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
I didn't dare click through to a "The Hunt" story that began thus:
A Vote for the East Village After looking in Morningside Heights for an apartment to buy, Kat Gang realized she did not want to leave the East Village after all.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the East Village hardly needs the help
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Thursday, 14 February 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
I mostly associate the east village with awful, cramped apartments and NYU students. Seems like the kind of place that was only cool once because it was cheap. Not all that charming otherwise.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 February 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
quiddities and agonies of the norwegianhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/world/europe/in-norway-tv-program-on-firewood-elicits-passions.html?hp
― Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
here's a good one:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/greathomesanddestinations/jay-fieldens-restoration-drama.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 February 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
caring for a father with dementia kinda levels out the quid/ag quotient somewht
― Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 February 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I agree that took me out of it a little, but I mean:
The Fieldens lived for a month with friends, and then moved into a rental apartment, followed by another rental in a farmhouse. They threw themselves into the quagmire of insurance and cleanup that follows a disaster. When it became clear that the most pragmatic thing to do was rebuild the house — not an easy or joyful decision, they said, because what you really want to do after a catastrophic fire is walk away — Robert Dean and Jesse Carrier, the architect and designer who had rehabbed the house in 2007, helped them with this rebuild.
“The object becomes, how do we create a place that reflects who we are but doesn’t own us,” Ms. Fielden said.
Her husband added: “Or put us in debt.”
This time around, there is a lot more Ikea, Ms. Fielden said, than “Jesse is probably used to.”
Built by James Evans, a protégé of Louis Kahn, the house had all the optimism of its period, as Mr. Dean put it recently, “when architects thought they had made a breakthrough to a fresh new time.” It had all the drawbacks as well: tiny bedrooms, cheap materials, awkward connecting spaces. So the new house, into which the Fieldens moved last summer, is a nearly perfect design — open and light, yet private and safe — seasoned as it is by their experience.
Not all their belongings were ruined. Mr. Fielden saved half of his books, along with artwork by Irving Penn and by his own children, and some family furniture. Ms. Fielden’s Madam Alexander dolls, which Mr. Fielden’s mother painstakingly cleaned up and now live in Eliza’s room, have only slightly blackened eyes.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 February 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
not the times but http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-03/11/top-tables-new-york-restaurants-dining-scene/viewall
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
going to the right restaurants is at least as important as going to the right schools.
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
You're a bore and rube if you haven't eaten where everybody has eaten.
'boor' nor 'bore' iirc
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
not*
ugh
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
i think' bore' works there because british
― 乒乓, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
boar
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
A world where eating out is more life or death than ER surgery
dude seriously.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
this guy has no idea where to eat in new york, clearly.
― s.clover, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
my takeaway is that i need an assistant
disgusting savages
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
no matter how far flung your neighborhood is, there are no ethnic foods and local diners? suuuuure
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
hah i know there are ethnic foods and local diners in every neighborhood
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
but i guess metaphorically or something there are not
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
but are they WORTHY, lagoon.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 March 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
no obvs not you would of course drop some one who brought you there
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link