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

And there was the hedonistic all-day affair in Dubai, where I topped off courses of Japanese, Chinese and Lebanese food with a full English roast beef dinner, all consumed while hovering above the desert in an air-conditioned five-star hotel restaurant and guzzling a jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot.

I know right?

we've all been there

left my jeroboam in my jet brb

I'm trying to picture this hovering brunch restaurant I don't understand

i think he means it wasn't on the ground floor?

yeah I think so too, it's just a silly, inflated word to use for merely not being on the ground.

nope p sure it's a brunch spaceship

i mean it's in dubai, what else could it be

it's just standard issue annoying nyt style writing -- same with "guzzling a jeroboam of Veuve Cliquot" -- cramming *distinguished* words into a small space where they don't actually make the description more precise, just more haughty.

All I could visualise after 'hovering above the desert' was this:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091202162508/starwars/images/d/d4/Sailbarge-chron2.jpg

OTM

xp unless he means he was literally guzzling the jeroboam, which I guess is possible

picturing the author of that piece as jabba the hut changes the context a bit.
possibly wise to do that for all nyt opeds

oh man can we get like a meme-generator where you plug in NYT text and it renders it as subtitles over animated Jabba gifs?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DbZZv1DdaEs/UrE1_AAtFxI/AAAAAAAAHQI/tWt6UFMuV3M/s1600/etsyjabba1.jpg

i think i will be a West Village bruncher for Hallowe'en

my gut reaction to that brunch article is "sorry you've been living there for 20 years, but move the fuck out of new york if you don't like new york, what the fuck do you expect"

good opinion

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/10/19/realestate/19HUNT-MAIN/19HUNT-MAIN-master675.jpg

He decorated his bedroom lavishly, prominently hanging an image of himself on one wall. Some of the furniture was custom made; some is antique. “I felt I had never been content with my surroundings,” he said. Now, he absolutely is.

“Home decorating turned into one of my projects,” he said. “It’s a luxurious pop-art environment that reflects my taste and is a true representation of me.”

pretty sure his shirt also features an image of himself

Did he win that ceramic cheetah from Wheel of Fortune?

imagine going home with a guy and he has a painted portrait of himself over his bed

http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/1/11/Lovenasium.png/225px-Lovenasium.png

On the Lower East Side, a renovated two-bedroom in a building with a roof deck and a gym was almost $4,000. “It was pristine,” Mr. Papier said, but small in every way. “The staircases were tiny, the closets were tiny, you open the door to the bedroom and immediately walk into the bed.”

And it was on the top floor of a six-story walk-up. “That is a lot of money to have something that is an inconvenience to you,” said Mr. Papier, who travels often, lugging suitcases. “If it is a dream apartment, you can suck it up,” but this was not.

I know right

https://imgflip.com/i/d5mzd

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/HadrianVIII/d5n4u_zpsaa003edc.jpg

;-;

lol

more plz

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/HadrianVIII/d5tkm_zps6e7d9831.jpg

wow

hahaha

imagine going home with a guy and he has a painted portrait of himself over his bed

Only glossy headshots so far.

"sorry you've been living there for 20 years, but move the fuck out of new york if you don't like new york"

equally applicable to nonbrunchers like me :(

how has the onion not done a jabba nyt oped piece

http://www.theawl.com/2014/11/the-history-of-the-new-york-times-styles-section

good piece, sorry if already posted.

Wait did we miss this one? Probably in another thread, but... wow.

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

active discussion in the willow ILM thread
▼Arbre Mort▼ aka Willow Smith

http://i.imgur.com/ywSivzh.png

This is some creepy shit.

> nightcrawler

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/opinion/the-pain-of-the-watermelon-joke.html

^^ comments box is shameful

from the "reader's picks"

Eating watermelon in the summertime is one of the great American rituals. I've been to parties hosted by African-Americans where watermelon was served, unselfconsciously. I hope that Ms. Woodson can return to that childhood joy that she once experienced.

366 Recommend

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-impracticality.html?_r=0

Dubious advice. Thankfully he almost immediately forgets what he was supposed to be writing about.

there is absolutely nothing impractical about what he describes. that's the weird thing. i also felt the urge to change things as i read it:

"Had I known about unlimited-ride passes, no doubt I would have splurged on one, but even so, unlimited was how I felt: freed from what was, unworried about what came next. I was 150 years old."

It’s in the subway where I find the essence of this. Every car on every train on every line holds a surprise, a random sampling of humanity brought together in a confined space for a minute or two — a living Rubik’s cube.

ah, the infinite and random possibilities of a Rubik's cube!

As the subway barrels ahead, starlike lights flickering on either side, I feel as though I am on a rocket hurtling through deep time, with no idea where we will land, or how, or when.

deep time! with no idea where we will land, or how, or when! you are on a train that is on a track which is moving on a schedule. this schedule does not involve geologic time scales.

JUST LIKE INTERSTELLAR

xp kind of reads like a report from a hairy potter newspaper about the wondrous ingenuity of the non-magic world

"A man, clearly inebriated, urinates on my leg. In moments like these, great cities test you, discover of what mettle you're made. I smile at the man. This is my initiation. And though he know it not, he is my celebrant. 'Hark,' say I. 'May I direct you to a relief more lavatorial?' In response, the man pisses on my other leg. Ah, New York! You unruly thing!"

lol

Where do we post it when the NYT forgets that people live in public housing? When the deal with the story is that police are, supposedly, shrewdly locating their high-stakes stings of heavily-armed criminals far from innocent bystanders?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/nyregion/in-dea-sting-operations-robberies-arent-real-but-charges-are.html?_r=0

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/05/nyregion/STASHweb1/STASHweb1-master675.jpg

In many of the sting operations, the suspects are lured to a more remote, nonresidential area in Upper Manhattan, beneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, before federal agents and police officers close in.

Photo is looking east on 131s Street, in the midst of the construction site for Columbia's new Manhattanville campus. The image is dominated by the Manhattanville Houses, which as NYCHA reminds us, includes "1,272 apartments housing an estimated 2,756 residents." Two blocks to the north is the former Riverside Park Community complex (1976), a Mitchell-Lama scheme that shifted to market-rate in the last decade, and must also not look like a "residential area" to the NYT's captioners. It was designed to house ~1,190 families - not sure how many people are in it now. It also contains the KIPP Infinity charter school (formerly I.S. 195), serving grades five through eight. This "remote" spot is also three stubby blocks from a stop on the 1 train (prominently featured in the photo, and presumably containing only spectres and hardened adventurers who would venture as far as three-quarters of a mile north of Columbia). Bring on the machine-gun-packing crooks!

good sleuthing, doctor casino!

people are kinda everywhere in manhattan. that island is lousy with people.