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

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We had asked where they were from in an off-handed fashion, my companion and I. We weren’t especially concerned. But in provenance-conscious, environment-attuned Seattle, such a question can all too easily be heard as a challenge, a taunt: assure us that these mollusks weren’t the denizens of some distant seabed, relocated through a lavish outlay of fossil fuel. Prove to us that they’re bivalves from the ’hood.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/travel/eating-in-and-around-seattle.html

they were all called Colin.

"MUSWELL HILL JOURNAL"

So Portlandia

Bono roughing it at an Italina trattoria in NYC:

From a Jon Pareles article on Spiderman

SHORTLY before midnight on a rainy Thursday, Bono was headed to work, bearing plastic bags of takeout food from Esca up to a Manhattan studio on a nearly deserted West 48th Street

Italian

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/us/17meatless.html

going vegetarian one day a week is a big trend! in aspen!

“We roast our own beets,” said Tenille Folk, the director of food services for the Aspen School District’s middle and elementary schools.

idiot

seriously, beets take forever. way to waste energy, tenille

i am not gonna front on a slow roasted beet

slow roast on this

“It’s very interesting, but for some reason when people come to Aspen, they want to eat meat,” said Mimi Lenk, a vegetarian for more than a decade and the manager of Syzygy, a downtown restaurant where elk, bison and lamb are the big sellers.

Mimi Lenk, of Syzygy

“It’s not government’s role, or municipal government’s role, to be talking about personal choice,” said Torre, a City Council member, who uses only one name.

!!

“It’s very interesting, but for some reason when people come to Aspen, they want to eat meat,” said Mimi Lenk, a vegetarian for more than a decade and the manager of Syzygy, a downtown restaurant where elk, bison and lamb are the big sellers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuwh7h3hKs&feature=related

also, this

“It’s not government’s role, or municipal government’s role, to be talking about personal choice,” said Torre, a City Council member, who uses only one name.

i have met this person

torry torri torre

i'd never see them if she had no loot

i just read the new yorker piece on vat grown flesh; think that's gonna get popular WAY before "poopburgers"

Think this
http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/index.html

might as well be posted in this thread as anywhere else

haha i just watched a torre video

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/realestate/more-parents-buying-apartments-for-their-children.html

I think poopburgers have been around in Japan since the 90s.

11.
Eilat
New York
June 17th, 2011
3:09 pm
As someone who has literally clawed herself up from humble, miserable, stressful beginnings as the daughter of a working class retail salesperson and homemaker from a fundamentalist Christian family who has given me and my siblings zero support in terms of college of big life purchases such as real estate, who has endured years in her 20's renting rooms with several roommates on the perimeter of Manhattan, who finally, in her early 30s, college educated (with a Master's degree, believe it or not), $60K in student loan debt, and 10 years' of miserable job after job finally has a respectable and stable salary (although still barely considered 'middle class' in Manhattan), who still has to split the rent (though this time with only 1 roommate) to live in the city in which I work and love, I cannot help but find the reality of someone my age or younger who has not worked as hard, who has probably never tasted the bitterness of a hard life or struggle or survival insecurity, who has probably less individual drive and intelligence and charisma, 'gifted' a Manhattan apartment rent-free from their wealthy and coddling parents and then sneer down on the rest of people like me who cannot yet afford to buy anything in Manhattan as simply and utterly UNFAIR, hurtful, disgusting, and blood-boiling. I realise that parents have every right to support their children as they see fit, and I though my nature is not to be jealous or angry, but this is the kind of stuff that creates resentment and bitter disillusionment in the American idea of supposed fairness and equality. I view these coddled children as pampered and ungrateful, and from my rough life experience, there is nothing that can convince me otherwise.
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i agree that no one w/less charisma than me should be able to own an apartment

she has literally clawed her way through life

she has a Master's degree in clawing

from a fundamentalist Crustacean family

i have literally clawed my way through life

signed,
a cat

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Eliat would have been OTM had she included "when the Revolution comes, these motherfuckers are first against the wall."

quiddities and agonies of the self-righteously unwealthy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/fashion/new-yorks-core-club-a-portal-to-power.html

in how many ways can the times call people nouveau riche in one article

“You’re not going to find an unhappy person in the Core club,”

If this thread were its own board, that would be the tagline.

ILXcORe.com

heh, nothing like the times style section taking on arrivistes

“At least three members I can think of offhand were interested in buying the Mets,” said Mr. DeRitis, citing James F. McCann, the founder of 1-800-Flowers.com; Anthony Scaramucci, the manager of a $7-billion hedge fund; and Steven A. Cohen, the hedge fund mogul who is currently both a front-runner to be the Mets’ new owner and under investigation by the S.E.C. “That pretty much says it all.”

^^ lol this is the funniest/subtlest burn... like who would want to own the METS for gods sake...

will laugh when Mets & Yanks' positions are reversed in 20 years

I think that was a subplot of Back to the Future II

your nursing-home attendant will keep the news from you for the lols
xpost

will yours tell ya the Braves have moved back to Boston?

ha, nobody around here knows enough about baseball to pull that one

really wish there were a comment section for this one

Cultural “optimization” is also a part of the club’s makeup; anyway, there is an amorphous operative notion that members share what Mr. DeRitis, the cultural curator, calls a “sensibility.”

also re the beginning of this article, how is walking around in a chanel suit + birkin bag not kind of.. ostentatious

that article makes me want to kill