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

perfect

that is strangely close to my address

that would tell you that 54th Street is your cross street. See, easy? Or 54th Road. Or 54th Place. It's hard to tell sometimes.

I didn't even notice you were responding to the "what should it be called"!

i think that is the only thread i have ever actually had a hand in naming!! i am quite proud.

Haha it's 54-46 Was My Number but okay!

i don't think there's actually a canonical name, laurel! i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54-46_That%27s_My_Number

Oh, sorry, E! I guess whatever link or record or whatever I learned the name from must have been the re-release.

Larry Garfield, 95, of Key Biscayne, Fla., worked in the carpet industry until he was 83. Asked why he recently ate a rare calf’s liver with mashed potatoes at Joe Allen’s restaurant in Miami Beach (even though he shouldn’t have, given his diabetes), Mr. Garfield said: “You ever walked down the street and seen a pretty girl and thought, ‘Mm! That’s for me!’? Well, I looked at the menu and thought, ‘Mm! That’s for me!’ ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/dining/02Elder.html?hp

feel like 60 year old should eat healthy, but 95? I dunno you're basically playing with house money...

prob more abt appeasing yr bowls at that point

bowl of ice cr?m

what part of the calves liver + potato is bad for diabetes?

The potato, because the starch raises blood sugar levels.

o

So it's not the NYT, but this.

An art enthusiast, Ms. Rachofsky sees her wardrobe as a collection and herself as the curator. 'I hope someday someone will find it important and significant,' she says.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/can-exercise-keep-you-young/
The potential benefits have attractions even for the young. While Dr. Tarnopolsky, a lifelong athlete, noted with satisfaction that active, aged mice kept their hair, his younger graduate students were far more interested in the animals’ robust gonads. Their testicles and ovaries hadn’t shrunk, unlike those of sedentary elderly mice.
Dr. Tarnopolsky’s students were impressed. “I think they all exercise now,” he said.

tone them gonads

Uh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/fashion/03native.html

Foppish scions in their 20s ascended the grand marble staircase, and sipped champagne in couture gowns, velvet dinner jackets and tuxedo slippers rakishly embroidered with Chinese characters. Those disinclined to formal wear still looked clubbable in Burberry check jackets, bow-ties and Hermès scarves.

Set against the intricately patterned oak parquet floors and the robber baron-luxe red velvet sofas of the Rose Club, the affair took on the air of Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred — if Mrs. Astor had been conducting a casting call for “Gossip Girl.”

But this was no ordinary cotillion. The black-tie party was for the Native Society, a new club that is limited to native New Yorkers, many of them city dwellers who might reside in 10021 — the ZIP code of upper Park and Fifth Avenues — or be graduates of certain prep schools.

“You can’t apply,” explained its founder, Oliver Estreich, 24, the son of an architect and interior designer who grew up on East 85th and Park Avenue. He formed the society in October with a few friends from prep school whom he refers to as his “administrators.” It quickly grew to several dozen, mostly by word of mouth, and now claims nearly 400 members.

“It’s the second-degree-of-association,” Mr. Estreich said. “If one of my administrators knows you, likes you, thinks you have the native sensibility, we’ll reach out.”

Those disinclined to formal wear still looked clubbable

I'll bet.

xp think he meant "reach around" not "out"

Clubbable like a baby seal.

they should really at least make their schedule public so we know where to plant the bomb

this is a thing that people write articles about?

Alexa Winner, a 22-year-old stylist and fashion designer. “Anyone can come from a wealthy family...

“It’s not about who you were born,

or, apparently, whether or not you can speak english correctly

To Anne de la Mothe Karoubi, 24, who went to the Marymount School, it’s an intellectual precociousness. “When you grow up in New York City, our minds develop faster,” she said. “You’re not from Wisconsin, you’re not from the middle of America. We’re international, we’re focused, we’re driven.”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/03/03/fashion/03NATIVE-C/Z-JP-NATIVE-C-popup.jpg

very cool look

wonder how many lenape members the native society has...

Likewise, Mr. Estreich found himself hanging out mostly with other New Yorkers at George Washington University in Washington, where he studied marketing and psychology.

lol nothing says "i couldn't get into an elite school but my parents have a shit ton of money" like a degree from GW

"Alexa Winner?!" Are you shitting me?

“When you grow up in New York City, our minds develop faster,”

"Why, they've developed so quickly, we can change from second to first person in the middle of a sentence without skipping a beat!"

I mean, "Alexa Winner" is like the rich person equivalent of a porn name. It's like Homer Simpson renaming himself Max Power.

Like Zen monks marinating on the essence of nothingness, members tried to put their finger on that ineffable quality that makes them worthy of membership.

You can marinate on things now? I thought you usually marinate in things.

In my experience, the people who are nerds about social engagements and professional societies are the worst sort of nerds.

lol nothing says "i couldn't get into an elite school but my parents have a shit ton of money" like a degree from GW

yeah I am pretty sure if he had gotten into columbia/one of the various other 4 year clubs for these people he wouldn't feel the need to create this thing. I'm sure he thought this up one day after being made fun of by some georgetown kid.

i dunno i think this club sounds kind of cool

You must infiltrate it and steal everyone's identity. The Talented Mr. Gr8080

i promise to liveblog it

xp excelsior

“like winner, not a loser,’” she said, spelling her name

^^^ excerpted from the forthcoming "pitchforkreviewsreviews reviews native society" post

you can see some of these people on facebook its kind of lol

lol nothing says "i couldn't get into an elite school but my parents have a shit ton of money" like a degree from GW

― pascal's swagger (J0rdan S.), Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah I am pretty sure if he had gotten into columbia/one of the various other 4 year clubs for these people he wouldn't feel the need to create this thing. I'm sure he thought this up one day after being made fun of by some georgetown kid.

― iatee, Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:16 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and now i feel kinda bad for these lil pukes

are these people white

I haven't read the article I don't even know what thread I'm posting in

is this pre or post puff, your post

the puffington post

i dig this style of commentary

ice dig your style of cr?mentary

yeah man