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

for some reason i thought cintra wilson had resigned from the times but maybe she just quit her regular columns

didn't see the prob with that column?

http://f.cl.ly/items/392B0g2j3Q2S1T132N01/Screen%20shot%202011-05-18%20at%2000.38.42.jpg

top story on the web edition right now. watch out, ny observer, the times is gunnin for your turf

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/nyregion/as-art-tania-bruguera-lives-like-a-poor-immigrant.html?_r=1&hp

She seeks to blend politics and art to empower immigrants through English classes, legal help and impromptu performances. She has held workshops to write slogans — like “I am today what your grandparents were yesterday” — that she plans to print on bumper stickers and T-shirts. And she intends to live like her working-class Latino neighbors; she has vowed not to tap her credit cards, personal bank account or assistants in Italy and Cuba.

She has already learned a thing or two. After finding her apartment and roommates in January through a flier on the street, she was surprised that the local gym did not offer yoga.

Her roommates, especially an out-of-work Ecuadorean laborer, do not know what to make of her. “I explained to them four times what I’m doing already,” she said. “They don’t get it. They’re not very excited.”

“She’s an artist? I didn’t know that,” said J. P. Jimenez, a salesman at Metropolitan Lumber and Hardware on Roosevelt Avenue, opposite the storefront Ms. Bruguera opened last month. “I don’t see nobody going in with paintings.”

I had a neighbor who did this in la last year and it turned out to be pretty embarrassing imo

http://www.fredhystere.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Pulp_-_Common_People.jpg

Not the NYT, but a quiddity and agony nonetheless. C&Ped from the Chicago thread, credit due to Jesse.

Art disrupts wedding plans at Chicago's Art Institute

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2011-05/61683742.jpg

"They sold us a wedding site that was being used as a sculpture terrace," said Sainati. "(But) this installation is like a clown's nightmare. … (So) it would seem to violate the spirit of the contract." "A riot of color and play" is the museum's description.... An "acid-trip funhouse" is Berger's take.

Shut up.

― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I kind of think this story belongs in the quiddities and agonies of the ruling classes thread.

― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Her roommates, especially an out-of-work Ecuadorean laborer, do not know what to make of her. “I explained to them four times what I’m doing already,” she said. “They don’t get it. They’re not very excited.”

its fun if u picture her rolling her eyes as she says this

“I explained to them four times what I’m doing already,” she said. "I finally had to suggest ban them"

Thanks, Jenny. I want to reiterate: Shut up.

Keke Keukelaar laughed when she heard about the wedding controversy.

"If you want to get married in an art museum, you shouldn't complain about whether it matches your dress or not," she said

wkiw

If it hadn't been for the comments dissing the installation (comments made by a person who holds a degree in art history and who worked at MoMA in NYC), I might have felt a little sympathy since the installation blocks the view of the skyline, a view that the Art Institute advertises in rental promotion materials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/fashion/08CHAZ.html?ref=movies

am i wrong for thinking this writer is more than a little rude/ignorant?

― ignore the man behind the parentheses (remy bean), Thursday, May 12, 2011 1:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

chaz comes off really badly, but that's his own fault. what's your objection?

“We’re a lot more house proud than anyone might catch on,” Ms. Meyer said.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/05/19/garden/19collectors-span/19collectors-span-articleLarge.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/garden/a-live-in-cabinet-of-curiosities.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/05/22/is-anti-white-bias-a-problem

a few days late, but wau re Tania Bruguera and her chutzpah ... slumming is now supposed to be an "art form"?!?

http://onpar.blogs.nytimes.com/

didn't know the NYT had a golf blog

no one did

http://ihatenyt.com/2011/01/15/how-to-write-a-trend-piece/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/greenwich-s-priciest-homes-languish-with-four-years-of-inventory-on-market.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/the-hangover-and-the-age-of-the-jokeless-comedy.html

Riff
‘The Hangover’ and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy
By ADAM STERNBERGH

...riff?

best quote from Alias's linked story:

"David Brooks’ level of mental sophistication makes that one episode of Beavis and Butthead where Beavis gets stuck in a pipe look like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire… crossed with Ulysses!"

link found via ihatenyt: http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/the-most-emailed-new-york-times-article-ever

i lolled in my mouth a little

I like that piece about the hangover a lot

really?

as far as describing the current reigning style of movie comedy, ok, but going about diagnosing that as some kind of problem? rap music more like crap music!!

we already talked about that 'most emailed' piece some months ago upthread? or somewhere else. but it really is pretty fantastic on a sentence by sentence level:

""The toll collectors on the New York Thruway are becoming close friends," cracks Anna's father, referring to the highway connecting New York City to the Catskills."

yeah i think its def been linked somewhere on ilx

the parks and recreation article linked to the "most e-mailed NYT article" story is pretty interesting BTW.

GLAMPING

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/travel/14green-1.html

perfect

glamping sounds like some sort of porn with the elderly subgenre

jfc

Though dismissed by hard-core leave-no-trace campers (who don’t so much as move a rock for fear of affecting the area), glamping can still be an environmentally sound outdoor experience, even if it does include creature comforts (like not having too many creatures inside your tent).

So basically there are two kinds of campers: those who "glamp" and those who not only avoid moving even the very rocks themselves, but actively enjoy have animals inside their tents.

Good research, Jennifer Conlin. Presumably you interviewed some of these "hard core" campers? The ones who "dismiss" your totally fake "trend". Right? Otherwise what dismissal are you talking about?

I know I shouldn't respond. It doesn't bring out the best in me. It's like the New York Times personally trolls me every day just by existing.

Also that article is a couple of years old, so glamping has been going on all this time without our knowledge and it's probably "over" by now.

What are you, some kind of grind-your-own-flour nerd?

Some kind of armpit composter?

xpost the "Beavis and Butthead" pipe episode is comedy gold. Best punchline ever.

arent you like one of those neti pot using flax-eating people who use tom's deodorant and shit stfu

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:28 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cold stone glampin'

i was writing press releases about glamping in 2008, and it was a year-old "package" on one of the hgtv sites back then

as far as describing the current reigning style of movie comedy, ok, but going about diagnosing that as some kind of problem?

smashing my head against the punk rock

that the reigning style of movie comedy foretells the coming idiocracy is the most undeniable truth of American life

idiocracy was not a comedy in the reigning style, fwiw

Glamping it old school:

http://images.screenrush.co.uk/r_760_x/medias/nmedia/18/66/32/78/18930518.jpg

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/start-up-offers-new-hires-ten-grand-lifetime-supply-of-beer/?hp

glampers to the left of me, hipsters to the right, here i am