http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/
clickhole getting predictable these days tbh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 May 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
a rare edition of "the hunt" that feels like what hunting for an apartment in new york feels like for most peoplehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/realestate/a-bed-stuy-apartment-well-known-terrain.html
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 22 July 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
my "NY Today" email opens:
Good morning on this meh Friday.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 19 August 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
"Meh Friday" is traditionally observed in the Hamptons. Tinged with melancholy, it is the 2nd-to-last Friday before Labor Day, and therefore the final weekend before you have to start thinking about packing things up for the summer.
― Mike Pence shakes his head and mouths the word ‘no’ (tipsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Mom and Dad's $400k plus a program meant for people who can't afford homes in NY = successhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/realestate/an-unexpected-route-to-williamsburg.html?_r=0
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
v good tipsy
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 19 August 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
“Throwing my money away in rent was making me nauseous.”
i have heard this tone deaf mess in conversations w other 20 somethings and in every case it was in a convo about acquisition of real estate via mom & dad, either outright or via "help with a downpayment" a la this profile. not sure if it's meant to be a justification/guilt-driven rationalization for accepting a gift of this size or what.
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Friday, 19 August 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
also, i mean, come on...
She decided to find out what $400,000 would buy elsewhere in Brooklyn. “I am a person who can make a lot out of nothing,”
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Friday, 19 August 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
makin' love makin' love(out of nothing at all)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 19 August 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
bwahahaha xp
― mh, Friday, 19 August 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
feel like you may not be joking tipsy
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 19 August 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
400k in nyc might feel like nothing if you grew up scion of the owner of an 8 mil brownstonebut in that hypothetical, said scion is of course fooling themselves.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 19 August 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
mixed feelings herehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/realestate/when-the-dog-decides-where-you-live.html
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 22 August 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
the human protags of this article are literally named the Funds.
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, 22 August 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
candid photo of mr fund:http://i.imgur.com/kB4QVmj.gif
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, 22 August 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/movies/nitehawk-to-open-a-second-cinema-in-brooklyn.htmlI am the prime demo for this place and even so:
“We had to decide, do we build condos or do we save Brooklyn?” said Mr. Hidary, who is from Midwood. “So we saved Brooklyn.”
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 8 September 2016 06:22 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/upshot/i-paid-2500-for-a-hamilton-ticket-im-happy-about-it.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-3&action=click&contentCollection=Your%20Money®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
― remy bean, Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
lol at the punchline. "N. GREGORY MANKIW is a professor of economics at Harvard."
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
"That is indeed lamentable."
― jmm, Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
In 2009, while the economy was suffering through the Great Recession, Mr. Leno, a car enthusiast, generously performed two free “Comedy Stimulus” shows for unemployed workers near Detroit.Yet zero is not, as economists put it, the equilibrium price to see a live performance by Jay Leno. Some of the unemployed who received free tickets tried to turn around and sell them on eBay for about $800. When Mr. Leno learned about this, he objected, and eBay agreed to take down offers to resell the tickets.
Yet zero is not, as economists put it, the equilibrium price to see a live performance by Jay Leno. Some of the unemployed who received free tickets tried to turn around and sell them on eBay for about $800. When Mr. Leno learned about this, he objected, and eBay agreed to take down offers to resell the tickets.
well this doesn't seem like Leno at all
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
paying $800 to see Jay Leno makes me think some people are from the alternate universe where that seems like a good idea
― mh 😏, Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
there are many punchlines in that article
― rip my mensches (s.clover), Monday, 24 October 2016 08:07 (seven years ago) link
His entire career is based on saying "The price is the right price because it's the price someone paid which is good" over and over again.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 24 October 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
"It sucks that you can't afford these tickets. Yet there is another way to view the situation, which is that I can afford them!"
― jmm, Monday, 24 October 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
He has previously written a paper called "Defending the One Percent" and was an adviser to Romney and to Dubya.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
yeah he's a big name in apologetics for the wealthy
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 24 October 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
That article points out the astonishing fact that when there's a limited supply of something that lots of people find desirable, then the wealthiest people hog it all for themselves. Which is an extremely fair system, because some people having lots of money when other people have very little money is just the way it is, so like it or lump it.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 24 October 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
his big solution is for them to just raise the base prices of tickets. but that would mean the secondhand tickets he bought would be way more expensive as well.
his theory that demand would decrease bc it's expensive is undercut by the fact that he is personally demonstrating people will pay extra for these luxury items and in fact take pleasure in out-wealthing other richies.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 24 October 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
luv the contrast to this editorial: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/opinion/struggling-to-serve-at-the-nations-richest-university.html
― rip my mensches (s.clover), Monday, 24 October 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
when i did econ 101 we were taught from this mankiw book. it was very well written and easy to understand. one of the only university textbooks i had that i felt did a good job of explaining the basic concepts of a field of study to the novice. the thing was though, iirc, it had various little bits about how corporate taxes, rent controls, minimum wages, etc. are bad. it was the only general introductory textbook i had in school that had an explicit political agenda, and we studied it as if it were just "the truth" and not just one take.
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 24 October 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
All Karen Hendrickson wanted was the latest pocketbook from Gucci, the Sylvie, with a glittering gold chain down the front.
But she had to explain herself over and over to police officers who stopped and questioned her, and searched her shopping bags as she sought to cross Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. She was trying to reach the Gucci flagship store on the corner of 56th Street, but her shopping trip had an unusual impediment: Gucci is inside Trump Tower. Fifty-eight stories above is the penthouse of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who was engaged in the rocky business of selecting his administration.
― qop (crüt), Thursday, 17 November 2016 03:54 (seven years ago) link
Well, if this doesn't turn them against him, I don't know what will.
― hardcore dilettante, Thursday, 17 November 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link
via deadspin: this is from a toronto star article but w/e i didn't know where else to put it.
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/ujonl99cvplfh7gneaso.png
― nomar, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
septum piercing really makes that for me
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Is he going to raise that kale in place of a son?
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
that is his large green son
― mh 😏, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
His son's name is Kyle.
― nickn, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
I had a vasectomy, but it was for sensible and practical reasons. I 'celebrated' by wearing an ice bag on my scrotum for hours afterward.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/business/media/jolly-green-giant-comeback.html
“We’re going to make him more relevant, more socially active with the consumer, and bring him into today’s world” = two tickets to a better reality than this one, please.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Jolly Green died on his way back to his home planet, etc
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/your-money/talking-to-children-about-inheritance.html
― assawoman bay (harbl), Sunday, 21 May 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
it's like they know about this thread
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 May 2017 07:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/realestate/where-to-live-when-the-l-train-shuts-down.html
Mr. Gannon’s new one-bedroom on Orchard will be more expensive, at $3,200 a month, than the $2,200 he paid in Williamsburg. But “the fact that there is a lot going on” in his new neighborhood, he said, “compares favorably.”
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 29 May 2017 01:51 (seven years ago) link
$1000 worth of free goings-on hopeefully
― j., Monday, 29 May 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
Mr. Gannon's time is money.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 29 May 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
Spayd out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-times-public-editor_us_592ec472e4b0e95ac1956706?4r9
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
our long national nightmare is over
lol wait they're eliminating the role entirely?!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
not content to wreck accountability during her tenure, she now wrecks it indefinitely into the future
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
"We're replacing the public editor with more comments sections" is the worst idea for accountability that I've ever heard pic.twitter.com/aS4AcW2W6J— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) May 31, 2017
― j., Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
otoh it does sound like the thesis of a Liz Spayd column
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link