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

“Childhood is a precious and finite thing,” Ms. Butler said. “And a special playhouse is not the sort of thing you can put off until the economy gets better.”

http://occasionallyfunny.blogspot.com/

just

cannot

be

real

k I'm p ready for a class war now

http://i.imgur.com/zFau7.png

guys i am not going to lie: a little of my bile re. this is motivated by the fact that i will never live in a $248,000 treehouse.

you'd think that a family that could afford a 248k treehouse would be able to upgrade a bit from blogspot

no joke i would love a rad treehouse to sleep in during the summer and to have vision quests in, no stupid kids allowed

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/07/20/garden/20110721-PLAYHOUSE-slide-RBYU/20110721-PLAYHOUSE-slide-RBYU-slide.jpg

so they spent 250000 to get something that looks...like every other public playground in the united states

the contractor is laughing his ass off in a money pit somewhere

well it has ac xp

well most playgrounds dont have a flatscreen and dvd player in them so

what kind of poor-ass playgrounds do you go to, i mean

tbqh i dont really hang around any playgrounds!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/fashion/women-enjoy-the-cool-comfort-of-summer-dresses.html?scp=2&sq=dresses&st=cse

oh god

“Dresses are almost always looser and less constricting than pants or a skirt,” said Ms. May, 27.

Hazel Honeysuckle of Brooklyn

^^even the writer of '500 days of summer' would roll his eyes at this

I myself have noticed that interesting new fad

"DRESSES"

i bet in that article somebody says they're empowering

Periwinkle Pineapple, 23, a student

Charlton Chokeberry, 45, hedge fund manager

bettina and whitney may (no relation)

http://www.hazelhoneysuckle.com/

Sultana Pip, 31, best-selling author

slack sprits

what is this :/

combining it w/ the rockaway hipster trend = masterful

“The Delicate Flower of Burlesque”

Hazel Honeysuckle began her burlesque career at Jo Weldon’s NY School of Burlesque, making her debut on the stage of the Slipper Room. A childhood ballerina, Hazel developed her love for performing in weekend recitals, with tutus and sequined costumes in tow. Later experience in ballroom dancing fueled the desire for elegance and poise. She has now traded up to rhinestoned pasties, and developed a true love for the glamour of the golden age of burlesque, and the women (both then and now) who paved the way for today’s performers.

really great reporting there by the nyt

Jo Weldon’s NY School of Burlesque

... no, really?

http://www.schoolofburlesque.com/

Ms. May and Ms. Akkari were but two in a random selection of women interviewed this month in the city who, when temperatures soar, reach for a dress, fashion’s little coping mechanism against stale air, slack sprits and the much-too-taxing question of what to wear.

A RANDOM SELECTION OF WOMEN

"Hello, Miss? Can I have a moment of your time? Are you wearing a dress right now? No? OK, thank you!"

lol

quote from Kristi Schiller supposedly:
“oil is hovering at $100 and I am a 'shiny' girl – as oil escalates I will only get flashier, eventually the ring I will wear will come with its own welding cap”

my friend Angie told me she likes to wear dresses when she's going to get drunk because there's no un/zipping involved. I declined to ask whether this was about peeing or sex.

Personally I can say that it makes peeing a hell of a lot easier, but you can still accidentally tuck your hem into your underpants or something. If you wear underpants.

well THAT'S a problem with a built-in solution

“Dresses are almost always looser and less constricting than pants or a skirt,” said Ms. May, 27.

Bruce Springsteen struck a similar chord, crooning “in the cool of the evening light/The girls in their summer clothes/Pass me by,”

That line doesn't even have the word "dresses" in it!

well THAT'S a problem with a built-in solution

Yes, that's where I was going with that.

lol, when i saw the treehouse piece this morning i KNEW someone would beat me to posting it here

The treehouse piece delivers right out of the gate with the caption on the photo: Dan Burnham spent nearly $248,000 on playhouses (“adorable and worth every penny”) near Santa Barbara, Calif.

Adorable and worth every penny.

But if I try hard enough, I can make my law school loans appear more manageable by reminding myself that they are nowhere near as much as Dan Burnham's treehouse.

OMG, I came here to post about the treehouse piece! What's funny is that I was reading that section and came across this photo essay on a treehouse with heater, shower, etc. Then I realized it wasn't a treehouse but a real house, yet the treehouse piece was so ridiculous I was fully willing to believe it was about a treehouse with all mod cons.

Loved the line of reasoning from the former Playboy model (and now blogger), married to the oil exec in Houston. Something like, "they're only young once, and childhood flies by so quickly ..." Yes! That's why you don't build them six figure treehouses!

I just realized that even when I was broke I would not wear clothes like that.

The tossed off "former playboy model turned blogger" line was actually my favorite thing in the whole piece -- as though playboy model were a career, and she had made a career change.

as though blogger were a career, you mean

snap

actually I think my favorite line from that piece is the totally self-defeating

"The list goes on."