"It’s a curated, self-selected group of adults who have jobs,”
Curated and self-selected
― jmm, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
lollllll at the air/earth quote
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
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.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
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.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/fashion/weddings/a-feminist-romance-but-not-a-radical-one.html?_r=0
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 May 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
^writing something like that as a perfectly straight feature story must require nerves of steel or else brains of cork
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 13 May 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 14 May 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
!!!!
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
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
reminds me of the time i picked up a huge stack of 80's Architectural Digests for free. they hurt my eyes.
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ian, Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
Boom goes the cannon we're abandoning Kip's Bay
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Sunday, 15 May 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link
my god it's a disaster
― ulysses, Sunday, 15 May 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
“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.
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 15 May 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
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
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Monday, 16 May 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
wait never mind i'm gonna put it on the craftsmanship thread.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
lol "storytelling" marketing cliché AND mixed metaphors in the headline quote.
― a man a plan alive (man alive), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
i am reading "on that frozen canvas" to the tune of "oh dem golden slippers"
― ulysses, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm going to open a shop called "It's Just Fucking Ice Cream"
― a man a plan alive (man alive), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
This quid ag stuff is all well and good, but hating on ice cream is where I draw the line
― Dan I., Wednesday, 1 June 2016 01:31 (eight years ago) link
this was in the fucking print edition todayhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/arts/sfmoma-glasses-prank.html
― ulysses, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 04:25 (eight years ago) link
Fuck TJ and Fuck Kevin
― ulysses, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 June 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
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.)
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 June 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
VERY important news story here, folks
better post it on the sfj thread
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
i think it will gain traction there.
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 June 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
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.”
“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.”
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 June 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
they all look sorta pissed off
i would be too tbh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
http://wellroundedny.com/20-under-1-to-watch
Our hot list of 20 influential NYC babies.
no agonies, but certainly quiddities
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 June 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
The whole Lizzie Grubman story reads like an Edith Wharton knock-off. ("Grubman" would have been too obvious a name even for Wharton.)
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Friday, 3 June 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― Roz, Friday, 3 June 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Morgan Stanley told its staff on Thursday that it was overhauling how employees are assessed in several ways, including by discarding the number scale in favor of lists of up to five adjectives....The move away from numerical scales toward adjectives was rooted in the practices of James P. Gorman, the firm’s chief executive, who has sought in recent years more effective ways of evaluating prospective and current employees.His experiment started several years ago, when he began asking job candidates to name five of their positive attributes. Last year, he expanded his test by asking his operating committee to try the new system.
...
The move away from numerical scales toward adjectives was rooted in the practices of James P. Gorman, the firm’s chief executive, who has sought in recent years more effective ways of evaluating prospective and current employees.
His experiment started several years ago, when he began asking job candidates to name five of their positive attributes. Last year, he expanded his test by asking his operating committee to try the new system.
― every day, be sure you're woke (bernard snowy), Friday, 3 June 2016 06:52 (eight years ago) link
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ultimate-staycation-a-second-home-in-the-same-city-1464875847
― 龜, Saturday, 4 June 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/fashion/mens-style/van-life-nomad.html
― calstars, Sunday, 5 June 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Please
this guy is the worsthttp://thevanual.com/
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, 6 June 2016 00:58 (eight years ago) link
"With a Dwell-inspired sense of design and help from his father, he made it a rad home on wheels."
― just sayin, Monday, 6 June 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
The Staycation article really brings out my inner Maoist.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 6 June 2016 07:04 (eight years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/why-i-quit-my-job-to-travel-the-world
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 05:51 (eight years ago) link
amazing - something relatively funny in the new yorker??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 11:10 (eight years ago) link
relatively is the key word there
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
yes the sentence doesn't actually hold without it
still tho
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
ah this one is so perfect
http://nypost.com/2015/04/08/escalades-hamptons-homes-and-much-more-the-rise-of-the-diva-nanny/
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Saturday, 11 June 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
#uppitynanny
― micah, Saturday, 11 June 2016 04:56 (eight years ago) link
perfect, even down to the several-years-old tweets embedded in a 'trend' story
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 June 2016 09:31 (eight years ago) link
That’s on top of pay that averages $15.79 per hour, according to the Park Slope Parents’ Nanny Compensation Study of 2013. The majority of nannies also received raises, bonuses and an average of 19 paid days off each year, with only 15 percent of employees paid on the books, the report also says.
LOL wait, thats less than minimum wage here, and everyone gets at least 20 days a year annual leave.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 11 June 2016 12:03 (eight years ago) link
$15.79/hour for an 8 hour day is an annual salary of $32,843.
― I have also been to Maine and, briefly, Nebraska (doo dah), Saturday, 11 June 2016 12:45 (eight years ago) link
“It felt like we were dealing with the Mafia,” recalls Danielle. “She knew we needed her more than she needed us.”
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 11 June 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
32k a year for the help, heavens however will we afford oberlin for all the kids
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Saturday, 11 June 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link