump into bed with him and tickle his feet. With his wife’s loving cooperation, he could write witty and even saucy letters to other women. He was devout in his faith, a gifted watercolorist, a lover of animals and a charming conversationalist.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 July 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
alas poor robert
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 July 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTt7cUgXIAAeJ5M.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 November 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
I endured shambolic security lines, inexplicable delays and a four-hour layover sitting on the floor of the Casablanca airport, thinking it was nothing like the movie.
which movie? the one about people delayed in their departure from casablanca?
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 13 November 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Most straightforward and honest David Brooks writing ever. Maybe he just had an enema.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
the little cubes of Turkish Delight that tasted as good as the kind gobbled by Edmund in the C.S. Lewis classic.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
david brooks has forgotten that book, tho he rereads the screwtape letters every christmas.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
he screws himself every xmas
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 November 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
and tapes it
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 November 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
https://i.gyazo.com/946ac29c4ef5b5307d936ab1f7d052cc.png
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 December 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
His instinct pointed him to pink but he was able to correct himself and choose blue.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 December 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
i don't get the point DB is making there and i don't get what sonny bunch means re: trump either
― goole, Friday, 4 December 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
And I don't know what to do /Now that pink has turned to blue
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Friday, 4 December 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
I strongly suspect he did a search and replace changing "orange" to "pink" between the first and second drafts of that column.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 4 December 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
― goole, Friday, December 4, 2015 5:10 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
brooks goes on to argue that, like the pink rug, trump is the loud, appealing & fun first instinct for the republican electorate--but really, they should focus on more of a "blue rug" candidate that they can live with, like jeb bush.
sonny bunches of oats then jokes about the persuasive power of a rug shopping metaphor for a trump voter
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 December 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, December 4, 2015 5:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and "teal" to "blue"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 December 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
wait -- how can anyone or anything be "subtler and more prosaic"?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 December 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
"you'll tire of the electric vibrancy!" has gotta be the weakest antifascist appeal in the history of mass politics
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 4 December 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 December 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
or is he still talking about his marriage?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 December 2015 23:31 (eight years ago) link
he totally is. he thought he wanted the eye-catching pink! then too late, he realized all along, he was happy with the blue. Now the electric, vibrant option is telling him to throw out all his furniture and frankly, why can't you move into a cooler neighborhood
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 December 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
This is subtle dog whistling by Brooks. 'Pink' codes as 'red' as in red states and conservative republicanism, while 'blue' codes as blue states and democratic allegiance. He's signaling he is a RINO.
― Aimless, Saturday, 5 December 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
Two rugs diverged on a floor, and II bought the rug that popped my eyeChrist, I'm an asshole
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 5 December 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
nytimes a social experiment in what happens when all your editorial columnists are self-clowning ovens
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 5 December 2015 05:39 (eight years ago) link
the soft pink truth
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Saturday, 5 December 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
I read this yesterday and was so happy i paid $2.50 for the paper
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
lol eephus
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
It's 2 a.m. The bar is closing. Republicans have had a series of strong and nasty Trump cocktails. Suddenly Ted Cruz is beginning to look kind of attractive. At least he's sort of predictable, and he doesn't talk about his sexual organs in presidential debates!
@dick_nixon 3hConrad spoke two languages before English, you know. David Brooks ought to be boiled in oil for writing like this.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
heh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
Nixon didn't speak English either.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
That's a pretty nonsensical metaphor.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
oh he's really outdone himself with this one
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sund4r-pichai-google-memo-diversity.html
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 13 August 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
on pins and needles waiting for his Charlottesville column
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 August 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Ugh, the very thought makes me want to step off a bridge.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
"David Brooks really has three jobs because he has to raise his wife," my fiance said— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) March 4, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
rather condescending toward the wife
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
like giving vince carter a 6 at the dunk contest, come on
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
That's hilarious. Is it wrong that I find that hilarious?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 5 March 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
“If Books Could Kill” covers David Brooks’ book
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-if-books-could-kill-104279346/episode/david-brookss-bobos-in-paradise-104750888/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwwnCKLi5BMOW6L2Gg97bgI_iKYINBPZa
No Fair Remembering stuff has a series on Brooks.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
from the bobo thing it's amusing to learn that brooks has the exact same approach to class analysis as those edgy left podcasters who've robbed "PMC" of any concrete meaning
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
PMC?
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PMC
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link