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

sounds like a perfect portlandia sketch. rich guy buys town and makes all the local juggalo kids wear top hats and ride olde tymey bicycles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/fashion/lululemon-chip-wilson-kit-and-ace.html

I don't even know what kind of article this is. Free advertising for a business? Profile of a seemingly excessively rude man? Writing exercise for the author? I guess it doesn't matter.

i don't know but it's mesmerising

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaTxSiUUsAEH4Vz.png

Landmark Forum (mentioned in the Chip Wilson article) is a creepy cult. My boss at my job before this one tried to brainwash his employees into that shit.

The men discussed the charity and the need to train Ethiopian teachers in Landmark principles before the talk turned to Kit and Ace.

tried to read that chip wilson article and had to just quit at "Jewish Standard Time" ; way to be, rich guy.

exactly. wtf

I am not kidding when I say that article is the best thing the New York Times has done in 2016

the seething hatred roiling just under the veneer of newspaper professionalism makes for v addictive reading

Is that even a common Jewish stereotype? I've heard a lot, and I've never heard that one.

god yeah that is a satifying read- he is made to seem like such a piece of shit and yet it's just quoting him and giving him the space to do that to himself. the mystical egotist CEO persona is a thing, and it's so ripe for satiric puncture. I really feel sorry for those people sitting at that table tee-heeing on cue.

I'm sort of wondering whether they guy's Jewish, it seems super-weird in 2015 for a non-Jew to think it's OK to say that, and to a reporter no less.

shaming late shaming

Am I an asshole for wondering how hard it is to be somewhere on time? Presumably she had at least a day's advance notice of the meeting.

plus, free breakfast!

all of these dudes just remind me of the internet billionaire on the good wife. with the hoodie.

http://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/01/the-good-wife-season-6-episode-12-recap-4.jpg

although they are all just sad shadows of miles on 30something.

http://popdose.com/wp-content/uploads/dclennon-vi.jpeg-300x246.jpg

people who are into late shaming have prob never had to take public transit a day in their lives.

people who are into late shaming have prob never had to take public transit a day in their lives.

And yet people who take public transit a minimum of five days a week, and who presumably know how unreliable it is, make some version of this excuse every time they're late getting somewhere, instead of thinking, "This appointment is particularly important - I better leave 30-60 minutes earlier than I might otherwise."

as a regular public transit-taker and somewhat habitually late person (who has improved a bit over the years but has further to go), this ^^^

i am literally always on time but this guy is such a capitalist daddy asshole caricature it's making me seriously rethink my assumption that it's important in every situation.

most curious about those years between competitive swimming and landmark forum. what a sad human being.

if anything it's good to be late every once in a while because it's an easy way to allow others to be empathetic towards you team-building.

Also used the phrase "coconut time" when referring to Miamians.

Not NYT, but incredible: http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/

p sure she is from the actual moon

okay ilxor glenn alerted me to this parody and i am laughing:

https://medium.com/@boobsradley/between-my-hectic-job-and-nourishing-social-life-it-s-not-always-easy-to-find-the-time-to-make-aa9c48a5458b#.c4mv5we4w

"Breakfast is the same thing, every day: denuded feldspar. I soak it overnight in Mexican creek foam to create a pudding, which I suck from a vinegar-soaked sponge. It’s truly hands free, which lets me simultaneously do my sun grunts and marinate my anus in squeezed orange pith."

"Then it was time to visit my west side shop. I spent the shank of the afternoon in a throne made of pygmy bone ivory, focus-grouping new juices and crêmes while picking my teeth with a minature sceptre made from the Dalai Llama’s sundried phlegm."

https://twitter.com/yourauntdiane/status/180354164046569473

please, please god, let schwantz's be a parody.

 I often alternate this with my other lunch staple: a nori roll with umeboshi paste, avocado, cultured sea vegetables, and pea sprouts. This is my version of a taco, and it's insanely delicious. These ingredients are all pantry staples, so I eat some version of this everyday.

the Medium parody one did indeed remind me of Aunt Diane's tweets.

so much real stuff on the internet can remind me of an old mark leyner novel. people striving to be NEXT LEVEL.

^^ omg so OTM

lol fuck, hadn't thought of Mark Leyner in a while but so true

"cultured sea vegetables" is prob dulse or seaweed but i like picturing her chomping on a sea squirt

Mark Leyner had a novel out like two years ago and it's FUCKING AMAZING you guys

This is good to know, I haven't checked in for twenty years.

Is it...something different?

I loved those books, btw, but was ripe for it...dunno how I'd feel now

It really is pretty different. The old ones I thought were funny and crazy, this one I think is funny and crazy and a work of real literary merit

cool I will check it out

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/fashion/millennials-mic-workplace.html

Unbelievably transparent hit piece about mic.com by Ben Widdecombe. Super gross

The woman the author makes out to be a bimbo ("I, like, had to fax...") is an award winning journalist with a masters in gender's studies and has interviewed world leaders

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2016/03/in_defense_of_the_new_york_times_trend_piece.html

A trend story about snake people, by The New York Times

fgti otm, that "fax" quote reeked of cherrypicking a moment to make someone sound way more stupid than they actually are. To say nothing of reducing her work to "makes videos about manspreading"

also i have no time for that slate piece, whose main thesis is "c'mon, total bullshit is delightful lol"

Demand fewer articles about millennials more trend pieces about how foreign cab drivers love America, can't wait for us to invade their countries

Faxing is a totally stupid way of communicating anything award winning journo OTM.