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

tracer otm

though i'd kinda think they'd soft-pedal it given that thompson himself could be implicated - dunno

theres a big ongoing contract fight btw the newspaper guild and management! its a power play

also: http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/times-must-aggressively-cover-mark-thompsons-role-in-bbcs-troubles/

aha yes

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-31/wall-street-finds-sandy-silver-lining-in-wine-monopoly.html

“I had to go to the wine cellar and find a good bottle of wine and drink it before it goes bad,” Murry Stegelmann, 50, a founder of investment-management firm Kilimanjaro Advisors LLC, wrote in an e-mail after he lost power at 6 p.m. on Oct. 29 in Darien, Connecticut.

The bottle he chose, a 2005 Chateau Margaux, was given 98 points by wine critic Robert Parker and is on sale at the Westchester Wine Warehouse for $999.99.

“Outstanding,” Stegelmann said. He started the day with green tea at Starbucks, talking with neighbors about the New York Yankees’ future and moving boats to the parking lot of Darien’s Middlesex Middle School.

lol @ drinking starbucks green tea before moving on to a premier cru

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/fashion/sandy-five-weight-gain-due-to-storm.html

Times Square, with its teeming chain restaurants, suddenly looked as intoxicating as Montparnasse to beleaguered residents of Chelsea and SoHo, so on forays there, they partied with End of Days abandon.

As usual, Divya was a few steps ahead of me. When our doctor suggested we buy a humidifier she said, “Oh, I already have one!”

I really enjoy how the idea of canned of otherwise nonperishable food (dried pasta, grains, etc.) seems completely beyond the comprehension of those interviewed.

A tightening of the waistband hardly counts as a crisis in a region where so many have endured actual devastation. [...] Still...

Preparedness, in some cases, only made things worse. Like a good Girl Scout, Andrea Lavinthal, a 33-year-old editor, loaded up at Whole Foods, thinking that she could be holed up in her Union Square apartment for days as the storm raged. But she did not anticipate a power failure that rendered her refrigerator useless,

wtf? isn't that, like, the main thing you are preparing for in these situations?

I know -- what was she buying, like sushi-quality fish and gourmet pre-marinated meats? Just like loading up at the pasta bar?

quiddities-style, my sister-in-law and her husband hung out at the yale club after the storm. that ivy league education finally came in handy for them. they live on the 12th floor of an apartment building with no power. so they got a hotel room. i didn't even really think about that part of city living. no elevators. that is way too many stairs.

I know -- what was she buying, like sushi-quality fish and gourmet pre-marinated meats? Just like loading up at the pasta bar?

what an idiot, olive bar is obv. the way to go

beef jerky bar way to go.

otm but that would be the death of me

olive bar would have kept real well! if i was trapped with olives and a cheesewheel (and maybe some smoked sausages), the blackout would have been way less horrible and maybe even sort of awesome, tbh.

totally doing that next time.

Add some red wine and I'm in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/fashion/yale-graduates-seek-a-degree-in-hip-hop.html?smid=tw-share

lol @ 'bryan crawford'

But some critics suspect that Rap Genius’s founders are engaged in a sort of perpetual parody of the music they claim to be rhapsodizing. “There’s a consciousness about what they’re doing — we call it ‘slumming,’ ” said Camille Charles, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies race.

I guess this is kind of a side conversation from this thread, but isn't this pretty much a description of what a significant chunk of chart hip-hop inherently is today? Like doesn't someone like Gucci Mane already have perpetual self-parody kind of built in? Who does this prof think most of the audience for hip-hop is today, and aren't the record labels, producers and rappers themselves aware of that by now?

clowning vs. slumming vs. (apols, but it seems appropriate) tomming.

if they dis you they are showing you respect- gtfo nerd

you just respected him

i'm well known in the comments section of bc.com. who are you?

I don't know, this just seems thematically appropriate to this thread: Heritage Hen Mini Farm

hahaha, nobody who has owned chickens for ten seconds is gonna have a yard that green

“I’m driving in my big Lexus coming down here,” Ms. Warren said, betraying her self-consciousness as she stood in a parking lot amid people riffling through donated clothing. I said, ‘Thank God the car is dirty.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/nyregion/after-hurricane-sandy-helping-hands-also-expose-a-new-york-divide.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/magazine/how-to-survive-societal-collapse-in-suburbia.html?ref=magazine

Jimmy Brady, 35, a New York firefighter who lived next door, was prying up carpet alongside the visitors. “If there is any way you want to get accepted to a family or a community, it is to help,” he said. “I’ve heard it from the hardest locals, that these guys are unbelievable. They get out with their little fedoras and they just start helping.”

lol

ha ha i'm reading about survival guy and thinking, "well, this guy is basically doing the mormon preparedness thing, right?" bingo

In seriousness, I kind of wonder how much of that article was just a reporter looking to force an angle. I mean, if most residents of the rockaways really feel insulted by the relief efforts, that would make me sad, and if most of the people coming there to help have a condescending attitude about it, that would also make me sad. But it's hard for me to believe that's the case. I think of it as just a shared responsibility to pitch in. If my neighborhood were destroyed, I'd want and accept help, and when I volunteered, I tried not to be gawky or walk around snapping pictures. I just figured the sheer need for stuff and hands kind of outweighed any class weirdness or whatever. I mean even focusing on that stuff (OMG MY LEXUS!) seems kind of self-centered.

the lactation consultant story was pretty o_O though. I guess the missionary spirit can be found in secular people too.

Posted this in the Israel thread, but it's kind of perfect for here.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/542832_10151167341308003_1128272432_n.jpg

Sharon Udasin reports on on environment, energy, scientific innovation and Negev issues. New Jersey born and bred, Sharon moved to Israel in September 2010, after spending two years as a staff writer at The New York Jewish Week in Manhattan. Prior to her position there, she earned a Master's degree in 2008 from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, which directly followed her four years as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eh I don't care to unpack who gets to be offended by what, nor do I think it's useful. Those who have more/are not in need can handle it, the only important thing is that people who are in need get help. It's too bad if volunteering ppl are being patronizing/unhelpful, that's not good for the organization they ostensibly represent, but it's not really the point, either.

Also tbf breastfeeding WOULD be better, safer, and cheaper for those kids (I guess barring unusual circs like the moms having substance issues or something, but that's true in any population). It's a shame.

That's not necessarily true -- if the mothers work long hours at a place where there's no room for pumping, e.g. And tbf, even if you have a "room" at work, it's a pretty big hassle.

We covered this in another thread, I think you were there, I don't want to rehash at length. But I didn't say it wasn't a hassle. I said it would be better for the kids, which is true regardless of whether the mom's schedule or employer or own choices allow it.

oh jesus for a second i thought you guys were blandly equivocating about the israeli pet-disturbance shit and i was about to flag post the entire thread

Uri Honesh @ Sharon Udasin
Children are being murdered in #Gaza and the Jersualem Post is running a story about puppies in Ashdod afraid of sirens. OK.

tbf breastfeeding WOULD be better, safer, and cheaper for those kids

― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Monday, November 19, 2012 11:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xxp I mean the benefit to infants and the mom's time and her work schedule and her own desire to bf or not are all separate conditions that constrain the final outcome but some of them are independent from each other. It will still be healthier, cheaper, and in conditions with possibly tainted water, bottles, nipples, no sterilization, etc, arguably safer.

fair enough

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/business/even-cupid-wants-to-know-your-credit-score.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1356624513-VijgO+3xPsd6YEpUDdIv0w

i mean

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/business/even-cupid-wants-to-know-your-credit-score.html

Lauren Dollard, a 26-year-old assistant at a nonprofit in Houston, said her low credit score had helped to stall her romantic plans. Her boyfriend is wary of marrying her until she can significantly pay down the more than $150,000 she owes in student loans and bolster her credit score, she said.

Feel like in this particular case the credit score per se is not really as much of an issue as dude doesn't want to get married to a lifetime of debt.

nobody actually does this