comments are so hilarious
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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'
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i would expect nothing less
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
group 2 really just a subset of group 1 I guess
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i really still can't get over how anyone would think this is good writing
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss you standing listlessly with the homosexuals in their tube tops outside dark-windowed clubs as they waited for rescue from their boredom.
― dayo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that is also inexcusable
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
127. October 13, 20104:40 pmLinkThere are eight million stories, in the Naked City. This has been one of them.— Hardball Howie
— Hardball Howie
This is killing me!
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
his original piece is actually worse tbh
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
...
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
uhhh
In the way that others need to live near the sea to equalize the saltwater sloshing inside of them
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
its melted ice cream cone summit afloat on a raft of dawn-pink clouds
*literally vomits*
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
And so, among eight million, I am all alone in these mountains.
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
And so, among eight million, including the homosexuals in their tube tops outside dark-windowed clubs, I am all alone in these mountains.
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
So long! Don't forget not to write, ever!
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. That article was just gross.
― Regular Stormy (Jenny), Thursday, 14 October 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the commenters saying it was somehow artistic and accusing people of being philistines. Indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
o_O
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 October 2010 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 14 October 2010 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Oof. You have a point there...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't believe that someone got paid to write this, it is like a bad LiveJournal entry.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Thursday, 14 October 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw090rsVqv1qz7wfjo1_400.jpg
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 October 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 <3
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/garden/28couples.html
― john water (harbl), Friday, 29 October 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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), Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The smell of deodorant
― buzza, Saturday, 6 November 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Saturday, 6 November 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― SEXY HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN PORTUGAL (Jesse), Monday, 8 November 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"it doesn't matter, i'm still invited to dinner parties."
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Monday, 8 November 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 8 November 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 8 November 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.american-buddha.com/ablab137h.jpg
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 November 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Reading you using the word "retard" actually makes me kinda angry, gbx. Come on, dude - be better than that.
― kkvgz, Monday, 8 November 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I know :(
I'm trying to kick the habit---
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 8 November 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I have some sympathy for these dirty people and their views on bathing. If I didn't shower every day, I could sleep in later! Plus, I have lived among the shower-averse during my shameful hippy past so I'm familiar with the ethos. The thing that irks me, aside from the whole "NYT feature depicting as awesome and trendy a thing middle class people forgo by choice that most people in this world don't do because they do not have the resources for it" aspect, is the attendant smugness. Like, congratulations. You don't have to wear suits in the summer so you can dress your armpits like a salad. Have a cookie. Or an article in the NYT. But don't act like this makes you a better person.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 8 November 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Wd think all that lemon juice would bleach the shit outta your shirts. I can't afford to go through blouses that fast, and I have like 8993490 white cotton Ts as it is, but I can't wear 'em to WORK.
And forget DRYCLEANING.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Monday, 8 November 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
is it impolite to ask the bartender at the upscale dinner party for some deodorizing lemon wedges or are you expected to bring ur own?
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Monday, 8 November 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like this album cover/title belongs in this thread:
http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/286/121/296/12129662/600x600.jpg
― portrait of the artist as a yung joc (Hurting 2), Thursday, 11 November 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/books/11agent.html
just for the headline -"Literary Agents Move to Brooklyn" sounds like an Onion setup
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
“Is water a barrier to clients? Is it a barrier to the business? That was really the question.”
― swagl (dayo), Friday, 12 November 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
has this paper gone out of business yet?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 November 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The lease in his Manhattan office was up at the end of June, so he began hunting for office space in Brooklyn, a short walk from his home in Cobble Hill.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 November 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
there's nothing offensive about that, but it's evocative of a certain kind of upper-middle-class novel writing. i feel it ought to be going somewhere. like maybe we meet his estranged son in the next paragraph.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 November 2010 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Somewhat related: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/11/11/the-nyts-subscription-strategy/
If a gaffe is when somebody accidentally tells the truth, then Gerry Marzorati’s latest comments probably count:During a panel discussion at the Digital Hollywood New York conference, Gerald Marzorati, the Times’s assistant managing editor for new media and strategic initiatives, explained why the paper’s print business is still robust. “We have north of 800,000 subscribers paying north of $700 a year for home delivery,” Marzorati said. “Of course, they don’t seem to know that.”Marzorati went on to become positively disingenuous:“I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they’re literally not understanding what they’re paying,” he said. “That’s the beauty of the credit card.”
During a panel discussion at the Digital Hollywood New York conference, Gerald Marzorati, the Times’s assistant managing editor for new media and strategic initiatives, explained why the paper’s print business is still robust. “We have north of 800,000 subscribers paying north of $700 a year for home delivery,” Marzorati said. “Of course, they don’t seem to know that.”
Marzorati went on to become positively disingenuous:
“I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they’re literally not understanding what they’re paying,” he said. “That’s the beauty of the credit card.”
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Friday, 12 November 2010 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
wow
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 November 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
:O
― just sayin, Friday, 12 November 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link