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

remember tho: you have to trade for the coke, as most dealers do not accept food stamps

why is the government making stuff so hard for me

hold on a minute

oh i know plenty, too, sarahel. if i see j0n pf3ffer again someday, i will punch that fucker in the gut.

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

dude this was one of my best friends from middle school ;_;

how the hell do you all know this same random dude????

L O L L

it's okay guys if you want to clown on him as we went to different high schools and the last time I hung out with him I also kinda thought he had turned into a douche and I tried to tell him his band wasn't very good and he got all defensive

...

so

xp - i saw his band play once, and a friend of mine did mastering work on their album, but i think it was a different friend that said he was a douche.

1- guy heckled jo3 t4ng4ri for MONTHS until he finally gave them a good review on pfork. (he told me, 'i owe jo3 t4ng4ri a steak dinner.')

2- math-core.

3- wildly heteronormative and weird about gays.

4- didn't ever credit me or thank me for helping him do interviews with TV on the Radio (in which most of the questions were mine) and The Holy Ghost Revival (again, same thing).

5- douche.

...I'm trying to remember if he wrote me about getting an AMG review. If this is the same person.

I remember rocking out to KoRn at his house and watching WWF Monday Night Raw

I can't imagine why this guy would have issues w/ the gays

are you all the same person, right now?

who is this person

its is u - sry u r racist douchenozzle

Jenna Catsos, 22, does not have a cellphone because she thinks the idea of always being reachable is “scary” and prefers to keep in touch with handwritten letters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/technology/23cell.html

i sympathize tbh - whenever someone calls me and my brain is like "i don't want to be reached right now, this is scary" but my arm just does what it wants and answers that phone, and then my mouth starts talking, and it's just like i was forced to be reached even tho the idea scares me. had no choice.

cheers to the author for using the phrase "smug satisfaction" in no less than the SECOND paragraph.

the only thing i dislike about having a cell at the moment is that a "restricted" number keeps calling me and i never pick up unless i have some idea of who's on the line. pretty sure it's not a creditor, probably a telemarketer that found a cell phone loophole.

Ladt Catsos

And even the best-laid plans falter. Jenna Catsos, 22, does not have a cellphone because she thinks the idea of always being reachable is “scary” and prefers to keep in touch with handwritten letters. While at college in rural Vermont, Ms. Catsos decided to drive to Massachusetts to surprise her father for his birthday. Halfway there, her car’s transmission broke down. She walked half a mile to the nearest gas station and called her parents from the payphone, but because they were not expecting her, they were not home. After leaving a message with the payphone number, she stood in the gas station parking lot for an hour waiting for them to call back.

“It’s situations like that when I would really love to have a phone,” she said.

Am I missing something? She DID have a phone - a payphone! If she travels across the country without an address book containing, for instance, the mobile phone numbers of her parents, she is simply a fucking idiot. Luddism has nothing to do with it.

A friend who lives on the top floor of a house in Brooklyn has a perpetually broken apartment buzzer. So Ms. Mboya makes noise to disturb the dogs who live on the first floor, who then bark and announce her arrival to her friend.

“This system works pretty well,” Ms. Mboya said, though the dogs’ owners might disagree.

Strangle. Her. Strangllllllleeeeeeee

I have a good friend who purposefully doesn't have a cell phone. She keeps the plans she makes, she is on time for things, and she calls in advance from HOME if she has a question. She keeps a planner in her bag with names & phone numbers. SHE BEHAVES LIKE A NORMAL PERSON WHO RESPECTS THE TIME AND EFFORT OF OTHERS. Jesus fuck.

whadda u guys think of the times new restaurant critic?

http://events.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/dining/reviews/14rest.html

http://events.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/dining/reviews/21rest.html

I'm reserving judgement but he certainly has a writerly voice, esp. for the staid old NYT, though so far he's treading a thin line between affected & effective. and that jazz about new york in the 80s was a little nostalgic-hazy IMO.

I'm reserving judgement but he certainly has a writerly voice, esp. for the staid old NYT, though so far he's treading a thin line between affected & effective

dude did u miss the long and affected reign of mr frank bruni

actually i thought bruni got better as he went along. sifton seems to be TRYING REALLY HARD but hey it's a pressure-cooker job (pun intended)

maintaining a breezy tone while conforming to the times style must be a tightrope

whadda u guys think of the times new restaurant critic?

I was amused/interested to learn that he is the grandson of Reinhold Niebuhr.

ill give him a little while. i was always kind of on the fence about bruni tbh, but i felt sort of sad when he was leaving

"Jenna Catsos, 22, does not have a cellphone because she thinks the idea of always being reachable is “scary”"

I cosign that far, obv, but I do have an address/phone book, and don't bother dogs.

I just don't get why you can't answer the phone.

She keeps the plans she makes, she is on time for things
Imagine that! I hate how cell phones have made flakiness and irresponsibility ok...if you call!

Well, the call is more like, this is just tell you that you can go get a coffee for 20 minutes because my landlady decided to show the apartment as I was leaving today...so the person who's ON TIME doesn't stand in the rain or something.

It doesn't really make it "okay" to be more than about 15 minutes late, or however much your social/cultural grace period is.

The other really nice thing about this friend is that if you're going to the same show or event, you can just say, I'm going to get there betw 9 and 9.30, and she doesn't text you back 27 times to say, "Are you still going? What are you wearing, I think I'm going to wear a dress. Are you there yet? I might be early. I'm standing by the bar now." But then lots of people who DO have cell phones and are not RETARDED don't do this either.

I"VE KINDA HAD IT UP TO HERE W/SAM SIFTON

I just don't get why you can't answer the phone.

What are you, Superman?

srsly let it ring turn it off or go under the earth

now u are "unreachable"

M. Night Shyamalan's "Unreachable"

Punish those flaky people by turning your phone off for an hour before 'the plans' and turning it on when you arrive at the meeting point. I am getting less 'that's OK' if people scramble my day because they're trying to impress themselves with how busy they are.

Restaurants are culture as sure as music or paintings. They say something about who we are. So never mind the bold-faced names, those old familiar faces. Civilized people on the subway home from the Met talk about opera, not who has seats in the parterre box. Marea says, settle down. When the market was low, we spent like crazies and now look wise. You like to eat? Watch what is going to happen to you.

didn't like (or even understand, really) this bit of the Marea review but when he got down to the food it was pretty good

it read like a two-star, though. three stars and the thing they don't do well is "entrees"?

White people!:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2009/10/23/20091023-away-slideshow/30531013.JPG

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/nyregion/25coop.html

I BOUNDED off the Q train in Brooklyn one night last winter and headed to Union Street, past the yogurt shop and the firehouse, to do some grocery shopping. But my plans soon went awry.

“You’re suspended,” the entrance worker at the Park Slope Food Coop announced as I swiped my membership card. Some entrance workers speak softly, but not this one. Worse, there were a dozen other shoppers within earshot.

http://i34.tinypic.com/2vc6mq9.jpg

"For such a scrutinized institution, little public attention is paid to people like me"

god, what is the point of that co-op article at all?

The point appears to be 'when visit farmers market get pie'

"co-op membership is a hipster accessory you have to work to deserve"

how did we miss this

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/dining/28Date.html?ref=dining

WHEN Jenny Kirsten, a producer for the Food Network, went on her first date with Jason Beberman, a chef at Dressler in Brooklyn, they didn’t splurge on a multicourse dinner with wine pairings. Instead, they went to the Rusty Knot, a West Village bar that teeters between dive and chic, for picklebacks: a shot of whiskey with a pickle juice chaser. They split a gourmet chicken liver sandwich — with bacon and red onion marmalade — followed by a couple of Tecates with salt on the rim, and then played the free jukebox.

Whatever, it worked: a year later, they are still together. Now their idea of a romantic meal might be a burger at Back Forty, a neighborhood place in the East Village with epicurean credibility; the burger is made of grass-fed beef and comes with homemade ketchup. They prefer to sit at the bar.

“We can cut the burger and share the fries, and make a date-night toast,” Ms. Kirsten said. She sighed contentedly. “I’m too in love for my own good.”

holy shit

i get SO CLOWNED for chasing shots with pickle juice - shit just ELIMINATES THE COMPETITION tbh

highly recommended

Friend & I once were alternating shots of ALbertson's store-brand Heritage Vodka ($13 a handle) and pickle brine...it was like drinking gasoline.