haha yeah I know, I went to one of them
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
oh ok sorry! which one btw?
― Jibe, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
sciences po -paris(just for a year)
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I would have guessed. Loads of exchange students there.
― Jibe, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
its only saving grace
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
ha! was it that bad?
― Jibe, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
obama went to occidental college fyi 2 all
― max, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
was it an accident
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
~~~~~sigh~~~~~
― max, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
what movie did obama star in when he went to yr college max
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
lets get our memes straight
― max, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
of the ~50 exchange students I knew, maybe 5 would say they "liked" the school and 40 would say that they hated it. a weird amount end up going back for masters though.
xp
― iatee, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
hey -- just asking -- have we had a thread about the woman who sent her adopted son back to russia?
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Bart Simpson was adopted?
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
not nytimes but in ny
http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/yaliens-among-us
my head was shaked
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
just reading the 1st paragraph made me feel bad
― ( ª_ª)○º° (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oJ1idzuym4U/SHKiJl42ByI/AAAAAAAAALE/trSN1PZwLEU/s400/The+French+Revolution.jpg
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
save america, kill a yalie
― ( ª_ª)○º° (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of thought NYObserver was known to be on some next-level unabashed ruling class trolling, but I never really read it so I might be wrong.
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Jesus, has Manhattan ALWAYS been a mega-strength Ivy League douchebag magnet?!?
― but poppage and i very gently will play (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i sort of love the observer because it's completely honest about being obsessed with what celebrity is buying which $2 million tribeca loft or whatever
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
also they hardly ever try to spin any of that shit into a Penetrating Statement on the World Today a la the nytimes
also their mandate is completely different obv
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Manhattan is an EVERYTHING-magnet, no?
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
The New York Observer asserts to advertisers that it delivers Manhattan’s most affluent, educated and influential consumers, with the average net worth of its readership exceeding $1.7 million and 96% of readers being college graduates. It has a paid circulation of 51,000.
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
from wikipedia, a description of both the founder and the current owner of the observer -- kind of an interesting commentary on how the composition of the city's elite has changed when you think of it:
The publisher and original owner, Arthur Carter has had other publishing interests in the past including the Litchfield County Times. At one time, he was a part-owner in The East Hampton Star. Carter received an A.B. in French literature from Brown University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He spent twenty-five years in investment banking until 1981, when he founded the Litchfield County Times in New Milford, Connecticut. He owned it for twenty years until selling to Journal Register Company, later also selling his 50-percent interest in The East Hampton Star in 2003. He has been an adjunct professor of philosophy and journalism at New York University and is currently a trustee. He is also a sculptor. Despite his "registered opportunist" political beliefs, from 1985 to 1995 he owned The Nation.
In July 2006, Jared Kushner, a 25-year-old law student and son of a wealthy New Jersey developer, Charles Kushner, purchased the paper for just under $10 million. In April 2007 Bob Sommer became president.
― the return of the Great White Douche (Eisbaer), Thursday, 22 April 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
+
Kushner is the son of the New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner.[1] Jared graduated from the Frisch School, a private, coed yeshiva high school in Paramus, New Jersey. He graduated from Harvard College in 2003. Prior to his admission, his father had donated $2.5 million to the university, in what The Boston Globe claimed was an "egregious example of pay-for-Crimson" [2]. In 2007, Kushner graduated from the New York University Stern School of Business and the New York University School of Law where he earned both JD and MBA degrees. [3]. Prior to admission, the family donated money to create NYU's Seryl Kushner Deanship, named after his mother.[4]Kushner married Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, on 25 October, 2009. Kushner is an observant Jew[5] and Trump had converted to Judaism at the time of the engagement.[6]
― iatee, Thursday, 22 April 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Charles Kushner is also the guy who was accused of giving Jim McGreevey illegal campaign contributions ... which was of course overlooked after McGreevey came outta the closet.
― the return of the Great White Douche (Eisbaer), Thursday, 22 April 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
First sentence is a new low in blithe ignorance, even for the Style section. Seriously, fuck whoever allowed that to go to print: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/fashion/25yoga.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 25 April 2010 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
ha. i have a manduka yoga mat, but i only paid $20 for mine (clearance sale).
― altered dominant (get bent), Sunday, 25 April 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I do too. It's lasted for 5 years and counting and I've started to wear grooves in it.
The part that ticks me off is the flippant equation of Zen and yoga in the lede. Author and editor have done their readers no favors, and should both be embarrassed.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 25 April 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yes. that made my toes curl. everything zen? i don't think so.
― altered dominant (get bent), Sunday, 25 April 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
it read like one of those pat little carrie bradshaw quips.
― altered dominant (get bent), Sunday, 25 April 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ALRIGHT
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/fashion/06noticed.html
― World B. FAP (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 May 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"HEY LADY, GIVE ME THE LESBIAN"
"aren't you 13?"
"-_-"
― World B. FAP (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 May 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a fun article but I don't think it's about the ruling class?
― vike me down (dyao), Thursday, 6 May 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it mentions a barber cutting a child's hair for $175 -- i think it's about the ruling class
― World B. FAP (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 May 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
article is worth it for this:
“It’s kind of frustrating sometimes. I’m trying to skateboard and they want to touch my hair.”
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 May 2010 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
to back up for a second though, basically if you find yourself writing this sentence:
Yoga is definitely big business these days.
you just need to quit, go back to school for something else. retrain. move to another country, i don't give a shit, but stop writing newspaper articles.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 May 2010 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/06/business/20100506-rebound-span/20100506-rebound-span-articleLarge-v2.jpg
― nick (killah priest), Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh god that is some sweet, sweet stock photography.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i can only imagine the tag cloud that accompanies that photo
― max, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
blackberry hobo bindle well-dressed man in suit good-looking businessman phone professional stubble stick unemployed
― max, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― max, Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:23 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hahaha
― caek, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the bieber cut is the haircut of savages imo, anyone who's been in high school the past 5 years can tell u
― brandon softerserve (k3vin k.), Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
remember that mtv reality football show where all those confused dudes on the football team had this cut?
http://wadeonbirmingham.smugmug.com/photos/96834104-O.jpg
― brandon softerserve (k3vin k.), Thursday, 6 May 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
bama bangs
― max, Thursday, 6 May 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/garden/06kenny.html?pagewanted=1
― kkvgz, Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
“I used to be really afraid to fly, Mr. White says. “My palms would sweat for days, thinking about it. After I made my first record, in 2001, my fear was half of what it used to be, and I think it was because I accomplished some of the things I wanted to do. I think you’re only fearful of dying if you haven’t lived.”
Corndog! This guy sounds like such a tool.
― peacocks, Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ok this is not from NYT, but definitely agonies of ruling class: squatters with advanced degrees (found in salon's irritating "pinched" recession stories column)
"This is definitely one of the nicest places I've squatted," said Pete, a baby-faced 25-year-old who declined to give his last name because he faces charges for civil disobedience. His fellow squatter, Rob Freeman, 34, a former anthropology professor at the University of Florida with thick black-rimmed glasses and elfin features, agreed. "This place is a real find," he said.
http://www.salon.com/life/pinched/index.html?story=/mwt/pinched/2010/05/12/squatters
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
they're planning on using a black bucket on the second floor as their toilet fyi
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link