*shoots u w/ agonies*
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, serious fuck the megarich. this isnt the thread to say this probably but like half of my life i am in contact with exceedingly wealthy people – not just 'well off' but like scrooge mcduck loaded- and let me tell you that even if they are decent, nice, whatever, they are so completely out of the fucking loop on everything that they just passively make those around them feel like shit all the time with the kind of attitudes in these articles. the moderately wealthy people i know are at least somewhat of this planet and so, you know, mixed bag of awesome/shitty/whatever roughly in proportion to the normal workaday population. but my god, the class war can't come soon enough for my money b/c the vanderbilts and carnegies and morgans of today are just ... ugh ... excruciatingly awful
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
im gonna b cynical and also hamfisted and say many ppl will not class revolt bc they are deluded into believing they too can become rich plutocrats when their big break comes
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
all it takes to forestall the call to arms is a state lottery
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
i am already a rich plutocrat so
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm already warring with u bitch, read yr threads
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
my queen is a welfare queen, and my people will fight for her with shillelaghs and wadded-up rejection letters from the unemployment office
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/dispatches/images/plutocrat.jpg
bring it, bitch
― Lamp, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
we won't fight hard b/c we've gotta catch the early train to our jobs at the DMV in the morning
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
ya I'm gonna do some warring as a hobby after school in the evenings
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.
this has to be the best ending to any newspaper article... ever?
― J0rdan S., Monday, July 25, 2011 6:28 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i mean legitimately, newspaper articles aren't usually ones for a big bang at the end, but that's the shit right there
― J0rdan S., Monday, July 25, 2011 6:29 PM (4 hours ago)
OTM
― can afford a drug lifestyle ----► (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
i read that article at work today and immediately thought of this thread
FRONT PAGE
― iatee, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
but really who can blame them, such a slow news week
― davon cuul II (m bison), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:18 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
well i never
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
*straps up*
― can afford a drug lifestyle ----► (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
i am a poor plutocrat
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'll fight on the side of the rich if one of you plutocrats takes care of my student loans. thx.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
even if they are decent, nice, whatever, they are so completely out of the fucking loop on everything that they just passively make those around them feel like shit all the time
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
― davon cuul II (m bison), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/strive.jpg
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
bingo
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/fashion/dress-codes-in-new-york-clubs-will-this-get-me-in.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
― max, Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
An injunction against flannel, shorts and other typical brunch fashions helps convey the message that the sparklers-and-champagne bacchanal known as the Day and Night Brunch, which until June was held at the Plaza, is for socialites and financiers, not hotel guests in search of French toast, said Daniel Koch, who runs the weekly party with his twin brother, Derek.“You get guys in from L.A., they think a brunch is a brunch,” Mr. Koch said. “We have to say, ‘Look, dude, this isn’t what you think it is.’ You can’t rock a T-shirt here unless you’re a rock star.”(How does one dress for a brunch that resembles a Russian oligarch’s stag party? Ladies should consider brightly colored dresses or skirts and avoid cleavage-baring blouses. “You don’t want that in your face at brunch,” said Mr. Koch, who now holds his brunch at different locations each week, including the Hamptons and St.-Tropez. Guys “need an edge; wear a bow tie or, if you have to, go out and buy a $400 pair of sunglasses.”)New Yorkers fleeing the city in summer may think they’ve earned a vacation from judgment, but they’re wrong — particularly at South Pointe, a hot new dance club in Southampton, N.Y.“We cater to the ‘authentic’ Hamptons crowd,” said Ben Grieff, an owner, “people who are actually from the Hamptons, not just people who drive out here to see a big D.J.” (Mr. Grieff clarified: “From the Hamptons” refers to people whose parents had a summer home there as a child, not to duck farmers.)
“You get guys in from L.A., they think a brunch is a brunch,” Mr. Koch said. “We have to say, ‘Look, dude, this isn’t what you think it is.’ You can’t rock a T-shirt here unless you’re a rock star.”
(How does one dress for a brunch that resembles a Russian oligarch’s stag party? Ladies should consider brightly colored dresses or skirts and avoid cleavage-baring blouses. “You don’t want that in your face at brunch,” said Mr. Koch, who now holds his brunch at different locations each week, including the Hamptons and St.-Tropez. Guys “need an edge; wear a bow tie or, if you have to, go out and buy a $400 pair of sunglasses.”)
New Yorkers fleeing the city in summer may think they’ve earned a vacation from judgment, but they’re wrong — particularly at South Pointe, a hot new dance club in Southampton, N.Y.
“We cater to the ‘authentic’ Hamptons crowd,” said Ben Grieff, an owner, “people who are actually from the Hamptons, not just people who drive out here to see a big D.J.” (Mr. Grieff clarified: “From the Hamptons” refers to people whose parents had a summer home there as a child, not to duck farmers.)
You don’t want that in your face at brunch,”
speak for yourself amirite
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
ok, all rich new yorkers must be killed immediately
― peter in montreal, Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
'ugh, DUCK FARMERS'
― j., Thursday, 28 July 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
“We have to say, ‘Look, dude, this isn’t what you think it is.’ You can’t rock a T-shirt here unless you’re a rock star.”
Can I just
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
i really do not understand what a bow tie connotes anymore
― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
i means u fancy
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
i just got my first bow-tie yesterday. it looks good with my unemployment t-shirt
― remy bean, Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
Guys “need an edge; wear a bow tie or, if you have to, go out and buy a $400 pair of sunglasses.”
Gonna show up an an unironed dress shirt, those expensive jeans with the fucked up designs on the back pockets, and some $400 sunglasses
― mh, Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
ny name is Louis farrakhan and I am here to brunch with you
― davon cuul II (m bison), Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Is Sirota an ILXOR?
http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/2011/07/28/blankfein_goldman_sachs_profile/index.html
― schwantz, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
love this btw
― g++ (gbx), Friday, 29 July 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
to think the times expects ppl to pay for this kind of nonsense. kind of revolting.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
There are other things in the paper, y'know
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
like mets scores
― flop's son (dayo), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
delete all the shit after the html in the url
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/arts/music/unusual-sounds-at-mostly-mozart-preview-at-avery-fisher.html^wow
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
I leave it to reviewers during the season to describe specific ways in which Stravinsky’s Neo-Classicism (actually, as much neo-Baroque as anything else) may relate to Mozart’s Classicism. And I hesitate to delve further into details of the performances, because I was thoroughly distracted throughout.The man seated directly behind me was connected to a portable medical device, presumably an oxygen cart to aid his breathing, that emitted a steady ticking. Hard to describe, it was really more a faint, dull metallic clank in a relentless rhythm that seemed somehow resistant to all the many other rhythms emanating from the stage.I have no idea how many people heard it: 4 or 5 immediately around, 15 or 20 in the vicinity? And I have no idea how I would have reacted if not for a worrying experience of my own last year. As it was, I found it impossible to ignore.
The man seated directly behind me was connected to a portable medical device, presumably an oxygen cart to aid his breathing, that emitted a steady ticking. Hard to describe, it was really more a faint, dull metallic clank in a relentless rhythm that seemed somehow resistant to all the many other rhythms emanating from the stage.
I have no idea how many people heard it: 4 or 5 immediately around, 15 or 20 in the vicinity? And I have no idea how I would have reacted if not for a worrying experience of my own last year. As it was, I found it impossible to ignore.
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps the most ill-timed cough I ever heard came at one of the most exquisite moments in all of Schubert, at a luminous harmonic shift in the slow movement of his posthumous B flat Sonata. (When I lamented that intrusion, I was criticized by readers suggesting that I didn’t know how bad it could be when you really had to cough during a concert. Oh, really? In a half-century of all-weather, all-health concertgoing?)
yelp reviews for the ruling class
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Wallowing in the confusion bred of personal experience, I doubt that I would have complained even if there had been an intermission. But maybe next time I will, if only to spare you a lengthy explanation in place of what should be a short review.
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
quiddity and agony it may be, but i like to think there's a place for that kind of impossibly well-bred writing on arts esoterica in the good society we want to bring about
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
From the comments: That oxygen sound reverberates throughout the theater. We came all the way from Nevada to go to the Glimmerglass Opera Festival upstate: saw Carmen July 19. Act I and II wonderful; then after intermission the bang bang bang of someone's oxygen from the other side of the theater rang out throughout Acts III and IV. I could still enjoy the louder parts, but was only able to sit thru the softer parts with a little Lorazepam. Tough call for management, but very unfair to the other customers.
Most are sympathetic to the reviewer's plight, but this one stood out b/c of the Lorazepam.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
i nominate matos to curate the whole fucking nytimes music page
― remy bean, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
is that what they're calling "editing" these days?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^pleb
― g++ (gbx), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
Now they're just fucking with us:
Even Marked Up, Luxury Goods Sell FastBy STEPHANIE CLIFFORDWhile average Americans watch their wallets, high-end retailers are selling out of expensive items, like Lissette Gutierrez’s Louis Vuitton shoes at Bergdorf Goodman.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 August 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1.nyt.com/images/2011/08/04/business/Luxury-shoes/Luxury-hpMedium.jpg