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

hey re the mention of kinesiology upthread, today i came across this article and apparently its the method used by the widely acknowledged best training staff in the nba, so maybe not so much bullshit as new exciting physical therapy technique

http://valleyofthesuns.com/2012/04/05/secret-behind-phoenix-suns-elite-training-staff

excited by this exciting new physical therapy technique

http://i.imgur.com/Tv0Fl.jpg

Kinesiology and applied kinesiology (what was mentioned upthread) are not the same thing.

The Suns players aren't holding vials to see what makes them weaker.

unsurprisingly, AK was invented by a chiropractor

i dont know anything abt holding viles but i do know there should only be one thing called kinesiology

when i see that word i just think of

http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/sites/default/files/Sam_Kinison.jpg

oh sorry this gy

http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/9zOHyx1jbGmgN4mYtdTcbLgw3Jh.jpg

tho i guess that would be kinisiology

a science unto itself

trollish: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/04/who-got-in-to-the-country-s-top-colleges.html

no mention of the curse of the over achieving asian american

I don't necessarily agree with most of this, but its a good read: http://mathbabe.org/2012/04/05/it-sucks-to-be-rich/

yeah that fits w/ my thesis rich people are crazy and we need to help them by stopping them from being rich

My unsubstantiated theory is that it's actually an unhappy personality type or emotional/neurotic drive that makes someone want to become rich above all else, and that a disproportionate number of rich people (other than those who inherited) are people with that drive.

If I had all the money in the world, I could imagine paying people to sleep-test mattresses. I just can't imagine that I wouldn't then get them to blog about it so everyone else would know about how to get a good night's sleep too.

My unsubstantiated theory is that it's actually an unhappy personality type or emotional/neurotic drive that makes someone want to become rich above all else, and that a disproportionate number of rich people (other than those who inherited) are people with that drive.

I can buy this. cf execs that are ocpd

I think plenty of poor people have this too, it just doesn't work out for them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/fashion/dont-call-cassandra-huysentruyt-grey-a-trophy-wife.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=trophy%20wife&st=cse

wow @ every single person in that story, but especially at

An earlier version of this story misspelled the name and address of a Web site. It is NewYorkSocialDiary.com, not NewYorkSocialDairy.com.

The print version also had a sidebar about how *today's hollywood wives* are not the same old trophy wives, and then listed a bunch of them and their accomplishments/careers and some had legit careers but like half of them were doing exactly stuff that you would expect rich hollywood exec wives to do (charity work etc.)

https://www.facebook.com/events/303983653006056/

eugene mirman is pretty rad btw

I'm disappointed to find out eugene is behind bob's burgers

I have only heard of that show in passing, is that true?

he's one of the voices, i know that

Voice of the son, Glen.

Do not besmirch bob's burgers

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/the-subversive-charm-of-day-drinking.html

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April 13, 2012 at 12:33 p.m.

She praised the personal element. “Obviously we’re not hanging out with guys who wear wife-beaters and go on singles cruises,” Ms. Roy said. “Eighty percent of the time, girls are bringing their colleagues. I’m bringing another good-looking attorney to the party. You’re getting a better pool here.”

The company is billing itself as the first to use Klout scores, a measure of one’s digital influence, as a matchmaking metric. The higher your score, the more likely you are to be matched with someone of similar status. And Tawkify has matched people with some impressive digital status, like the lingerie designer and burlesque connoisseur Dita Von Teese (the ex-wife of Marilyn Manson). Klout score: 69 of a possible 100 (the average score is 20). Ms. Carroll said Ms. Von Teese was looking for a man who wanted to date the real her, not her public persona, so she was matched with a Scandinavian novelist. The two hit it off during their Tawkify call and decided to meet for cocktails, then dinner, in Paris, where they both have residences. Ms. Von Teese had to leave France to fly to Los Angeles, but she and the novelist are still talking.

man, Dita von Teese has enough money to own places in multiple hemispheres? Burlesque must pay better than I thought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-downside-of-cohabiting-before-marriage.html?_r=1

"It’s like signing up for a credit card with 0 percent interest. At the end of 12 months when the interest goes up to 23 percent you feel stuck because your balance is too high to pay off. In fact, cohabitation can be exactly like that. In behavioral economics, it’s called consumer lock-in."

It's true, it's harder to break up when you live together. How is this ruling class? I would think it affects people who can't afford to move out more.

agreed, the standards of what constitutes a quiddity/agony seem to have gone down of late.

^^quiddities and agonies of the ILX

A growing number of ilxors are bemoaning the decline of what was once an exclusive and prestigioius thread.

just had to put this somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Itzler

In 2008, Itzler married Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx undergarment company. The couple was married at Gasparilla Inn and Club in Boca Grande, Florida. The wedding was attended by actor Matt Damon and featured a surprise performance by singer Olivia Newton John.[12] In 2009 they had a son, Lazer Blake Itzler.[13]

LAZER BLAKE ITZLER

It should have been LAZER CATS ITZLER.

He is a self-described "frat-rap" artist.

isn't he only 3?

I mean, maybe it's just me but that entire section reads like it was filled in via a MadLibs form

Blakely is a very welcome addition to the ranks of female billionaires imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsT__k9dAU

Dieter Lazer Blake Itzler

lazer blake itzler, spanx scion

He is a self-described "frat-rap" artist.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 16, 2012 4:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't he only 3?

― sarahell, Monday, April 16, 2012 4:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

underrated lol here

Sara Blakely's mom sent our son a really nice (and crazy expensive) outfit after he was born. My mother-in-law went to boarding school with Blakely's mom.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/baby-spanx/1255812