I'll be glad when we move past the archaic practice of meeting/conversing with people in person. Then we won't need handshaking classes.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
I like this comment, at least the first half. I think I've seen that jug band.
Reality BasedBrooklynOctober 27th, 201111:54 amLast evening whilst walking on my urban Brooklyn block I was bemoaning the apogee of faux or "vintage" life-styling seeing another group of suspender and tweed clad hipsters pretend to be a jug band. They were performing a horrendously unmusical, "rootsy" version of the spiritual "When I Die" inside a new bar built to mimic some half baked idea of "vintage authenticity". This impulse to deny the truth of the cultural and political moment and instead seek refuge in an imagined virtualized "cozy" past seems to me the apogee of indulgent sentimentalist decadence.
Esty represents he triumph of mediocrity in design and creativity. The "designs" on the site are almost exclusively copies of copies, derivations of ideas that were done to death a decade ago. Esty is however a very clever and modern business model; a trope, seeming to help artisans market their "wares" but actually about monetizing clicks and an easy source for "trend spotters" and retailers to collate mediocre ideas to knock off.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
can you really pretend to be a jug band
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
IDK but I hear music like that all the time in the L and it's starting to make me want to go animal house.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Demonic kids on plane needs fabled response of Paul Lynde: "Lady, if you don't control that kid... I'm gonna fuck her!"
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Worst is the little kids that sit behind you on the plane and kick the back of your seat the entire flight.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
flying is such a horrible experience i cant really stay mad at the sobbing kids, im just thinking, "man i want to be doing that too"
― max, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/garden/sheep-lawn-mowers-and-other-go-getters.html
― s.clover, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
not very quiddy imho
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
Uh, tell them to stop?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
xpost, Oh it picks up: "Richard Charles, a Wall Street technology manager, decided to become an urban farmer after he was laid off twice, first by Citigroup, in 2008, and then by Goldman Sachs, in 2009. He and a former colleague from Citigroup, David Lowe, started EcoVeggies, a company that uses aeroponic technology to grow plants without soil. Their plan is to convert abandoned buildings in Newark into high-tech urban farms that will supply produce to local restaurants and schools."
― s.clover, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really understand the Stockbox shipping container grocery store thing. Isn't it just, like, opening a grocery store?
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
arent YOU just like opening a grocery store
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
I repurpose old commercial storefront spaces to open grocery stores.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/fashion/millennials-in-church-up-close.html
Mr. Aiuto, 39, bristles when his church is singled out as particularly cool. “I don’t want this church to be special,” he said over chicken mole at a Williamsburg taqueria. “I don’t want us to be a church for artists. I want it to be a garden-variety church. What we have to offer people is God.” He paused for a moment. “And I think our music is really good.”
― Federal Titt (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://asthmatickitty.com/the-welcome-wagon
The Welcome Wagon is a married couple, the Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique, who execute a genre of gospel music that is refreshingly plain. Their hymns are modest and melodic takes on a vast history of sacred song traditions, delivered with the simple desire to know their Maker—and to know each other—more intimately.
NOT MENTIONED: dude's band on asthmatic kitty
― Federal Titt (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
i take that back; actually it was mentioned and my eyes must have glazed over or something
― Federal Titt (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
What the what.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
The tight-lipped look of the groom in the photo says, loud and clear, "I'm so upright that I took over from my autonomic breathing function, now I have to remember to inhale." Mentally unbalanced by divorce imo.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
What a maroon.
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Re-enacting the wedding may pose a particular challenge, the studio pointed out, because the couple divorced and the bride is believed to have moved back to her native Latvia.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
Incidentally, I have occasionally heard music coming out of a church -- often hispanic or brazilian -- that I thought was so good that I was really tempted to just go in and ask if I could hang out for a bit. I feel like that would get awkward though, I mean not that they'd mind me being there so much as they would start asking me questions and it would turn awkward when it was clear that I had NO interest in church and only wanted to hear the music.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I should have. The kid's father was sitting next to her. I looked behind me the first time it happened and caught his attention and he told her to stop. But then shortly thereafter she forgot or didn't realize she was doing it again. It was more like pushing on the back of the seat rather than kicking. I didn't feel like turning around every time so I just tried to ignore it.
― o. nate, Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
After a gospel band played, the group listened as a man with a tattoo and a shaved head, Thomas Vito Aiuto, gave a talk that referred in turn to Woody Allen, jogging and London cabdrivers.
jogging JOGGING who tf calls it jogging, so not hipster
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Last evening whilst walking on my urban Brooklyn block I was bemoaning the apogee of faux or "vintage" life-styling seeing another group of suspender and tweed clad hipsters pretend to be a jug band. They were performing a horrendously unmusical, "rootsy" version of the spiritual "When I Die" inside a new bar built to mimic some half baked idea of "vintage authenticity".
who writes like this
whilst bemoaning the apogee
gtfo
― dmr, Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
l0u1s jagg3r
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
juggling inscrutable cultural signifiers like a bear on a tricycle
― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://toughpigs.com/uploaded_images/Jugband-stageshow-763812.jpg
― Gay Andy Taffel (Eisbaer), Thursday, 3 November 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Not the NY Times, but crossposting from "Is this racist?":
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roiphe/2011/11/the_99_percent_takes_over_brooklyn.html
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Glenn Kenny's take on that article: http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/11/dont-worry-katie.html
― wmlynch, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't know if this is quiddities or just a series of 'how many warning signs do you need?' -- but it puts me in mind of the very first post that started this thread:
I answered an ad in 1995 that I thought was for a job related to “security” (as in security guard) but was in fact related to “securities.” That’s how little I knew about the stock market. A few months later I found myself working a phone at a Fidelity Investments call center. Things went well, and by 1999 I was a Merrill Lynch financial adviser and a certified financial planner. --I felt we could afford around $350,000. We called a real estate agent named Mitch, who had signs on all the bus stops: Talk to Mitch! He picked us up in a gold Jaguar, and suddenly we were looking at houses that listed at $500,000 or more.--We borrowed 100 percent of the purchase price. In fact, I was told I could borrow even more if I wanted. I had perfect credit and a solid income that was growing. But even so, when the lender approved us at 100 percent, it was more than I had expected. I remember thinking something like “Wow. I guess if they’re willing to lend it to us it must be O.K.”
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I felt we could afford around $350,000. We called a real estate agent named Mitch, who had signs on all the bus stops: Talk to Mitch! He picked us up in a gold Jaguar, and suddenly we were looking at houses that listed at $500,000 or more.
We borrowed 100 percent of the purchase price. In fact, I was told I could borrow even more if I wanted. I had perfect credit and a solid income that was growing. But even so, when the lender approved us at 100 percent, it was more than I had expected. I remember thinking something like “Wow. I guess if they’re willing to lend it to us it must be O.K.”
Etc. etc. but then there was also:
Someone recently asked me what I’d say to people like him. I guess I’m saying it now. As I was writing this article, I pulled behind a truck with a bumper sticker, “Honk if I’m paying your mortgage.”
In which case, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD INSTEAD OF WRITING YOUR ARTICLE.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, November 4, 2011 4:18 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkGlenn Kenny's take on that article: http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/11/dont-worry-katie.html
― wmlynch, Friday, November 4, 2011 4:23 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Um, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Roiphe at least sort of has half a point, which Kenny seems to miss entirely/avoid by taking it too literally.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Gentrification is the art of pretend blaseness
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
what point does roiphe have exactly?
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
some kids, she saw them
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I mean at least she was -- kind of hamfistedly -- trying to make an admittedly well-worn point about the contrasts of gentrification and the uncomfortable fact that a lot of people in those neighborhoods don't really want the people they displaced around, and the response is "well actually that's just temporary because soon the subway will take them further away again, where they're supposed to be."
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
i didnt realize park slope was once the exclusive domain of unruly teenagers
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
that's a p kind reading of roiphes piece
― max, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
One of my students noticed a great sign at Occupy Wall Street saying “Big signs always catch your attention.” And it occurs to me that maybe this fight is one of those big signs that should be catching our attention.
like... Teenagers fighting is a "big sign"?
― max, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
Also I mean let's be honest you do not really see hundreds of St. Ann's kids or even PS 58 kids blocking off streets and jumping on cars to watch fights so the whole "kids being kids" thing is more than a little disingenuous.
To be clear not exactly saying I like the Roiphe piece so much as I'm sick of gawker-style status-quo-cheerleading-disguised-as-snark
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
it's also not park slope xpost
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
my main crit is that it kind of seems like a naive article about the world in general, maybe she should travel more or something
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
also she's an idiot and a shitty writer but w/e
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
I think we can all gree that katie rudolph is a terrible writer but also that gentrification presents problems
motion... sustained
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
hmmmmmmmm
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
yea!
(xpost)
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
i am no longer engaging with threads, merely attacking writers i hate. in that spirit: kate roiphe is the worst.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
"hundreds"?
― max, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
are there really "hundreds" of students at school x that is not st annes fighting in the street?
― max, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link