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

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.

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

― intheblanks, Saturday, March 26, 2016 7:42 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think Slate is OTM: it's fun to spot trends and you don't have to make a big deal out of it. but admittedly i hold that opinion somewhat contrarianistically, as someone who used to cry foul at every quid ag but now that the chorus of people who do so every time on twitter is louder and more annoying than the quid ags themselves

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/five-things-i-wont-miss-at-the-times-and-seven-i-will/

4. Articles that celebrate the excesses of the 1 percent – like the recent real estate piece explaining that members of a certain class of homeowners feel they need something called a “four-pack”: a pied-à-terre in New York, a beach house in the Hamptons, a ski villa in Aspen and a winter condo in Miami. These were especially disturbing on days when, after getting off the subway, I once again had seen a particular diminutive woman who seemed for a time to be living in a crate in the Times Square station – or any one of the New Yorkers who lack even one humble home.

not the NYT but so beautiful in so many different ways.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/02/further-future-festival-burning-man-tech-elite-eric-schmidt

“We’re so privileged to come to these spiritual places – Further Future, Tulum – but not everyone can,” the audience member says, asking Piorkowski how he should reconcile that.

“It’s all about balance. We are the ones meant to be the air, not the earth,” Piorkowski said. “So you have this group who can travel. The purpose can never be to enable everyone to travel because that would create imbalance.”

“It’s important what we do here,” Scott said. “That’s what we keep saying. We’re shaping the future. These are the people who not only can do it, but these are the only people who can.”

"It’s a curated, self-selected group of adults who have jobs,”

Curated and self-selected

lollllll at the air/earth quote

pretty much perfect for the thread:

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hawaii-millionaire-fight/

although I will say that in spite of the x-treme quiddagginess, there are insights in there to be found about extreme wealth inequality, greed, and resource-hogging. First they came for the millionaires. Actually it's the other way around, first they came for everyone else. But if even the millionaires get treated as "second class" it says something about what wealth inequality does.

When you are so wealthy that you need not work to live luxuriously, then you have to invent a reason why you are not a parasite battened on the life blood of society.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/fashion/weddings/a-feminist-romance-but-not-a-radical-one.html?_r=0

^writing something like that as a perfectly straight feature story must require nerves of steel or else brains of cork

oh snap y'all, the bride is a friend of a friend. not sure we've ever hung out as such but i have seen her face on my friend's facebook/myspace/friendster a million times. i used to hang out with bridesmaid #4 (in the first picture) years and years ago, and worked at a crappy library job with bridesmaid #3. ime all three are super super nice people. i have no idea why this is a news story or an NYT story for that matter but i hope they at least got free pretty wedding photos out of it? i have no idea how the 'vows' section works though.

!!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/step-inside-a-home-decorated-for-a-one-percenter-the-2016-kips-bay-show-house/2016/05/11/195f07b6-1211-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_kipsbay-1143am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

reminds me of the time i picked up a huge stack of 80's Architectural Digests for free. they hurt my eyes.

doesn't look very cozy... not the kind of place you could nestle into a corner and drink a beer and watch the world roll by.

Boom goes the cannon we're abandoning Kip's Bay

my god it's a disaster

“We’re so privileged to come to these spiritual places – Further Future, Tulum – but not everyone can,” the audience member says, asking Piorkowski how he should reconcile that.

“It’s all about balance. We are the ones meant to be the air, not the earth,” Piorkowski said. “So you have this group who can travel. The purpose can never be to enable everyone to travel because that would create imbalance.”

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 9:27 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

“It’s important what we do here,” Scott said. “That’s what we keep saying. We’re shaping the future. These are the people who not only can do it, but these are the only people who can.”

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 9:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I try to avoid the point-and-laugh threads, but I actually know someone like this from school, a burner/banker (or whatever). Circa our last reunion, he posted on facebook that he was going/invited people to some spiritual self-actualizing event on the side. I commented that I was going/invited people to the climate march. He had a sad.

if like my dad you missed the cartoon in section 4 yesterday, i'm guessing it was censored after a lawsuit threat from the Drumpf people or internally in anticipation thereof

it maybe doesn't REALLY belong here but that picture...and headline...and all the quotes...

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-fo-0528-salt-straw-20160523-snap-story.html

wait never mind i'm gonna put it on the craftsmanship thread.

lol "storytelling" marketing cliché AND mixed metaphors in the headline quote.

i am reading "on that frozen canvas" to the tune of "oh dem golden slippers"

I'm going to open a shop called "It's Just Fucking Ice Cream"

This quid ag stuff is all well and good, but hating on ice cream is where I draw the line

this was in the fucking print edition today
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/arts/sfmoma-glasses-prank.html

Fuck TJ and Fuck Kevin

wow, a blast from the past. VERY important news story here, folks. thank you, new york times, for this in-depth portrait.

"When together, the couple bring to mind a really expensive pair of new stiletto heels and the protective velvet bag that comes with them in the box."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/fashion/lizzie-grubman-hamptons-publicist.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=wide-thumb&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

best part:

Jack, the younger son, who seemed completely at ease in her office, was asked to describe his mother. “She buys us stuff,” he said. “And she talks on the phone a lot.”

(Ms. Grubman laughed it off, but it seemed clear there would be some media training when he got home that night.)

VERY important news story here, folks

better post it on the sfj thread

i think it will gain traction there.

Amid the happy family din, however, there remains just a trace of sadness around the intertwined tragedies of her mother’s death and the car accident that changed her life. When asked to reflect on that fateful night, her normally polite smile sets into a thin, flat line.

“That unfortunate night happened, which I prefer not to talk about, in respect to my children and family, and the people who were involved,” she said.

“I never properly mourned my mother. We’ll leave it at that, you know why.”

In 2007, her husband decided to do something about it.

“Understanding that Lizzie had a really tough time with Mother’s Day,” Mr. Stern said, “I decided, right after we had Harry, that I go to Barneys and walk around with a personal shopper and pick out the best shoes and the best handbags in the place, bring them to the apartment, and I proceeded to fill Harry’s entire crib with all of these pretty special boxes of treats.”

“It was piled high,” he said. “I just wanted to make it seem like Harry was giving her the gift.”

Ms. Grubman said, “He’s changed Mother’s Day for me, and he’s helped me through it.”

this headline

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/02/t-magazine/rebecca-ferguson-aja-naomi-king-margaret-qualley-anya-taylor-joy.html?smid=pl-share

they all look sorta pissed off

i would be too tbh

http://wellroundedny.com/20-under-1-to-watch

Our hot list of 20 influential NYC babies.

no agonies, but certainly quiddities

The whole Lizzie Grubman story reads like an Edith Wharton knock-off. ("Grubman" would have been too obvious a name even for Wharton.)

http://wellroundedny.com/20-under-1-to-watch

Our hot list of 20 influential NYC babies.

no agonies, but certainly quiddities

― mookieproof, Friday, June 3, 2016 8:35 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

belongs on the shit that looks like an onion article thread