smart, well-educated, sophisticated, tall, and according to Wikipedia helped develop a shark repellent to keep sharks from setting off mines
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i think thats from the early part of her life, when she first moved to france and fell in love with food but didnt really know what she was doing
― max, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont know if the "whee" part is true-to-life
it seems wrong to give someone space in the back of the times magazine to talk about his important experience, as a presumably non-autistic grown man, of how not to get along with neighbors.
haha thats how that thing always seems to work ~ like the one before this one was a dude thats like 50 coming to the groundbreaking realization that while its foolish and limiting to be overcautious lyfe is still dangerous and bad things can happen, even if they usually dont. also that he doesnt no how to work his kids car seat
― she looked like blanka from sfII but chubbier (Lamp), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasnt she a spy?
― mayor jingleberries, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
she comes across as totally confident and awesome and someone i'd wish i'd known in this movie
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly it's like two seconds of a TV commercial, what do I know, but it seemed to be going for empathy between the modern light-film viewer and Julia Child in that kind of romantic-comedy way that often makes women relatably inept -- which is fine, male and female characters both get the "relatably inept" thing, but Julia Child going "whee I cooked something" and clapping (possibly while surrounded by dismissive-looking male students) seemed a tad much.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yay, s1ocki, glad to know it's just the ad!
tell you what, when i cook a Beef Bourguignon the first time, i'm clapping and saying whee, too. and i'm a badass.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
In her haste, she said, she looked up the dates for two big stories that Cronkite covered — the assassination of Martin Luther King and the moment Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon — and copied them incorrectly.
I hate to be that guy, but not knowing these two dates off the top of one's head kinda boggles my mind.
― I am moving on baby, I am moving on (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, August 3, 2009 11:02 AM
It's good that you're rainman and all but you need a bit of a reality check on this.
― musically, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i think those dates are supposed to be seared into old people memory, like 9/11/2001 or 11/12/1955.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
When a "great" newspaper hemorrhages money, pity the poor editorial skeleton crew.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
On the "Ralph Kramden":
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fashion/13POTBELLY.html?_r=1&ref=fashion
― it's like i have a couple worked up orc dicks under my arms (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the “coolios” of now
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Even for hipster jerks it's all about the president.
― it's like i have a couple worked up orc dicks under my arms (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
coolsters
― mark cl, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The risible Joe Nocera writes an all-too-believably idiotic column about the Post Office. His take? Its pesky obligations to its employees are absurd, with no grounding or justification, and universal service is unnecessary anyway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/business/08nocera.html
But this is the real kicker. According to Nocera, the real reason the USPS is suffering is the Internet. Why would that be, you ask? Can one send a halogen bulb or hardback via email now?
Well, no. He says that email means no one sends personal letters any more. It's all just junk mail! Aunt Fannie doesn't pen personal thank-you notes any more, so the USPS has a multimillion dollar deficit!
Question - did Nocera ever stop - just for a second - to think that Internet shopping might INCREASE Post Office revenue?
He even mentions that 2006 was when the USPS handled its highest volume of mail ever! I guess 2007 was the year Aunt Fannie stopped writing. I don't know.
Oh, and he bigs up his own column in this piece of advertising, disguised as his "blog":
http://executivesuite.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/lets-outsource-the-post-office/
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
the post should get in on the actionhttp://www.nypost.com/seven/08132009/news/regionalnews/pedro_kin_no_show_no_no_184356.htm
― kamerad, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
1 - that's in the Post2 - that's actually exposing the ruling class as a bunch of looting layabouts
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
man ive been rocking the beer belly since high school
― max, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
So hip.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
middle-aged dads finally have their moment in the sun
― velko, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
omg, this is terrific: ever since I moved and gained like 10 pounds I've been all bummed that all my old shirts look a little, umm, pronounced around the center -- little did I know that I was just CUTTING FUCKING EDGE
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm so breaking out all the tight t-shirts I stopped wearing and having this article screen-printed on them
whaaa that article is insane even by style section standards
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
let's not question it, dude, the newspaper of record is saying it was cool and stylish of me to eat too many Cheez-Its
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
as long as you're not a woman, it's okay ...I want the NYT style section to say it's cool for me to eat too many Cheez-Its.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
isn't "style" NYT code for "gay?"
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Well the article sez it isn't going to happen so I would give up that dream.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
a dream of eating Cheez-Its deferred ...
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
A Snack Of One's Own
― Hulg ElfR.I.P.per (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
to be honest though I think a better analysis of what they're looking at is this: there are now lots of guys around here old enough to be developing guts who still wear t-shirts most of the time. (unlike older guys whose guts are under tucked-in shirts.) I suggest a business-section tie-in article about the big market opportunity in designing gut-accommodating clothes for skinny guys with sticky-outie bellies who are around 30 and still mostly wearing what they did when they were younger.
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp If a skinny woman gets elected president though you might be able to get a little junk just to be contrary. We all know how hipsters love to be contrarians.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
let us not forget the oh-so-edifying Sloane Crosley article about how white girls with big asses were "in"
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I had forgotten about that article. When was that? Are they still in? sarahel you might be able to eat Cheet-Os after all.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i would like to be "in" white girls w/big asses HELLO
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, but you aren't a Style of the Times writer so who cares what you think.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
judging by NYC subway fashion this season, I'd say asses are "out" and legs are "in"
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
What a relief! I was worried that in order to be stylish and cool, all women had to adopt the practices of that kooky breatharian lady ...
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
parents are assholes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/dining/19soft.html?hpw
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
“There used to be this image that was wholesome and cool,” Mr. Semanko said. But these days, in Tacoma, there is a guy in an old mail van with no shirt on, smoking a cigarette, he said. “I heard one kid complain that the guy actually burped on him. That’s creepy to people.”
― herb albert, Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Ms. Reiley didn’t mind buying him a treat, occasionally. But the truck — called Here’s Frosty — parks outside her door on most sunny days around 4:30 p.m. and wakes her son from his nap. “Then he’s up, plastered against the window, yelling: ‘Music truck! Music truck!’ ” Ms. Reiley said. “Sometimes he grabs his little bank and says, ‘I have money.’ ”
That's cute as hell.
― Shakim O'Collier (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Ice cream is one of only two ways that I can get dairy into my kid and totally indulge him whenever the opportunity presents itself. Unfortunately, our ice cream guy speeds down the streets and is notoriously difficult to catch. We are mostly certain that he is a drug dealer.
― Shakim O'Collier (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 20 August 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
“I fall into the camp of parents who are irate,” Ms. Sell said. She has equal disdain for Mister Softee and the ice cream pop vendor outside the park, but since they are licensed, there is not much she can do about them.
“I feel kind of bad about having developed this attitude,” she said. “I want Katherine to have the full childhood experience and all. But it’s really predatory for them — two of them — to be right inside the playground like this.”
Jesus christ lady
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
more evidence that someone at the NYT really wishes they wrote for the Onion.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
for the record mister softee is one of the things i've missed most fiercely since leaving NYC
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i can accept that some kids can put up quite a tantrum but isn't dealing with that behavior part of your responsibility as a parent?
god forbid people who sell frosty treats set up in locations full of their target customers
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLNc5Kk3YKc
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
wait'll they see what's for lunch in the schools! oh, how they'll long for mister softee...
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
also i'm not sure where this romanticized image of ice cream vendors of yore comes from, the occupation has had its share of unsanitary conditions, shady creeps and druggy teens since always??
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link