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

I will have Rob Liefeld draw me a bunch of pouches for sauce storage.

:P

save pocket space for pierogies imo

http://i.imgur.com/arnyD.jpg

She is currently a yoga teacher at Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in Manhattan and San Francisco, and an editor of gay romance novels. But there was also a two-year stint as an online celebrity gossip reporter and several years as a Latin instructor at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn. And she earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Hunter College; she is in the beginning stages of writing a book about spiritual and emotional rebirth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/greathomesanddestinations/taking-the-chill-off-contemporary-in-tribeca.html

I stopped at "Laughing Lotus Yoga Center".

t/s that pararaph vs:

(Ms. Krause, 41, has a similarly eclectic résumé: born in Sweden and trained as an architect, she moved to New York in 1996 and worked as a dance instructor at Equinox gyms before starting a line of handbags. She and her business partner, Tracey Sawyer, founded their design firm, Krause + Sawyer, in 2010, but she still teaches a class at Equinox “for the joy of it.”)

How can a lotus laugh? Anthropomorphism has gone too far.

Ms. Krause’s adroit mix of earthy and slick

and this

“It was the kind of apartment where you didn’t care if someone spilled red wine,” Ms. Stone said. “Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.”

are the best parts imo

That has a whiff of "dogs must be carried on escalator".

Mmm clear liquids.

Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.
Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.
Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.
Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.
Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.
Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.
Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.

waht if u have diarrhea inside u

This condo actually isn't too far off of my tastes. The text is a cautionary tale.

Also, not sure how I feel about a $6k rug

Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.

This seems like a rule that you get some sort of erotic thrill from violating.

Look I poured red wine on you! You can't move without it spilling on to your furnishings!

“We still have that relationship.”

interior designer who creates environments with artificial behavioral constraints

"can I put candlesticks in this room?"

white rug, white reading chair, white bed linens, even white-ish paintings

reminds me of a classic quiddities article from upthread:

Soil and the City

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/is-it-time-to-cut-bait-when-it-comes-to-mediocre-sushi/?ref=dining

Two of his favorites in New York are Sushi Yasuda and 15 East. They’re not cheap, but Mr. Gelb has some advice for those of us who can’t afford to achieve sushi satori on a weekly basis.

“Instead of eating sushi ten times a month, eat it one time a month, but pay ten times as much,” he told me. “That’s how you can really experience what sushi is about.”

...

lol

this is actually more of a ; ; moment

I have wanted to eat sushi for the last few days but haven't had the opportunity or company to go with

It's been a couple months, so I should be paying 20x what I would for commodity sushi, I guess

I only eat food once a month, but when I do I eat 30x as much

he is the bingiest man in the world

stay compulsive my friends

Instead of flying to Europe 6 times a year, fly once a year, and rent an island in the Mediterranean.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/wall-street-bonus-withdrawal-means-trading-aspen-for-cheap-chex.html

oh my god

#1 with a bullet!

hopefully to the head

if you get out of your car in the middle of a traffic jam and scream a profanity, you think you live in a movie

“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress”

you almost wonder if he's trolling for hits

the funny thing is that obv these people have to know, at this point, how this stuff comes off to the rest of the world, but i love to think of the internal arguments for justifying putting yourself out like a fool like this -- "no... YOU KNOW WHAT... people who don't have money just DO NOT understand the stress. they just don't. i'm calling that reporter back!"

“Yes, terminal diseases are worse than getting the flu,” he said. “But you suffer when you get the flu.”

funny couterpoint to that study that came out a couple days ago, usually headlined as "rich people are cheating amoral assholes"

via dayo here is the writer's undergraduate work: http://www.yaledailynews.com/staff/max-abelson/stories/

don't want to venture from quiddities, but "Belle and Sebastian's music is far from catastrophe"

that's true!

also another running example of all the CEOs who have given quotes or penned articles over the last 4 years about how underappreciated to persecuted to scared they all feel

they have everything in the world but still can't get enough... love

Wall Street headhunter Daniel Arbeeny said his “income has gone down tremendously.” On a recent Sunday, he drove to Fairway Market in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn to buy discounted salmon for $5.99 a pound.

“They have a circular that they leave in front of the buildings in our neighborhood,” said Arbeeny, 49, who lives in nearby Cobble Hill, namesake for a line of pebbled-leather Kate Spade handbags. “We sit there, and I look through all of them to find out where it’s worth going.”

er 'another running example in the genre of' or something

xp

max abelson has turned this kind of richie whiner story into his own genre i think

recall:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-20/bankers-join-billionaires-to-debunk-imbecile-attack-on-top-1-.html

a strange, bewildering new world of comparison shopping xp

i mean

"namesake for a line of pebbled-leather Kate Spade handbags."

the kid is kind of getting away with something here

I think rich people saw something in his undergraduate work ("Britney generation, meet Dylan") that led them to believe he could be the next big thing in professional trolls

i think i'm willing to forgive an ivy league undergrad's music taste in this instance

Andrew Schiff, the traffic jam screamer, is the son of noted crazy anti-tax zealot

Irwin A. Schiff (born in February 24, 1928) is a prominent figure in the United States tax protester movement. Schiff is known for writing and promoting literature that claims the United States income tax is applied incorrectly. He has lost several civil cases against the federal government and has a record of multiple convictions for various federal tax crimes. Schiff is serving a 13-plus year sentence for tax crimes (with his location listed as the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution). His projected release date is October 7, 2016.

yeah abelson is a champ, sorry, everyone gets a mulligan on what they wrote in college