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

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/fashion/31Unwashed.html

There must be something in there to make fun of.

The smell of deodorant

In re the designer article -- the trope of the anxious client-oriented professional seems to have gained more prominence in the age of reality shows. It's a character type I find really irritating and uninteresting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/fashion/31Unwashed.html

There must be something in there to make fun of.

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, November 5, 2010 8:50 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How about this?

She contends that a soapy washcloth under her arms, between her legs and under her feet is all she needs to get “really clean.” On the go, underarm odor is wiped away with a sliced lemon.

"it doesn't matter, i'm still invited to dinner parties."

the article existing is hilarious, as is the seriousness with which these ppl take their "unorthodox" bathing habits.

but tbh the lady is probably right about the hot water/lemon thing. then again I ditched deodorant/anti perspirant over ten years ago, so ymmv

Can it be only happy coincidence that mountain climbers and architects share the same language to describe the objects of their passion, that both talk of slope and cornice, spur and buttress, fluting, pitch, spire?

what kind of retard would think that this shared vocab is a "coincidence?"

he's not just terrible at writing words, he literally does not understand what they are and how ppl come to use them

rereading this passage still makes me inappropriately angry.

http://www.american-buddha.com/ablab137h.jpg

what kind of retard would think that this shared vocab is a "coincidence?"

rereading this passage still makes me inappropriately angry.

Reading you using the word "retard" actually makes me kinda angry, gbx. Come on, dude - be better than that.

yeah I know :(

I'm trying to kick the habit---

I have some sympathy for these dirty people and their views on bathing. If I didn't shower every day, I could sleep in later! Plus, I have lived among the shower-averse during my shameful hippy past so I'm familiar with the ethos. The thing that irks me, aside from the whole "NYT feature depicting as awesome and trendy a thing middle class people forgo by choice that most people in this world don't do because they do not have the resources for it" aspect, is the attendant smugness. Like, congratulations. You don't have to wear suits in the summer so you can dress your armpits like a salad. Have a cookie. Or an article in the NYT. But don't act like this makes you a better person.

Wd think all that lemon juice would bleach the shit outta your shirts. I can't afford to go through blouses that fast, and I have like 8993490 white cotton Ts as it is, but I can't wear 'em to WORK.

And forget DRYCLEANING.

is it impolite to ask the bartender at the upscale dinner party for some deodorizing lemon wedges or are you expected to bring ur own?

I feel like this album cover/title belongs in this thread:

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/286/121/296/12129662/600x600.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/books/11agent.html

just for the headline -"Literary Agents Move to Brooklyn" sounds like an Onion setup

“Is water a barrier to clients? Is it a barrier to the business? That was really the question.”

has this paper gone out of business yet?

The lease in his Manhattan office was up at the end of June, so he began hunting for office space in Brooklyn, a short walk from his home in Cobble Hill.

there's nothing offensive about that, but it's evocative of a certain kind of upper-middle-class novel writing. i feel it ought to be going somewhere. like maybe we meet his estranged son in the next paragraph.

Somewhat related: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/11/11/the-nyts-subscription-strategy/

If a gaffe is when somebody accidentally tells the truth, then Gerry Marzorati’s latest comments probably count:

During a panel discussion at the Digital Hollywood New York conference, Gerald Marzorati, the Times’s assistant managing editor for new media and strategic initiatives, explained why the paper’s print business is still robust. “We have north of 800,000 subscribers paying north of $700 a year for home delivery,” Marzorati said. “Of course, they don’t seem to know that.”

Marzorati went on to become positively disingenuous:

“I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they’re literally not understanding what they’re paying,” he said. “That’s the beauty of the credit card.”

wow

:O

$_$

o_O

lol

not sure if this really belongs here, however I was amused by the business equivalent of taking the same class as a girl you'll never pluck up the courage to talk to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/technology/12valley.html?ref=twitter

(especially when the girl has an underpants gnome derived business model)

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/all-the-young-girls/

My roommate was having a rough go of it. An intern for a bigwig fashion designer, she was once dispatched to Miami to procure a heap of Italian cashmere.

...the Upper East Side apartment that my roommate’s father had co-signed for us was too far out of the way.

I mean you could just quote the whole article pretty much.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/fashion/21clubkids.html?adxnnl=1&src=dayp&adxnnlx=1290355287-kHlUsIEc0Cby9maQooCDzw

Whoever said New York night life is dead hasn’t been out recently.

ZAM!

The meatpacking district is a tangle of new velvet ropes. D.J.’s are trekking to the nether reaches of Bushwick. The Lower East Side has spilled over into Chinatown. And every week, murmurs of a new hot spot seem to reach a fever pitch.

We're coming to you live from 2002!

Also restaurants. Lots of new restaurants are opening in New York in various neighborhoods. Right now.

Wow, Laurel, that article you linked is nearly unreadable. "Earrings became blowfish-big to draw attention and ward off predators." Like... what?

Laurel: looooooool that is like 1/2 of every Time Out.

“Put on an Ace of Base song and everyone clears the dance floor in 30 seconds. Then you have four promoters running up to you screaming.”

ur doin it wrong

DJ AM. “Before I saw him, I didn’t know how to differentiate between a playlist and a D.J.”

The paper version is even worse. They put the picture and a blurb on the front of the Fashion & Style section as a teaser for the actual profiles inside. wtf, nytimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/nutrition/30best.html?pagewanted=1&ref=health

Maybe I'm missing something, but this article seems utterly ridiculous.

Why? It's in the health section. People get hurt cycling, and by the looks of it the article started a discussion on biking vs. running. The only thing I found annoying was how she wrote out her friends' full names.

The first thing I did when I hit the ground was turn off my stopwatch — I did not want accident time to count toward our riding time. Then I sat on a curb, dazed.

Love how this is delivered with zero trace of irony

Amanda Hess OTM: http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/12/new-york-times-trends-women-5379.html

that was a great read

soembody should do a NYT supercut article

Later that year, the paper pounced on a "growing number of researchers" concerned that some women are receiving most of their calories through alcohol. "Drunkorexia is not an official medical term," the piece claimed. "But it hints at a troubling phenomenon in addiction and eating disorders."

That was fantastic and made me really detest the NYTimes.

One of the people I've seen in lists of cases of spontaneous combustion had eaten nothing but booze for three years--in the 18th Century. This is not a new thing.

And I've seen the term drunkorexia

Damn Zing.

And I've seen the term drunkorexia used before, decades ago.

frazzled momz
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/garden/02parents.html