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

i like how it flips the script on the way tumblrs like that usually center around "clever captions"

Some of the captions are really funny. "that says EAT in your kitchen" for example is an awesome description. I guess that people really do talk about things like a "chair hodgepodge," but that doesn't make using it in a caption any less frikin hilarious either.

I think it has a point to that even the really nice stuff can be just sort of self-consciously designy and obnoxious when in the wrong setting (and in the photos it picks, that's nearly invariably the case).

“You need to have places to have sex other than the bed,” she clarified. “I don’t mean to sound brash, but that’s what people want.”

Not gonna lie, I have recommended Hyatt Place hotels to people entirely because they have a couch and a big rolling ottoman. Bonus of being relatively cheap via Priceline and clean.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, February 9, 2012 7:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Standard hotels are p legendary for extremely useful furnishings

the fuck yr noguchi coffee table blog is pretty obviously sarcastic?

and the author knows the exact provenance of all this objets, i.e. methinks he doth "fuck you" too much

(don't know why i think it's a guy)

those are fun to scroll down and guess what the caption will be

i think that noguchi quote at the top adds a touch of class.

and this made me laugh:

Fuck your empty birdcage.
#decor
#interior design
#ornament
#put a bird in it

haha, i just laughed again just reading that! out loud! by myself in an empty room!

I like that blog because I'm an eternal rural 7th grader when it comes to home decor, as in I never seem to pick up on trends until it's too late and they are totally passe and I really want a giant letter on my wall because I think it looks cool but I can't without looking like a total herb, so fuck your antique sign letter. (I still really want a terrarium, though.)

that blog is on point, who puts sign letters on the wall

haha my sister has many many of these things in her home, particularly the more cloying and uncool of them, and she found this blog yesterday

terrariums will always be cool tho

yeah, that was a weird thing to make fun of

yeah but terrariums are 'on trend' q.v. times style section circa 2010 so fuck them, i guess?

fwiw i have several small moss terrariums in old sugar dispensers, guess i'm fucked

eternal rural 7th grader

this caused serious lols for some reason

well its the kind of blog that can create equal amounts of amusement and pangs of self-recognition. like jeff foxworthy used to say: if you see a link to this blog on your facebook or on the internet...you might own an empty birdcage.

fwiw i have several small moss terrariums in old sugar dispensers, guess i'm fucked

would like to see photos of yr terrariums, Elmo - are these like restaurant sugar dispensers?

yea, they are p cute

my sister and I continued the discussion on facebook as we have a lot of mod design items between us.

Fuck your Stendig calendar
Fuck your George Nelson Ball clock
Fuck your Eames Hang it All
Fuck your Utensilo
Fuck your Heller plates

and so on.

But obviously those are all totally awesome objects.

elmo, what did you do to prepare the moss? I would like to make some terrariums in antique beakers that I have come to own, but I don't even know where to start.

Love this. Especially "Fuck your bookshelf with the books arranged by color."

i didn't really prepare the moss tbh -- just foraged for some & lifted it with a butter knife and plopped it in there onto of some soil & drainage materials. my first attempt, really. xpost

i worked at a salvation army for a year or two and there was a woman who would come by and buy irregularly shaped jars and containers. She told me one day that she liked to fill them with water and food coloring so that they would brighten her house (trailer?) up. I thought that was simultaneously beautiful and astonishingly sad.

i really want to do a meme tumblr parody of fynct called fuckyourweeksoldtakeoutcontainers thats just pictures of really messy apartments but i couldnt think of where to get enough pictures for it to really work

i mean my house only has so many unwashed dishes piled around

I can hook u up

want a picture of my roommate's bag o' used condoms?

I'm down with FYNCT because that kind of tasteful design, all proper designer pieces and flair is boring as shit.

absolutely agree

I went through them and tried to picture myself living in each of the pictures

How was that egg chair? Looks comfy

i think maybe i would like that card catalog in my home

i had that card catalog in my home
it was okay

want card catalog!
chalkboard backsplash makes me ia: it wd get filthy! and leaning over stove to write on it is just impractical. hmph.

Yeah, fuck the chalkboard backsplash because it elevates trend over actual functionality.

Chalkboard trend in general is a pretty useless thing but sure, they look good. Nobody seems to be putting much more usable whiteboards in their houses.

secret shame: I always wanted a chalkboard fridge :/

the company founded by my great-grandfather can help you with that.

http://www.sheffieldbronze.com/new-products/

Chalkboard and table-tennis paints are special because there's a grit involved which is what causes the chalk to adhere or the ping pong balls to bounce and not slide.

I walk by a ton of great old card catalogs every day at work and always think how much I want one before immediately realizing how useless they would be. It's not like I have a ton of 3x5 object crying out to be stored somewhere.

index cards with the names of yr enemies?

they hold random stuff. tape. batteries. pennies. whatevs. they're like a better organized junk drawer.

Or 24 of them.

I keep the preserved body parts of my enemies in my card catalog

^lard catalog

File under D for Dick

I like that blog because I'm an eternal rural 7th grader when it comes to home decor, as in I never seem to pick up on trends until it's too late and they are totally passe and I really want a giant letter on my wall because I think it looks cool but I can't without looking like a total herb, so fuck your antique sign letter. (I still really want a terrarium, though.)

― carl agatha, Friday, February 10, 2012 5:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this is me when it comes to pretty much everything

a great place to store index cards filled with your jokes, gags, boners, and one-liners!

File under "b" for "boner."