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

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/world/americas/04venez.html?hp

this is very hard to understand.

quiddities and agonies of the penal class

that prison sounds like it's one step away from a visit by a times style page writer. i'm praying, at least.

good article but don't think it fits te criteria of this thread

who are you, the thread police?

i can do whatever i want inside as long as i don't try to leave.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/nyregion/a-chronicler-of-the-creative-underground.html
^all i could think about while reading this article was this thread. So many choice quotes:

“He’s a guy who’s always had an interest in the extreme — in interesting, envelope-pushing opportunities,” said Mr. Seelie’s friend, Todd Patrick, a music promoter better known in Brooklyn circles as Todd P. “He’s all about showing smart, sometimes privileged, people doing stuff they probably haven’t done before. He likes to catch upper-middle-class white kids actually doing interesting things.”

“Most of the things I’m drawn to are done by D.I.Y. people who make what they want to happen, happen,” Mr. Seelie said. “You want to put on a play? Great. Find an abandoned power plant.”

Mr. Seelie and his circle of friends have known each other for many years, from bike kills (rallies of competing ganglike bicycle clubs) and from secret parties in abandoned or illegal spaces, said one of those friends, a disc jockey who goes by the nightclub moniker D. J. Dirtyfinger. “His people in New York are people who don’t do stuff within the confines of standard bars or parties. They’re out there being creative almost to a renegade level.

“Ultimately, Tod’s passion is for experiences that are only really possible if you’re living at the extreme,” Mr. Patrick said.

That maddening aspiration of most working artists — the big break — has so far eluded him, but the seeds of such a break may be found in his latest and most ambitious project: a book-length collection of images documenting the last 10 years of the underground art scene. Stored in boxes and on hard-drives, the photographs depict, Mr. Seelie said, the dawning of the New York street-art movement, the birth of the local chapter of the Black Label Bike Club and the early years of bands like Black Dice, Japanther and Matt & Kim. While the material may not mean much to those unfamiliar with these groups and events, Mr. Seelie speaks with a historian’s pride when he says, “I’ve got shots of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs literally playing in an auto parts garage.”

LITERALLY

“You want to put on a play? Great. Find an abandoned power plant.” <<i always say that

i'd be more impressed by people who say "you want to generate your own electricity? Find an abandoned theater."

"upper-middle-class white kids actually doing interesting things"

'race traitors'

i guess that article is kind of appropriate (<3 u tod)

being creative almost to a renegade level. almost.

Joseph Higbee, a spokesman for the electrical manufacturers association, offered his take on the situation: “Unfortunately people do not yet understand this lighting transition, and mistakenly think they won’t be able to buy incandescent light bulbs. This misinformation has been promoted by a number of media outlets. Incandescent light bulbs are not being banned (...)"

Probably this is because articles about light bulb legislation are incredibly boring, and articles about the end of the light bulb as we know it are less so.

(...) one day very soon, traditional incandescent bulbs won’t be available in stores anymore. They’re about to be effectively outlawed.

Fancy that!

*stockpiles light bulbs*

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/world/americas/04venez.html?hp

this is very hard to understand.

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Glison

worst sports headline ever?

"In Golf, Timberlake Sees Metaphors"

If you think i'm limnking that, gtfo

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/nyregion/the-appraisal-high-priced-rentals-are-all-the-rage.html

But all that pales in comparison with the most expensive rental listed in the city, a mansion at 4 East 80th Street that is available, furnished or not, for $210,000 a month. Paula Del Nunzio, the Brown Harris Stevens agent marketing the house — a 35-foot-wide French Gothic limestone with more than 18,000 square feet of space just off Central Park — said that the biggest worry in finding a tenant was not the income requirements (roughly $8.4 million to $9.5 million, going by the industry standard of 40 to 45 times the rent), but the way a resident might treat the house.
“You would check and be sure they had other homes in other places of similar magnitude, that they would be quite accustomed to that kind of environment,” she said.
Despite the stratospheric price tag, the rent is, in an extremely narrow sense, a bargain. The house, built for a Woolworth daughter and more recently owned by the health club entrepreneur Lucille Roberts, is also for sale at $90 million. Assuming a 20 percent down payment and 30-year-fixed loan at 5.5 percent, it would cost $408,808 a month, before insurance and taxes.
“You could look at it that way if you wish,” Ms. Del Nunzio said. “The thing is, what it’s really about would be instant gratification, and instant status — instant presence in New York.”

whats it like living in new york

i lived a few places in new york city
the best place was an unzoned basement with five to six other people. my room was large but underground and windowless and one night a pipe opened up over my bed.
instant gratification, instant status - instant presence.

what came outta that pipe? there are several possibilities.

Super-heated steam.

a ray's famous pizza

i think it was water? i hope it was water.
four of my roommates were ethiopian, one had a startup company and the other one was an aspiring model
it was like "the real world" except i was clinically depressed
i did a photo shoot for spin magazine in that room that never got published! instead the world got cocaine blunts and fluxblog centerfolds

"Are MP3 Blogs Changing The Music Industry?"

thank you

i wish i could find that noz centerfold online. Noz, u out there? can you scan this in?

everyone who lives there, please post what living in new york, the big apple, is like

in looking for that centerfold i found this so i feel like time well spent:
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/cocaine-blunts-noz-scaggs-and-chris-weingarten-source-hip-hop-history/
http://media.thedailyswarm.com/images/headlines/cocaine-blunts-noz-scaggs-and-chris-weingarten-source-hip-hop-history_top.jpg

ROSS DOUTHAT: What's Wrong With Suicide?
June 8, 2011, 10:41 AM

http://i.imgur.com/zH1nx.jpg

We had asked where they were from in an off-handed fashion, my companion and I. We weren’t especially concerned. But in provenance-conscious, environment-attuned Seattle, such a question can all too easily be heard as a challenge, a taunt: assure us that these mollusks weren’t the denizens of some distant seabed, relocated through a lavish outlay of fossil fuel. Prove to us that they’re bivalves from the ’hood.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/travel/eating-in-and-around-seattle.html

they were all called Colin.

"MUSWELL HILL JOURNAL"

So Portlandia

Bono roughing it at an Italina trattoria in NYC:

From a Jon Pareles article on Spiderman

SHORTLY before midnight on a rainy Thursday, Bono was headed to work, bearing plastic bags of takeout food from Esca up to a Manhattan studio on a nearly deserted West 48th Street

Italian

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/us/17meatless.html

going vegetarian one day a week is a big trend! in aspen!

“We roast our own beets,” said Tenille Folk, the director of food services for the Aspen School District’s middle and elementary schools.

idiot

seriously, beets take forever. way to waste energy, tenille

i am not gonna front on a slow roasted beet

slow roast on this

“It’s very interesting, but for some reason when people come to Aspen, they want to eat meat,” said Mimi Lenk, a vegetarian for more than a decade and the manager of Syzygy, a downtown restaurant where elk, bison and lamb are the big sellers.

Mimi Lenk, of Syzygy

“It’s not government’s role, or municipal government’s role, to be talking about personal choice,” said Torre, a City Council member, who uses only one name.

!!

“It’s very interesting, but for some reason when people come to Aspen, they want to eat meat,” said Mimi Lenk, a vegetarian for more than a decade and the manager of Syzygy, a downtown restaurant where elk, bison and lamb are the big sellers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuwh7h3hKs&feature=related

also, this

“It’s not government’s role, or municipal government’s role, to be talking about personal choice,” said Torre, a City Council member, who uses only one name.

i have met this person