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

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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

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BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link

bingo

davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

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.)

max, Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link

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

speak for yourself amirite

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link

ok, all rich new yorkers must be killed immediately

peter in montreal, Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link

'ugh, DUCK FARMERS'

j., Thursday, 28 July 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link

“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

BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link

i really do not understand what a bow tie connotes anymore

jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link

i means u fancy

jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

remy bean, Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link

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

mh, Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link

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

davon cuul II (m bison), Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link

Is Sirota an ILXOR?

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

schwantz, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link

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

love this btw

g++ (gbx), Friday, 29 July 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link

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

one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link

There are other things in the paper, y'know

you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

like mets scores

flop's son (dayo), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

delete all the shit after the html in the url

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link

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.

generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

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?)

generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

yelp reviews for the ruling class

iatee, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link

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.

generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

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

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link

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.

weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

i nominate matos to curate the whole fucking nytimes music page

remy bean, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link

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

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link

^^^^pleb

g++ (gbx), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 August 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link

"average Americans"

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 August 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link

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


lmfao

swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Thursday, 4 August 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link

yeah i loved that

g++ (gbx), Thursday, 4 August 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link

more quotes from this article-

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/business/sales-of-luxury-goods-are-recovering-strongly.html?hp

“If a designer shoe goes up from $800 to $860, who notices?” said Arnold Aronson, managing director of retail strategies at the consulting firm Kurt Salmon, and the former chairman and chief executive of Saks.

“You just can’t buy a pair of shoes for less than $1,000 in some of the luxury brands, and some of the price points have gone to $2,000,” said Jyothi Rao, general manager for the women’s business at Gilt Groupe, a Web site that sells designer brands at a discount. “There’s absolutely a customer for it.”

curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/how-serious-a-crime-is-insider-trading/?hp

Three insider trading cases announced last week involved prominent defendants who traded on and tipped confidential information used for trading that resulted in comparatively small gains. These cases lend some support to the view that those who engage in this type of conduct may not perceive themselves as violating the law because there is no immediate victim.

The two civil cases brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission involved William A. Marovitz, husband of Christie Hefner, the former chief executive of Playboy Enterprises, and a former major league baseball player, Douglas V. DeCinces. Both men were successful in other business ventures, and while Mr. DeCinces made more than $1 million from his trading, Mr. Marovitz’s case involved gains and avoided losses of about $100,000, a modest amount to break the law.

The criminal prosecution of a former director of Mariner Energy, H. Clayton Peterson, which will very likely result in his serving a prison term, involved about $150,000 in profits realized by his son Drew, who received the tips.

Is it worth risking your reputation, and perhaps even going to federal prison, for such paltry amounts?

j., Thursday, 11 August 2011 08:32 (twelve years ago) link

haha

ice cr?m, Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link

5/5

Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/nyregion/sold-as-lobster-salad-but-a-key-ingredient-was-missing.html?_r=1

can't really tell what tone the nytimes is taking with this, as is the case with so many recent noms to this thread, but outrage over fake lobster is great whether it itself is real or fake and if the nytimes is real or fake in its approval of it

dayo, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link

I would like a lobster roll right now though (real or fake)

dayo, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link

Krab

mh, Friday, 12 August 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link

“We used to make a salad that we called a seafare salad” that contained surimi, Mr. Zabar said, which he described as “a Japanese version of crab meat using pollock as the base.” (Others define surimi as a crablike product manufactured from fish. Some say it is pollock that is mixed into a paste with starch and other ingredients, and cooked and shaped to look like crab meat.)

i love this weird journalistic impartiality around the definition of surimi -- "but who can really know for sure?"

jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Friday, 12 August 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link

Surimi -- the paste between two roffles

mh, Friday, 12 August 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link

Surimi (or the American version - krab nigiri is what I always call it) is my guiltiest of pleasures.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 12 August 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link

aka seafood extender in australia

just sayin, Friday, 12 August 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link

The best part of that article is the owner's absurd justifications for mislabeling food. The rich-people-mockery angle is that folks were shelling (lol geddit???) out $17/pound for it without examining what they were actually buying.

ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Friday, 12 August 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link

Surimi that comes in California rolls is okay but the pink spiral fish loaf version is really gross.

ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Friday, 12 August 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/opinion/new-yorks-urban-aloha.html

s.clover, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/fashion/maybe-its-time-for-plan-c.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

I have some sympathy for these folks, good on them but...

Last year, Jennifer Phelan, 27, left a marketing job at a large law firm to become a private Pilates instructor in Boston. She had envisioned a life of “workouts, getting lots of sleep and blogging every day about health and fitness,” she said. Instead, her classes start as early as 6 a.m. and she feels wiped out by day’s end, which can be 14 hours later.

dayo, Saturday, 13 August 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link


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