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

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.

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.

oh i think they have their hootenannies

they do tend to take up ukelele

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.

the only thing that gets between a man and his washboard is his spoon

Alternately, the only thing that gets between a man and his Spoon is his washboard.

leave it to the quid ag thread to get me to continuously watch youtubes of people playing washboards

tumblr

http://images.canadianlisted.com/nlarge/antique-t-eaton-monarch-hand-crank-wringer-washing-machine_4732761.jpg

i did work on a farm once, for two days or so. it kind of sucked.

^ history of human civilization in one sentence

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.

but, it always looks so picturesque from a distance!

http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/images/ztheme7.jpg

I aint gonna work on maggies farm no more

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.

well that's why we give those jobs to illegal immigrants

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.

that too