Yeah, it's the classic NYTimes thing of reporting a thing as a new trend when it's just a thing that people do. There are fake trends that no one actually does, and fake trends that are just stuff people always do, like move to the suburbs when they have kids.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Sunday, 17 February 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
serious q: do you think it's worth a day trip? Was thinking about going somewhere out of the city tomorrow and I don't want a long drive on account of baby.
i think it is -- esp. if you are considering moving there. it's been a while since i've been up there, but i remember that it was pretty funky (by Westchester standards, anyway). and it's been so since 1998 (long before this last quiddities article -- dunno if the NYT has noticed it or not before).
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Sunday, 17 February 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
then again, i've got high standards for "small funky suburban towns" -- having grown up so close to New Hope, PA/Lambertville, NJ (New Hope being the town that sprang Ween onto the world).
the grow up, have kids, move to the burbs, but keep it a little bohemian thing has probably been happening for just about a century. so yeah, reporting it as a trend is sort of hilarious.
― s.clover, Monday, 18 February 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, like Montclair, NJ has been a thing for as long as I can remember -- suburban home of ex-boho ex-manhattanites.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 February 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
Aw, New Hope. One of my best pals from college is from New Hope.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 February 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
See also p much any suburban/rural college town, like Northampton MA.
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 18 February 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
He conducted a Google Maps street-view search of Westchester, and settled on Hastings for his family when he saw Subarus parked on the streets, not Lexus SUVs.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 18 February 2013 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
THE ONLY TOWN IN AMERICA WHERE EVERYONE DRIVES A SUBARU
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 18 February 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm fuckin sick of Subarus let me tell ya
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 18 February 2013 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
It's that age old challenge of having to live in the suburbs with all the comforts and amenities that brings while still signifying that you're not really the type of person who lives in the suburbs.
― Moodles, Monday, 18 February 2013 06:12 (eleven years ago) link
livin in the suburbaru
― wk, Monday, 18 February 2013 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
subaru ownership as performance
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 18 February 2013 07:42 (eleven years ago) link
I found that sentence hard to read, do those people not know that the Subaru is the standard suburban yuppie parentmobile? There are sixty of them (including mine!) parked outside the Whole Foods every single Saturday and I promise you the drivers are not hipsters.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 February 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
yeah tons of these type of articles confuse rebranded yuppie consumerism with being a hipster
― dmr, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
although it's hard to say someone's confused about the usage of a word that has no meaning
anyway, lagooon otm
hipsturbia, shut the style secretion down, this one will never be topped
― lag∞n, Sunday, February 17, 2013 12:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― dmr, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
ok, get ready
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/fashion/lindsay-heller-mediates-between-parent-and-nanny.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
It wasn’t that Kimberly Van Der Beek’s new nanny was unqualified. She had come with sparkling references and a gold-star recommendation from her agency. She knew three languages and had philosophies about child development. She was nice and prompt and had an excellent driving record. Still, Ms. Van Der Beek, the wife of the actor James Van Der Beek and a parenting blogger, noticed that when she entered the room, the nanny was often just getting off the phone. And though the nanny was doing a good job with the Van Der Beeks’ 7-month-old son, Joshua, there was some tension with their 2-year-old daughter, Olivia, Ms. Van Der Beek thought.And so it came to pass that on a rainy morning not long ago, a black Volkswagen Beetle with the license plate NANNY DR drove up to the Van Der Beeks’ Hollywood Hills home. Ms. Van Der Beek ushered its occupant, a woman named Lindsay Heller, up the back stairs of the house, sat across from her on a couch and began a list of concerns and questions.“She’s very emotionally invested in my kids,” she told Dr. Heller. “I just don’t know if she has passion about Olivia.”She went on. “She lets Joshua just lie on the floor while she’s drinking her tea. Put some pep in that step. Put the tea down.” She leaned back and sighed. “I just find that if I’m around, I’m the one taking care of the kids. I like to be preventive about things. If Olivia wakes up from her nap at four, I’d like to know that there’s a snack ready. There never is.”Dr. Heller listened. “I wonder how much she knows about what your approach is and what you like,” she said.
And so it came to pass that on a rainy morning not long ago, a black Volkswagen Beetle with the license plate NANNY DR drove up to the Van Der Beeks’ Hollywood Hills home. Ms. Van Der Beek ushered its occupant, a woman named Lindsay Heller, up the back stairs of the house, sat across from her on a couch and began a list of concerns and questions.
“She’s very emotionally invested in my kids,” she told Dr. Heller. “I just don’t know if she has passion about Olivia.”
She went on. “She lets Joshua just lie on the floor while she’s drinking her tea. Put some pep in that step. Put the tea down.” She leaned back and sighed. “I just find that if I’m around, I’m the one taking care of the kids. I like to be preventive about things. If Olivia wakes up from her nap at four, I’d like to know that there’s a snack ready. There never is.”
Dr. Heller listened. “I wonder how much she knows about what your approach is and what you like,” she said.
― j., Sunday, 24 February 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
End life on earth.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 24 February 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Man, I wish I had someone to make sure there was a snack ready when I woke up from a nap :(
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 25 February 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Someone in NY needs to start an apre nap snack delivery, delivering hand-crafted, organic snacks at pre-determined post-nap times.
― carl agatha, Monday, 25 February 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
that's my dream career, but not in ny
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 25 February 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
If you want to do some market testing on that business plan, I volunteer.
― carl agatha, Monday, 25 February 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
it'll have to be in the summer but i'll think about it!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
That article was so depressing I hadn't the heart to make fun of the people in it. The ridiculous, horrifying people.
― Aimless, Monday, 25 February 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
lol yeah saw that, was planning to post it
OOH the people are horrifying
OTOH the entire enterprise of strangers raising your kids, which affects both rich and poor, is kind of horrifying.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
mostly not a quiddities article but
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/business/time-inc-and-meredith-prepare-to-join-magazine-businesses.html
As bankers and media executives hammer out the details of creating a new publicly traded company to house the magazine titles of the Meredith Corporation and the lifestyle titles of Time Inc., employees at both companies have been wondering how executives will take on the harder task of merging two very different corporate cultures.
Meredith’s headquarters in Des Moines have an open floor plan; the executives have their offices on the first floor and favor early-morning meetings. A recent lunch at one of Meredith’s magazines featured kale salad and rosemary-infused cucumber lemonade. Time executives tend toward lunches at Michael’s, where the dry-aged steak is a highlight, and after-work cocktails at the Lamb’s Club.
And then there are the postrecessionary approaches to travel: Meredith’s chief executive turned its corporate jets into shuttles with open seating, while Time still allows staff members to expense hotel rooms at the Four Seasons.
― iatee, Monday, 25 February 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
rosemary-infused cucumber lemonade
this sounds horrifying
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
an herbage too far
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
yuk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
also w/r/t the Dr Nanny Nanny Dr article that j posted yesterday this exchange:
Dr. Heller listened. “I wonder how much she knows about what your approach is and what you like,” she said. Ms. Van Der Beek considered this. “I haven’t been very clear in my approach, I guess,” she said. “We’ve had conversations about philosophies, but not really about what I expect her to do.”
Ms. Van Der Beek considered this. “I haven’t been very clear in my approach, I guess,” she said. “We’ve had conversations about philosophies, but not really about what I expect her to do.”
AALSDKJFDLFJS;LDJFSJKFSDLF WTF ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN jesus christ shouldn't expectations be the first conversation uggggghhh these PEOPLE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, February 25, 2013 12:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
we have a nanny fwiw and for us it's not anything about someone else raising our kid, more about two working parents and not wanting to put him in daycare at this age. i feel like the little dude has responded extremely well. it also helps that my wife works from home 80% of the time.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
I know I've said this to you before on here but every time you have one of these posts about fairly grown-up/mature situations I flash back to threads like the couch violation and wonder where the fuck the time went.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:11 (10 minutes ago) Permalink
yeah when/if we get to this point we've said that a nanny would prob be better than daycare
also Ned painfull OTM
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://baseballfordinner.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-you-chose-poorly-motherfucker.gif
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
my mother had a nanny when she was a little girl. she also lived in the UK and the British Caribbean during that time, they had a comfortable upper middle-class income, there were uncomfortable & icky class and racial politics going on (e.g., my mother's nanny in the Caribbean was Indian, and there was a lot of tension b/w white Britons, Indians & blacks). so i always wince a little whenever i read about folks getting nannies b/c of all that. i also have no kids, so i haven't had to face the necessity of having to get a nanny.
(my "nanny" was my grandmother -- unlike my mother, i didn't live in the UK when i was a little kid, my father never would've gone for a nanny & at any rate we wouldn't have been able to afford one.)
― darf ich bitte mit Poppage spielen?!? (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
'Designer fashion is no longer just for gay men and Europeans.'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/nyregion/5th-avenue-subway-station-traps-unwary-riders-behind-locked-exit.html
One rider, Anthony Thavar, first insisted he would go over the turnstile, then grew paranoid about a possible police effort to root out fare beaters. (He repeatedly asked those near him if they were officers.)“I’m not going to jump for $2,” he said finally.He swiped his card. “Insufficient fare,” the machine read. He walked a few steps to the emergency gate, pushed it in vain, then returned to the turnstile. Without a word, he dashed underneath. He did not appear to regret his choice.“Jumping turnstiles, what’s up!” he shouted gleefully as the escalator carried him away.
“I’m not going to jump for $2,” he said finally.
He swiped his card. “Insufficient fare,” the machine read. He walked a few steps to the emergency gate, pushed it in vain, then returned to the turnstile. Without a word, he dashed underneath. He did not appear to regret his choice.
“Jumping turnstiles, what’s up!” he shouted gleefully as the escalator carried him away.
― forks is lucky he didn't get stabbed over a marilyn monroe cd (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:06 (eleven years ago) link
Some paused for minutes at the turnstiles, contemplating a moral calculus that, according to transit officials, appears to be unique to 53rd Street.
this may be the most nyt-quid-ag sentence ever
― goole, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
look at the chain of reported fact there
― goole, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me2e80Z73h1rq2tz6o1_1280.jpg
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
sorry lol hueg
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/realestate/the-hunt-come-sit-with-me-while-i-cook.html
― s.clover, Thursday, 28 February 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
One apartment, for $1.095 million, with monthly charges of around $1,100, was gorgeously done, but its one bathroom had only a shower. The seller had small children, who were bathed in a portable tub. That was a deal-breaker.“We wanted a bathtub,” Ms. Ferrin said. “We talked about it. Friends from outside of the city were, ‘What do you mean, no bathtub?’ ”
“We wanted a bathtub,” Ms. Ferrin said. “We talked about it. Friends from outside of the city were, ‘What do you mean, no bathtub?’ ”
Other friends from outside the city were, 'One million dollars, holy fuck, I'm going to kill you.'
― forks is lucky he didn't get stabbed over a marilyn monroe cd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes i feel like otto there, drifting out to sea while bart simpson watches, life preserver in hand but never thrown.
― Spectrum, Friday, 1 March 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just going to post this byline without comment
Amary Wiggin, a writer living in Brooklyn, is working on a memoir.
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 March 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amary-wiggin/should-men-pay-for-dinner_b_1000740.html
― buzza, Friday, 1 March 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, what a dumb article.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 March 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
which led me to this which is kinda like teasdale reportinghttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/parentingcom/quvenzhane-wallis-the-c_b_2765922.html
I wish we lived in a world where Quvenzhané could wake up the morning after the Oscars and search the Internet with her mama to find herself on our best-dressed lists...Quvenzhané Wallis is a lot of things. She is smart. She is sassy. She is talented. She is beautiful. And she is a child. She is not the c word.
― forks is lucky he didn't get stabbed over a marilyn monroe cd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 March 2013 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
Now, when I'm out with a new guy and our check arrives, my arms hang limply at my sides.
V sexy.
― Je55e, Friday, 1 March 2013 05:58 (eleven years ago) link