feel that rates a heyyooo but i'm on dopamine fast
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 9 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
kidding aside this is basically just Stupid Mindfulness right?which given that Mindfulness is already Stupid Mindfulness just ugh wash them all into the sea...
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 9 November 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
this is surely of a piece with restrictive diets/fasting, no fap, and the like as well? there's a christopher lasch style book or something here to be written about the protestant ethic (asceticism) adapting to a culture of abundance. almost a desperate attempt to rescue a sense of ego or control in the fact of the mounting evidence that we are not in control of our everyday behaviors, let alone our lives in general.
― ryan, Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
disappointing results herehttps://hairshirt.com/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
great now you've got my dopamine on overdrive
https://hairshirt.com/images/webtuxedo2.jpg
― maffew12, Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
Metropolitan Diary: Ticket TalkDear Diary:I was trying to buy tickets to “Slave Play,” and there was a problem with completing my order online. I called an 800 number to resolve the issue.The woman who answered was very helpful and we had a friendly, chatty exchange. Before completing the transaction she read me a warning: This play contains violence, sexual scenes, nudity, simulated sex, racism and violence.There was a pause.“Excellent,” I said quietly.We both started to laugh.— Bob Lohrmann
Dear Diary:
I was trying to buy tickets to “Slave Play,” and there was a problem with completing my order online. I called an 800 number to resolve the issue.
The woman who answered was very helpful and we had a friendly, chatty exchange. Before completing the transaction she read me a warning: This play contains violence, sexual scenes, nudity, simulated sex, racism and violence.
There was a pause.
“Excellent,” I said quietly.
We both started to laugh.
— Bob Lohrmann
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
Your Life or Your Livelihood: Americans Wrestle With Impossible Choice“your money or your life” was RIGHT THEREnot really house style though i guess
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 2 May 2020 11:39 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/realestate/a-high-end-building-that-seemed-ideal-for-young-performers.html
Their photograph takes this over the top.
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 2 May 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
Are we talking like, "The Raid" or "Escape from Cell Block 99"?
― Nhex, Saturday, 2 May 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
oops. wrong thread.
maybe not
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 2 May 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
so uh how is the sound deadening in new buildings like this? A baby grand ain't quiet.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 3 May 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
professional children
― forensic plumber (harbl), Sunday, 3 May 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
refers to being minnesotan twice in one article, that's so minnesotan
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
twin cities iirc
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 May 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
Correction: May 13, 2020An earlier version of this article inaccurately rendered a quote attributed to Yannick de Jager. He said the North Sea is "a fickle bitch," not "a thicker beach."
― rb (soda), Monday, 18 May 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
well, there's one way it could have been worse
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 18 May 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
Mr. de Jager must have a hell of an accent.
― rb (soda), Monday, 18 May 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
wtf is wrong with bari weiss
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 June 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
heckuva job, bennet-y
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
he's now claiming he didn't read it before it was published lol
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 5 June 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/style/cecil-b-demille-liquor-dusty-hunters-whiskey.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Eventually, he and a business partner, Steve Livigni, were spending 10 hours a day, every day, searching for bottles throughout California and Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. On one road trip they visited nearly every single liquor store between Detroit and L.A. “We later learned we were apparently hitting liquor stores in neighborhoods that are essentially considered war zones,” Mr. Moix said.Though they might be sheepish to admit it, dusty hunters have long believed that the more crime-riddled the neighborhood, the more liquor stores there are with cashiers standing behind bulletproof glass, the more likely they are to find great vintage scores. Mr. Ackerman has been nearly mugged a few times and once had a sawed-off shotgun held to his head when he peeked into the back room of a Koreatown liquor store and then started rifling through boxes without permission.
Though they might be sheepish to admit it, dusty hunters have long believed that the more crime-riddled the neighborhood, the more liquor stores there are with cashiers standing behind bulletproof glass, the more likely they are to find great vintage scores. Mr. Ackerman has been nearly mugged a few times and once had a sawed-off shotgun held to his head when he peeked into the back room of a Koreatown liquor store and then started rifling through boxes without permission.
― 📺👁️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
what does "nearly" being mugged mean?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Shocked that this guy had an owner flip out on him when he walked uninvited into a stockroom and started rifling through bottles of liquor
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
sounds like a real cool dude
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
A whole article about homebound CEOs learning to enjoy family dinner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/family-dinner-returns.html
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
Astonishing
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2020 06:53 (three years ago) link
To keep her children engaged at dinner, Ms. Blakely said her family had started playing games — in one, they all strike a pose during dinner when her husband yells “Freeze!” Sometimes, they play old records and the meal turns into a spontaneous dance party around the table.
kill me
When you confuse the #mannequinchallenge with parenting
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 12 October 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
the photos will be handy for eventual guillotine recon
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
The Wonder Woman and RBG art, brought in for just this casual moment... perfect.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 12 October 2020 08:39 (three years ago) link
Spanx uses sweatshop labor in Southeast Asia IIRC.
the columns where bret stephens and gail collins chat about the issues of the day are awful
― treeship., Monday, 26 October 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
You can slice that sentence in so many ways and every one is true
the columns where bret stephens and gail collins chat about the issues of the day are awfulthe columns where bret stephens and gail collins chat about the issues of the day are awfulthe columns where bret stephens and gail collins chat about the issues of the day are awful
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 26 October 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
how about that, trump gail? what a maroon.
you said it, bret.
― treeship., Monday, 26 October 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/nyregion/nyc-sidewalk-free-stuff-furniture-cabinets.htmlyeah! i mean, um.... whatever!https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opinion/unemployment-insurance-biden.html
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
lol at the NYT Columbusing stuff thrown on the sidewalk
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
"for some obscure reason, tens of thousands of homes in NYC have been suddenly emptied over the last year. you might find a west elm table!"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
tbf other (admittedly smaller/less dense) cities i've lived in have alleys or dumpsters or some better system; only in nyc is there just trash constantly on the sidewalk all the time
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
I think we built nearly an entire wall of a popular brand of high-end modular shelving from trash-picked sets back in the day. We bought one kit used to fill it out.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
for my first decade in the city, pretty much all my furniture but my bed was sourced from street shopping I took a full-size couch home on the subway once
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
Totally classic NYC move.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 25 February 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
I guess Twitter and a blue check is saving these ppls lives Bc if they weren’t engaged in something they’d drink all the cleaners under the sink or choke on small toy cars or w/e, but I resent having to see this and am sadly aware they have more money than me pic.twitter.com/VWDmbVtNWq— AD OFFICIAL PAGE (@atothe_d) February 3, 2021
― stilt in the wings (sic), Thursday, 25 February 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
it's a constant hellscape, m i rit guys?
http://i.imgur.com/N3L6Xr1.png
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/style/creators-selling-selves.html
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
I'm not even bothering to get around the paywall on this, the headline is a thread-locker:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/style/spending-rich-people.html
― rob, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
fucking hell
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
Bread lines grew longer, Birkin bags got hotter.
FUCK UUUUUUUU
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
ok dang I guess I should skirt the paywall that is really something
― rob, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
For months I've been getting ads for the 'own .0000001% of a Banksy!' company and wondered who was stupid enough to buy in to that - apparently 28-year old VPs of marketing.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link