This is just an editing issue, but am I wrong that this should be "coffeeshop talk"? I feel like I'm going crazy.
The raisin industry runs on what Mr. Overly calls “coffee shoptalk,” which is to say, gossip.
Mr. Overly does not believe that Mr. Barserian was behind the threats; only that he knew they had been made. “Did Kalem know?” he said. “I would presume that he would because of, he knows everybody, right? And the coffee shoptalk will get that stuff out there. So I would assume that he’d heard about it. But I can’t verify that.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/style/sun-maid-raisin-industry.html
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 29 April 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
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coffee shoptalkraisin shoptalkcoffeeshop talkcoffeeshop shoptalk
― j., Monday, 29 April 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
lockerroom raisins
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
Talk among yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Coffee shoptalk is neither a form of shoptalk nor an activity that involves drinking coffee, discuss.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/travel/Nobu-Ryokan-Malibu.html
"A ryokan in name only"
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Saturday, 4 May 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/style/generation-xers.htmlimmensely lame
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
On Nov. 16, 1987, when the 20-year-old “Cosby Show” star Lisa Bonet eloped with the singer Lenny Kravitz, it was black Gen X point zero for rule breaking, style making and boundaries shaking.
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
It's cold outside and my hands are drySkin is cracked and I realizeThat I hate the sound of guitarsA thousand grudging young millionairesForcing silence sucking soundForced into this conversation
So I say shine let your planets collideThis is the darkening down of my mindWe could be making it oiling like crimeWe could be making it staking last dimesIf you want to seize the soundYou don't need a reservation
Now if you want to seize the soundYou don't need a reservation
The torch is passed it's yours to returnLay at their feet now use it to burnFor marketing the use of the word generationA false alliance of money persuadingForcing silence sound suckingForced into this conversation
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html
Gratifying review
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 May 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link
I find Giridharadas's public persona irritating about 85% of the time but this is exactly the context in which I'm into it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 19 May 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
Yikes. Won’t hurt sales, tho.
― rb (soda), Sunday, 19 May 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
maybe giridharadas should review thomas friedman's columns
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 May 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
yeah i posted it because it felt like one section of the paper reviewing another
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 May 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
That's a good review, but I remember liking Guns Germs and Steel a lot at the time and thinking it seemed like a pretty sound theory -- are there any good critiques of it worth reading?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 20 May 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
I recently signed up for the NYtimes cooking / recipe box feature. The comment section is awesomely A&Q, and I can't tell which comments are trolling and which ones are sincere. Here are some reader responses from a salad dressing recipe posted by Samin Nosrat. I like to imagine the voices of the people who wrote them:
"EssieDee1 day ago / The best green salad in the world? I had a better one in St. Remy De Provence in 2012 . . .""David o.5 days ago / Did a very Canadian thing. Instead of honey, added maple syrup. Added a nice touch, it did.""Dora1 week ago / To claim that most Italian extra virgin oil is adulterated while Greece, Lebanon and Spain’s is pure is simply untrue and irresponsible as it damages the reputation of so many honest small Italian oil producers. The entire industry is plagued with abuse and buyer beware from whatever provenance. I have to laugh at the Lebanon reference from personal knowledge."
― remy bean, Monday, 20 May 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
Metropolitan Diary: Turn It DownDear Diary:In fall 1999, I was single and I decided to have a party where single men and women could meet. The caveat was that everyone I invited had to bring an equally unattached friend, presumably someone they were not romantically interested in.The party was a great success, and at around 10 p.m. the doorbell rang. I opened the door to two men dressed in dark clothes. I introduced myself as the hostess.“Come on in, gentlemen,” I said. “The party is just getting started.”The older of the two stepped forward.“Excuse me, ma’am,” he said. “We’re from the 20th Precinct, and we had a noise complaint from one of your neighbors.”I started to offer to turn the music down while apologizing for any inconvenience when the younger of the two officers stepped into the apartment. To my surprise, he took my hand and started dancing with me.We danced until the song ended. The officer leaned toward me.“I’m getting off at 11,” he said, before asking whether he could come back after his shift ended.“Of course,” I said. The officers left.Around 11:30, the younger officer returned. He ended up being one of the last guests to leave.— Melaney Mashburn
Dear Diary:In fall 1999, I was single and I decided to have a party where single men and women could meet. The caveat was that everyone I invited had to bring an equally unattached friend, presumably someone they were not romantically interested in.The party was a great success, and at around 10 p.m. the doorbell rang. I opened the door to two men dressed in dark clothes. I introduced myself as the hostess.“Come on in, gentlemen,” I said. “The party is just getting started.”The older of the two stepped forward.“Excuse me, ma’am,” he said. “We’re from the 20th Precinct, and we had a noise complaint from one of your neighbors.”I started to offer to turn the music down while apologizing for any inconvenience when the younger of the two officers stepped into the apartment. To my surprise, he took my hand and started dancing with me.We danced until the song ended. The officer leaned toward me.“I’m getting off at 11,” he said, before asking whether he could come back after his shift ended.“Of course,” I said. The officers left.Around 11:30, the younger officer returned. He ended up being one of the last guests to leave.— Melaney Mashburn
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
wake up, melaney!!!
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Another real estate one, starring two Vice staffershttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/30/realestate/30hunt-conti.htmlGuess which one they chose.
― Bnad, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
most expensive of course. Damn, $3800 a month, and vice pay is notoriously low (although maybe exec editor is an exception). DINKs.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
wau i would live in Clinton Hill over Bed-Stuy in a heartbeat
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
i assume these are 1BRs? lmaaaaaao
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
it's all broken
rare that I have a chance to feel better about my rent tbf
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
xxxp they had a wedding announcement in the times, one of them has a trust at least?
― gyac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
It says they were looking for a 2BR. The Clinton Hill one had an extremely fucked up layout so I don't blame them for not taking it -- the one bathroom was literally outside the unit and you had to walk through someone else's place to get to your own due to some kind of shared staircase. Can't really blame them for not wanting that. As much an indictment of how insane NYC real estate is as Q&A of the ruling class. But at the same time, (1) fuck your need to live in a "classic brownstone" and (2) just fucking move to queens.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
ah i see now. 2BR is much more realistic for that money.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
I don't care how small the apartment was, giving up getting to walk to work is weird but they are young I guess.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
At least they have that really nice mirror.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
btw
https://i.imgur.com/9tBqqoh.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
hahahahahaha oh. my god
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
Headline writer misspelled "lágrimas"
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
we thought being complete idiots was a good idea but we were wrong
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
I could barely plan things to do in Argentina with my parents when I was like 20
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
That writer is also the editor in chief at Goop.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
is that shocking?!?!
― Yerac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
My life perspective changed a lot when it hit me that jobs like "editor in chief of goop," which ordinary folks sadly strive for and usually don't get, are actually just created for the dumber kids of rich people.*
*nb I don't actually know what goop is.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
presumably the smart kids of smart rich people are allowed to join in doing whatever the parents did
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
i am sure you have looked it up by now, but goop is G Paltrow's mockable but profitable lifestyle brand.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
I think Pergament is where you go in Catholic theology to live in eternal agonies if your sins are all quiddities
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
Blake Lively's store-brand Goop was betterhttps://jezebel.com/what-real-dudes-think-of-the-mens-section-on-blake-live-1616380572
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Blake's barely lasted a year i think.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
What Middle-Class Families Want Politicians to Know
nothing that egregious in here except that all these families make at least $100,000 a year
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
deeply sadly 100k for a family _is_ middle class for nyc i imagine
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
this one tho
The Battle of Grace Church: What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.
The world was a simmering, seething cauldron, one that was only going to get hotter and harder to survive in. If this felt true in general, it felt especially true to the residents of Brooklyn Heights, whose small universe had recently gotten a lot more crowded. The glass towers that sprung up along the waterfront had filled up with families, yet the number of schools remained the same. In the past, parents could pay their way into Grace Church, which traditionally served as a feed to St. Ann’s and Packer Collegiate, one of the two private schools traditionally favored by Brooklynites with $40,000-plus a year to spend on setting their children on The Correct Path. Now this privilege, like all others, seemed in jeopardy.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
yeah, that one was a laff riot it's true
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah but one of those familes is +200K in Wyomissing PA.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
you need that 200k to get by in (checks notes) Laveen Arizona i guessi gotta move
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
I usually feel like 'families' make 50k or 110k and there is barely an in between. It's messed up.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
1. exhibit one: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/technology/brex-start-up.html 2. exhibit two:
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdoughroller-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F10%2FBrex-logo-e1540841268699.jpg&f=1https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.wallpapersafari.com%2F34%2F11%2FQG6FKy.gif&f=1
3. exhibit three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bre-X
― remy bean, Sunday, 4 August 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
Kara Swisher's tech columns have moved beyond ridiculous into some sublime pure land of drivel. pic.twitter.com/5Q5hGOim0U— Pinboard (@Pinboard) August 6, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link