guy joins linkedin
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/social-networking-takes-a-strange-turn.html?_r=1&ref=style
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Sunday, 15 July 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
sunday mag nanny cover story today. might have to read that.
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
this made me laugh
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/the-dirty-street-encounter-that-made-me-a-new-yorker.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&gwh=ABA452FDD5EF193BDE6E656111D27B34
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 July 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
every time i walk by that stoop on university place, i feel the ghost of his rancid, malodorous fingernail twitching within the not-wealthy flesh of my cheek, and my entire face burns with impotent shame.
― contenderizer, Sunday, 15 July 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/15/magazine/15lives_author/15lives_author-articleInline.jpg
He jabbed his index finger in my face — hard — burying his fingernail in my cheek. He swung around and headed back to his stoop. I had my hand over my cheek. Someone asked if I was O.K. I said I was, but then my fingers came away bloody. That whole side of my face felt tingly and infected. A fingernail. I wanted to throw up. I needed gauze, disinfectant, hydrogen peroxide — all of it, immediately. And my apartment was blocks away.
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 July 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
When I got there, my roommate helped me clean the wound — a crescent-shaped cut an inch below my eye. Just soap and water, she said, a little Neosporin. She congratulated me on getting into my first New York fight. I didn’t hold up my end, I said. Forget it, she said. She poured me a glass of wine to calm me down. Then she suggested we go back to University Place, find the guy and dole out some payback.
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 July 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
you must be anointed by the dirty fingernail to become a real new yorker. and have a letter of recommendation from martin amis. sounds about right.
― scott seward, Monday, 16 July 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
I think something about the college application/essay-writing process has fucked up a whole generation. Like all these people are out looking for the slightest 'experience' to happen to them so they can blog about it.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 July 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
It's less about the college application/essay-writing process and more about the existance of 7,500,000,000 humans, imo.
― Aimless, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
You'll probably share this insufferable anecdote with your sockless, boat-shoe wearing friends in fitted shirts and linen shorts, over some goat cheese profiteroles you warmed up in that fancy Viking range in your "loft" that once was a soap factory, or something.
― dmr, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
classic shit right here
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping-students-for-sorority-rush.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share&pagewanted=all
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
MARGARET KING of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia.
With the help of Ms. Foster and Ms. Grant, who wears a pink feather boa during workshops, Mrs. King asked alumnae of about 10 chapters, several from U.Va., to write her daughter’s recommendations. To guide their plaudits, she sent them packets with a professional photograph, transcript and résumé. To thank them, she dropped off a bottle of rosé in their mailboxes.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
RUSHBIDDIES
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
getting a quote from someone with a "von" or "van" is a hallmark of all classic quiddites articles
Samantha von Sperling is an image consultant in New York, but lately her bread-and-butter Wall Street clients have asked her to help their daughters get ready for rush at schools like Harvard; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and New York University, which has added three chapters since 2006 and more than doubled the number of sisters, to 570.
“It’s the same kind of coaching I do on Wall Street,” Ms. von Sperling says.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
“If you’re a great active listener, they will remember you because you let them talk.” Her typical fee: $125 an hour.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
Ms. von Sperling offers a Friday-to-Sunday intensive, for $8,000. One day is devoted to carrying yourself properly and the art of conversation.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
Ms. von Sperling
Changing my name to Mr. von Aimless.
― Aimless, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
“I lost six pounds that week,” recalls Julie Baselice, whose daughter Christina is now a Chi Omega at the University of Texas. “It was the most stressful experience of my life.”
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
another classic name
Madeline D’Arcambal Braun, a Manhattan native entering her junior year at Indiana University Bloomington, says she had “absolutely no idea” why she wasn’t asked back.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
Abigail Sullivan Moore is co-author of “The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up.”
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
The iConnected Parent: Staying (REALLY) Close to Your (Mortified) Kids in College (and Forever) While Letting Them (Sorta Kinda) Grow Up (To Be Damaged Adults)
― scott seward, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
did the Times kill satire before Kissinger's Nobel Prize?
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
With the help of Ms. Foster and Ms. Grant,
Foster/Grant? Are you kidding me?
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
asked her to help their daughters get ready for rush at schools like Harvard
there are no sororities at Harvard fyi
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
there are no sororities/fraternities on the Harvard campus recognized by the school administration; that is not the same thing as there not being any sororities/fraternities (ps: there are)
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
And he should know. He went to...school in Boston.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
... well, just outside of boston, actually.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
no, not Tufts...
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
(I spent most of my junior and senior year wondering if I should pledge Alpha Phi Alpha for the connections)
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
that must have cost you a fortune in consulting fees
― your friend, (Z S), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
lol
every time the thought crossed my mind, I remembered the dude whose leg was broken with a pledge paddle during rush and I decided "no"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6F42B.jpg
― dayo, Monday, 16 July 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
v. true, but unless things have changed a lot in recent years the self-declared sororities / fraternities play exactly zero role in harvard undergrad social life -- as in, i literally cannot name a single person who was a member of any greek society
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 16 July 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Does that include finals clubs?
― Moodles, Monday, 16 July 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
I saw those in that movie
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Monday, 16 July 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
no, I knew plenty of people in final clubs, they were a substantially bigger deal (though they played a far from dominant role)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Finals Club Destination
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is a final club?????
― quincie, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
They're the not-so-secret clubs at Harvard that rich kids belong to. They play essentially the same role as frats.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
Why are they called final clubs? Do not want to google for fear of. . . what I would find.
― quincie, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
maybe they study for finals together
― Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
once you check in to a finals club... you don't check out.
(that's why they're called finals clubs - get it??)
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know exactly what's happening on campus now but during the early/mid 90s, there was definite frat/soro presence, particularly black fraternities and sororities (and, lol, Sigma Xi, who seemed to be a lot more about throwing parties than scientific research). There was a lot of partnering with MIT chapters as a result.
At least a quarter of the black students I knew in the Quad were in a frat.
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
my wife was asked to be in a finals club for GURLS but when she saw the financial commitment she basically laughed her ass off and said "um yeah, not happening"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
The Bee! Does it still exist?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
According to Wikipedia it does
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
A new store in Manhattan's trendy East Village neighborhood is selling New York City filtered tap water back to city residents. For a few extra dollars customers can add vitamins and herbal infusions to their filtered water.
Not just any tap water, insist the owners of Molecule. They say the water streams through a $25,000 filtering machine that uses ultraviolet rays, ozone treatments and reverse osmosis in a seven-stage processing treatment to create what they call pure H<sub>2</sub>0.
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444330904577535100599492544.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLELEADNewsCollection">Wall Stret Journal</a>
― mick signals, Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link