Has someone ever gone all out and just named their son or daughter Yahweh or Allah?
― silverfish, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Ms. Roney and Mr. Liu and their children, Havana, 16, Cairo, 10, and Dublin, 6, live in Dumboi can't even― zombie formalist (m coleman), Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:10 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i can't even
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:10 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jaymc's wife read this and said: it'd be better if they lived in any of those places and their kid was named Dumbo
― Je55e, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
That reads like the famous misunderstanding dialogue in White Noise
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
lol
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
anytime i read one of these and i can't tell if it's a new york times article or a gwyneth paltrow lifestyle blogpost, i know i'm getting the good stuff.
― building a desert (art), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
a++
― johnny crunch, Friday, 27 June 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
i also met two siblings in London Fields the other day named Odin and Perseus
There are kids named Odin and Auden (not siblings) in my kid's 2nd grade class here in the Midwest, I think you overestimate how quid/ag this kind of naming practice is
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/6284/62841_0.jpg
― j., Friday, 27 June 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/magazine/a-mothers-journey-through-the-unnerving-universe-of-unboxing-videos.html?_r=0
love this
― ian, Monday, 18 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
Can I post non-NYT quiddities here, because
http://www.vogue.com/2208057/leaving-new-york-city-country-life-woodstock/
At the risk of sounding appallingly pretentious, it was Cate Blanchett who made me realize it was time to leave New York City. It was a year ago, last October, and we had just finished a leisurely interview over a late dinner in a London restaurant when we found ourselves standing on a rainy street corner, not quite ready to say good night. She asked what I was doing the next day, and I said I had no plans because I have no friends who live in central London anymore. Like my friends in Manhattan, most of them have moved somewhere less ruinous. Blanchett, who’d left London herself a few years earlier, looked a little wistful and said, “It’s a different place.” Having recently turned 50, I muttered something about being older—maybe that’s what had changed. “No,” she said firmly. “The world’s changed. It’s very difficult to know where to be.”
haha
My friend Ellen is still the co-op–board president of the loft building Andy and I called home. She emailed me the other day to say that the ground-floor commercial space, once home to a kooky antiques shop run by an eccentric pain in the ass, has been rented out to Phillip Lim, who is opening a new store during Fashion Week with a big party at which Banks will perform. Nothing against Lim or Banks, but who other than a groupie wants to live above that?
some harrowing stuff for sure
― polyphonic, Monday, 6 October 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
first against the wall
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 October 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
ha i just posted this in the privilege thread
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 October 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Cate Blanchett has certainly played a major role in most of my life decisions.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 October 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
We eventually swallowed hard and custom-designed our own batch—and then had to wait three months for it to arrive on a ship all the way from Morocco. When the interior was finally finished, we painted the exterior, trim and all, a spooky gray-green color that looks almost black, called New York Café Noir (very Woodstock), which, ironically enough, we found at Walmart (not very Woodstock). Our contractor refuses to shop there, so he had it mixed somewhere less offensive to the local anti-corporate sensibility.
Jesus fuck.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Van Meter, in a Burberry London suit and a budd shirt, on his property in upstate New York.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
They found the ... paint color ... at Walmart?
― polyphonic, Monday, 6 October 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Translation: their contractor used his usual paint supplier so he could get his discount and 30-day billing.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
When we finally found a source for handmade encaustic cement tile for the kitchen and dining room and then fell in love with a pattern that was already in stock (cheaper), we hesitated a moment too long and Zac Posen bought out the entire lot.
http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt224/supnick/original%20content/KHAN.gif
― polyphonic, Monday, 6 October 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
aw poop
― polyphonic, Monday, 6 October 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Zac Posen, cock-blocker.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
lol idk how i un-bookmarked this thread but that def belongs here
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Or caulk-blocker, in this case.
xp
― nickn, Monday, 6 October 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/fashion/for-luxury-watch-buyers-one-just-isnt-enough.html
Two years ago, Adam Craniotes, a former copywriter, was determined to have the watch, even if its $38,600 price urged him toward painful Solomonic sacrifice.
Benjamin Clymer, the founder of the watch-enthusiast website Hodinkee, has become a timepiece adviser to the stars.With Wristwatches Website Hodinkee, Benjamin Clymer Carves a NicheDEC. 20, 2013First to go was his Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox Deep Sea Alarm watch. Next he sold his IWC Aqua Timer and, after that, his Glashütte Original Sport Evolution GMT.
When he still came up short, it became clear there was no other option: He would have to put the bite on Mom. Mr. Craniotes’s mother, clearly an obliging and generous parent, agreed to lend him the $10,000 he needed but only if certain conditions were met.
“She said I had to shave off my mohawk,” said Mr. Craniotes, a genial 42-year-old father of two and founder of a weekly cult gathering of watch aficionados called Red Bar, which convened last Thursday at an underground dive in Little Korea. “It was a kind of corporate mohawk, but it drove her nuts.”
NOT THE MOHAWK
― warning, #4 can't be unseen (WilliamC), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
parents just dont understand man
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
a former copywriter
... who has now gone into early retirement to collect watches?
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
CORPORATE MOHAWK!
― schwantz, Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
I bet he rides a razor scooter to work.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Gross.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
This is making me think of the Mayor of Geelong for some reason (the city on the opposite side of the bay Melbourne is on):http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2013/11/25/1226768/160715-paparazzo-becomes-geelong-mayor.jpg
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
lolololol I know someone from Geelong, I'm totally using this information.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
He's a hoot, actually!
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
We started a new thread when this one reached 8000+ posts!
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
maybe we should link to it and lock this one
― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Locking this thread has been repeatedly poo-poohed for unclear reasons.
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
we must bear witness without ceasing
― j., Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/10/all-the-places-the-new-york-times-has-compared-to-brooklyn/381426/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/fashion/how-uber-is-changing-night-life-in-los-angeles.html?referrer=
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 2 November 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/realestate/a-greenwich-village-apartment-for-a-creative-soul.html?_r=1&referrer=
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 2 November 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
^^^This one should be reposted on this thread every month or so on general principle
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 2 November 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
from the uber link that didn't embed:
Rick Garcia, 59, a retired Army major who said he became an Uber driver to fund a vacation, starts and often ends his shifts downtown. “It’s changing in the blink of an eye,” said Mr. Garcia, a Los Angeles native raised in Echo Park, as he wound his way along one-way streets lined with Art Deco buildings, some empty, others now home to yoga studios and juice bars. “There’s a lot of New Yorkers here, and they’re saying it’s almost like New York.”
True enough: The district is drawing comparisons to SoHo in the early 1980s, when former warehouses morphed into galleries and artist lofts. In downtown Los Angeles, a visible homeless population (thousands bed down nightly in nearby Skid Row, according to city estimates) crosses paths with European tourists and designers in drop-crotch trousers (the area is also home to the fashion district). In September, a branding agency started a monthly publication, LA Downtowner, to highlight local businesses and street style.
...
“I find myself going down there a lot and taking friends that are coming to visit, because there’s so much cool stuff to do,” said Lara Marie Schoenhals, 30, a writer and Mr. O’Connell’s roommate. On a recent night, she bounced from drinks at the Ace to dinner at a Roy Choi hot spot in nearby Koreatown then more drinks at a new bar in West Hollywood. “I can just, like, YOLO with Uber,” she said.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 2 November 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
dibs on new DN
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Sunday, 2 November 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
... it is done
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
The Uber one is fine right up until“If you’re going to the airport, you use UberX, who cares,” said Mr. Heitzler, the Venice artist. “But if you have to go to a party at the Chateau” — the see-and-be-seen celebrity-magnet Chateau Marmont — “you at least go black car. Or even a giant S.U.V. There’s nothing better than getting out of a giant S.U.V. at the Chateau by yourself.”
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
when i'm rich i'm going to buy the chateau marmont and redevelop it into a portal to hell
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 3 November 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:59 (Yesterday) Permalink
This is a world I'll never, ever understand.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 3 November 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/the-terrible-32s.html?_r=0
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 3 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
hooo boy, you can imagine the daughter of that author being VERY pissed
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 November 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
That was just gross.
― carl agatha, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
That phenomenon is way too far past funny or charming by the time a person hits 32 for that article to be amusing.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 November 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link