it probably is the right thread. quiddities people are more interested in the poor than the middle class. unless they've been infected w/ the Ayn Rand virus, when they don't give a shit about anyone else.
― get it on smang a gong (Eisbaer), Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
no this is probably the right thread: generation limbo: 20-somethings today, debt, unemployment, the questionable value of a college education
― iatee, Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
good point. was just thinking of this as the NYTimes thread vs the LOL NYTimes thread. not a lot of LOL in there. some seriously good reporting. appreciate the candor of the emory folks even as they let themselves off the hook.
― sug life (rogermexico.), Monday, 24 December 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
this one is p self-consciously absurd but still makes you want to stab something
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/fashion/ruff-club-brings-exclusivity-to-the-pet-world.html
When I walked into the dog club — with its old-fashion wooden bar, artisanal Brooklyn-made toile wallpaper and leather club chairs — I was gripping Zoloft’s leash, certain that she wouldn’t pass muster. While she is mostly as good as her name, there are times when my Zoloft needs a Xanax.
― dmr, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
anyone who names a pet "Zoloft" should be sterilized.
― 롤이 엿 번역 시간을 낭비 (Eisbaer), Thursday, 3 January 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
if i had a dog i'd name it 'artisan al'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 January 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
scanned that clip as repping artisinal toilet paper
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 3 January 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
in the fashion section no less:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/fashion/unmarried-spouses-have-a-way-with-words.html
― s.clover, Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
HORRIBLE
― mh, Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
idiots obviously should have 're-claimed' POSSLQ, it's the best
― j., Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
the fuck is wrong with 'boyfriend'
― max, Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Anne Tierney, 32, a bodyworker in West Palm Beach, Fla., went for “fusband,” which, she explains, is a catchall for “fake husband, future husband.” (Ms. Tierney’s fusband, Ozzy, calls Ms. Tierney “wifey.”) Technically the two are engaged, but Ms. Tierney said: “The word fiancé makes me cringe. What am I, in France?”
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
She should relax. They turn people like her away at the gates of France.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
i have been with my girlfriend for 8 years and i just call her my girlfriend
― max, Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
don't underestimate "paramour"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
in France nobody gives a shit about being married in the first place
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
btw pretty sure people there say "copain / copine" which just means "friend" but mainly they'll just say the person's name and if you don't know who they are then fuck you
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
I say "partner" for feminist reasons.
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Saturday, 5 January 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
partner just sounds so businesslike
― max, Saturday, 5 January 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Actually the queer adoption of "partner" seems to have spurred some businesspeople to start saying "business partner" instead of "partner" so you know they are straight businesspeople and not gays.
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Saturday, 5 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Notably my shitty landlord from a couple years ago would assiduously allude to his "business partner".
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Saturday, 5 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
It's business time.
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
this is insane
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 5 January 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
i bet every time she says it he winces
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 January 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
fuzzband
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Since this appears to be the only thread that has mentioned the brant bros:
http://brantwatch.tumblr.com/
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Sunday, 6 January 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
what's a bodyworker?
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 6 January 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
massage but with EXPERTISE
― j., Sunday, 6 January 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
like a panelbeater but with humans instead of cars
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 January 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for the new display name
― What am I, in France? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 January 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
I was expecting VG's comment.
(never heard "panelbeater" before)
― nickn, Sunday, 6 January 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
i had to consult mr Veg: I guess you call it a bodyshop in the US
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 January 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
My brother was in a band called the Nickelbeaters, which is what he said used car dealers called $500 (or thereabouts) cars.
― nickn, Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
Christ I can't believe theTimes ran a puff piece about Frank Rich's two sons. Actually I can believe it since they're both writers who got high placed media jobs straight out of college and written books I've never read or heard of. No surprise right but what's so audacious is the article claims that nepotism had nothing to do with their success and nobody knew who their dad was when hiring them. They're just that good. And if you're buying THAT there's a bridge...
― screen scraper (m coleman), Monday, 7 January 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
"Writing is the family business" - fuck me with a rake
― screen scraper (m coleman), Monday, 7 January 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
getting profiled in the newspaper your dad worked for is definitely a great way to fight perceptions of nepotism
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Monday, 7 January 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
could be a hit piece commissioned by someone in the nyt who hates frank
― 乒乓, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
what better way to insinuate nepotism
prob eating frank up rite now
― 乒乓, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
“We both write about pretty extreme subjects and apocalyptic global scenarios,” he said a few days earlier at a coffee shop in San Francisco. In the title essay of “Last Girlfriend,” for example, every woman but one is believed dead. And in “What in God’s Name,” a novel he published last August, the world is set to explode unless two 20-somethings kiss. (Spoiler: They do and then go out for Indian food.)
jesus christ.
― JoeStork, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
the lede of that story is hilarious... "nepotism is hard... people might think you've benefited greatly from nepotism"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
also the nyt paid for this writer to go to san fran & nola to interview frank rich's kids. i need that gig.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
why would you want to talk to them?
― wmlynch, Monday, 7 January 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
i would consider it an acceptable price to pay for getting to chill in SF & NO on someone else's dime
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
Many have stumbled along the way. Just ask Susan Cheever (whose books document her struggles with alcoholism and sex addiction), or David Updike (how could one possibly be as prolific as Dad?), or Scottie Fitzgerald, whose career was forever shadowed by that of her parents, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. “In my next incarnation,” Ms. Fitzgerald once wrote, “I may not choose again to be the daughter of a Famous Author. The pay is good and there are fringe benefits, but the working conditions are too hazardous.”
This is a batshit fantasy way of looking at things -- isn't it more likely that these writers just aren't as good as their parents and only got as far as they did on their names?
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 7 January 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
i like how nathaniel is all "i did tons of research on disaster zones for my novel, so i'll never live in seattle" meanwhile he lives in new orleans. cool story.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 January 2013 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
xp
i dunno, it's not that hard to feature that being the child of a revered famous writer could fuck you up. of course a lot may also depend on the parenting abilities of said writers.
― JoeStork, Monday, 7 January 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
I usta see Frank at the movies with his kids quite often about 15 years ago, sounds like they were more interesting then!
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/realestate/what-is-middle-class-in-manhattan.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
this already got bumped in the other quiddities thread
somebody should close one of the two
― iatee, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link