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

Could only tolerate first 1/2 of femivore(??) article. Hey, my mom canned peaches (and tomatoes, and grape jam, and strawberry jam, and applesauce, and spaghetti sauce, and...) because we were POOR, OKAY? Also she grew corn and sunflowers and all our other vegetables for a while there.

She never went for chickens, personally, tho I know I've said before that we knew people who had ACTUAL FARMS who kept chix. God, people.

Whoa-oa here she comes
Watchout girls she'll chew you up
Whoa-oa here she comes
She's a femivore

With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html

“The founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor,” he said. “They believed in it so much that they would sacrifice. That’s the kind of loyalty to this country that we stand for.”

He blames the government for his unemployment. “Government is absolutely responsible, not because of what they did recently with the car companies, but what they’ve done since the 1980s,” he said. “The government has allowed free trade and never set up any rules.”

i instantly slapped my own forehead

those ppl aren't ruling class, they just identify with them

buncha joes the plumber

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/magazine/28fasttrack-t.html?ref=garden&pagewanted=all

Unemployed, the author became obsessed with gazing at and eating eggs.

whoa that lady is loony, gazing at eggs, discovering weather

good god who is she friends with that let her write an article so long about something so trivial & uninteresting

^^

Haha, and it is actually an excerpt from a book, which means there are several hundred pages of this stuff out there.

i mean she obv has an attraction to the "spiritual" but good grief

im temped imagine myself plunging through a window and onto the unforgiving patio below after only reading the article!

only to have your fall broken by fresh spinach and basil

lol some girl i dont really know just linked to this shit on facebook - she works (worked?) at a magazine

good god who is she friends with that let her write an article so long about something so trivial & uninteresting

i liked the article & felt bad 4 this lady

i stopped reading

dont think its really that presumptuous or terrible to write a long article abt the effects of unemployment & dealing w/ the fallout of having p much yr whole world torn away. what that felt like & looked like how a person deals w/ it idk felt like she p thoughtful & earnest & true

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sometimes-area-woman-just-feels,17072/

*rolls eyes*

sometimes in life we have 2 stop and gaze @ the eggs

When I had a job, I never thought about eggs

would be a GREAT opening line for a short story

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous egg.

fuck I gazed @ so many eggs when I took drawing classes as a kid

Well, all's well that ends well, right? Except that, uh, Browning already wrote this book-or at least, a very similar one. And the Times wrote about it. As Alex Witchel reported in 2002, Browning's book Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing and Home Improvement chronicled "her long sadness and [her] house's decay"—the story of "a woman who has experienced loss and pain and has mended, somewhat."

gawker, lol

also do you get it she lost her nest egg so now she gaze at eggs HAH so clever

i'm just gonna put this out there:

i've known the brownings forever, and they are like, uh, really educated plutocrats who own wide swaths of farmland in southern rhode island that they make a lot of noise about "preserving" for "future generations" while selling off less attractive for irresponsible subdevelopment projects.

i've known the brownings forever, and they are like, uh, really educated plutocrats who own wide swaths of eggs in southern rhode island that they make a lot of noise about "preserving" for "future generations" while selling off less attractive for irresponsible subdevelopment projects.

eggs are such a good metaphor think baout it

sometimes they are white somtimes they are brown

Here's a good companion piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/fashion/14moms.html?ref=style

― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:26 PM (2 weeks ago)

savages, truly

i assume whiney hasn't seen that

the people in that piece aren't terrible -- bored housewives be bored housewives -- shit is just the new scrapbooking, i won't hate

which came first: the brownings or the eggs

nah i think those people are pretty terrible

once i had naturally purple duck eggs. neat!

i seen greenish speckled chicken eggs no lie

guyz don't miss her blog

http://www.slowlovelife.com/

Why is it sometimes so hard to enjoy being happy? Just yesterday I got an email from an editor saying he loved the piece I had rather fearfully sent him. I was elated! Joy! Success! But within seconds, I was on to worrying about edits, and other assignments, and the dust balling up in the hallway, and the soot on the windowsills.

My mind spun through the hundred tiny vexing things I had to do, when suddenly I came to a word: STOP. Literally, it loomed up, a cherry red stop sign, filling my brain. STOP?

Yes. That’s when I realized I wasn’t letting myself be happy. Was it superstition? If I’m happy, that means I could become unhappy…. Was it fear? How hard it is to give into happiness. Was it just that unrelenting, driven, monkey mind saying ‘Not good enough! Nothing is ever good enough!’ Whatever the reason, it seemed suddenly absurd. I wasn’t letting myself fill up with the joy of a small accomplishment, I wasn’t giving myself credit for something well done, and I wasn’t simply, well, enjoying the moment. Don’t you love how the word enjoy has the word joy embedded in it? Being in the joy.

that post continues, by the way

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/nyregion/29roommates.html?hpw

Don’t you love how the word enjoy has the word joy embedded in it? Being in the joy.

This is making my head hurt, for real.

And don't you love how the word embedded has the word bed embedded in it?

C/D: white people who have been to a yoga class using the phrase "monkey mind"

, enjoy

eh, monkey mind can be a useful concept sometimes

Don’t you love how the word monkey mind has the word useful concept embedded in it? I am fucking crazy.

you like to fart, you are crazy

that's a good blog--this excerpt and the fact that she stared at a dictionary in awe all afternoon suggests bigger problems than no job:

I kept looking up the word “entropy” in the dictionary, staring in awe at the definitions, they so perfectly captured the spirit of my deranged soul.