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

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

ya I'm gonna do some warring as a hobby after school in the evenings

“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?

― J0rdan S., Monday, July 25, 2011 6:28 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

― J0rdan S., Monday, July 25, 2011 6:29 PM (4 hours ago)

OTM

i read that article at work today and immediately thought of this thread

FRONT PAGE

but really who can blame them, such a slow news week

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

― davon cuul II (m bison), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:18 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well i never

*straps up*

i am a poor plutocrat

I'll fight on the side of the rich if one of you plutocrats takes care of my student loans. thx.

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

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

― davon cuul II (m bison), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/strive.jpg

bingo

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/fashion/dress-codes-in-new-york-clubs-will-this-get-me-in.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

An injunction against flannel, shorts and other typical brunch fashions helps convey the message that the sparklers-and-champagne bacchanal known as the Day and Night Brunch, which until June was held at the Plaza, is for socialites and financiers, not hotel guests in search of French toast, said Daniel Koch, who runs the weekly party with his twin brother, Derek.

“You get guys in from L.A., they think a brunch is a brunch,” Mr. Koch said. “We have to say, ‘Look, dude, this isn’t what you think it is.’ You can’t rock a T-shirt here unless you’re a rock star.”

(How does one dress for a brunch that resembles a Russian oligarch’s stag party? Ladies should consider brightly colored dresses or skirts and avoid cleavage-baring blouses. “You don’t want that in your face at brunch,” said Mr. Koch, who now holds his brunch at different locations each week, including the Hamptons and St.-Tropez. Guys “need an edge; wear a bow tie or, if you have to, go out and buy a $400 pair of sunglasses.”)

New Yorkers fleeing the city in summer may think they’ve earned a vacation from judgment, but they’re wrong — particularly at South Pointe, a hot new dance club in Southampton, N.Y.

“We cater to the ‘authentic’ Hamptons crowd,” said Ben Grieff, an owner, “people who are actually from the Hamptons, not just people who drive out here to see a big D.J.” (Mr. Grieff clarified: “From the Hamptons” refers to people whose parents had a summer home there as a child, not to duck farmers.)

You don’t want that in your face at brunch,”

speak for yourself amirite

ok, all rich new yorkers must be killed immediately

'ugh, DUCK FARMERS'

“We have to say, ‘Look, dude, this isn’t what you think it is.’ You can’t rock a T-shirt here unless you’re a rock star.”

Can I just

i really do not understand what a bow tie connotes anymore

i means u fancy

i just got my first bow-tie yesterday. it looks good with my unemployment t-shirt

Guys “need an edge; wear a bow tie or, if you have to, go out and buy a $400 pair of sunglasses.”

Gonna show up an an unironed dress shirt, those expensive jeans with the fucked up designs on the back pockets, and some $400 sunglasses

ny name is Louis farrakhan and I am here to brunch with you

Is Sirota an ILXOR?

http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/2011/07/28/blankfein_goldman_sachs_profile/index.html

ny name is Louis farrakhan and I am here to brunch with you

love this btw

to think the times expects ppl to pay for this kind of nonsense. kind of revolting.

There are other things in the paper, y'know

like mets scores

delete all the shit after the html in the url

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/arts/music/unusual-sounds-at-mostly-mozart-preview-at-avery-fisher.html
^wow

I leave it to reviewers during the season to describe specific ways in which Stravinsky’s Neo-Classicism (actually, as much neo-Baroque as anything else) may relate to Mozart’s Classicism. And I hesitate to delve further into details of the performances, because I was thoroughly distracted throughout.

The man seated directly behind me was connected to a portable medical device, presumably an oxygen cart to aid his breathing, that emitted a steady ticking. Hard to describe, it was really more a faint, dull metallic clank in a relentless rhythm that seemed somehow resistant to all the many other rhythms emanating from the stage.

I have no idea how many people heard it: 4 or 5 immediately around, 15 or 20 in the vicinity? And I have no idea how I would have reacted if not for a worrying experience of my own last year. As it was, I found it impossible to ignore.

Perhaps the most ill-timed cough I ever heard came at one of the most exquisite moments in all of Schubert, at a luminous harmonic shift in the slow movement of his posthumous B flat Sonata. (When I lamented that intrusion, I was criticized by readers suggesting that I didn’t know how bad it could be when you really had to cough during a concert. Oh, really? In a half-century of all-weather, all-health concertgoing?)

yelp reviews for the ruling class

Wallowing in the confusion bred of personal experience, I doubt that I would have complained even if there had been an intermission. But maybe next time I will, if only to spare you a lengthy explanation in place of what should be a short review.

quiddity and agony it may be, but i like to think there's a place for that kind of impossibly well-bred writing on arts esoterica in the good society we want to bring about

From the comments: That oxygen sound reverberates throughout the theater. We came all the way from Nevada to go to the Glimmerglass Opera Festival upstate: saw Carmen July 19. Act I and II wonderful; then after intermission the bang bang bang of someone's oxygen from the other side of the theater rang out throughout Acts III and IV. I could still enjoy the louder parts, but was only able to sit thru the softer parts with a little Lorazepam. Tough call for management, but very unfair to the other customers.

Most are sympathetic to the reviewer's plight, but this one stood out b/c of the Lorazepam.

i nominate matos to curate the whole fucking nytimes music page

is that what they're calling "editing" these days?

^^^^pleb

Now they're just fucking with us:

Even Marked Up, Luxury Goods Sell Fast
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
While average Americans watch their wallets, high-end retailers are selling out of expensive items, like Lissette Gutierrez’s Louis Vuitton shoes at Bergdorf Goodman.

http://i1.nyt.com/images/2011/08/04/business/Luxury-shoes/Luxury-hpMedium.jpg

"average Americans"

http://www.theonion.com/video/panel-of-caged-average-americans-weigh-in-on-econo,19694/

my name is Louis farrakhan and I am here to brunch with you

― davon cuul II (m bison), Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:38 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

yeah i loved that