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

Both are writers and care deeply about words as well as opera, cooking, stick-shift cars, modern design and swimming in cold water.

"care deeply" seems misplaced when applied to all these things at once

something hilarious i can't quite put my finger on about the repeat mentions of cars in this piece - maybe how they always get paired w/some more esoteric pursuit to round off the sharp edges/differentiate the guy from being a nascar fan

i care deeply about swimming in cold water

i care coldly about swimming in deep water

you would think that their lives would sound more exciting. they are young and rich and have traveled and they like to cook in cold water, but they both sound really boring.

i like to read between the lines. she was 16 in paris and he was 20 and he showed her a lot of "attention" and then she wrote him a letter saying that she couldn't go on without him and how she was 17 now and that felt so old and he got freaked out and thought he might get put in jail or something so he never responded to the letter but then they hooked up years later and everyone is happy, i guess. there is a lot they aren't telling us.

and yet there is too much that they are

they seem to have the interests of older people and to be rather serious about it? though from looking him up just now, writing a bio of robert cordier seems very worthwhile

her dress is cool

thankfully there is no mention of what makes them laugh, or the timbre of their laughs.

27-year old boring people writing memoirs should go on the innocuous things that inspire irrational hatred thread for me

I mean really these people belong on that thread

I think I thought about starting a nyt wedding announcement thread a long time ago but seems super low hanging fruit on this thread
The people I know irl who show up in that section are either legit upper crusty types or lower middle class strivers
I mostly just think this stuff is harmless and lol @ the thought of my wedding showing up there

My friend who married an Iranian-American lady was in there at some point. She apparently seemed more thrilled about having her announcement in the nyt than about getting married.

doesnt exactly fit but this paragraph is too ridiculous to pass up and so

“Younger Parisians are really into the New York food scene and the California lifestyle,” said Jordan Feilders, 28, who started Cantine California in March. “There’s a good trans-Atlantic food vibe going on Twitter and Facebook.”

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my cousin is the only person i know who got in the NYT weddings. she's fancy. and her husband is $$$.

"one on one at center court" ?!?

"Scott backs down his new bride in the paint."

dude, right in the sixers logo at center court. primo sixers wedding real estate.

doesnt exactly fit but this paragraph is too ridiculous to pass up and so

“Younger Parisians are really into the New York food scene and the California lifestyle,” said Jordan Feilders, 28, who started Cantine California in March. “There’s a good trans-Atlantic food vibe going on Twitter and Facebook.”

― lag∞n

'from the start his vision included cupcakes'

quiddities and grisly deaths of the yoga class

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/us/mysterious-yoga-retreat-ends-in-a-grisly-death.html?_r=1&hp

"kissing and genital touching"

Strange tales come out of the American desert: lost cities of gold, bandit ambushes, mirages and peyote shamans. To that long list can now be added the story of the holy retreat that led to an ugly death.

What is this I don't even

Erik Brinkman, a Buddhist monk who remains one of Mr. Roach’s staunchest admirers, said, “If the definition of a cult is to follow our spiritual leader into the desert, then we are a cult.”

It's probably close enough, best to avoid.

Was it a genuine spiritual enclave? What happened to drive Ms. McNally and Mr. Thorson out of the camp and into the wilderness? And just why, in a quest for enlightenment, did Mr. Thorson, a 38-year-old Stanford graduate, end up dead, apparently from exposure and dehydration, in a remote region of rattlesnakes and drug smugglers?

ugh just tell the goddamn story you fucking hack

mysterious

the actual story isn't nearly dramatic enough to justify that opening and would have been better served without the "Dateline"-esque "IT IS A SHOCKING MYSTERY" buildup

Even the manner in which Ms. McNally and Mr. Thorson left the retreat adds a fresh turn to an already twisty tale. It came days after she made a startling revelation during one of her lectures: she said that Mr. Thorson had been violent toward her, and that she had stabbed him, using a knife they had received as a wedding gift.

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Three times. I think that explains the mysterious death.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/bizarro-yoga-cult-death-in-the-desert.html?

the times wrote about these people in 2008!

Perhaps you remember reading, in 2008, a breezy article in the New York Times that described a kooky, blissed-out Buddhist couple of the unreconstructed hippie variety, who had pledged both to never be more than fifteen feet apart from one another, and also to be celibate. "They eat the same foods from the same plate and often read the same book, waiting until one or the other finishes the page before continuing," you may remember reading. Perhaps you thought ha, they're going to kill each other! and flipped idly from the "Home and Garden" section to "Sports" without giving it another thought.

They also talk about how they continue to struggle with each other’s wills. It is not an easy practice, even now. But they believe that the basic principles of karma and emptiness at the heart of Buddhism can improve any relationship.

A special joint-production of quiddities and ILP:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/fashion/the-midwife-becomes-a-status-symbol-for-the-hip.html?_r=1

Ms. Sellars is considered one of the more respected midwives in New York, and her patients have included opera singers, actresses, bankers and models like Ms. Turlington. (Disclosure: of the more than 1,850 babies that Ms. Sellars has delivered, my daughter was No. 1,727 and my son was No. 1,798.)

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/06/williamsburg-war-on-brunch.html

laughing uncontrollably at this:

Five Leaves, as well as the Lorimer street bistro Lokal, were both issued citations over the past several weeks for hosting outdoor tables on Sunday mornings. Mongell is scruffy, with a patch of a beard, and he left the meeting feeling agitated: “For me, it’s like people being forced to the back of a bus in the fifties. It’s like, why?”

In spite of money lines like that one, I have to say I side with the brunchers. Eating on the sidewalk is for the PEOPLE!

hahahah omg

Blacks in the 50s were like "why?"

I can't even

the civil rights battle of our time

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/27/08f26c032f8c50384ac95dbd20ff836b/l.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs

I go to to get brunch
And I sit outside
somebody keep telling me "don't hang around."
Its been along time coming
But I know a scone is gonna come, oh yes it will.

preach

i look at a grown woman wearing toddler velcro shoes and I'm like "why?"

I had brunch on the sidewalk, in a little tent
Looks like that brunch special's been runnin ever since

considering changing my dn to mimosa parks

Malcolm Eggs

amazing crepes

Muffin Luther King

Letter from a Williamsburg bistro