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

yeah someone usually links to that didion essay by now. I think the answer is yes, but I also think the city is in a uniquely unaffordable stage now.

my brother has a nice thing going in hudson. people are definitely moving there. he hangs out with frank serpico and the dude from lungfish. and meshelle and melissa from hole.

yeah people who left in the 60s/70s/80s were more aspirational, now it's less about not getting shot

i know some mtlers who have fled to hudson who def overlap with some of scott's ppl

i like hanging out on that street in hudson where my brother has his store but i wouldn't really want to live there. i like the hudson river valley though. pretty.

if you live in nyc you should DEFINITELY take that train ride to hudson for like the day or something some weekend. best train ride. so beautiful.

yeah my ex-exotic-dancer friend lives up there

"Hudsonia"?

We've talked (mostly with my prompting) about moving up to the Hudson valley at some point. The question for me is whether to just try to find a smallish place in cheaper Westchester suburb and be commuters or to really leave the city behind, become a country lawyer or something.

http://movieboozer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/LincolnLawyer_m.jpg

otm moving to la is the best form of moving to the countryside

I was in Athens, GA over the weekend and there are like 4-bedroom houses for rent there for $500/mo.

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Ha, a friend of mine is a lawyer in western Colorado for the Southern Ute tribe, so she actually can say "the two Utes" in her job context.

lol

how long have you been waiting to bring that up

"tomorrow... tomorrow it will happen..."

lol

so i stopped by this bar in JC the other day and the bartender started asking my about my shirt. it's a nice shirt -- i had just bought it at uniqlo and it has this woodblock print. so anyway he starts explaining that he is into "underground kicks" and his friend "hooks him up" with "fly underground kicks from japan" but he can't find things to match their prints, and this shirt matches "kicks that just flew over yesterday" so he needs to "jack my connect."

i felt like i was talking to an extra in "how to make it in america."

jersey city is changing rather quickly.

the nerve-wracking thing about philly back then is you could be out on the street in center city at like 11 p.m. and be the ONLY person outside! such a strange town.

xp ha, it is indeed.

"Jack your connect" is just the yout of today's way of saying "shop at Uniqlo."

Wait until he finds out how great their socks are. He'll jack your connect so hard.

i've got this connect. his name is jeff bezos.

yeah usually when somebody jacks my connect i've gotta buy them dinner first

gotta get you a new connect

gotta get your jacks connected

jack the connect, protect ya neck with a jam to match the kicks, respect

first you get the kicks, then you get the connect, then you get the jacks

kicks, jacks, it's all in the mind, if you wanna connect me, i'm sure you'll find

omg

chop chop master onion is that you??

I lost... my dojo. But the dojo remains... in fly underground kicks from Japan.

+1

Can't wait til the sea level rises and swallows up NYC

eventually glazed over all this borough talk, everybody just move to Seattle

The only city in America that reeks more strongly of piss than NYC

that's a sign of quality

other cities aren't even worth leaving your mark on

i'm staying put, and with the new rent will probably be recycling my urine.

i'll probably hate my cancer doctor enough in a year next April when I use a broker to move to Queens.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Queens_Boulevard_at_57th_Avenue.jpg

the promised land awaits you

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/arts/design/collectors-new-face-off-giant-nude-statue-in-old-westbury.html

Residents of wealthy Old Westbury, N.Y., do not have to worry about living downwind of a pig farm or next to a fraternity house.

They do have to be concerned, it turns out, that a millionaire neighbor will plop a 33-foot, painted bronze sculpture of a beyond-naked pregnant woman with an exposed fetus on his front lawn. So when Aby Rosen, the real estate titan and art collector, installed this 13-ton statue by Damien Hirst on his newly renovated property last month, his neighbors were roused into action.

“It is out of character with the neighborhood,” the village’s mayor, Fred Carillo, has said in interviews, noting that it would be more appropriate outside a medical building devoted to obstetrics and gynecology.

As a result of complaints, village officials have voted to hold a public hearing this month on a proposed law to limit the height of statues to 25 feet, even ones by famous artists.

credit due to the nyt for making me feel sympathy for the guy with the 33-foot damien hirst statue.

I think that thing or an edition of it was at Lever House for a while

ahhh why is there no photo of it on his lawn

beyond naked

i imagine that is beautiful

i need to see it, i need neighbors looking on disaprovingly

if there was ever a case for gumshoe reporting

ffs people

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The sculpture was in midtown manhattan at the lever building for awhile maybe six years ago
I passed by it semi regularly on the way to work
It sure is something

yeah, thought so.

I also remember that Hirst installation in the lobby of lever from maybe back then or longer ago. It was the first time I had ever actually even noticed the lever building, so it was pretty shocking to walk by and see all these splayed open sheep carcasses in glass tanks or whatever the hell it was in the all-glass lobby of a midtown building, even though I recognized pretty quickly what it was. This other lady who was peering in at the same time goes "Oooh, I know what's going on in there -- animal testing!"

The only city in America that reeks more strongly of piss than NYC
--龜

San Francisco has a strong claim to this title unless the tech bros ruined that too?!