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
I liked the part about the poor New Jersey entrepreneur who owed her nanny $7K
― badg, Saturday, 11 June 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
the servant problem rears its ugly head once more
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 11 June 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
Everyone should get 18 years of paid parental leave for having a child imo
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Saturday, 11 June 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
^upvoted
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Free market economics is a bitch when you're on the demand side, eh wall streeters?
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 13 June 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
the Park Slope Parents’ Nanny Compensation Study of 2013
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 13 June 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
^^^ underrated straight-to-video anne hathaway movies i have owned
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 13 June 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Monday, 13 June 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/fashion/weddings/nathaniel-peters-barbara-jane-sloan-wedding-sound-of-music.html?_r=0
http://postgradproblems.com/this-hipster-marriage-announcement-from-the-new-york-times-is-the-most-insufferable-yet/
― Dan I., Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
That response is also problematic though
― Dan I., Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
i don't actually have a problem with the sound of music guy wedding! they seem nice. maybe you could read it as wes anderson twee or whatever but if maria von trapp was your great grandmother you are certainly allowed to be as twee as you want to be. plus, wow, what a place to have a wedding.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
plus, dorky bookworm theology student does not a hipster make. more hipsters should pick up a book.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, honestly, they don't sound like hipsters. They sound like old-fashioned old-money theology students. Pretty sure opera and musicals haven't become hipster-bait yet (I quite like both, fwiw). I mean, I find it a bit weird that you'd want a big NY Times wedding article, and the name-dropping of brands is also suspect, but otherwise, eh. I'm sure that they'd annoy me in person but it's nice that people who have things in common have found each other.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
I knew this was going to get posted here but dammit I thought these guys were kind of great.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
Everything about that guy screams textbook old money WASP, I am baffled at "hipster" being used here.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Sound of Music, growing up on the Vineyard, latin education, theology grad school, even the bright orange laces in dress shoes -- that's all WASP stuff.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
not to mention friends with the stilted speech of characters in a 1950s novel set at Princeton
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link