http://ihatenyt.com/2011/01/15/how-to-write-a-trend-piece/
― Alias (Gudrun Brangwen), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/greenwich-s-priciest-homes-languish-with-four-years-of-inventory-on-market.html
― s.clover, Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
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 ComedyBy ADAM STERNBERGH
― goole, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
...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!"
― I-95 Phuck Phace (Eisbaer), Thursday, 26 May 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
link found via ihatenyt: http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/the-most-emailed-new-york-times-article-ever
― s.clover, Friday, 27 May 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
i lolled in my mouth a little
― he he he what would i not eat? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 May 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
I like that piece about the hangover a lot
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 May 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
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!!
― goole, Friday, 27 May 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― iatee, Friday, 27 May 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think its def been linked somewhere on ilx
― just sayin, Friday, 27 May 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
the parks and recreation article linked to the "most e-mailed NYT article" story is pretty interesting BTW.
― I-95 Phuck Phace (Eisbaer), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
GLAMPING
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/travel/14green-1.html
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
perfect
― b.o.s.e. (banned ones still envy) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
glamping sounds like some sort of porn with the elderly subgenre
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
jfc
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2011 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2011 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 2 June 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
What are you, some kind of grind-your-own-flour nerd?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
Some kind of armpit composter?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
xpost the "Beavis and Butthead" pipe episode is comedy gold. Best punchline ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 June 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Jesse, Thursday, 2 June 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
cold stone glampin'
― dayo, Thursday, 2 June 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
i was writing press releases about glamping in 2008, and it was a year-old "package" on one of the hgtv sites back then
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
that the reigning style of movie comedy foretells the coming idiocracy is the most undeniable truth of American life
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
idiocracy was not a comedy in the reigning style, fwiw
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 June 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Glamping it old school:
http://images.screenrush.co.uk/r_760_x/medias/nmedia/18/66/32/78/18930518.jpg
― s.clover, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/start-up-offers-new-hires-ten-grand-lifetime-supply-of-beer/?hp
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
glampers to the left of me, hipsters to the right, here i am
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
cold glampin
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
I would rather go glamping with Dominique Strauss-Kahn than work at "Hipster."
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
"PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon, for those who are not hip)."
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
like, just write Pabst Blue Ribbon if you're afraid your audience won't know what PBR is; don't be self effacingly snide
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/nyregion/a-chronicler-of-the-creative-underground.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Doesn't quite count, but I gotta big-up Tod
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 3 June 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
the hipster thing is amusing because the company is being goofy - but what I wanna know is why would anyone leave Google to go work at a shitty Yelp knockoff?
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
PBR dood
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/world/americas/04venez.html?hp
this is very hard to understand.
― j., Saturday, 4 June 2011 08:10 (twelve years ago) link
quiddities and agonies of the penal class
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 June 2011 08:19 (twelve years ago) link
that prison sounds like it's one step away from a visit by a times style page writer. i'm praying, at least.
― j., Saturday, 4 June 2011 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
good article but don't think it fits te criteria of this thread
― dayo, Saturday, 4 June 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
who are you, the thread police?
i can do whatever i want inside as long as i don't try to leave.
― j., Saturday, 4 June 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/nyregion/a-chronicler-of-the-creative-underground.html^all i could think about while reading this article was this thread. So many choice quotes:
“He’s a guy who’s always had an interest in the extreme — in interesting, envelope-pushing opportunities,” said Mr. Seelie’s friend, Todd Patrick, a music promoter better known in Brooklyn circles as Todd P. “He’s all about showing smart, sometimes privileged, people doing stuff they probably haven’t done before. He likes to catch upper-middle-class white kids actually doing interesting things.”
“Most of the things I’m drawn to are done by D.I.Y. people who make what they want to happen, happen,” Mr. Seelie said. “You want to put on a play? Great. Find an abandoned power plant.”
Mr. Seelie and his circle of friends have known each other for many years, from bike kills (rallies of competing ganglike bicycle clubs) and from secret parties in abandoned or illegal spaces, said one of those friends, a disc jockey who goes by the nightclub moniker D. J. Dirtyfinger. “His people in New York are people who don’t do stuff within the confines of standard bars or parties. They’re out there being creative almost to a renegade level.
“Ultimately, Tod’s passion is for experiences that are only really possible if you’re living at the extreme,” Mr. Patrick said.
That maddening aspiration of most working artists — the big break — has so far eluded him, but the seeds of such a break may be found in his latest and most ambitious project: a book-length collection of images documenting the last 10 years of the underground art scene. Stored in boxes and on hard-drives, the photographs depict, Mr. Seelie said, the dawning of the New York street-art movement, the birth of the local chapter of the Black Label Bike Club and the early years of bands like Black Dice, Japanther and Matt & Kim. While the material may not mean much to those unfamiliar with these groups and events, Mr. Seelie speaks with a historian’s pride when he says, “I’ve got shots of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs literally playing in an auto parts garage.”
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 June 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
LITERALLY
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 June 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
“You want to put on a play? Great. Find an abandoned power plant.” <<i always say that
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 4 June 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
i'd be more impressed by people who say "you want to generate your own electricity? Find an abandoned theater."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 4 June 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
"upper-middle-class white kids actually doing interesting things"
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 June 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
'race traitors'
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 4 June 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
i guess that article is kind of appropriate (<3 u tod)
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 4 June 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link