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

Presumably it's somehow related to "bottom-energy"

Correction: Nov. 11, 2020
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of a cocktail served at Gitano Garden of Love. It is Jungle Fever, not Jungle Punch.

glad that got cleared that up

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/realestate/homeownership.html

Ms. Elliott, 36, and her husband, Spencer Elliott, recently moved from a rental apartment in a doorman building in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park to a three-bedroom house they bought for $465,000 in New Jersey’s Lake Hopatcong community. The couple spent a few thousand dollars replacing a broken refrigerator and furnace oil pump, and updating their fireplace and chimney for the season. A smart video doorbell, which cost $300, was also purchased, to help them adjust to no longer having a doorman to greet visitors or accept packages.

Tag yourself, I'm the amount of shade in "unanticipated but seasonal home maintenance."

subtract the pandemic part and you could run that story any year

the first things i did when we moved into our house was disable the ring doorbell's internet connection and camera

“ I got to the barn and first had to say hi to Tenny because she’s my princess unicorn, so she needs treats and kisses. Then I got to ride a Polly Pocket-size pony named Snickers. I had my lesson with my amazing trainer Vanessa”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/arts/television/zosia-mamet-flight-attendant.html

Kill me now

I stopped at Michaels because I needed a wreath hanger for our door.

the great leveler

h/t MatthewK

https://www.qantas.com/travelinsider/en/lifestyle/business/a-day-in-the-life-routine-professor-joel-pearson-unsw.html

poor zahana

I have black coffee – no sugar

ah i see

most importantly, playing with children benefits me

while at the same time being fun - it's win-win

this guy identifies himself as a "public intellectual" on his uni website

YALL COULDA WENT TO COSTA RICA BUT YA DUMBASS SAID Q!? 🤦🏾‍♀️ #WheelOfFortune

— Queen Mother Asantewa (@Tunacheckers) February 21, 2020

lol, wrong thread

That guy is a scientist the way Gwyneth Paltrow is a scientist.

The Brain.fm app has a good selection you can stream through your laptop; you just need headphones

such good advice

You can have his morning nicotinawhatever and resveratrol for only $4.20/day

https://www.bulksupplements.com/products/nicotinamide-mononucleotide-nmn?variant=32133357699183

headphones have been shown to increase music enjoyment, which produces MGN5, a sub-chemical component of i am a total dillweed

I know this guy is a type and there are surely no shortage of reference points out there for him but reading that really reminded me of the High Maintenance webisode Qasim (would link but I see the web series was moved behind HBO's paywall when they picked it up)

on assholes (specifically james bennet, mostly when he was at the atlantic): https://jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-career-in-prestige-media-because-of-the-shitty-men-in-charge-and-they-are-still-in-4963374ec6b8

wow.

jesus

not ny times related but mnuchin's wife's vanity project

Conservatives are getting better at displaying realistic human emotion and it’s making the left nervous https://t.co/bFFxpvR9ER

— Scout Tafoya (@Honors_Zombie) January 29, 2021

https://assets.fishersci.com/TFS-Assets/CCG/product-images/VN00020610-DCAP.JPG-650.jpg

oh my god, is that a lowkey remake of Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise?!?!?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/realestate/luxury-high-rise-432-park.html

last name Abramovich, primary residence is London, oil and gas fortune...

HMMM

there are a lot of oh hell no moments in that one but getting stuck in an elevator 1200 ft in the air is top of the list

for me it would be to feel the sway of the building during one of these recent insane windy storms while I stared out the window at clouds and rain. luxury!

so i just saw the NYT include the name of Mike Daisey's new monologue "What the Fuck Just Happened" in the internet edition which made me wonder how many times they've printed the word "Fuck" in the paper where it's not an excerpt and it's more often than you might think:
https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=true&query=fuck&sort=newest
including this humdinger of a typo
http://i.imgur.com/CHRq26k.png

"Mike Daisey's new monologue" a real world No Way SNA

That looks like a OCR error, not a typo. It was correct in the original paper.

xp

i meant a transcription typo

no fuchs left to give

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/sunday-review/covid-friendship.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR1D85wWVHzd5qnkob3z0hBYhFhHBNqMl8CCseOTiLISpK4ULc6Ao2TUYNk

features:
- managerialization (if that's a word) of friendship
- employing academic experts to explain normal human shit that everyone understands
- a san franciscan who joined a friendship "pod"
- excessive PMC navel-gazing

i'm not sure i have the emotional bandwidth rn

By Kate Murphy
Ms. Murphy has written several articles about various aspects of life during the pandemic, including why Zoom is terrible, why you should stop using toilet paper and why we’re all socially awkward now. She is the author of “You’re Not Listening.”
No shit

why you should stop using toilet paper and why we’re all socially awkward now.

Sentences where the assertion in the first clause answers the implied question in the second

lol

There must be something in the Times style guide that says "write each article as though everyone reading it either (1) makes at least $200,000 a year or (2) has parents who make at least $400,000 a year."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/business/starbucks-shortages.html

“Tasha Leverette with a guava green-tea lemonade at a Starbucks in Atlanta. Her favorite drink is a peach green-tea lemonade, but she hasn’t been able to get one.”

On the one hand, yes, this is a very first world thing to complain about and not at all worth a NYTimes profile interviewing disappointed customers, but at the same time (unpopular opinion ahead), I don't feel coming out of a global pandemic is the time to shit on people for missing their small comforts.

also starbucks regulars aren't the ruling class

Starbucks is basically just an upscaled Dunkin Donuts now. It's also an interesting lens through which to view larger global supply chain issues occurring right now.

Maybe more like frivolities and agonies of American consumerism, but not ruling class. Starbucks are in highway rest stops now - you see truckers getting coffee there.

I assume someone has written about how bad all the second-wave/Friends-era coffee places were, old charcoal beans and sugar - like if Blue Moon was at the head of the craft beer revolution.

haha, a semi-forgotten bit of my high school/early college past.

My first introduction to the concept of a latte/cappuccino was the beatnik coffee bar in So I Married An Axe Murderer I think.

I assume someone has written about how bad all the second-wave/Friends-era coffee places were, old charcoal beans and sugar - like if Blue Moon was at the head of the craft beer revolution.

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, June 10, 2021 10:53 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol this kind of place is a super-popular chain here called Beans and Brews. i call it pees and poos.