i once had a student ask me for "life hacks"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
I went to an expensive school for smart kids but it was probably because I was an affable brown kid who'd written an award-winning (and yes unproduced) play, and charmed the admissions committee while high as a kite
― america's favorite (remy bean), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
fwiw I felt the same way about the way a lot of princeton kids dress, like "WTF, you wear brand new, pressed department store clothing and use a calfskin knapsack? Why the fuck would anyone dress like that?"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
i'm sure the 'game' was happening at my university, but i was unambitious and oblivious
it absolutely was *not* happening at my high school, lol
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 October 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Like "who buys the non-suit clothing at Brooks Brothers? Oh, these kids."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
FWIW that's probably not true anymore, I think there was a cultural shift a decade or so after I left college.
i always thought it was wild that you could get an athletic scholarship to an ivy, but not an academic one. i guess i still think it's wild! (disclaimer: i went to an ivy, had a great time, would v much not recommend anyone in 2020 going this route unless they could figure out how not to pay for it. oh shit am i going to be a lacrosse dad??)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
I never understood the Game.
That probably explains why I'm a well-respected experimental poet who has made more than 30k a year only twice since I turned 18.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
I went to a yupwardly-mobile high school where the central anxiety of most juniors and seniors was getting into a good school, for which the euphemism was "the school of your choice." As if it were your choice and not your parents'.
Personally, I was somewhat immune to that pressure. Partly because I was a complete slacker with terrible grades, and partly because my parents were exhausted and did not give a shit. But I saw what the pressure was doing to my friends, and I am still sad for them. Sad for what they missed out on, and sad for what the anxiety did to them.
I hasten to note that this is all *relative*. It was still culturally assumed that I would go to *some* sort of college, get a degree, and work in some sort of salaried white-collar office job.
No other future was even considered for people of my class (for which, read: race and socioeconomic status).
Given the class-based, race-based, and relative nature of these perceptions, I am pretty sure that large swaths of people would regard my attitude toward college as just as bizarre as the NYT quid-ag view.
"Horrors! You have to settle for Loyola?!" Seems ridic to me, but I need to acknowledge how much privilege resides in even going to college at all. And then I have a sad, because I cannot fix it in any way.
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
as a child and as an adult, i always found that shit both hysterical and poisonous.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 19 October 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
Yes it is toxic
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 October 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
oh for sure, and I also came from a family background where it wasn't really an option to *not* go to college, it just wasn't that sort of pressure cooker environment and I guess I also went to school with a lot of kids who would be the first one in their families to go if they went.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
this shit is one of the million reasons I moved my family out of the USA. it'll wreck your soul.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Sunday, 25 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
The article now has a correction as long as the article itself.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Yeah just came here to post that. Sorry for passing it on! Great artwork though!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
that correction is amazing btw and well worth the read!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 31 October 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
"We have corrected a detail about a thigh injury, originally described as a deep gash but more accurately described as a skin rupture that bled through a fencing uniform." - I don't think I've ever read the phrase "skin rupture"? That's not clarifying at all, it kind of makes it more horrifying.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 31 October 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
Ohhhhhhhh Ruth Shalit.
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Saturday, 31 October 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
obviously there are serious issues involved about who gets second chances, or first ones, but you must admit it’s very funny that this one lady is like “i simply refuse to do actual journalism”— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) October 31, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 31 October 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
amazing
― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 October 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
a real piece of work: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/273495/goodbye-to-all-that
― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 October 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Ruth Shalit is the sister of conservative writer and author Wendy Shalit. She married internet executive Robertson Barrett in September 2004, becoming the stepdaughter-in-law of Edward Klein. Barrett was the Vice President of Media Strategy and Operations at Yahoo! before becoming the president of Hearst's digital division in 2016.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 31 October 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
Where will she fail upward to next?
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 31 October 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
Edward Klein aka the current Walter Scott of Walter Scott’s Personality Parade.
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Saturday, 31 October 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
lmao on CNN tom friedman just said "maybe the best thing for the country would be for Biden to win and Republicans to keep the Senate by one vote" because then the two parties would have to come together— jesse tripathi (@jessetripathi) November 3, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/realestate/shelter-island-renovations.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage
aww...poor dude didn't think 1700 sq ft was enough space to raise a kid with his partner....
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
Lol, our three story house is only slightly larger than that, and we could easily fit in two kids if we wanted, which we don't. Ridiculous.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
uhh...
what the fuck https://t.co/RZJaH5zsjE
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 5 November 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
His 20-year old wife probably got him hooked
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 5 November 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This
They moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting in.
David Malka, an entrepreneur in Los Angeles, had heard from friends who were living their best work-abroad lives. In June, he created a plan: He and his girlfriend would work from Amsterdam, with a quick stop at a discounted resort in Mexico along the way.The first snag happened almost immediately. In Cabo San Lucas, Mr. Malka and his girlfriend realized that the European Union wasn’t about to reopen its borders to American travelers, as they had hoped. Returning to the United States wasn’t an option: Mr. Malka’s girlfriend was from the United Kingdom, and her visa wouldn’t allow it.The two decided to stay in Mexico a bit longer. At first it was glamorous, Mr. Malka said. Working by laptop — he manages a portfolio of vacation rental properties — they had the resort to themselves. But by the second week, their situation began to feel like “Groundhog Day.” The city and the beach were closed, so the couple never left the resort. Meanwhile, the travel shutdown was hammering his business.Eventually, the couple took a 28-hour, two-layover trip to Amsterdam, where Mr. Malka was indeed turned away at customs. They retreated to London, where they promptly broke up.He has been there since. “Cold, raining, depressing,” he said. “Those are the first three adjectives that come to mind.”
The first snag happened almost immediately. In Cabo San Lucas, Mr. Malka and his girlfriend realized that the European Union wasn’t about to reopen its borders to American travelers, as they had hoped. Returning to the United States wasn’t an option: Mr. Malka’s girlfriend was from the United Kingdom, and her visa wouldn’t allow it.
The two decided to stay in Mexico a bit longer. At first it was glamorous, Mr. Malka said. Working by laptop — he manages a portfolio of vacation rental properties — they had the resort to themselves. But by the second week, their situation began to feel like “Groundhog Day.” The city and the beach were closed, so the couple never left the resort. Meanwhile, the travel shutdown was hammering his business.
Eventually, the couple took a 28-hour, two-layover trip to Amsterdam, where Mr. Malka was indeed turned away at customs. They retreated to London, where they promptly broke up.
He has been there since. “Cold, raining, depressing,” he said. “Those are the first three adjectives that come to mind.”
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
quiddities and agonies of fucking morons
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
I feel like the reason these people can do their jobs from Grand Teton or whatever is that none of their jobs are actual jobs
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
"Brandtrepreneur and commemorative Bitcoin facilitator Bret Misko thought at first it would be easy to telecommute from Nunavut"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
you realize you’re implicitly insulting everyone else who’s been wfh since march
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
The city and the beach were closed, so the couple never left the resort.
Wow, I wonder what that must have been like, to be stuck at home for a while
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
I've been wfh since march
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
but I'm not at a resort, I'm working from... home
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Brandtrepreneur.
Brandtrepreneur?
Brandtrepreneur!?!?!
― mouts and shurmurs (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
I just made that up it's not in the article
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
I didn't read the article but the headline seems like it belongs here:
"Welcome to Brooklyn, Where the People Are as Unique as Their Brownstones"
― o. nate, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
i hate these people, they are why we can't fucking recoverhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/style/where-the-party-never-sleeps.html
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
― o. nate, Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:56 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Is that irony? A lot of brownstones look similar to one another.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
Oh god, this sounds awful, but at least the reviewer didn't like it.
COBBLE HILLBy Cecily von Ziegesar
Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the best-selling Gossip Girl series, has returned, and this time she has shifted her perspective from the Upper East Side to Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood. “Cobble Hill” features four married couples weaving in and out of one another’s lives and pulling “Xennial” high jinks and horseplay. There’s a former rock star and his purposefully bed-bound wife; there’s a quirky school nurse and her awkward, aspiring musician husband. There’s an eccentric designer and her bottom-energy inventor husband. And there’s a magazine editor and her husband, a famous writer and recent English expat struggling with his next novel. The novelist, Roy Clarke, thinks of his previous works as “chatty and witty and not about anything, really, just people from deranged families, talking.” This reads like a wink from von Ziegesar herself, and as a fan of breaking the fourth wall, I hope it is.
A lot is happening in Cobble Hill (infidelity, multiple fires, theft, frequent drug use) and yet the novel sustains a calm, plotless schema. These four Brooklyn families operate under the pretense that while nothing is great, it’s good enough for now. For a novel based in a high-income neighborhood full of brownstones, there is a refreshing lack of pretension in the prose. Von Ziegesar easily dips into the psyches of adults, teenagers and children, often on the same page, and she lets us into the interlocking structure of the story quite quickly. There’s much to be thankful for in a novel that doesn’t waste a reader’s time.
Von Ziegesar winks at the audience again by presenting Cobble Hill as a sanctuary for the liberal elite. She good-naturedly pokes fun at her characters, but she does so with a next-level amount of kook, which becomes more distracting than it needs to be. There is a famous musician named Stuart Little, from a once popular band called the Blind Mice. There is a shy teenage girl who is named — wait for it — Shy. There is a hot school nurse named Peaches who secures a drug dealer named Dr. Mellow after making just one phone call. And there is a beautiful woman named Mandy who is pretending to have multiple sclerosis. Why? Because “she liked it,” and “it felt like she was doing something earned and deserved.” Possibly even more batty than a woman faking M.S. for the full length of a novel is the nonresponse it receives when the truth comes out. Peaches the nurse finds the act “sort of badass,” and like most of the bad behavior in the novel, Mandy’s phony illness is, in the end, “not such a big deal.”
At times, the novel is the fun fall romp that it was intended to be. But the self-consciously idiosyncratic characters in an intensely geographically accurate portrayal of Brooklyn also present an odd “for us, by us” veneer; it often reads like a joke you had to be there for. Much of the appeal of this novel relies upon its references to gentrified Brooklyn. The magic comes in the form of a jolt of recognition; that feeling when a character in a novel shares your birthday, or when you see your neighbor’s face on the local news. To say this novel is niche would be an understatement, to call it wacky would be apropos — but much like the neighborhood it’s named for, “Cobble Hill” may delight readers of a certain age and income bracket.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
What does it mean to be purposefully bed-bound, is that a sex thing
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 12 November 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
Presumably it's somehow related to "bottom-energy"
Correction: Nov. 11, 2020An earlier version of this article misstated the name of a cocktail served at Gitano Garden of Love. It is Jungle Fever, not Jungle Punch.
glad that got cleared that up
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/realestate/homeownership.html
Ms. Elliott, 36, and her husband, Spencer Elliott, recently moved from a rental apartment in a doorman building in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park to a three-bedroom house they bought for $465,000 in New Jersey’s Lake Hopatcong community. The couple spent a few thousand dollars replacing a broken refrigerator and furnace oil pump, and updating their fireplace and chimney for the season. A smart video doorbell, which cost $300, was also purchased, to help them adjust to no longer having a doorman to greet visitors or accept packages.
Tag yourself, I'm the amount of shade in "unanticipated but seasonal home maintenance."
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 30 November 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
subtract the pandemic part and you could run that story any year
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 November 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
the first things i did when we moved into our house was disable the ring doorbell's internet connection and camera
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link