that’s awful news Dan, i’m so sorry.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 November 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
and good wishes to your friend tipsy. don’t know if she’s in E Tennessee but cases appear to be thru the fuckin roof.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 November 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
forks otm
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 November 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
Passed by a gym in Delco (notorious county right outside of Philly) after coming back from a hike in a near-abandoned nature preserve. Counted ten cars in the parking lot and a few more people inside working out. None of them were wearing masks.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
Y'all know that Mr. Table works at the biggest emergency department in Philly already, but it's worth noting that they're starting to ration supplies again (last this happened was April), and at this juncture, he's not even angry at people anymore. The other night, he said, "people are going to do what they're going to do, and people are idiots, and we can't do anything about that at this point. Getting angry is a waste of emotional labor."
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
Please tell Mr. Table that James Redd sends his regards and applauds his thinking, even thhough I myself have yet to achieve such an advanced state of emotional enlightenment.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
Is that Simon Hammerstein’s club in that article about NYC?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
I mean, he's upset about it, but there's only so much energy he can spend on it.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
Right, that’s how I read it, sorry if that wasn’t clear.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
a selection of key infuriating quotes from that New York mag cover piece article upthread, each of these is from a different covidiot
My friend wanted to have a party for her 25th birthday, and her options were incredibly limited, so I said she could do it at my apartment. I found it quite stressful because I wanted to do somewhere on the cusp between having enough people that it was an actual party and having it become a massive shitshow with hundreds of people. There were probably around 50 people there. We had security watching the numbers and taking temperatures at the door. They did end up turning people away — one person because their temperature was too high, but they came back ten minutes later and they were fine.
I kind of got comfortable being in large crowds. I still try to keep my distance and still wear a mask. I’ve always been nervous about COVID because my parents don’t have health insurance. If they get COVID, it’s going to be a big problem. I was doing all of this behind my parents’ back. I would sneak out of the house or just come home late. On TikTok, people will be like, “You guys have no mask; you guys are spreading the virus.” I don’t really know what to tell them. I’m aware that what we are doing is pretty stupid because we’re putting mad people at risk. For some reason, we still kept doing it.
Sometimes you can forget that COVID is a thing at all at these parties. I’m not saying COVID is not a thing, but I’m sure the transmission rates in New York are not that high.
On Halloween, I was at a party that was slowing down when my friend told me to come to another party in a small apartment in Soho. There were 50 people, maybe. I didn’t know anyone, but there was a DJ, and the people who were there hadn’t been partying during COVID. It was their first party in a long time, and it was a good, cute party. People were dancing. I don’t think it was against the guidelines. After the party, six or seven people tested positive. It’s crazy to think the one thing that I attended that wasn’t against the guidelines ended up being the one that was the biggest spreader. I’m pretty sure most of the people in my bubble, people who were going out constantly, had it back in March.
People weren’t freaking out over COVID, but they were worried that the police were going to shut it down. I went to a few parties in private residences in Manhattan. There was no talk of needing to be tested or needing to wear a mask. COVID wasn’t even mentioned, really. The sort of people who are out downtown after-hours are just not the sort of people who have that on their minds. I thought at the beginning of lockdown that people were never going to share keys of coke ever again, but that was not the case.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
thank you for your service
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
So we always spend Thanksgiving with my family and my wife's family for Christmas, just a regular pattern that worked out early on and has worked well for all sides.
I was very nervous about telling my mom we weren't coming this year, but she was surprisingly fine with it and is actually not having anyone over at all (much to my relief!). We found out this morning that my mother-in-law is hosting anywhere between 11 and 15 people at her house, including multiple people from out of state and a family with three kids who have been in daycare for months. My wife is, understandably, furious. These are all supposedly smart, liberal, non-COVID deniers, but it's just a shock that they are all getting together. Even more so considering that my brother-in-law has been posting nothing but "stay the fuck home" memes on social media for the last month, but I guess he doesn't think it applies to himself? I don't know, it's infuriating on so many levels. I mean, even if people who otherwise have been taking it seriously are still saying "fuck it", I fear for how absolutely terrible things are going to be in December. Needless to say, we are staying the fuck home.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
lol we actually asked my mom if she wanted to come visit over Thanksgiving, and she was basically no fucking way. And this was a month or so ago! We're doing our best to rope in our scattered family over Zoom, everyone but my sister in England, who came up short on the time zone stick. The Aussies, though, they just squeak in, timing-wise.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
i absolutely cannot comprehend how anyone could decide that is a wise thing to do, other than complete denial of logic and facts
we've been with another couple now for three days, but all seven of us were completely isolated with no outside contact for over 14 days prior. and we still feel guilty and paranoid, like there's some flaw in our system somewhere and everytime someone coughs or sniffs even slightly everyone else half jokingly yells at them for spreading their covid around
― joygoat, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
A lot of people take negative tests as a permanent result.
"I tested negative 2 months ago, i ain't have it!"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
My brother is having Thanksgiving with six people he doesn't know that well, then flying in after Thanksgiving to go to a wedding and staying at my mom's house for a week. She's not happy about but she won't tell him no.
If he gets her sick I'm going to have to drive across the country to break his nose.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NPx1PrT.gif
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
btw, the douchiest story in that new york mag profile isn't anywhere near the most egregious, but what an amazingly horrible person
SEPTEMBER - Travis Kalanick’s Penthouse* in SohoCat Marnell, 38: I’m sort of naturally a quarantine person; I am not a party animal. But sometimes, the night starts somewhere and you end up at some party. In September, I was just chilling on a rooftop with friends near a gallery somewhere, respecting the rules, when my friend asked if I wanted to go with her to this guy’s apartment. She wanted to go in the pool. So we go to that weird part of Soho down by Varick Street, to some super-fancy building, and go up to the penthouse. It was like something out of Billions. It was so big, with walls and walls of glass, and I think there really was a private pool. Because I guess it was the fucking former CEO of Uber’s apartment? Travis Kalanick? But it wasn’t even cool. They asked us to take our shoes off. It sounded like they were playing lounge music. Everyone was drinking red wine, “adulting.” There were tons of people there, and of course no one was wearing a mask. I walked over and sat on the couch and felt like they were all looking at me with such contempt. Then a pack of people came over and stood over me and were like, “She needs to go.” That’s when I started acting like I was in slow motion. It was just so ridiculous. I haven’t been kicked out of something like that in a way that I didn’t deserve since Lindsay Lohan had me thrown out of Le Baron because I gave the guy she was with a drag off my e-cigarette in 2012. Fuck them. Anyway, rich people are having maskless, indoor parties. I had some paint in my bag, so when we got downstairs, I went to the wall across from the building’s entrance and wrote, “CAT MARNELL BITCH FUCK U SNOBS.” *A representative for Kalanick says he had lent his apartment to a friend and was unaware of the party.
*A representative for Kalanick says he had lent his apartment to a friend and was unaware of the party.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
i have never heard of this person but apparently she's famous or something?anywayhttp://pbs.twimg.com/media/Enh2_XcXIAYhRH1%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D4096x4096
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
Photo to accompany New York mag thing -- SOHO September 2020 ... fuck those people!!! pic.twitter.com/jzif6Vm8cg— 🤡💄🌈 CAT MARNELL ✈️🏀🎨 (@Cat_Marnell) November 23, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
Imagine being 38 and using the word "adulting" to describe people drinking wine. I hate the internet so much sometimes.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
imagine being 38 and being kicked out of a party and spraypainting the entrance with your name!she seems like a genuinely unpleasant human being who has scammed her way into being like this for a living. kudos?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
Ha, yeah, all that too.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
I totally lend my luxurious multi-million-dollar apartment (with its private pool) out to people so they can have a party there that I am totally not aware of.
Everyone is coping with these unusual times in their own way I guess
idk
― release the turkraken (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
actually surprised you have never heard of cat marnell. she was big in the 00s.
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
drug-addicted media socialite gadfly of manhattan
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
I was also on drugs during that time, forgive my memory.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
this person is genuinely insufferable, something I learned listening to this:
https://www.dopeypodcast.com/2019/10/dopey-210-cat-marnell-overdose-pcp-nba-basketball-self-tanner-for-the-soul/
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
unless they dress up in innovative/weird costumes, dance brilliantly, do standup or act, play music or sing or program late night entertainment, I have gone out of my way to avoid the media socialite gadfly of manhattan class for the past twenty years
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
she's probably "good at twitter"
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
I don't think she has a significant twitter presence, she came up before that
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
i meant as of now.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
She used to work for xojane, and that site's whole thing was to be insufferable and publish terrible takes that people would hate-read, so I guess she must have been good at that?
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
xojane was actually extremely popular though also. it's revisionist to say that its popularity was based on hate-reads.
sorry for derailing this thread with cat marnell talk
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
Doesn't everyone carry a can of spray paint about? All totally normal
― release the turkraken (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
She's a secret tagger, she was catching throw-ups on construction sites.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
Ah, the Jack Nicholson defence
― J.G Ballard otm (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
articles in this are why I hate the "uwu people are just confused because the government won't tell them what to do don't be mean to them!" consensus that seems to be developing. everyone in here knows exactly what they are supposed to do, they just don't care
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
I'm certain that Cat Marnell is terrible but I'm not sure why everyone else described in that story isn't equally terrible or worse.
― DJP, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
like, why is this thread saying "oh my god, she sneeringly used 'adulting'" instead of "who are the plague-addled fucksticks chugging wine at a private pool"
― DJP, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
oh no question those people seem awful, just having been exposed to her already I suspect they were justified in giving her the boot
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
different brands of shittiness not mixing
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
what happened to her friend?
did she really get kicked out for sitting on a couch?
this 'editor' seems to have omitted a few crucial details
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
lol for real - an obvious gap in that story big enough to tag your name in 6ft letters across
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
also, i always love hearing needy posers deploy this affection, have heard it so many times from ny wannabes: I was just chilling on a rooftop with friends near a gallery somewhere
Wow, really, were you? Were you near a gallery somewhere? One of those hip, funky, boho galleries I've heard so much about? And you were near it?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
likely was "shitting on a couch" and the proofreader corrected
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
I'm certain that Cat Marnell is terrible but I'm not sure why everyone else described in that story isn't equally terrible or worse.― DJP, Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:19 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― DJP, Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:19 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
ha i thought the quidditization was directed at the people she was writing about, not at her.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
there’s room in this shitass world for all of them apparently
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
I couldn’t just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #datavizScented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n https://t.co/xEmCTQn9sA pic.twitter.com/tVecEiX5Jc— Kate Petrova (@kate_ptrv) November 27, 2020
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
That's also a great illustration of how the existence of the internet provides oceans more data for research than anyone could dream of pre-internet.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link