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

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.”

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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

i mean the headings in his most recent article are worth a pulitzer in themselves

thank the lord my jejune feelings on dj shadow never made it to 'the cloud'

'wet t-shirt'

“I feel stuck,” Schiff said. “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”

i hear ya man

once i wrote an article for the oxy weekly listing the top 5 cover versions of leonard cohens 'hallelujah'

what was the 5th best

I'm not criticizing his college work, I think you can see signs of greatness to come

john cale better have been #1

"Time to get ill, indeed!"

I wonder how much a lowly Forbes writer makes

cabfare home and all the foie gras that falls on the floor that he can eat

I incidentally know exactly how much a staff writer at bloomberg news makes, because the bf of one of my gf's grad school friends is trying to get that position. I think it was 60-70k.

in the meanwhile he is focusing on his 'how to be a man' blog

plz post a link on the 'itt blogs teach you how to be a man' thread

eh I don't want any tracebacks also I forgot what it's called, it has a totally generic name like 'the art of good taste' or something

If only there was a word to express delight at another person's misfortune...

"according to interviews with bankers and their accountants, therapists, advisers and headhunters."

mcardle sheds a tear

Pricey vacations can be cut back. Mortgage payments can't. It's not the luxuries that usually get people into trouble--it's paying too much for "the basics".

hmmmm