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

Banal anxieties
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when you write them in
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Hallmark Cards
***are***
EDGY
because
they're on my
$$$BLOG$$$

brb, taking a sabbatical from the hot dog stand

these kids are so unprepared by their parents for life, and then their parents hire them publicists for their blogs about how unprepared they are for life

^ please scrawl this on a post-it

make sure the last word is distractingly off-centre

can someone do some handwriting analysis on this tumblr to confirm its author's terrible personality

my generation also had embarrassing sex and did demeaning jobs and had no hope for the future; we just didn't really have blogs or publicist
so i got a blog and became a publicist
i am part of the problem

^1st post from genxbacklash.tumblr.com

a $10000 advance.

is that a big advance for a first time writer these days? Small? I have no idea.

She recalled the confusion on the face of the manager at the East Village sandwich shop where she was working at the time when she told him that she needed a book leave and that she was moving back to her parents’ house in New Jersey. “He was like, ‘O.K., whatever,’ ” she said.

if anyone in any context said the words 'i need a book leave' the only appropriate response is 'O.K., whatever,' tbh

― johnny crunch, Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha srsly, just fyi lady whatever isnt generally employed to conote confusion

$10000 worth of anything for writing your bullshit post-millennial life down on paper is bigger than anything needs to be

these kids are so unprepared by their parents for life, and then their parents hire them publicists for their blogs about how unprepared they are for life

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:18 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boom

that reminded me A LOT of the part in tiny furniture where Lena Dunham works as a day hostess for like a week and then is all "OOOOHHHMYGOD I JUST REALIZED THAT THIS ISN'T WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE!!!!"

the sandwich shop thing, xp

damn i must have some idiotic book idea just waiting to be harvested in my sporadically functioning brain

Kevin Rowland: Yeah… Well I thought a little joke might be a good idea, Just to sort of, I d’know, kick off the proceedings, as it were, y’know.

Billy Adams: Oh yeah!

K: What d’you think?

B: Yeah, go on!

K: Good idea?

Helen O’Hara: Does anybody know one?

K: Yeah… You ever hear the one about the em, y’know the middle class idiots who, who sort of spend all their time analysing their own emotions and writing bullshit poetry, y’know, that we’re supposed to read…

(Some snorts of laughter)

As if we’re fucking interested…

(more laughter)

B: That’s a good one!

K: You like that one, yeh?

B: Where’d you hear that one?

K: errrm…

B: Did you make it up yourself?

K: No, no, it’s a true story, that one.

(Shouts of disbelief)

K: Honestly it’s true! I didn’t make it up!

(Laughter)

no one is talking about that this article was written by someone named Penelope Green

morbs can we start some tumblrs of your ideas except pretend theyre written by 20 somethings, we can use pictures of max and iatee maybe

sounds like some JT Leroy shit

exactly what i was thinking! serendipity! its a sign

in classic quiddities fashion this story also appears to be about the sister of the vampire weekend singer.

its the foer brothers all over again

the blog is terrible but from a "i'm gonna get a book and tv pilot deal" it's fucking perfect, so i have trouble finding myself hating

what's with this part of the article where the writer spends four paragraphs acting like "fuck" is some egregious curse word or something

jordan this is not a thing that is difficult to hate

i don't have any trouble hating but i'm having a lot of trouble working up the energy to try to be funny about it

the tumblr blows, the nyt profile blows, the fact of its existence blows

see that's why she makes the big money, a real work ethic

i really don't identify with this 20s life crisis shit AT ALL which is why i find both 'girls' and this blog to be incredibly, monumentally embarrassing (altho i like lena dunham when i see her outside the framework of the show). like, kill my generation type shit. granted i'm not a girl so maybe that's part of why i can't align w/ so much of this stuff but, this theatrical exaggeration of minimal life stresses is truly just the worst.

this blog is so pitch perfect for that kind of audience tho that i find myself deep shame undercut slightly by being impressed

oh man the parents almost made it thru the article w/o just completely embarrassing themselves but

“Yes, I would have loved to renovate our kitchen,” she added

cool how everyone has their generational role down

that quote would be perfect for the 50-something version of the daughter's blog

*stars*YES*stars*
*squiggles*I would have*squiggles*
*hearts*LOVED*hearts*
*lines*to renovate our*lines*
*spatula*KITCHEN*spatula*
*squiggles*BUT*squiggles*
*money symbols*our daughter's RENT*money symbols*
*"I <3 NY" shirt*in the EAST VILLAGE is*"I <3 NY" shirt*
*money symbols*$1,200*money symbols*
*calendar*a MONTH*calendar*

He has met her parents.

i am realizing that the tumblr of the 80s was pinbacks

Her first thought was to make it a zine, but the cost of photocopying was beyond her means

gen x grunge people were just as embarrassing.

^ those are basically vampire weekend lyrics, they even rhyme
xpost

the last cool gen was the feathered hair camaro keep on truckin' gen. then it all went to hell.

the cost of photocopying was beyond her means

work a shitty clerical job with access to a copier, hey free copies

now THIS is how you end a new york times article:

Now that she has steady work, and her housing is taken care of (her new rent is $500 and she can pay it on her own), she should be feeling less anxious, right?

Wrong. What’s terrifying her these days, she said, is driving on the freeway.

technically the van halen generation were baby boomers but they were way cooler than prototypical boomers.

i can't read this blog i'd have to open the whole damn thread...probably not worth it?

and i can't look at the nyt thing because i don't know how to do the free trick for nyt stories and i don't want to pay for it monthly. i'm disenfranchised.

have you considered work at a sandwich shop? benefits are excellent

...He has met her parents.

scott the trick is to remove everything after '.html.' in the url, if you want to get slight fancier/faster you can copy the bookmarklet on this page http://marklets.com/NYTClean.aspx into yr bookmark bar and then click on it when the nyt firewall comes up

yay, i did it. thanks. now i can stick it to the man. is the profile thing in today's paper?

okay found that too.