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

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

also, who the hell doesn't close the bathroom door... ever? that's gross

It’s not like I haven’t struggled all my adult life with my body image. But there’s something affirming about how much my children have always loved and needed my body, from breast-feeding, to shared baths.

Tell me more about that.

I mean, if that doesn't describe the heart of the problem right there, it's at least a very creepy roadsign pointing in the right direction

I don't see the problem with changing in front of your family, or lounging around in boxers or whatever. People definitely need to close the door when using the restroom though. Probably shouldn't share a bath after age 3 or so.

the ruling class doesn't have to worry about Child Protective Services, apparently.

and yes, close the fucking bathroom door ... not just b/c yer kids shouldn't wanna see yer bits, but they also don't wanna smell yer stank.

I was pissed off when my mom would barge into my room without knocking before I was 12, I think. And definitely after that point! A dude needs some private time.

oh god those poor kids are about to have a really bad week at school

or a lot of friends asking to come over

only if she's a yummy mummy ... and something tells me she isn't.

wow, guess i need to be reading the motherlode column more regularly

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(april fool's joke, but a quidditastic one)

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lol those wacky Germans (nb: Unsinn = German for "nonsense").

the women in that motherlode blog are straight up weird

mommy bloggers are all weird, but the NYTimes takes it to a new level

parents are the worst, seriously, especially mothers

hey, my mom is a mother

that's for sure

i have a friend who is a "mommy blogger"

her posts are really bad at masking her depression/mental health issues and possible alcoholism

(tbf that covers a lot of all internet posting, but still)

euler, the baryshnikov of yr-mom jokes

Any time anyone blogs about anything personal everything they say has to be looked at skeptically cuz they are blogging about it imo

i have a friend who is a "mommy blogger"

her posts are really bad at masking her depression/mental health issues and possible alcoholism

(tbf that covers a lot of all internet posting, but still)

― buzza, Monday, April 2, 2012 4:04 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

should have eaten her placenta, smh

please mommy dont blog 'em