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

haha erica i knew you'd take care of that for me <3

;)

I speaketh not its name

guy who owns the people's pint is so locavore that he actually doesn't like the idea of people driving to his restaurant. ideally its for local people who walk or bike there.

does he screen the customers or what? that seems... spiteful, somehow.

park around the corner imo

get yr nanny to drop you off

haha! no, he just likes the idea of a local pub being local i guess. no credit cards taken in 15 years either.

"Why should any faceless, greedy corporation from a thousand miles away that doesn't give a damn about what we're doing here—why should they make a dime off me or my customers?"

http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=13557

credit card companies are the worst fwiw

i didn't do credit cards for about a year in my store and it was kinda like shooting myself in two feet and both hands. had to do it.

oh for sure, only business that can really get away w/it are like restaurants that are always packed

I use my credit card all the time

mostly because change sucks and who wants to carry around a bag of pennies

i love this thread by the way. since i moved to my milky paradise i don't read the paper every day like i used to. read 60 papers/blogs/magazines/books a day when i lived on that godforsaken island.

The coop I used to belong to had different discount rates for working members and nonworking members, which seems like a nice compromise.

I don't even know if there are any coops in Chicago since I only shop at Trader Joe's and Walgreens now.

would be interested to see what happened if a whole foods moved in next door to the pk slop coop

ally, wanna buy some artisanal milk

would be interested to see what happened if a whole foods moved in next door to the pk slop coop

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:01 PM Bookmark

Um, how far is it from the future WF in Gowanus?

looks like a 15 minute walk on the map maybe

yeah but not a super convenient walk for most people in park slope

its less than a mile, coops goin doooown

but...lots of parking space

odd future WF gowanus shop them all

Well maybe the WF will clear out all these NANNY-SHOPPIN POSEURS and free up the co-op for REAL HARDCORE SOCIALISTS

i wonder if they saw any impact from the trader joes on atlantic

man i am interested in some boring shit

solitary posts that effortless describe etc

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/fashion/life-in-the-fishbowl-for-jared-kushner.html?_r=1&hpw

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/06/26/fashion/26KUSHNER_SPAN/26KUSHNER_SPAN-articleLarge-v2.jpg

"Oh hi, I'm the smug little shit scion of a corrupt real estate family. I haven't actually succeeded at anything -- in fact my first and only two business moves were extremely bad. But I'm married to Donald Trump's daughter. Why don't you do a section-front-page profile of me that opens into a two-page spread."

a seraphic figure with neatly sculptured chestnut brown hair and fair skin

It's true, young women do try to marry a man who's like dear old dad.

One day in early 2009, a security breakdown in The Observer’s computer system allowed employees access to one another’s hard drives. A few staff members with prying eyes went into Mr. Kushner’s and found a file with an intriguing name. They opened it and found pictures of their boss and Ms. Trump, his girlfriend at the time, and Billy Joel aboard Mr. Murdoch’s sailboat, Rosehearty.

For a group that had seen its ranks shrunk by layoffs and demoralized by pay cuts, the sight of their young publisher surrounded by such decadence was a sore one.

this is so stupid

how exactly were they unclear about him being rich

"I already know you're a spoiled rich kid who owns our paper...but a picture with billy joel!! that crosses the line!"

observer staffers HATE billy joel

Nothing says hedonistic conspicuous consumption like chillin with Billy Joel.

He charges $3,500/hour for that shit.

Does anyone actually read the New York Observer?

what counts as "anyone"

ah:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Observer

The New York Observer asserts to advertisers that it delivers Manhattan’s most affluent, educated and influential consumers, with the average net worth of its readership exceeding $1.7 million and 96% of readers being college graduates. It has a paid circulation of 51,000.

the average net worth of its readership exceeding $1.7 million

what

yeah, seems low

it went up a lot when i stopped reading it

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/us/politics/28mica.html?

not a ruling class article but prob the single worst sentence I've read this month, rip nyt:

But getting even a small fraction of the 2.3 million people living along the rail corridor to ride trains may be difficult, state officials acknowledge. Separating drivers from their cars would be like forcing Mickey and Minnie Mouse to divorce.

job juggalos

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/26work.html?_r=2&hp

Wait does working 80 hours a week to earn $30k before taxes with a college degree really belong on this thread?

not really. that girl should move out of the upper west side though.

yeah you've actually managed to find an article about the kinds of problems and anxieties normal people have to deal with!

xpost well, probably.

yeah not really an offender for this thread but

Mr. Fierro, who calls himself an “aesthetic consultant,”

made me lol

There may be a hidden "quiddities and agonies of the children of the ruling class" angle in some of those stories

But I don't want to be too presumptuous

idk there's just enough cluelessness in that article, like "actors hold down odd jobs" is a sort of recent trend? no