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

click here for a picture of skrillex having sex with a my little pony

no, thank you

"home and garden..... and kids and stuff"

a quick potted history of a given newspaper's "soft" section goes: society page >> women's page >> 'variety' page. in most papers the variety and arts coverage got mooshed together at some point, but, the nyt being about nyc, arts coverage was a bigger deal and always has been.

anyway this post started as "home and garden, lol woman stuff, amirite" and i kinda sidetracked myself

http://i49.tinypic.com/azjtiw.png

oh, dammit! someone already posted it. anyway.

he will never look at his mother's pearl necklace the same way again

Then there are those requests that are legal but morally suspect, said Mario Buatta, who still feels guilty about designing a bedroom for the mistress of a man to match the bedroom he had already designed for the man and his wife.

“I didn’t realize he had a mistress,” Mr. Buatta said. “It wasn’t nice. I’m Italian! But I replicated the bedroom that was obviously done in a floral chintz. Curtains hanging from the ceiling. A trellis carpet. The husband felt comfortable in it, and I had that middle-class guilt. I could never face the wife. I felt very icky.”

inside Mario Buatta's apartment, where maybe the guilt isn't so middle-class:
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/nysdhouse/mario/P1400299-copy.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/nyregion/nepalese-pedicurists-must-overcome-aversion-to-strangers-feet.html?_r=2&src=rechp&pagewanted=all

Ms. Lewis was surprised when she was told that many Nepalese pedicurists were initially hesitant to touch strangers’ feet. She gestured to the woman ministering to her toes, which were separated by cotton balls, and said, “You would think she was born to do this.

:O

"I mean _I_ would at least"

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/travel/a-mother-daughter-spring-break-on-fisher-island-florida.html

I can't even believe that thing is real, it keeps taking a knowing tone for like two sentences and then...?!??

At least there we weren’t surrounded by drunken, half-naked college students racing Segways along Ocean Drive. “I know I sound like I’m 90,” Emma whispered, “but I just want them to put some clothes on and go to vocational school.”

ALESSANDRA STANLEY is the chief television critic for The New York Times.

Ta-Nehisi Coates defended the writing in that Stanley essay.

Meanwhile it's been raked through the coals here: http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/05/new_york_times_writer_discover.php

I was trying to figure out what college her daughter goes to - my guess is oberlin

I want to know what her kid was up to during the trip!

Also, she really missed out at this point:
I considered driving our golf cart off the villa grounds to the Golf Grill, overlooking the nine-hole course, but that, Emma said primly, would set a bad example of maternal drinking and driving.
..then she later talked about how the kid loved to drive the golf cart around. Uh, you have a built-in chauffeur, lady!

She also doesn't want her daughter to see her drink, I think you're forgetting.

The daughter also had a little piece:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/travel/5-tips-for-traveling-with-your-mother.html?ref=travel

I want to know what her kid was up to during the trip!

being a spoiled, sulky brat - ie. a teenager?

Also, I have a deep suspicion about this:
La Trattoria, a pizza and pasta place near the golf course that looked as though it belonged in a Scottsdale, Ariz., mall.

I would guess all rich white people leisure/retirement enclaves look pretty much the same, with the exception of the surrounding landscape, no matter where you go. tbf, there are parts of suburbs in most areas of the country that try to approximate this aesthetic.

Laurel, I mean her daughter could drop her off! She could feign sleepiness or something when the kid picks her up later, I don't fucking know. And exactly how "irresponsible" is letting your college student kid see you drink like an old woman? It's not binge drinking, so it's a relatively great role model experience

Daughter sounded pretty cool until the vocational school crack.

it's kind of thoughtful, college debt is a big deal these days

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/fashion/justin-ross-lee-party-animal-seeks-fame.html

kill it with fire

There’s also an endorsement deal. A few weeks ago, LugLess, a start-up that ships luggage for travelers, named him its spokesman. The company noticed his Twitter messages about lost luggage and high jinks in first-class cabins wearing pajamas.

“He flies about 200,000 miles a year and is always posting glamorous pictures of himself, and that works for us,” said Ben Luntz, a founder of LugLess. “Justin gets attention for better or for worse. He gets people talking.”

this is funnier and sicker when you think about it

ha, there are so many of these assholes in manhattan

occupy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/realestate/midtown-penthouse-at-one57-sells-for-new-york-record.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/05/21/business/men/men-popup.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/increasingly-men-seek-success-in-jobs-dominated-by-women.html

“I hated my job every single day of my life,” said John Cook, 55, who got a modest inheritance that allowed him to leave the company where he earned $150,000 a year as a database consultant and enter nursing school.
His starting salary will be about a third what he once earned, but database consulting does not typically earn hugs like the one Mr. Cook recently received from a girl after he took care of her premature baby sister. “It’s like, people get paid for doing this kind of stuff?” Mr. Cook said, choking up as he recounted the episode.

you've gotta be fucking kidding me re: "pink collar"

also, that dude has a wake-up call coming if he thinks nursing is all hugs

http://www.selectism.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/thomas-pink-spring-summer-2009-front2.jpg

^^ pink collar.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/20/business/pink-collar-opportunities.html

tbf there's a fair amount of hugs in most database consulting; this guy might just be a dick

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/face-time-leelee-sobieski/

This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: May 16, 2012
Sobieski was misquoted in an earlier version of the post. She likes heels, not flats, by Givenchy, Alaia, Pierre Hardy, Nina Ricci, Balenciaga and Dries van Noten.

idk man I'm not gonna make fun of that dude

"it's like, people get paid for this stuff?" is always low hanging privilege fruit dayo, don't be ashamed

Anastasia, do you have any idea how much money I make?”
I flush, of course not. “Why should I? I don’t need to know the bottom line of your bank account, Christian.”
His eyes soften. “I know. That’s one of the things I love about you.”
I gaze at him, shocked. Love about me?
“Anastasia, I earn roughly one hundred thousand dollars an hour."
Fifty Shades Darker, p. 78.

"earn"

"roughly"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/us/george-lucas-retreats-from-battle-with-neighbors.html?src=me&ref=general

poor people on the horizon!

The staunchest opponents of Lucasfilm’s expansion are now being accused of driving away the filmmaker and opening the door to a low-income housing development. That has created an atmosphere that one opponent, who asked not to be identified, saying she feared for her safety, described as “sheer terror” and likened to “Syria.”

"Syria"

quotes not really needed there, are they

http://i.imgur.com/hOYLA.jpg
Syria

lol

I thought maybe they meant syriana and it's a typo

likened to "Episode 1"

ha i think it's the right stylistic choice

otherwise i feel like the paper is getting on board w/ her sense of "what syria is like"

lucas should build this low income housing and name it "Syria"