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

Last para should be quoted too.

So, the axes.... this is a slightly altered version of the TGI Fridays aesthetic, right?

Oh! and that guy pays $2000/month rent!

xxpost

f that guy

“Going it alone,” “earning enough to be self-supporting” — these are awkward concepts for Scott Nicholson and his friends. Of the 20 college classmates with whom he keeps up, 12 are working, but only half are in jobs they “really like.” Three are entering law school this fall after frustrating experiences in the work force, “and five are looking for work just as I am,” he said.

“I’m sitting with the manager, and he asked me how I had gotten interested in insurance. I mentioned Dave’s job in reinsurance, and the manager’s response was, ‘Oh, that is about 15 steps above the position you are interviewing for,’ ” Scott said, his eyes widening and his voice emotional.

Spoiled rotten

tbf he doesn't pay $2000 a month rent, the whole apartment is $2000 a month, and it sounds like his parents put him there partially as a favor to the brother who couldn't find someone to share the lease.

It was not to be. In early January, a Marine Corps doctor noticed that he had suffered from childhood asthma. He was washed out. “They finally told me I could reapply if I wanted to,” Scott said. “But the sheen was gone.”

I don't understand this para. I mean, I understand why childhood asthma might be a problem, but does "washed out" have a technical meaning here, and why could he reapply if it was a problem?

I think "washed out" just means "flunked out."

have you guys never seen Starship Troopers or something

"take that walk down washout lane..."

so is he really refusing to reapply for something he's been working towards for four years because of a fit of pique?

hey, it lost its sheen

“My parents are subtly pointing out that beyond room and board, they are also paying other expenses for me, like my cellphone charges and the premiums on a life insurance policy.”

i wonder if it's a data plan, and i wonder if other types of insurance are being taken care of, too.

http://www.slate.com/id/2259817/

late pass for jack shafer

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/business/economy/09rich.html?_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/your-money/10money.html?src=me&ref=business

haha, I was just coming here to post that

My wife handled it better, noting that if we had spent money on a second home, our daughter wouldn’t have been able to go to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this year or on a beach vacation.

He has not yet answered his oldest child’s question [about his salary] directly. Why not? “The honest answer is my own fear about my son sharing it with his friends and it creating pain for them or emotional shame for their parents,” he said. “Why is Brent telling my kid that he makes that much? Does Brent’s ego really need to rub it in?”

Doug Garr, who lives in Manhattan, said that once his son was old enough to understand that the family had two homes, his son suggested giving one to a homeless person. “His logic was sound,” Mr. Garr recalled. “Why should we live in two homes when so many live in none? I had no answer for that one.

Garr's children obviously needed to be shouted at by "no free lemonade" dude:

http://www.suntimes.com/business/savage/2464546,CST-NWS-savage05.savagearticle

lol @ his logic was sound

Love the no free lemonade guy because he expects us to sympathize with the idea of shouting at small girls giving away lemonade on the side of the road. Even the most wacked out libertarian will scratch their head at this one.

"Three girls giving away free lemonade isn't cute, it's indicative of the lack of economic responsibility we're passing on to future generations."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMutF_jnrU

^ Terry and his Brother

DEAD

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/realestate/18cov.html

where will the duke-grad ibankers live in this bleak new world?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/realestate/18habi.html?hp

By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM

come on now

artistic types all live together, story at 11

ffff, max beat me

On the first floor are Morgan Jones, an artist; Jackie Oberman, a magazine graphic designer who plays bass in a punk band called the Homewreckers; and Lauren Denitzio, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Also on the first floor are Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the moving force behind Liturgy, a band that Mr. Shapiro describes as “one of my favorites in Bushwick,” and Mr. Shapiro, whose room features David Wojnarowicz’s famous photograph of buffalo being driven off a cliff, along with leather-bound copies of Balzac from an old girlfriend and, like nearly all the other bedrooms, lots of vinyl.

...Hunter Hunt-Hendrix?

"Honey, I have the perfect name!"

"Divorce."

Bushwick may not be East Williamsburg. But for those seeking the newest Bohemia, this neighborhood is arguably the coolest place on the planet

i died

Those Liturgy dudes are pretty endless self promoters; there's been like 4 or 5 articles in the Times on their nuts.

Yeah that was one of several lines I found it hard to believe a New York Times journalist could write with a straight face (xpost)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/nyregion/20interns.html?_r=2&hp

not really style section frippery but fits into the thread

i read this and have never wanted to punch a person more.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/complaint-box-the-pigeon-menace/?ref=nyregion

Louise Dreier lives on the Upper West Side near Columbia University, where she recently completed a master’s degree in urban planning.

I tried feeding some pigeons in NYC once but, no lie, the pizza crusts only bounced once before sparrows zoomed in and swiped them

poor pigeons

I take it everything to do with a certain marriage yesterday was so obviously belonging in this thread that we collectively accepted that and moved on.

I love this comment.

I had a pigeon lay an egg on my windowsill.

I had two pigeons enter my apartment and sit on my couch. I found them there watching tv when i returned from the shower.

I saw a pigeon eating an entire slice of pizza.
— dave

I found the article a little overblown, but generally I agree. Pigeons suck.

haha that's a great comment

lol i think he's going for a tracy jordan parody or something

It reminds me of he Chuck Norris and Mr. T joke "facts." http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/07/20/us/20oklahoma_337-span/OKLAHOMA-1-articleLarge.jpg

has anybody ever mentioned on this thread the number of nytimes photographs that look like they were taken by accident. is this like their house style?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/07/18/us/18bai_span/bai-articleLarge.jpg

chosen for ~immediacy~, i guess?