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

DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE

lmao wtf

Saying you are "locked in" to a lifestyle is just a way of saying "I don't want to give up my lifestyle" while avoiding the sense of personal responsibility that "I don't want" entails.

kinda how i'm feeling about listening to michael jackson music right now tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1oha8aX4AIGPGh.jpg:small

Signed, Aghast Lucrezia

Lucrezia would be a good name for a ghast in a fantasy novel.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/son-defends-parents-caught-in-college-admissions-scandal-while-smoking-blunt/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons

http://i.imgur.com/HCY9393.png

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/nyregion/gentrification-one-percent-manhattan.html

omg, this line made me want to vomit

Every morning at 8 o’clock sharp, the jackhammering begins. All day long the drilling and banging and beeping go on. Only on weekends and the holidays of the politically potent — Christmas and Rosh Hashana, for example, but not Martin Luther King’s Birthday — does it cease. It was supposed to end last December, then in February, then this month. Now, they say, it could last all summer.

this is full of gems. good find.

Debby Brown, who has lived on the block for 50 years. Ms. Brown says her dog, Dorian Gray, has been prescribed a tranquilizer because of the noise.

Ms. Beauvoir is a Haitian-American jazz singer. She’s married to Pierre Bastid, a 64-year-old Moroccan-born Frenchman who made a fortune in energy, and recently dabbled in Alpine hotels, restaurants and pharmaceuticals. He has also been a trustee at Juilliard, and has endowed a scholarship there for struggling jazz musicians. In 2015, the couple, who live primarily in Brussels, helped produce “Living on Love,” Renée Fleming’s short-lived Broadway debut.

Ms. Beauvoir has described herself as a mambo, or voodoo priestess

Man, I really don't have neighbors like this in queens

I know that violinist! Bummer that ran her outta there.

The one pcters are in our midst more than we know, they just are good at dressing down

just to back up a sec, is the writer trying to imply that Martin Luther King's bday is an African American holiday, the way Christmas is Christian and Rosh Hashana is Jewish? Because, if so, oof.

they're implying that white christians and jews have influence that african americans don't i think

it's kind of an insane juxtaposition though

yeah I got it but it's kinda o_O, especially since MLK day is not an african american holiday

i mean yes it does read like martin luther king's birthday is a holiday in the african american religion but i don't think that's the intention

Anna Sorokin, the fake heiress accused of being a society scammer, was found guilty. There is an Instagram account devoted to her style in court. Our chief fashion critic @VVFriedman explains why courtroom fashion actually matters. https://t.co/oskPoRuiXF

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 28, 2019

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i pasted in a url from their link-shortener, you goon

This is just an editing issue, but am I wrong that this should be "coffeeshop talk"? I feel like I'm going crazy.

The raisin industry runs on what Mr. Overly calls “coffee shoptalk,” which is to say, gossip.

Mr. Overly does not believe that Mr. Barserian was behind the threats; only that he knew they had been made. “Did Kalem know?” he said. “I would presume that he would because of, he knows everybody, right? And the coffee shoptalk will get that stuff out there. So I would assume that he’d heard about it. But I can’t verify that.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/style/sun-maid-raisin-industry.html

diff between

coffee shoptalk
raisin shoptalk
coffeeshop talk
coffeeshop shoptalk

lockerroom raisins

Talk among yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Coffee shoptalk is neither a form of shoptalk nor an activity that involves drinking coffee, discuss.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/travel/Nobu-Ryokan-Malibu.html

"A ryokan in name only"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/style/generation-xers.html
immensely lame

On Nov. 16, 1987, when the 20-year-old “Cosby Show” star Lisa Bonet eloped with the singer Lenny Kravitz, it was black Gen X point zero for rule breaking, style making and boundaries shaking.

It's cold outside and my hands are dry
Skin is cracked and I realize
That I hate the sound of guitars
A thousand grudging young millionaires
Forcing silence sucking sound
Forced into this conversation

So I say shine let your planets collide
This is the darkening down of my mind
We could be making it oiling like crime
We could be making it staking last dimes
If you want to seize the sound
You don't need a reservation

Now if you want to seize the sound
You don't need a reservation

The torch is passed it's yours to return
Lay at their feet now use it to burn
For marketing the use of the word generation
A false alliance of money persuading
Forcing silence sound sucking
Forced into this conversation

Now if you want to seize the sound
You don't need a reservation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html

Gratifying review

I find Giridharadas's public persona irritating about 85% of the time but this is exactly the context in which I'm into it.

Yikes. Won’t hurt sales, tho.

maybe giridharadas should review thomas friedman's columns

yeah i posted it because it felt like one section of the paper reviewing another

That's a good review, but I remember liking Guns Germs and Steel a lot at the time and thinking it seemed like a pretty sound theory -- are there any good critiques of it worth reading?

I recently signed up for the NYtimes cooking / recipe box feature. The comment section is awesomely A&Q, and I can't tell which comments are trolling and which ones are sincere. Here are some reader responses from a salad dressing recipe posted by Samin Nosrat. I like to imagine the voices of the people who wrote them:

"EssieDee1 day ago / The best green salad in the world? I had a better one in St. Remy De Provence in 2012 . . ."
"David o.5 days ago / Did a very Canadian thing. Instead of honey, added maple syrup. Added a nice touch, it did."
"Dora1 week ago / To claim that most Italian extra virgin oil is adulterated while Greece, Lebanon and Spain’s is pure is simply untrue and irresponsible as it damages the reputation of so many honest small Italian oil producers. The entire industry is plagued with abuse and buyer beware from whatever provenance. I have to laugh at the Lebanon reference from personal knowledge."

Metropolitan Diary: Turn It Down

Dear Diary:
In fall 1999, I was single and I decided to have a party where single men and women could meet. The caveat was that everyone I invited had to bring an equally unattached friend, presumably someone they were not romantically interested in.
The party was a great success, and at around 10 p.m. the doorbell rang. I opened the door to two men dressed in dark clothes. I introduced myself as the hostess.
“Come on in, gentlemen,” I said. “The party is just getting started.”
The older of the two stepped forward.
“Excuse me, ma’am,” he said. “We’re from the 20th Precinct, and we had a noise complaint from one of your neighbors.”
I started to offer to turn the music down while apologizing for any inconvenience when the younger of the two officers stepped into the apartment. To my surprise, he took my hand and started dancing with me.
We danced until the song ended. The officer leaned toward me.
“I’m getting off at 11,” he said, before asking whether he could come back after his shift ended.
“Of course,” I said. The officers left.
Around 11:30, the younger officer returned. He ended up being one of the last guests to leave.
— Melaney Mashburn

wake up, melaney!!!

Another real estate one, starring two Vice staffers
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/30/realestate/30hunt-conti.html
Guess which one they chose.

most expensive of course. Damn, $3800 a month, and vice pay is notoriously low (although maybe exec editor is an exception). DINKs.

wau i would live in Clinton Hill over Bed-Stuy in a heartbeat

i assume these are 1BRs? lmaaaaaao

it's all broken

rare that I have a chance to feel better about my rent tbf

xxxp they had a wedding announcement in the times, one of them has a trust at least?

It says they were looking for a 2BR. The Clinton Hill one had an extremely fucked up layout so I don't blame them for not taking it -- the one bathroom was literally outside the unit and you had to walk through someone else's place to get to your own due to some kind of shared staircase. Can't really blame them for not wanting that. As much an indictment of how insane NYC real estate is as Q&A of the ruling class. But at the same time, (1) fuck your need to live in a "classic brownstone" and (2) just fucking move to queens.

ah i see now. 2BR is much more realistic for that money.

I don't care how small the apartment was, giving up getting to walk to work is weird but they are young I guess.