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

wtf

Are they just fucking with us at this point?

oh man

I was a tourist and I had the entire subway route worked out in like 25 seconds

haha that's a sidebar to the wythe avenue pool party story

tbf you speak english and were too lame to fancy a pint xp

lol, I didn't think anyone cared enough tbh

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/garden/emma-koenigs-so-called-redacted-life.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Ugh, what is supposed to be charming about 24-year-olds who talk about their lives like they're Cathy

there is gonna be a meeting at a production company in which everyone discusses how to animate & flesh out this into a half hour show

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jl6j7VUI1qjm1zlo1_400.jpg

if you think that article is bad you need to look at her tumblr

all the intimacy of postsecret combined w/the searing generational critique of marmaduke

She recalled the confusion on the face of the manager at the East Village sandwich shop where she was working at the time when she told him that she needed a book leave and that she was moving back to her parents’ house in New Jersey. “He was like, ‘O.K., whatever,’ ” she said.

if anyone in any context said the words 'i need a book leave' the only appropriate response is 'O.K., whatever,' tbh

Maybe pour your coffee over their head.

and halfway through it's casually dropped that her brother is in vampire weekend..!

it is so hard to picture these being generated outside of a sandwich shop, numbed by a shift, reduced to just voicing fleeting thoughts with whatever stationery was available. i can't imagine being on book leave, at a desk, with a coffee cooling and a sharpened pencil & then drawing these.

wait she asked for "book leave" at a fucking SANDWICH SHOP

maybe if the book thing takes off she can be emeritus

ha ha. i feel really bad being biting about this, i looked through some more, they are just bad. they seem very lazily calculated though. i know this is obvious but it is a weird counterpart to a bunch of the charges levied against lena dunham, in that some of the specifics are very similar just w/the quality of the work being infinitely lower.

"She recalled the confusion on the face of the manager at the East Village sandwich shop where she was working at the time when she told him that she needed a book leave and that she was moving back to her parents’ house in New Jersey."

This sentence is terrible! It's amazing NYT doesn't copy-edit this shit.

Banal anxieties
- become -
[ squiggly ] IMPORTANT [ /squiggly ]
when you write them in
different styles

Hallmark Cards
***are***
EDGY
because
they're on my
$$$BLOG$$$

brb, taking a sabbatical from the hot dog stand

these kids are so unprepared by their parents for life, and then their parents hire them publicists for their blogs about how unprepared they are for life

^ please scrawl this on a post-it

make sure the last word is distractingly off-centre

can someone do some handwriting analysis on this tumblr to confirm its author's terrible personality

my generation also had embarrassing sex and did demeaning jobs and had no hope for the future; we just didn't really have blogs or publicist
so i got a blog and became a publicist
i am part of the problem

^1st post from genxbacklash.tumblr.com

a $10000 advance.

is that a big advance for a first time writer these days? Small? I have no idea.

She recalled the confusion on the face of the manager at the East Village sandwich shop where she was working at the time when she told him that she needed a book leave and that she was moving back to her parents’ house in New Jersey. “He was like, ‘O.K., whatever,’ ” she said.

if anyone in any context said the words 'i need a book leave' the only appropriate response is 'O.K., whatever,' tbh

― johnny crunch, Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha srsly, just fyi lady whatever isnt generally employed to conote confusion

$10000 worth of anything for writing your bullshit post-millennial life down on paper is bigger than anything needs to be

these kids are so unprepared by their parents for life, and then their parents hire them publicists for their blogs about how unprepared they are for life

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:18 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boom

that reminded me A LOT of the part in tiny furniture where Lena Dunham works as a day hostess for like a week and then is all "OOOOHHHMYGOD I JUST REALIZED THAT THIS ISN'T WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE!!!!"

the sandwich shop thing, xp

damn i must have some idiotic book idea just waiting to be harvested in my sporadically functioning brain

Kevin Rowland: Yeah… Well I thought a little joke might be a good idea, Just to sort of, I d’know, kick off the proceedings, as it were, y’know.

Billy Adams: Oh yeah!

K: What d’you think?

B: Yeah, go on!

K: Good idea?

Helen O’Hara: Does anybody know one?

K: Yeah… You ever hear the one about the em, y’know the middle class idiots who, who sort of spend all their time analysing their own emotions and writing bullshit poetry, y’know, that we’re supposed to read…

(Some snorts of laughter)

As if we’re fucking interested…

(more laughter)

B: That’s a good one!

K: You like that one, yeh?

B: Where’d you hear that one?

K: errrm…

B: Did you make it up yourself?

K: No, no, it’s a true story, that one.

(Shouts of disbelief)

K: Honestly it’s true! I didn’t make it up!

(Laughter)

no one is talking about that this article was written by someone named Penelope Green

morbs can we start some tumblrs of your ideas except pretend theyre written by 20 somethings, we can use pictures of max and iatee maybe

sounds like some JT Leroy shit

exactly what i was thinking! serendipity! its a sign

in classic quiddities fashion this story also appears to be about the sister of the vampire weekend singer.

its the foer brothers all over again

the blog is terrible but from a "i'm gonna get a book and tv pilot deal" it's fucking perfect, so i have trouble finding myself hating

what's with this part of the article where the writer spends four paragraphs acting like "fuck" is some egregious curse word or something

jordan this is not a thing that is difficult to hate

i don't have any trouble hating but i'm having a lot of trouble working up the energy to try to be funny about it

the tumblr blows, the nyt profile blows, the fact of its existence blows

see that's why she makes the big money, a real work ethic