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

C train is a bad scene, no joke.

people who make noise / make a scene on the subway are just attempting to get reactions, so reacting never really solves the problem

C train is less rough these days, or maybe I just notice less or get targeted less than when I was so wide-eyed. Still happens, though.

this is why god made ipods

I share the last car of the A train with the same amateur preacher a few times a week. suuucks. everyone just tries to look away.
C train rules. you can look out the front window!

Truth! That's the good part.

I share the last car of the A train with the same amateur preacher a few times a week

is it the (african?) guy who exhorts you to love jesus christ 'with OLLL of your mind and OLLL of your body and OLLL of your spirit' or else 'you WILL. go. to hell'?

because that guy is awesome

The woman this morning helpfully described hell as being like Trinidad or Jamaica or Europe--places you've never been but that doesn't mean they don't exist. It's a big world full of islands and places; have you been to ALL of them? Of course not; likewise you shouldn't doubt the existence of hell any more than those places in the world.

makes u think

the existence of hell is what i'm counting on at this point.

If it's like Europe I'm pretty much unconcerned at this point.

Is there a dedicated NYC subway thread btw? I always want to post about the current round of terrible, inescapable movie posters or w/e but don't know where it would be on-topic.

i could totally get behind that thread

Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

Holla

I think there is another thread for ads even

i love eavesdropping on other peoples weird conversations on the streetcar

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weird streetcar

ok this is pretty good http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/02/hacked-new-york-times-articles.html

bwaahahahaha

When Chris Finch gave up his six-figure job as a commercial-real-estate broker in Manhattan, feeling an inchoate itch for “something real, where I could get dirt under my fingernails,” he never thought it would lead to a brick-walled workshop on a grimy industrial street, hard by the Brooklyn side of the bridge. That’s where the twenty-eight-year-old now spends his days, and many of his nights, turning out the artisanal syrups and bitters that bartenders from Greenpoint to Harlem say have become essential tools of their trade. The rise of Mojo Mixological—named after Finch’s eleven-year-old Labrador—is just the latest “success” story in a borough that is rapidly losing its essence as it continues to ignore the lessons of the Stalinist two-stage theory of revolution. “The thing is, I’m rotting from within,” Finch said recently, with a haunted look in his eyes, as he paused for a smoke break on the workshop’s bare concrete patio.

Not sure how accurate these are as a sendup of present-day Chinese communist sloganeering, but the detournement of Q&A is always good for a chuckle.

I'm fond of this:

Mr. Wynn, thirty-two, is a hegemonist.

and the doorman, a worker

Not NYT, just a quid/ag of the ruling class: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324445904578284090209676324.html

1,300-square-foot his-and-hers closets for husband-and-wife clients

hahaha what is this even about

Ms. Charlton of Clos-ette says a new feature she's including in recent designs is a "virtual styling tool" consisting of computer screens and iPads set up in the closet so people can work remotely with a stylist who has a visual inventory of their clothes to scroll through.

LOL

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7y4w5rKQQ1qczd7uo1_500.png

hahaha

clueless so ahead of its time

Small, but relevant:

Brooklyn Mom Kindly Looks To Listserv For Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Possibly Sugar-Free Personal Chef For Her 4-Year-Old

RIP childhood.

how is everyone coping in the post-url-shortening trick era

Just do the same trick but hit yr browser's stop button after the article content has loaded but before the popup appears.

does this bookmarklet still work? http://euri.ca/2011/03/21/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-limit/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/nyregion/paying-top-dollar-for-condos-and-leaving-them-empty.html?hpw&_r=0

Have almost certainly seen this exact story done by the Times before, but this one is worth it for perfectly crafted one-sentence paragraphs, like:

“For the record,” she said, after stepping off an elevator shared with a man in a suit and a woman with an enthusiastic bichon frisé, “I have never seen those people before.”

and

Our next-door neighbors were absolutely lovely, and we saw them maybe once a year,” said a former resident at 25 Columbus Circle, the south tower of the Time Warner Center, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Most people don’t actually live there.”

my bookmarklet (don't remember where i got it) seems to have stopped working. not sure if the issue is it's no longer deleting the right cookies, or that deleting cookies is no longer enough. developing...

does INCOGNITO MODE still work??

afaik the bookmarklets work by just getting hiding the pop-up, not by deleting cookies?

presumably incognito mode and deleting cookies should both still work

There's a crime novel in that Times story.

THE MAN WHO WASN'T AROUND MUCH

who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The dream is over:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/fashion/creating-hipsturbia-in-the-suburbs-of-new-york.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

bum bum BE dum, dum dum de dum dum

"Even a two-bedroom duplex in Carroll Gardens with a garden for the little ones can run $5,500 a month."

cool borough

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/travel/rio-with-eyes-open.html?pagewanted=1&hpw&_r=0

"Brooklyn is turning out to be the last three days of Burning Man.”

"As a server at Marlow & Sons, the nose-to-tail temple in Williamsburg, Ms. Ghiorse said she loved being surrounded by “that unbelievably saturated population” of creative influencers, like James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem."

this article is a goldmine.

“Once in a while, you’ll think, ‘This place gets it,’ because they have a Fernet Branca cocktail on their menu.”

i want to marry this quote.

"in a Wittgensteinian sort of way"

ok this article is trolling us. or these people are. this can't be real.

“I saw some moms out in Hastings with their kids with tattoos. A little glimmer of Williamsburg!”

even the kids have tattoos now

what is a "futurism consultant"?

what is the "slow-learning movement"? is this what hipster moms are calling persons with mental disabilities now?

its all too perfect. it smells like a set-up.