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

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."

As if trying to top the playhouse piece, just up is a trend story about wealthy families chartering private planes to shuttle their kids to summer camp.

the ending kind of makes it

But some parents have already tired of this private-plane status infiltrating the simpler world of summer camp. Nancy Chemtob, a divorce lawyer, made several summer trips to Maine in the past decade, where her children attended camp. She once managed to get on a charter plane from the airport in East Hampton, N.Y., for $750 (her husband had hung a sign in the airport seeking a ride). After listening to enough banter among parents about “who is flying, who is flying private, who they can get a lift home with,” she decided she “was done with Maine and the planes and all of the people.”

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

What happened to the character-building bus journey from Port Authority to summer camp?

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

lmaoooo

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.

― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:54 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as though blogger were a career, you mean

― mookieproof, Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:59 PM Bookmark

Actually I meant both, I just didn't phrase it well.

u guys are gonna need a new quiddities thread soon. I missed this treehouse thing but am not gonna load 3600 posts.

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

lmaoooo

― ice cr?m, Monday, July 25, 2011 8:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Seriously. This is incredible.

so I saw the print copy today and this is a FRONT PAGE STORY

It's win-win for the times. Rich people are narcissistic and enjoy reading stories about themselves, poor people (ie the rest of us) are masochistic and enjoy reading stories about rich people.

“It’s a crazy world out there,” she added. She now sends her children to camp in Europe.

this has to be the best ending to any newspaper article... ever?

i mean legitimately, newspaper articles aren't usually ones for a big bang at the end, but that's the shit right there

at this point you could argue that the nyt must be self-aware w/ this stuff and is trying to kindle a class war

how do i dl class war to my kindle

if you have a kindle, you're in the war

phew

o wait i dont have one

*shoots u w/ agonies*

seriously, serious fuck the megarich. this isnt the thread to say this probably but like half of my life i am in contact with exceedingly wealthy people – not just 'well off' but like scrooge mcduck loaded- and let me tell you that even if they are decent, nice, whatever, they are so completely out of the fucking loop on everything that they just passively make those around them feel like shit all the time with the kind of attitudes in these articles. the moderately wealthy people i know are at least somewhat of this planet and so, you know, mixed bag of awesome/shitty/whatever roughly in proportion to the normal workaday population. but my god, the class war can't come soon enough for my money b/c the vanderbilts and carnegies and morgans of today are just ... ugh ... excruciatingly awful

im gonna b cynical and also hamfisted and say many ppl will not class revolt bc they are deluded into believing they too can become rich plutocrats when their big break comes

all it takes to forestall the call to arms is a state lottery

i am already a rich plutocrat so

I'm already warring with u bitch, read yr threads

my queen is a welfare queen, and my people will fight for her with shillelaghs and wadded-up rejection letters from the unemployment office

http://johnbatchelorshow.com/dispatches/images/plutocrat.jpg

bring it, bitch

we won't fight hard b/c we've gotta catch the early train to our jobs at the DMV in the morning