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

yeah, that is also inexcusable

127. October 13, 2010
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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?

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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

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

rereading this passage still makes me inappropriately angry.

Reading you using the word "retard" actually makes me kinda angry, gbx. Come on, dude - be better than that.

yeah I know :(

I'm trying to kick the habit---

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.

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.

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?

I feel like this album cover/title belongs in this thread:

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/286/121/296/12129662/600x600.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/books/11agent.html

just for the headline -"Literary Agents Move to Brooklyn" sounds like an Onion setup

“Is water a barrier to clients? Is it a barrier to the business? That was really the question.”

has this paper gone out of business yet?

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.

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.

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.”

wow

:O

$_$

o_O

lol

not sure if this really belongs here, however I was amused by the business equivalent of taking the same class as a girl you'll never pluck up the courage to talk to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/technology/12valley.html?ref=twitter

(especially when the girl has an underpants gnome derived business model)

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/all-the-young-girls/

My roommate was having a rough go of it. An intern for a bigwig fashion designer, she was once dispatched to Miami to procure a heap of Italian cashmere.

...the Upper East Side apartment that my roommate’s father had co-signed for us was too far out of the way.

I mean you could just quote the whole article pretty much.