https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/nyregion/how-johnny-temple-book-publisher-and-rocker-spends-his-sundays.html
I don't mind it as much as some of these, I feel like most of us would look like assholes (or borderline suicide cases) if shanghaied into publishing a daily journal - you can either put a chipper bullshit spin on it or calmly note how you spent two hours staring at your office/cubicle wall.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 18 May 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
Based on his and his wife's occupation and the fact that he moved to Ft. Greene in 1990, he's probably not exactly the ruling class unless he comes from money. I don't think you get rich from those kinds of bands or from having a niche book publisher, although I did just learn from googling that they published Go The Fuck to Sleep and that was probably something of a hit.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 18 May 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link
If he owns property in Fort Greene (possible for someone who moved there in 1990) then that alone could make him a... some low number percenter, right?
― chinavision!, Friday, 18 May 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
I would be shocked if "Go The Fuck To Sleep" has not made them a cool million or more, that thing is huuuuge. More legit source of wealth than most, tbf.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 18 May 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
The unbearable whiteness of brieing
underappreciated post imo
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 May 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
That NYT article. Who is scared of canal st? It's throbbing with tourists. Ok, I answered my own question.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
Granted, I love food halls and it's weird that NYC doesn't have that many, like they do in asia. And I super hope all the asians get their money with jacked up rents.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
i think that johnny temple thing was just designed to make me feel like a schlub. easy to hate on the aspirational brooklyn hepcat superhero. he seems like a nice enough guy. he went to college with my wife.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
plus, house of gvsb is a super-cool album.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
i did not realize that gvsb was a going concern
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Me either
― calstars, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
yeah, this was my favourite album when i was 15 and it still whips ass iirc
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 May 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
Not much angers me more than when people mobilize neighborhood opposition to homeless shelters: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/opinion/editorials/park-savoy-homeless-shelter-manhattan.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
...tying into the 'compassion fatigue' article above I guess
― chinavision!, Friday, 18 May 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
oh, and for the obligatory quid ag quote
“Yes, we live comfortably,” [midtown resident] Ms. Silverstein told me, “but he’s not sticking it to billionaires, he’s sticking it to people like myself who work 100 hours a week. We’re not bad people. We’re just trying to get ahead.”
― chinavision!, Friday, 18 May 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Working 100 hours a week makes you a bad person actually
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 18 May 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
Unless you’re poor in which case I guess it makes you an alive person
Anyway, eat the rich, preferably tomorrow
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 18 May 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
“We just want to get ahead” is antisocial and depraved thinking, Ms. Silverstein
Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work is my most hated thing
― Dan I., Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
Capitalists feigning labor is the ultimate insult to actual labor
― Dan I., Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work
Let's see about that. there are 168 hours in a week. If you work 100 of those hours and sleep exactly 6 hours every night, that leaves exactly 26 hours a week or 3.75 hours a day to do everything else in one's life, including eating, shitting, peeing, paying bills, buying groceries, staring at the wall, and somehow maintain one's sanity.
However, if you take one day a week off from work, that leaves exactly 2 hours distributed evenly through the other 6 days in which to cram all the rest of your non-working life. Hmmm. Seems kinda unlikely to me.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
I was gonna say. I’ve worked some seventy hour weeks before, and they nearly pushed me to the point of exhaustion.
― rb (soda), Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
For the six months after I graduated from high school, I worked 60 hours a week waiting tables - I lost 45 pounds and have no real memories of the six months.
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
They are counting the time they spend checking and responding to their work from wherever.
― Yerac, Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
I simply hate the valorization of 'always working'. People who talk about how they're always on the job, married to their work, never want to retire etc. Really bums me out! Possibly related to why I'm currently unemployed...
― chinavision!, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
I really enjoy being very busy at work, working weekends. I’m not going to work any more than 50 hours a week most weeks, though. Nor do I consider it a badge of honor, it’s just like an addiction.
― Jeff, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
We had a lot of 70, 80+ yr old men at my old job. They were completely useless but had the years, money and status to still make people do their bidding. Basically they were just wheeled out for clients but like, couldn't use a computer. All their admins had all their passwords. TO get them to retire they got super nice sunset retirement agreements where they could still get paid from their past clients even though they were no longer employed.
― Yerac, Saturday, 19 May 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
ironic, considering the source, but nevertheless
@felixsalmon30-year-old buys a $750k place in the East Village, has a bad experience renovating it, then finds it cramped, so she sells it for $1m and buys a $2.4m place in Williamsburg instead. Your weekend hate-read: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/realestate/for-house-flippers-reality-meets-reality-tv.html
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 June 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
750 in the east village almost sounds reasonable.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 16 June 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
so this whole ali watkins situation
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms
Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/style/what-is-a-soul-salon.html
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
I felt such a sense of deep embarrassment at just the headline, photo and caption that I couldn't read any further.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
it gets worse
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link
The Caligula stage of late capitalism is so fucking dull.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
guyz she's buddies with julia allison and they co-emcee events together its 2006 all over again
― carles danger maus (s.clover), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
do you think glenn thrush got a mentor pic.twitter.com/Mv60QaRkie— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) July 3, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
NYC is the most obliviously and proudly parochial place in the world pic.twitter.com/79hB4uDwp6— Daniel Kay Hertz (@DanielKayHertz) July 14, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Last Sunday they ran a one-page Your Five-Year Plan Before Retirement.
A key paragraph began, roughly, "Let's say you have $1.5 million in your 401k..."
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
the response to the quinn norton debacle has been kind of encouraging:
http://fortune.com/2018/07/23/susan-fowler-new-york-times/https://www.nytco.com/sarah-jeong-joins-the-timess-editorial-board/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Our statement in response to criticism of the hiring of Sarah Jeong. pic.twitter.com/WryIgbaoqg— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) August 2, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
jfc this newspaper is a lost cause
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
god forbid the Times actually do the right thing, which would be issue a statement that said, in full: "It's not possible to be racist against white people, you absolute chucklefucks."
― evol j, Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
I mean, white men are bullshit. wtf.
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
The cursor in the statement really adds to the earnest tone.
― mick signals, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
I thought the statement was fine
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
me too tbh
― marcos, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Especially since people land in fb jail for saying men/white people are trash but it's fine to threaten, dox or use slurs against minorities and women there. Was it cernovich and his minions enraging people about this?
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I agree w/ evol that the statement is dumb. SJ did absolutely nothing wrong from what I can tell.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
lmao I forgot she was the one who was involved with the Matt Bruenig/Demos fracas from whenever that happened
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17644878/the-verge-new-york-times-sarah-jeong
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link