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

Is the Cadillac driver HIS GRANDPA?

http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/cadillac-veda.jpg

that sorta has a snorg girl vibe to it

she says, her pumpkin-colored hair falling in waves around the Recaro bucket seat, a hand-stitched blend of black leather and saffron faux suede.

^^^ great post

Surprise! The ad agency we're paying told us that our customers are great and our competitors' customers are assholes!

kind of feel like I'm contributing to the quiddities culture just by reading Fast Company in B&N

http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/cadillac-veda.jpg

i can read body language, let me tell u what she's saying: "kinda fun and funky, you know, and like... just, like, cool?"

i must admit i kind of admire this attractive immigrants ability to con desperate american corporate types

haha wow that WSJ article upthread

Some consulting companies boast flashy websites, with media clips of their founders and toll-free numbers. "I Helped 100's During My 10 Years on the Inside…1998 To 2007," says the website of Larry Levine, the burly founder of Wall Street Prison Consultants, which includes videos of him wearing sunglasses indoors. "Now I Can Help You, Too!"

"Slow up a little," Partalo says. "Dealership's just up here on the right." It's about yellow Brembo brakes that look really cool when contrasted with shiny black rims.

Sales are up 36% since Fallon took over.

lol I wonder if anything else has happened since 2009 that might concern the american auto industry, no it was prob all partalo

she became a marketing major after flunking out of comp lit -- sounds like most college students!

i'm surprised she didn't major in "communications"!

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/aug/10/israeli-boycott/

Wasn't there a livetweeting of a park slope food co-op board meeting somewhere in this thread? Feel like this story and the comments on it make a nice follow-up.

i don't get that fast company article. it turns into an ad at the end. was that intentional? is that just how people write now? don't get it!

fast company is a magazine for people who believe in the fundamental awesomeness of advertising

written by people who are one linkedin roulette spin away from jumping ship to ogilvy & mather i guess

my friend works at fallon, i wonder if he knows her hmmmmm

i must admit i kind of admire this attractive immigrants ability to con desperate american corporate types

haha srsly

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fast company is a magazine for people who believe in the fundamental awesomeness of advertising

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otm

i have 9 issues left in my godforsaken years' subscription

some of their web shit is cool/interesting! then the magazine came in the mail and i was like "what part is the magazine!!!"

because the whole magazine looks like ads!!

I normally hate those "special advertising section" things in magazines -- you know, multiple page spreads with "articles" that are just ads for something -- but I have to say that having a tourism one for a city I'm going to be in in a couple months was ok.

btw their whole magazine doesn't look like ads, at least not compared to Wired or somesuch!

i mean all i'm getting at with that complaint is the magazine itself is as slickly designed and largely marketing-copy-positive as a well-done "hip" advertisement, and the way its sort of by-the-numbers shallowly omnivorous kinda grates on me idk

not a news org but this post has so much quiddity:

http://putthison.com/post/20118723010/april-fools-menswear-edition-sunday-is-april

Well, some customers apparently also save the packaging for April Fool’s Day. They wrap these boxes up and send them to colleagues as gifts. The guy on the other side, of course, gets very excited to see the blue box stamped with “E. Marinella” on the top. When he opens the box, however, he finds some unwearable silk tie with Bugs Bunny’s face or little Hawaiian girls.

So if you’re looking for a little fun this Sunday …

More like the tired obsessions of the ruling class, but this Romance of Baseball crap that gets trotted out every spring just makes me retch:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/what-baseball-does-to-the-soul.html?hp

The copy on the home page:

What Baseball Does to the Soul: Baseball belongs to those who left their worlds behind.

lol that url is alltime

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/what-baseball-food-does-to-the-bowels.html?hp

"broccoli and bad faith" is the first article listed if you click that

songofsam otm, every springtime I see status updates like "it's spring again and the flowers are blooming and a little boy is throwing a ball" blah blah blah fuck you baseball fans

Damn paywall, can't access the bowels article.

wait, since when is baseball a "ruling class pastime"?

er obsession of the ruling class, w/e

re paywall: erase everything in the url after the "html" part

("bowels" article doesn't exist though; i'm guessing it's a joke)

wait, since when is baseball a "ruling class pastime"?

since George Will took a shit one morning during the 1980s and fished men at work: the craft of baseball outta the tank.

to be fair, i'm not sure how often i've seen irishes penning odes to baseball

AMONG the indignities that one may suffer when renting a Manhattan apartment — too little space for too much money, dismal natural light, tiresome flights of stairs, creepy neighbors — the lack of a dishwasher is high on many lists.

So when people make the leap from renter to owner, not having to hunch over a sinkful of dirty dishes is a must.

“It is now an inalienable right, not a privilege,” said Maria Manuche, a broker at the Corcoran Group.

no creepy neighbors anywhere outside manhattan, nosiree

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/naked-with-children-but-for-how-long/

tuomas.gif

another reason not to have kids btw is that you can continue hanging around yr house naked without writing a hand-wringing newspaper column about it

i read the hed thinking she had like a three year old

ah, Tuomas's soulmate blogs for the Times!!

(xpost)

Can't imagine being a boy on the verge of puberty and seeing my mom naked on the reg.

I can

AMONG the indignities that one may suffer when renting a Manhattan apartment — too little space for too much money, dismal natural light, tiresome flights of stairs, creepy neighbors — the lack of a dishwasher is high on many lists.

So when people make the leap from renter to owner, not having to hunch over a sinkful of dirty dishes is a must.

“It is now an inalienable right, not a privilege,” said Maria Manuche, a broker at the Corcoran Group.

― I DIED, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:46 (Yesterday) Permalink

TBF, I would guess that a dishwasher is probably harder to obtain relative to income in NYC than it is in most places in the US.

since George Will took a shit one morning during the 1980s and fished men at work: the craft of baseball outta the tank.

― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer),

Always suspected him of being the kind of prankster who thought upper-decking was funny.

i wasn't going there, WmC, but now that you mention it ...

i read the hed thinking she had like a three year old

you and me both, max