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

I think there is a natural curiosity that many people have when they hear about an actor writing fiction.
lol

That post is like the main character's flashback monologues in Airplane -- I'd wind up hanging myself before it was over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzItX3UmduQ

ethan hawke seems even more like his character in reality bites than his character in reality bites does

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/garden/if-summer-goes-why-wont-the-guests.html

is crashing with strangers with air-conditioned suburban homes a "thing" in New York?

slash do New Jersey homeowners frequently allow strangers to wander in and sleep there for no reason?

"crazy person takes advantage of feeble-minded riches" is so far from a trend that I don't know what to think about what's going on here

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-arent-twentysomethings-buying-cars-or-houses/261490/
motherfuckers

'tell us your story' how bout you fuckin pay me for it you cheapass motherfuckers

On Sunday, Ms. Schwab drives the guest to the train station.

“As she’s getting out she says to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I didn’t have time to get to the cash machine, so I went to your purse and took some cash,’ ” Ms. Schwab says. “It was basically everything I had taken out of the A.T.M. the night before, $100.”

WHO DOES THIS NOBODY DOES THIS EXCEPT SCAM ARTISTS AND CRIMINALS WTF

I kind of like the beginning of that guest article, it's like they present it as though it's going to be a quiddity thing but instead it is a nightmare

True, you could snatch one of the soggy towels left on the newly finished floors of the guest bedroom, hold it firmly over the guest’s mouth and nose, and bring your misery to an end, but the courts frown on such behavior and you’d have the problem of getting rid of the body.

Houseguests can be a real pain! For example, some are sociopaths!

yeah but why do you let them into yr house in the first place?

Because they're friends of friends IE presumed members of the ruling class. Possibly holding a copy of the New York Times in their convulsively clutching hands.

If you show up at any house in the Hamptons with a print copy of your wedding announcement from the NYT they are required by law to let you stay in the guest room for one week.

Can't keep up with all threads. Is there a UK quiddities? Has this been linked yet?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2085486/As-family-led-life-privilege-face-5m-debt-said-upper-crust-recession-proof.html

that cleveland clinic ad on the ipad version is going to drive me away

all i ask is for my newspaper to sit the fuck still

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/fashion/maude-apatow-is-growing-up-writing.html

“The story behind that tweet is that, at my school, there’s a lot of Jewish kids,” said Maude (her father is Jewish, her mother is not). “Last year, I probably went to 40 bar-bat mitzvahs. They started in mid-sixth grade, and they kept going into eighth grade. And I remember, at one of the last ones, I was like, I don’t want to go to this. I’m going to get into a fistfight. I was so sick of them.” When Maude expressed the thought aloud, she said that her father told her, “Tweet that, that’s funny.”

how is that worse than long chestnut-colored hair, a pale delicate frame and a face that is at once cherubic and knowing?

also how can your frame, i.e. skeleton, be pale? that's just bad writing

It all reads slightly paedoish bleugh.

I can't imagine any reasons why tens of thousands of people would follow the tweets of the adolescent daughter of a hollywood powerhouse other than that they're really witty and original

every skeleton i've ever seen is quite pale

yes but how could the writer be sure though

writer is superman

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/09/realestate/09cover-graphic.html

JFC trinity college students spending $2000 each on an apartment? They're in for a rude awakening when the student loan man comes knocking.

kind donations from their parents

http://i.imgur.com/iflV0.png

they should rename manhattan parentsmoneyville

dayo otm

FINALLY

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/booming/13intro.html?hp

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winerip, cokesnort, grassdig

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/nyregion/unscenic-walking-tour-goes-from-lower-manhattan-to-jfk.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&gwh=

An Unscenic Urban Walk: From Lower Manhattan to Kennedy Airport

Mr. Maskin, an official city tour guide, felt compelled to live up to his billing. He explained the transformation of the Bowery (“Have you heard of CBGB?”) and the marvel of Brooklyn bodegas (“They’re these very small grocery stores”).

Great parentheticals Batman

as usual, there's like three threads where this could go: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/nyregion/the-farm-life-draws-some-students-for-post-graduate-work.html

eh, i'd do that

oh shit I was just applying to farms to work this winter

now I'm going to have a bunch of nyt readin' grad students to contend with

“You don’t get into farming for the money,” he said. “You do it for the love of the game.”

I hope he's embarrassed by this quote.

And yet another generation of college graduates is drawn into farming, 95% of which will be out of it within five years.

I made up that stat, but it's accurate.

Sure but that's true for the Peace Corp or whatever too.

"now I'm going to have a bunch of nyt readin' grad students to contend with"

haha, ivy league dudes sitting outside the barn with their briefcases.

cheaper than a two year vision quest through europe after college or whatever.

Mr. Krauss-Malett said he became interested in farming after working in a restaurant and seeing how much food was wasted. Mr. Bobman had the same realization working in the produce section at a grocery store before college.

'people waste so much food! i think i'd like to grow that food that they waste!'

Sure, and I had a number of college friends who did this (state school, btw, not expensive private quid u.). The ones that survived were the ones who actually came from my U's ag school and were very serious and knowledgeable about agriculture, although even some of those left the field, as it were.