that cleveland clinic ad on the ipad version is going to drive me away
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
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
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
“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?
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
also how can your frame, i.e. skeleton, be pale? that's just bad writing
It all reads slightly paedoish bleugh.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
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
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
every skeleton i've ever seen is quite pale
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
yes but how could the writer be sure though
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
writer is superman
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/09/realestate/09cover-graphic.html
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
JFC trinity college students spending $2000 each on an apartment? They're in for a rude awakening when the student loan man comes knocking.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 September 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
kind donations from their parents
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iflV0.png
― dayo, Monday, 10 September 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
they should rename manhattan parentsmoneyville
― iatee, Monday, 10 September 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
dayo otm
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 September 2012 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
FINALLY
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/booming/13intro.html?hp
Welcome to Your Living Room, BoomersBy MICHAEL WINERIP 8:19 AM ETA new destination for news, entertainment and commentary about baby boomers and the way they live.
― j., Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
RelatedBoomers vs. Millennials — Who’s Really Getting Robbed?By MICHAEL WINERIPThe millennials whose future I’m robbing are my four children, and it’s costing me a fortune to do it- Music Match: If You Like Crosby, Stills and Nash- One Year Older: Baby Boomers Who Celebrate Birthdays This Week - A Quiet Drink: Mellow Drinks in a Surprising Neighborhood
Boomers vs. Millennials — Who’s Really Getting Robbed?By MICHAEL WINERIPThe millennials whose future I’m robbing are my four children, and it’s costing me a fortune to do it
- Music Match: If You Like Crosby, Stills and Nash- One Year Older: Baby Boomers Who Celebrate Birthdays This Week - A Quiet Drink: Mellow Drinks in a Surprising Neighborhood
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 September 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
winerip, cokesnort, grassdig
― j., Sunday, 16 September 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
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”).
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Monday, 17 September 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Great parentheticals Batman
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 September 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
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
― s.clover, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
eh, i'd do that
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
“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.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
And yet another generation of college graduates is drawn into farming, 95% of which will be out of it within five years.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
I made up that stat, but it's accurate.
Sure but that's true for the Peace Corp or whatever too.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
cheaper than a two year vision quest through europe after college or whatever.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
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!'
― j., Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
what's your field? that one over yonder!
i think its great because it means these people are too tired at night to start indie rock bands.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
oh i think they have their hootenannies
― s.clover, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
they do tend to take up ukelele
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
I had a bunch of ag school housemates, in fact. Some of them took a course called "Meats" in which there was a lesson on "Hog Killin'". I didn't even realize at the time how proto-Brooklyn all of this was.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
the only thing that gets between a man and his washboard is his spoon
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
Alternately, the only thing that gets between a man and his Spoon is his washboard.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
leave it to the quid ag thread to get me to continuously watch youtubes of people playing washboards
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
tumblr
http://images.canadianlisted.com/nlarge/antique-t-eaton-monarch-hand-crank-wringer-washing-machine_4732761.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
i did work on a farm once, for two days or so. it kind of sucked.
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
^ history of human civilization in one sentence
― goole, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, picking veggies for a couple hours is nice. Cleaning caked sheep manure off the bottom of a pen for a couple of hours is not. And doing these and many other things from sunup to sundown every day is most definitely not.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
but, it always looks so picturesque from a distance!
― Aimless, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/images/ztheme7.jpg
― hail dayton (brownie), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
I aint gonna work on maggies farm no more
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
I like the idea that there are an increasing number of farms, I get sad when I hear old farmers talking about how they have no-one to give their farms to when they die etc.
But at the same time unless you're a dedicated aggie and not just a hippy who hates seeing beet tops in the trash, the burnout rate has gotta be pretty high over a 5 yr span, surely. I mean, those are looooong days. And it's constant work, it's not like once everything's planted you can kick back and watch the money roll in.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
well that's why we give those jobs to illegal immigrants
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
I grew up on a farm and spent a lot of my teenage summers working on farms. It is hard and repetitive work and I can't imagine that most of the people doing this have much of an idea of what they're getting into. Aspiring to work on a farm seems almost akin to aspiring to be a factory worker to me.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link