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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4qy2OAKF4k

im surprised they got so many ppl to talk about what a shitshow their marriages have become

― max, Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:27 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like talking openly about how sucky your marriage is has become a brooklyn ruling class thing, like they just dispense with that working class morals concept of not badmouthing their spouses.

fuck your tree stump in a bell jar.

or... what in hell is that?

there were so many stores like that opening up in the area around when we moved. There was this one TINY clothing shop called "Goose Barnacle" that was like "here is a rack with three plaid shirts. Each of them costs $250 dollars."

"Goose Barnacle" became a running joke with me and H -- a catchall term that we would use to describe any such seemingly useless vanity business.

fuck your tree stump in a bell jar.

The Wings get by with only one hired hand, which perhaps keeps the dynamic simpler.

I bet you'd get a different answer on that from the hired hand

hired hand, what does he do for them, feed the hogs

hired hand, how rustic

i get the noguchi ref here but i just like the many ways this can be said in one's head.

sloshed it around in my head a bit, now i keep wanting to: "tree stump in a bell jar, i know, i know, it's really serious"

running a small business as a couple is a lot harder when u live in Brooklyn, u guys...what with the cheese and the chinos and the antique leather boots

So wait, was that line about cheese being moldy really nothing but an awkward metaphor? I was really hoping for a tell-all on the shitty quality control lurking underneath the surface of hip local stores.

me too!

TELL ME ABOUT WRINKLED CHINOS

TELL ME ABOUT TAXIDERMIED PEACOCKS MARRED BY FUNGUS

Bloomberg gets in on the agonies game:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-03/no-joy-on-wall-street-as-biggest-banks-earn-63-billion.html

While there are things to celebrate for the senior professionals in these institutions, sadly I don’t think they do much celebrating,” Ralph Schlosstein, chief executive officer of New York-based boutique investment bank Evercore Partners Inc., said of the biggest financial firms. “The challenge they face is how to adjust to this new capital regime, and the new regulatory regime, and to earn an adequate return on equity. None of them have yet broken the code.”

hokay i suppose we must http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/fashion/new-yorks-literary-cubs.html?pagewanted=all

I was ready to look down on these people but if Jonathan Lethem is OK with them then they're OK with me

After earning a master’s and writing on a farm in upstate New York, Ms. Chapman returned to the city uncertain about what to do next.

Ms. Rosenfelt described meeting there as a form of “urban hacking.”

C'mon guys we already did that one when it was published last year

oh ha i knew it seemed familiar, people were complaining on twitter, assumed it was new

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/nbc-fuck-my-twenties-tumblr-tv-show/

i forget did that have its own thread

man that shit is horrible

The show is already being compared to Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy Girls, which basically has the same concept. is its sole reason for existing

u_u

I mean, any over-examined mixed feelings about LD assigned, this shit is so obviously not even in the same league

aw man i missed the literary cubs the first time around

"There was no thought of turning a profit. But who cared?"

Its breakout stars are even starting to climb publishing’s “ladder to nowhere.”

Atossa Abrahamian, 25, an editor, has written for New York Magazine. Sarah Leonard, 23, is an associate editor at Dissent. Mr. Harris, 22, who was sifting through grad-school rejection notices a year ago, has written for N + 1 and Utne Reader and has been called out by Glenn Beck on television.

"HARRIS! GET ME MY COFFEE!" - Glen Beck

I especially liked the N+1 namedrop. "After writing for the upstart just-out-of-college literary journal today, he ascended to the upstart just-out-of-college literary journal of three years ago"

On Wednesday, CBS picked up the rights to Hollywood Assistants, a GIF-reaction blog about working in the high-strung and stress-inducing city.

When I added up the collective follower counts of the people in the room, my little dinner party was potentially viewed by more people than watch “The Late Show” on CBS: over three million. (Granted, the guests included social media heavyweights like Om Malik, founder of the popular tech blog GigaOM, and Veronica Belmont, an online video host with 1.6 million Twitter followers.)

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/seeking-privacy-in-a-networked-age/?smid=tw-nytimes

in the home and garden section even:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/garden/tracking-family-with-gps-dont-forget-the-dog.html?_r=0

I slipped a GPS tracking device into my wife’s car before she headed off to work. I put another tracker in my 2-year-old’s diaper bag and sent him off to the nanny for the day. I still had a few trackers left, and my parents were in town, so I also threw one into their vehicle while they took my son out to the park.

Of course, I had never suspected any wrongdoing and, later on, when I reviewed the trails left by these GPS devices, they turned up nothing untoward.

By FARHAD MANJOO

Yes, why not announce to the world via nytimes article that you are one of the creepiest people alive.

*shakes hand with mailman*
*drops gps tracker in his mailbag*

wait what kind of person tweets photos of his friend's dinner party?

also that whole article (with photos) is just a big stealth brag about his stylish dinner aprty

An update on John McAfee - 3 years ago a rich entrepreneur being teased on ILX, now a crazed and armed paranoid in Belize: Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness

seriously this whole story is amazing

my best pal lance got awesome quotes in the times! so proud of him. and to think some people would have thought we were wasting our time watching all those horror movies together when we were kids.

“A lot of kids are terrified of Santa Claus when they go to meet him,” said Mr. Vaughan, who watches “Silent Night, Deadly Night” every Christmas. “They’re told all year that there’s this guy judging them. He’s basically a home intruder, and you have no control over that. He comes in while you’re sleeping. Kids are warned about strangers, but then they’re taken to a department store and sit on the lap of someone they don’t know. That would give anyone pause.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/movies/ho-ho-homicide-killer-santa-is-back-in-silent-night.html

not quiddities but i didn't know where to put it.

scott, I love Uncle Lancifer and Kindertrauma. I want to watch every movie he and Aunt John write about!!

you know they just got married for real. i couldn't go. very proud of him though.

Aww.

not sure where else to put this
boy do i hate these people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=2a5pWMZxlIA

hahaha we're shopping IRONICALLY
isn't it SURPRISING that there's a line here
hahahahaha it's okay, they gave some money to the guy who owned the 99 cent store he is a minority it's okay
man SUBVERSIVE i know right right