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

Yup, OTM. One of the defining moments of my life was when I was around age 25 or 26, and my grandmother's husband had a talk with me, in which he said "I'm concerned that, like a lot of people of your generation, you might still be fantasizing that you're going to just happen onto the perfect career that suits your passion" or somethign along those lines. Gentle but firm, sort of snapped me out of my aimlessness.

Yeh, I could have used that kind of perspective for a long time. I had to figure it out for myself. Starting in around 11th grade teachers, advisors, and other well-meaning grown-ups urged me to pursue my "passion," but I've never had a passion, but rather broad curiosity and adaptability to usually be interested in whatever I had to work on.

I was good at writing, so teachers and professors encouraged me to be a writer, but as satisfying as writing can be, I didn't feel driven or "passionate" to make it my life. I wish I had seen earlier that I didn't have to feel passionate about writing in order to do it as a job or part of a job. So I searched for a "passion" and despaired for lack of one.

It would have been really good for me to follow one of the many options I tested and rejected (counseling, vet medicine, photography/photo lab, floral design) because I didn't feel "passion" for them, even though I was pretty happy at the jobs.

let's not overlook the fact that it's easier to make this statement as long as money is a factor and that most famous artistic people come from rich families who can support them financially and within their industry until they succeed, hence the quiddy
nobody tells jaden smith not to do what he loves

in order to do what you love it's important to know what you do and also what you love

Look at ROI.

look at ROL

LOL at ROFL

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/americas-cup-sailing-race-faces-challenges-in-san-francisco.html

worst enormous tech company ceo 2013

this might be the wrong thread but this has to go somewhere
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/booming/no-nachos-for-you-general-zod-were-on-weight-watchers.html

where's the piece abt those bros going on a catered motorcycle trip

I kind of like that article actually.

The WW one, not the catered road trip one.

yeah WW article is good

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/feelingbidder_bNie678FebHbCaXhiDKnaN

excellent find

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2013/06/30/news/web_photos/30.2n007.ArtSuit1--300x300.jpg

someone in the gawker comments posted a pdf of some PR fluff about the wife's art

I was left wishing they'd been soaked for $100k

google her art it's v bad

A highly relevant article

ugh, rong thread...

dunno if this fits exactly but i couldn't find the MN thread. this is pretty absurd:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/fashion/the-dating-scene-hip-with-a-bit-of-minnesota-nice.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

it's in site new answers!

thank god

this isn't quiddities but i need to complain about this ridiculous mistake in the story about tim burke of deadspin http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/sports/deadspins-tim-burke-waits-to-turn-offbeat-moments-into-gifs.html

the story starts off with this scene

At 2:44 p.m. on a recent Sunday, Tim Burke took a moment from monitoring numerous N.F.L. games for the sports Web site Deadspin to post something that had nothing to do with football: a smidgen of a clip from an English rugby match he also happened to be following.

He stitched together still-frame images captured from the broadcast into a short, continuous loop that showed a player built like a cement mixer strong-arming an opponent to the ground by the unfortunate man’s throat.

it then links to the post of the gif -- supposedly written on a sunday while tim burke watches the NFL -- which says the following in its very first sentence!

You're likely doing your patriotic duty and watching college football today

college football of course is played on saturday, and the post was written on 10/12 -- also a saturday!

this took me less than 20 seconds to "fact check" and i wasn't even really trying

any time this thread is bumped i end up staring @ the womans khakis in the orig post for like 20 mins

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/giving/her-name-is-famous-but-shes-not-about-nothing.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

I do genuinely think her charity sounds good, but just lol @ the Times -- "This wealthy celebrity's wife is DIFFERENT. She runs a CHARITY."

p much the complete definition of a quid and an ag

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/18/131118fa_fact_levy

ya miscarriages are TOTALLY rich people problems!!!

fp

what the fuck

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

smh universal guaranteed income is about as un ruling class as you can get

haha, universal welfare? maybe for RICH people

oh i thought this was the main nytimes thread

haha

meow

basic income is a v interesting idea tho, be curious to read something on what economists thinkvthe inflationary etc impact would be of everyone getting a same sized check every month

'pay people to be alive' a v. ruling class (and reactionary american) way of phrasing it tho

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/fashion/chef-run-service-teaches-nannies-recipes-that-skip-the-microwave.html?_r=1&

Like other 5-year-olds, Erela Yashiv likes pizza and cupcakes and detests food that contains “green specks” of vegetables.

But her mother, Stephanie Johnson, 46, who lives in TriBeCa and runs a cosmetics-case and travel-accessories line, wanted her daughter to adopt a more refined and global palate, whether it’s a gluten-free kale salad or falafel made from organic chickpeas.

As working parents, she and her husband, Dan Yashiv, 42, a music producer, do not have time to prepare such fare. And their nanny, from Wisconsin, does not always know the difference between quinoa and couscous.

she sometimes does

stupid fucking nanny

How long does it take to make a kale salad? Even if you have to pick all the bits of gluten out by hand?

Wisconsin, whaddaya gonna do? (xp)

all the things labeled gluten free these days, its good to know these eggs abide by my diet

blind nanny, real sad, can't see the pictures on the box at the store that show all the sighted nannies what couscous and quinoa look like

That article is hilarious.

were they actually saying 'marc&mark' out loud or do you suppose marc&mark paid the times extra to get their trade name in there

lol

“We were too basic with her food in the beginning, so we want marc&mark to help us explore more sophisticated food that has some diversity and flavor,” she said. “I don’t want her growing up not liking curry because she never had it.”

'we fucked up so bad, thank god this service is available to help us reverse our monstrous parenting decisions'

Holy shit, grocery store chain from Texas does well in Idaho, too!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/business/whole-foods-finds-success-in-smaller-cities.html?hp&_r=0

And it hasn't even opened up in Brooklyn yet!!!!!