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

"[A New Yorker is] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."

"[A New Yorker is] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."

lol even here New Yorkers are so oblivious as to how obtuse they really can be.

truly all new yorkers think with one mind

the ones who write lifestyle articles for the NYT certainly seem to be!

oh no doubt.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/images/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-003-20080627-121656-medium.jpg

http://gawker.com/5922392/i-used-to-love-her-but-i-had-to-flee-her-on-leaving-new-york

Was that quote above posted on account of this article?

http://live.wsj.com/video/dont-forget-to-pack-a-photographer/DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766.html?mod=wsj_hps_tboright#!DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766

wau that Gawker piece

Her parents had proposed the idea of buying us an apartment somewhere in the Bay Area

tbh I was still back on "whaddaya gonna do, it's New York *poops on sidewalk*"

when in rome

"[ A New Yorker is ] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."

Her parents had proposed the idea of buying us an apartment somewhere in the Bay Area

Many of us here in New York are so blindered that we don't even stop to consider how easy it would be to have our girlfriends' parents buy us apartments.

Tourists and brown nannies with white babies are constantly in the way of your giant steps, keeping you from getting to all the great readings and gallery openings you need to attend (often it seems as if New York has no parties, only "events").

According to a 2010 report from the Daily Beast, LA is quantifiably "smarter" than places like St. Louis, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Tampa, and yet none of those locales faces quite the level of international scorn heaped upon LA.

i have discovered the worst sequence of words.

I really dgi. Isn't LA much like NYC in its overpriced-city-that-idiot-twenty-somethings-come-to-live-a-fantasy-in-ness?

Worse than the people who outright insult LA, though, are the ones who do so indirectly by suggesting that LA is just a sad mound of glitter trying desperately to be New York. That slur says we're worse than nothing, because we're nothing with absurd dreams of being great, like a high school laughingstock daring to think he could be the prom king.

this is the worst, why is this happening

what is the point of this entire article

i am idiot 40something and if i were rich i would totally live in nyc or la. but only if i were rich. okay maybe just nyc but i would visit la!

I wish I could remember who I was speaking with or reading recently who was saying basically that most people who come to New York with some kind of "dream" confuse living the scene with doing the work, and that the scene and just kind of trying to live what they think is a New York lifestyle winds up eating most of their time and money. Actually it might have been a thought catalog piece, of all things. But it was kind of OTM.

there are millions of people with hundreds of interests—NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land

if i ever end up being one of these people who think NY or LA are literally the only two places in the country that exist, i want you to shoot me in the face until i am dead

Follow up to the single in Chicago article

http://chicago.grubstreet.com/2012/07/new-york-times-stephanie-rosenbloom-billy-dec.html

can someone tell me if that gawker screed ever ends. chriiiiiist almighty it does go on

No it's a bottomless tumblr

haw, that piece actually originated on the writer's personal tumblr, so

http://cordjefferson.tumblr.com/post/16982580823/theres-an-aging-communist-at-cafe-tropical-who-wears-a

nytransplantcliches.tumblr.com

i want to live in a compound in l.a. w/a bunch of cool sexy people and we will have a swimming pool

it's a worn subject but i liked the piece. cord is an incredible writer.

tbf there were good bits

i-moved-to-a-crowded-shithole-to-feel-important.html

Yeah, I don't really see what the problem is (aside from maybe what Jordan just said). I thought it was pretty great.

x-post - Lots of people do stupid shit when they're young including moving to crowded shitholes.

it was better when he was talking about ny than when he was writing about why he feels at home in LA (thought the ending was kind of a clunker) but i identified with the feelings overall (not that i've lived in either NY or LA)

but if it was just a tumblr post it makes more sense that it wasn't exactly bulletproof

x-post - Says the person who went to college in NYC because it was pretty much the only place I wanted to be at 20.

They offered me the pipe but I begged off, and as the discussion shifted to Xbox versus Wii, I tuned out and stared blankly into the alleyway, where an open trashcan was slowly filling up with rainwater. It looked a lot like the trashcans from my old building in New York, the ones I used to look at from on high, staring disgustedly at the rats brazenly waltzing about. Now the rats playing around the trash were my fellow Angelinos and I, wet, laughing, hungover, stoned. I think my New York self would have cringed at the thought of rubbing shoulders with aging porn actors in a musty storeroom in the Valley. I think he would have considered it a life not worth leading. That day, with those strangers whom I’ll probably never see again, it felt like a real home.

i hate this

I also had a crush on Rosie Perez when I was a kid but it was from White Men Can't Jump

x-post - Lots of people do stupid shit when they're young including moving to crowded shitholes.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, July 9, 2012 4:05 PM

thankfully most don't write articles abt it

ny is cool tho most people in cords cohort would prob only admit to the sort of feelings he describes coked up

why am I the only one who cares about the blase reaction to the old woman pooping on the sidewalk

I think he does an alright job of capturing the way nyc can be fun when you're poor but young enough to have the energy to run all over the place and stay up late all the time and find everything fresh and interesting.

^^^ yes

"poor"

DJP it's NY don't you see? A little sidewalk pooping is nbd.

yeah, poor in quotes, for sure

x-post - lol you really hated this article. You know what he meant.

you gotta take the good with the bad, and sometimes the bad involves an old lady pooping on the sidewalk *shrug* I LOVE THIS TOWN

I would buy to-go margaritas from a little place in the Lower East Side and drink them while walking home across the Williamsburg Bridge.

el hat

I'm sure I would also find things to like about living other places, but jesus christ some of you can make it sound like us senior citizens can hardly drag our withered carcasses out for yet another round of druggy clubbing and without that sole source of entertainment, we may as well be locked in a windowless basement hovel.

There was a lady who pooped on sidewalks in New Brunswick and it wasn't even VIBRANT there.