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

caring for a father with dementia kinda levels out the quid/ag quotient somewht

yeah I agree that took me out of it a little, but I mean:

The Fieldens lived for a month with friends, and then moved into a rental apartment, followed by another rental in a farmhouse. They threw themselves into the quagmire of insurance and cleanup that follows a disaster. When it became clear that the most pragmatic thing to do was rebuild the house — not an easy or joyful decision, they said, because what you really want to do after a catastrophic fire is walk away — Robert Dean and Jesse Carrier, the architect and designer who had rehabbed the house in 2007, helped them with this rebuild.

“The object becomes, how do we create a place that reflects who we are but doesn’t own us,” Ms. Fielden said.

Her husband added: “Or put us in debt.”

This time around, there is a lot more Ikea, Ms. Fielden said, than “Jesse is probably used to.”

Built by James Evans, a protégé of Louis Kahn, the house had all the optimism of its period, as Mr. Dean put it recently, “when architects thought they had made a breakthrough to a fresh new time.” It had all the drawbacks as well: tiny bedrooms, cheap materials, awkward connecting spaces. So the new house, into which the Fieldens moved last summer, is a nearly perfect design — open and light, yet private and safe — seasoned as it is by their experience.

Not all their belongings were ruined. Mr. Fielden saved half of his books, along with artwork by Irving Penn and by his own children, and some family furniture. Ms. Fielden’s Madam Alexander dolls, which Mr. Fielden’s mother painstakingly cleaned up and now live in Eliza’s room, have only slightly blackened eyes.

not the times but http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-03/11/top-tables-new-york-restaurants-dining-scene/viewall

going to the right restaurants is at least as important as going to the right schools.

You're a bore and rube if you haven't eaten where everybody has eaten.

'boor' nor 'bore' iirc

not*

ugh

i think' bore' works there because british

boar

A world where eating out is more life or death than ER surgery

dude seriously.

this guy has no idea where to eat in new york, clearly.

lol

my takeaway is that i need an assistant

disgusting savages

no matter how far flung your neighborhood is, there are no ethnic foods and local diners? suuuuure

hah i know there are ethnic foods and local diners in every neighborhood

but i guess metaphorically or something there are not

but are they WORTHY, lagoon.

no obvs not you would of course drop some one who brought you there

"WTF is this dark, small place? YOU'RE DROPPED!!!" - overturns table, storms out of diner

I dunno what it says about me that at least half of my favorite places to eat are a) dark and b) small

I guess I'm dropped, in life

ur dropped sry

;_;

older manhattan residents trekking to brooklyn looking confused excited and out of place is a real and kinda funny thing tho, you just want to say to them you know its not really any better right

You're a bore and rube if you haven't eaten where everybody has eaten

Ironically, saying something like this makes you about as boring (and boorish) as they come. And also a rube.

boorish, rubbish

hate the game not the player xp

I dunno what it says about me that at least half of my favorite places to eat are a) dark and b) small

wrong thread

Modern life has become a three- and often four- or five-meal-a-day restaurant habit. There is the breakfast meeting. At one time, egg-white-only breakfast meetings were a behaviour limited to fat cats - but fat-cat rituals are what we all emulate. So now it's unthinkable for the rest of us to begin a day without a breakfast meeting (the most important meeting of the day). We are all would-be entrepreneurs, or creative collaborators, or producers of you-name-it, trying to woo potential partners over porridge.

what the hell is this guy talking about

"yeah so this taqueria is like a super exclusive place, it's wicked hard to get a table but i know the owner so it's cool yeah there he is YO WHAT UP DAWG HOW U DOIN" *daps*

if i had to have breakfast meetings id prob write columns that read like suicide notes too

the more i think about this piece, the better it gets, especially when read in the voice of grandpa simpson.

im imagining it written in the locked bathroom of a restaurant michael wolfe couldnt get a reservation to, the staff are banging on the door saying the restaurant is full try coming back after 1030

spinoff thread idea: people who should be carpet bombed

that entire article is hilarious and the best unintentional self-parody of the year

there are, I understand, four levels of the McNally rating system, with his old girlfriends at the bottom and Jude Law at the top

I refuse to believe he didn't write this as to mean that Jude Law is fucking his old girlfriends

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with-less-a-lot-less.html?smid=pl-share

member of the ruling class had a quiddity, solves it, wants to help u solve ur quiddities too

I agree with the premise but could it have been more annoyingly delivered

all u need is a babe a laptop and tons of money is p otm

my babe folds into my wall in my studio

My circumstances are unusual (not everyone gets an Internet windfall before turning 30),

fyi I'm kind of a big deal

"the black turbocharged Volvo...with a remote starter!" is really where the lols began to set in, imo

u can travel all u want as long as u buy carbon offsets

how much are asshole offsets

and just in case you missed it the firt time, once more with feeling: I’m lucky, obviously; not everyone gets a windfall from a tech start-up sale.

"show of hands: who here has an internet windfall"

You should figure out how to stop living in a house, and instead jet around the world with your girlfriend, selling companies from your laptop. It's pretty sweet.

I gave an old lute I haven't played in years to a friend. This is fun. Now I'm almost done, and it is really true that less is more.

pshh, she'd never see u if u had no lute.

step 1: find beautiful lady
step 2: ?
step 3: success + tiny house