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

6. October 13, 2010
3:00 pm
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The only real New Yorkers are the ones born and raised here. The rest of you are, always and forever, poseurs.

that is seriously the worst writing ever

i fucking hate people who write like this

if only pitchfork reviews reviews guy would gtfo too

I don't hate them I just don't get why someone associated w/ the nytimes thought that that guy should be putting his thoughts on their website instead of, I dunno, blogspot

Author, I hate this style of writing, Author. It was you, Author, that made my dog piss on today's copy of the New York times, Author.

I mean this reads like a facebook note and probably should be a facebook note

I can just see this guy typing it all out while listening to a certain LCD Soundsystem song on his iPod on repeat...

yeah, i have a friend who occasionally send emoails that crib from the same playbook. it's fucking embarrassing

127. October 13, 2010
4:40 pm
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There are eight million stories, in the Naked City. This has been one of them.

— Hardball Howie

You’ve always been a forward-looker, a destroyer and reassembler, the Great What’s Next.

honestly one of the worst things i've read all year

winner:

128. October 13, 2010
4:42 pm
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2 years hardly even counts as living here. I’ve been here for 3 and I still feel like a newcomer (and I still fall in love with this city every day). I guess some of us are made for it. Others, clearly, are not.

— S

a window grilled with bars

this sounds delicious, what is your recipe

comments are so hilarious

love how this guy who was so poor that he could only afford one lightbulb also takes pictures from the empire state building (or w/e) with his DSLR

comments def break down into two camps
1. 'I'm going to talk about how much of a new yorker I am'
2. 'I'm going to argue w/ other people about where the subway grates are on 3rd avenue'

i would expect nothing less

group 2 really just a subset of group 1 I guess

i really still can't get over how anyone would think this is good writing

I miss you standing listlessly with the homosexuals in their tube tops outside dark-windowed clubs as they waited for rescue from their boredom.

yeah, that is also inexcusable

127. October 13, 2010
4:40 pm
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There are eight million stories, in the Naked City. This has been one of them.

— Hardball Howie

This is killing me!

his original piece is actually worse tbh

THEN it’s west to one of the benches in Madison Square Park, with their neck-craning Matterhorn views up to the great golden horn capping the New York Life Building. Can it be only happy coincidence that mountain climbers and architects share the same language to describe the objects of their passion, that both talk of slope and cornice, spur and buttress, fluting, pitch, spire?

...

In recent years, the nation's leading media style books have published guidelines for language and terminology use when reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lives, issues and stories.

The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post all restrict usage of the term "homosexual" — a word whose clinical history and pejorative connotations are routinely exploited by anti-gay extremists to suggest that lesbians and gay men are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered, and which, as The Washington Post notes, "can be seen as a slur." AP and New York Times editors also have instituted rules against the use of inaccurate terminology such as "sexual preference" and "gay lifestyle."

uhhh

In the way that others need to live near the sea to equalize the saltwater sloshing inside of them

its melted ice cream cone summit afloat on a raft of dawn-pink clouds

*literally vomits*

And so, among eight million, I am all alone in these mountains.

And so, among eight million, including the homosexuals in their tube tops outside dark-windowed clubs, I am all alone in these mountains.

So long! Don't forget not to write, ever!

Wow. That article was just gross.

I love the commenters saying it was somehow artistic and accusing people of being philistines. Indeed.

o_O

If a journalist writes absurdly florid and strained quasi-poetry, a solid number of readers will find it beautiful. It's like a perfumed cloud of "fine writing" which confuses some people into thinking it's the real thing.

Oof. You have a point there...

I can't believe that someone got paid to write this, it is like a bad LiveJournal entry.

http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw090rsVqv1qz7wfjo1_400.jpg

Can it be only happy coincidence that mountain climbers and architects share the same language to describe the objects of their passion, that both talk of slope and cornice, spur and buttress, fluting, pitch, spire?

what kind of retard would think that this shared vocab is a "coincidence?"

he's not just terrible at writing words, he literally does not understand what they are and how ppl come to use them

<3 <3

Maybe he actually saw the band The Homosexuals standing outside in tube tops waiting to be rescued from their boredom. Or maybe even from The Boredoms.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/garden/28couples.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/fashion/31Unwashed.html

There must be something in there to make fun of.

The smell of deodorant

In re the designer article -- the trope of the anxious client-oriented professional seems to have gained more prominence in the age of reality shows. It's a character type I find really irritating and uninteresting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/fashion/31Unwashed.html

There must be something in there to make fun of.

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, November 5, 2010 8:50 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How about this?

She contends that a soapy washcloth under her arms, between her legs and under her feet is all she needs to get “really clean.” On the go, underarm odor is wiped away with a sliced lemon.

"it doesn't matter, i'm still invited to dinner parties."

the article existing is hilarious, as is the seriousness with which these ppl take their "unorthodox" bathing habits.

but tbh the lady is probably right about the hot water/lemon thing. then again I ditched deodorant/anti perspirant over ten years ago, so ymmv

Can it be only happy coincidence that mountain climbers and architects share the same language to describe the objects of their passion, that both talk of slope and cornice, spur and buttress, fluting, pitch, spire?

what kind of retard would think that this shared vocab is a "coincidence?"

he's not just terrible at writing words, he literally does not understand what they are and how ppl come to use them

rereading this passage still makes me inappropriately angry.

http://www.american-buddha.com/ablab137h.jpg