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

extra lol:

I also didn’t like the photo because in reality my wife is much more attractive than she appears in that photo.

affluenzperger's

Back when I was in academia and enamoured by writers like Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler

I checked out here

il n'y a pas de hors-texte: a new approach

mah wahf

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html
easily applies to everyone

"To be sure, the ability to nap at work is far from widespread, experts said."

does this count as a quiddity or agony? because i'm agonized https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/fashion/weddings/may-december-couple-marc-wallack-cynthia-zhou-.html

As 45 year age differences go, that is surprisingly not-creepy.

The 2.6-carat diamond thing was uh something, I'm not sure what

the actual phrase, for reference:

“I didn’t really know what she liked,” he said. So he described their relationship, including the age difference, to salespeople and came away with a 2.6-carat solitaire — a nod to Ms. Zhou’s age at the time, 26.

this really sounds like the jeweler is the most cynical fucker on the planet, good for them

"I'm Rich, and That Makes Me Anxious"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/your-money/wealth-anxiety-money.html

"My Asshole, Let's Contemplate It"

wonder why they don't have commenting on that article...

Not NYT but irresistible nevertheless

https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/christiana-molina-and-paul-hieberts-wedding-album.html

"Christiana traveled to Paris for fittings with her Lebanese designer, who helped her re-create a look inspired by a 2005 Annie Leibovitz Vogue cover. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html

my first Dowd article and it's **kisses fingers** in its stupidity.

I highly recommend the Dowd article where she ignored the Colorado weed barista and ate an entire chocolate bar and spent the night thinking she was going to die.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html

it was more that she never asked and assumed the single serving was one bar, but yeah, peak Dowd

now that I think about that, they usually label the hell out of those things

"wow, I know nothing about marijuana but I've got a deadline, better eat this whole thing and get this show on the road!"

the reefer madness bit is pretty lame too. But tbf, first time I ate a pot brownie I felt like someone had turned off the gravity, and they are probably stronger now.

I'm more sympathetic / horrified by edible overeating after seeing how other states do things compared to Washington. In WA everything was strictly in 10mg "doses", like 1 cookie = 1 gummi bear = 1 bottle of weed infused soda; in other states I've seen like one small cookie that's 300mg by itself. It might be labeled prominently but if you have no idea what that label means you could get fucked easily.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/ottessa-moshfeghs-otherworldly-fiction

From the New Yorker, but she and her boyfriend sound truly insufferable.

I am deeply mistrustful of people who don't give a shit about having a superiority complex.

I'm not going to read that but I liked Eileen, even if it was a little repetitive

Clearly you did not like Eileen as much as Eileen's author liked Eileen.

does it say in that article that she wrote it by scrupulously following the advice in "The 90 Day Novel" which her agent foisted on her after getting fed up with her inability to write something at length that had a structure? cause that's what happened (and kind of endeared me to her, tbh)

She couldn't write a decent novel, yet she had an agent?!

i think she had written stuff for magazines, high brow reviews etc - as in the art world, she had been noticed by the "right people". a smart agent is like in investor, they buy low

Huh, maybe my bar is high but I was hoping for way more insufferability from that profile than I got.

Apparently, they've run *three* stories on Alan Dershowitz this week, including two on the Martha's Vineyard affair.

LOL, the NYT ran yet *another* profile of Alan Dershowitz in its Sunday edition. https://t.co/EKOvtwL52F

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 8, 2018

Wow he got old

Yeah I would not have recognized him!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiVH_oAUwAAlaUe.jpg:small

Living In New York City On Living In New York City On $25/Hour5/Hour

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

wait, why is there a National Depression hotline warning at the end of thi-- you know what, never mind

also i had to look up what a "Brazilian sugaring" is. charming stuff
at least she realizes the value of Moviepass

goddamn and she's still bilking her roommate. $1950 to live in the den!

without outright doing the math it looks like the money + benefits she receives from family is more than her total "income."

the benefits she receives from her family are more than I've ever made

We finally sit down at a lovely table outside. Z. and I order two small pizzas and a grilled calamari appetizer to share. I tell her that there's no chance we leave without getting some free stuff. I suggest to the waiter that he brings us some wine on the house, and he does. He also brings us a panna cotta dessert with our check. $36.62

Great, I'm a Maoist now.

let's ask BradN what I'm allowed to call this... comfortable young lady

In general I object to unpaid internships but based on her description of her workday I am comfortable suggesting that this person, at least, should not be getting paid for her internship

I'm sure she goes to a public university that has reasonable tuition, right?

hahaha just kidding

let's ask BradN what I'm allowed to call this... comfortable young lady

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 17, 2018 1:03 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"allowed" jfc

take it to the second thoughts thread imo

She spells parents “payrents”

she must be saving a lot of money by not eating any food

i bet her name is Paisley

or Paysley

Jennifer, her parents were Friends fans.