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

she doesn't look very toned for a runner

why because her body is eating itself

barbara ehrenreich on the nouveau poor v. the already poor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14ehrenreich.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

phrase "recession porn" in first paragraph = tl;dr/going to vom.

They're blonde, they're in the Hamptons and they have a website.

"flouncy summer evening" and "Range Rover" in one sentence = stopped reading

started reading

that article was CONFOUNDING imo

I had to quit after that one chick wet herself naming a couple of designers.

this is the best example of the stuff in this thread i've seen yet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14food-t-000.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=chicken%20meatball&st=cse

unbelievable. dude moaning about having to shop at trader joe's and not being able to afford $14 bottles of milk anymore. god "cooking with dexter" is the most insufferable column in the paper.

I feel that article Ned posted didn't emphasize enough that the woman covering the Hamptons was, in fact, from Nebraska

everyone in new york is from nebraska - it's a given

The Onion headline could be something like: Sustainable Knitting Store Unsustainable

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Tuesday, June 9, 2009 8:04 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

from the article i just linked to

Buying sustainably raised beef and sustainably squeezed milk and sustainably hatched poultry is a way of life that, these days, I just can’t sustain.

omg cooking with dexter

i was thinking "this guy doesn't know how to cook" until i saw he is some kind of recipe guy

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/us/22smartphones.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/22/us/22smart.xlarge1.jpg

Very few companies have policies on smartphone use in meetings, which leaves it up to employees to feel their way across uncertain terrain.

unbelievable. dude moaning about having to shop at trader joe's and not being able to afford $14 bottles of milk anymore. god "cooking with dexter" is the most insufferable column in the paper.

This was horrible. He made it sound like Trader Joes was the absolute worst option available to him and the food was cheap and nasty -- he should write another column when his pay gets cut to the point when he has to shop at Aldi.

this is the best example of the stuff in this thread i've seen yet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14food-t-000.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=chicken%20meatball&st=cse

unbelievable. dude moaning about having to shop at trader joe's and not being able to afford $14 bottles of milk anymore. god "cooking with dexter" is the most insufferable column in the paper.

― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i dont understand how this even gets printed - ive never read this column before so idk what it's like but if this guys editor i get this column and go "yeah so what's the point" - this shit is why newspapers are dying - not only was this column printed on millions of papers but they paid two people to do a photo illustration which was also printed on millions of papers! to let us know that some jerk off can't afford organic cow milk or what the fuck ever anymore! - you have to be so wrapped up in yourself and yet so out of touch to write that column and then think that it's an acceptable piece of work

that smart phones article... they should honestly just blow up the new york times. just the whole building. did they ever write a "kids are texting during class! what do we do?" article or is that also coming?

i can't even mindlessly highlight text when im reading articles on the web site cuz then a window pops up giving me the dictionary definition of "the"

hahahaha ^ - i am so busted - have this exact problem

Your search for to invite peril. In Hollywood, both the Creative Artists Agency and United Talent Agency ban BlackBerry use at meetings. Tom Golisano, a billionaire and power broker in New York St returned 0 results. Find more information about this topic at Answers.com.

If you're that concerned about freshness, you can skip the Starbucks and bottled juices. I'm not knocking either, but both can easily be replaced by something fresher and cheaper.

Also, how can you run four miles a day without weight training? I can't run two miles several times a week without working on my quads, otherwise my knees will tear up.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/23/business/23wells-190.jpg

"We might have made $35 chicken soup, but we couldn’t quite face the prospect of a long-simmering stockpot on a Tuesday night. We get tired early these days."

i can't even mindlessly highlight text when im reading articles on the web site cuz then a window pops up giving me the dictionary definition of "the"

― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, June 22, 2009 7:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahahaha ^ - i am so busted - have this exact problem

― Tracer Hand, Monday, June 22, 2009 7:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

me too :/

This was horrible. He made it sound like Trader Joes was the absolute worst option available to him and the food was cheap and nasty -- he should write another column when his pay gets cut to the point when he has to shop at Aldi.

― Sir William of Joel (Nicole), Monday, June 22, 2009 6:41 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously. what i wouldn't give for a trader joe's!

trader joes has pretty shitty produce

ya but cheap wine

so

"hey guys, i made some chicken meatballs! take that, recession!"

also, "supermarket spices" oh heavens no god forbid

There's a Trader Joe's right across from where I work and up the road from where I live, along with a Mitsuwa and when absolutely necessary a 7-11 = covered for all eventualities.

i have a wicked green market a 10 min bike ride away and a really good grocery store around the corner so im not sweating it but i always dig going to tj's and checking out all their wild and woolly products

i got mad at him when he said "rich, life-affirming stock" because i hate when people talk about food like that

I hate reading about it from some douchebag, but then someone cooks for me on a cold night and because they love me and want to share fellowship & use up some shellfish, and I'm handed a bowl of amazing somethingorother made for me by hand and I feel like if I were dead, that food would bring me back from beyond the grave, and then words like "life-affirming", though still treading a fine line, do seem to apply.

ya i think life-affirming is a fine thing to say about food. i mean it's not really an exaggeration.

i kinda wanted to spit when dude lamented that he needed to use more spices because it was not flavorful enough when cooked simply, alice waters RIP

i would still get mad at you xp

Pretty sure I can live with that.

haha well food is certainly nourishing but to say that it affirms life is laying it on a bit thick -- it's not like he's acknowledging his place in the food chain, "this $35 chicken died so that we may live" sorta sentiment

i dunno man it affirms life 4 me

it's one of the things that makes life worth living + added bonus of actually keeping me alive

i mean if it isn't, what is?

i agree, but i understand that not everyone loves food as much as me

some ppl just eat because they have to

those people are kind of lame fwiw

eh i'm just being fussy over applying personality & agency to foodstuffs, if anything then "lifestyle-affirming" would be most appropriate here

Thinking baout spices, was just reading a critique of CS Lewis's characterization of the Calormenes, and I never realized but he makes a huge point of them smelling like garlic and onions to show their evil foreign-ness, and I guess Lewis was infamous for only approving of extremely bland English home-cooking!! The inherent evillity of the Oriental, the Muslim, the foreigner who eats funny. "I had to add lots of spices" guy can STFU for so many reasons.

I'm more disturbed at the idea of someone keeping stock in their fridge for weeks and diligently re-boiling it every three days TBH. Maybe doing this affirms something deep inside.

Yah, that's what your freezer is for I mean cmon dude.