Does everybody else have a NYT subscription? I mean, if you're going to post some elitist shit about BROOKLYNGIRLS and media knobs and all have a laugh about it, I wanna see too. What I''m asking Freddie, is will you share your NYT password with us? Can you do that? or can you explain how to get it free? Seems reasonable.
Also, it's my fish's birthday today and I forgot to get him something, his name's Marvin and he's a Minnow—not much of a reader, but your prose lights a fire in him. So, if you wouldn't mind too much giving him a shout out I think it might brighten what's otherwise been a rather dreary day over here—plus, major brownie points on my end!
Thanks Again
-I'm sick, and so I'm just blowing off steam to entertain myself, so if I offend or anything just delete this. My only point was is would be cool of you to give maybe more context at least, so that some of us aren't left out. (I don't know why I'm like this.)
You can use a web proxy to read the NYT articles without being a subscriber. This doesn't make the articles worth reading, but if you cannot help yourself ....
Happy birthday to Marvin. Minnows don't live all that long, so this is like 20 birthdays worth of birthday.
Thanks, Dick! And thanks fir the kind words for Marvin. Sadly, I think he’s on his way out. I panicked earlier when I couldn’t get a hold of Freddie and I fed him some of my Big Mac, it doesn’t look good. Do they float to relax sometimes?
If you have a student email address NYT will give you a free subscription until whatever you report as your graduation date. I doubt it would be hard to find one on the dark, or you could just bribe some poor college brat.
I wonder if this is like back in the '90s when they trolled some of the newspapers into thinking there was a new grunge slang where "scooby" was the new word for cool.
I agree with what you're saying, wholeheartedly. How much does this apply to anything else written in the NYT (or for that matter anywhere else)? I guess that's kind of a rhetorical question, though not entirely. I get the impression that David Brooks' engagement is entirely driven by hate reading, for example.
I agree that there's no point scorning this party, but I will gladly defend anyone who's fascinated with the question of how many of these kids were trolling the NYT. (Or maybe they're so ironic that trolling is just their default method of communication?)
I'm so glad I got rid of my facebook and twitter. I still find plenty of dumb stuff to waste my time on, but at least it's not worrying about some rich kids having a party or whatever. That stuff was such a psychic drain.
I read that and thought, hey look young people doing things they like that I don't really relate to. Good for them. Seems like the natural state of the world keeps on keeping on. People are getting mad about this? To quote one of our greatest thinkers "Ain't nobody got time for that".
A few years ago PewDiePie got into trouble for trolling a job site called Fiver by getting a couple of guys in Bangladesh or India to dance while holding signs labeled "Death to Jews". He was roundly condemned.
But that narrative lacks important context. At that time Fiver was embarking on a massive ad campaign that saw posters plastered across New York subway cars featuring models that looked like these kids. The dissonance produced by the contrast between those advertisements and the implied Fiver work force versus the reality of a couple of impoverished denizens of the third world willing to do whatever to earn a couple of bucks: I have to admit I thought it was pretty clever.
I’ll tell you something - being 50+ is amazing. I didn’t understand the email subject line, I’d didn’t understand the piece, and then when I clicked through to the Twitter search none of the people talking about it rang any bells whatsoever. (Not saying this to cast shade - probably the first time I have been totally unable to parse a Freddie piece). The people in the article are the same age as my sons and I absolutely never attempt to understand my sons’ enthusiasms unless they, of their own volition, talk to me about them. What I’m saying is, the solution to this one is being an old bastard. If you can’t be genuinely old, fake it by not giving a shit.
Oh! I have seen that movie, but I’m so old I’ve forgotten the references. (Recently I visited my dad, who has Alzheimer’s, and he was watching an episode of M*A*S*H* - I said ‘I don’t think I’ve seen this one before’ and he said ‘in a way, neither have I’ causing about three solid minutes of cackling on both sides)
I'm 50++, and in addition I don't really care what the New York "scene" is (it's not my favorite city, I'm sorry to say). So I'm definitely with you, Rowan. Not understanding the cool kids' tastes is not one of my current problems in life. Also, the NYT, we must remember, is a local paper as well as one with a world-wide reach, so we outsiders can easily ignore anything in it that is of purely local interest.
How could anyone possibly take seriously enough to get angry an article in which this guy (https://www.instagram.com/p/CiGfTvlhNdl/?hl=en) is asked what he's into these days and responds with "rolling paper branded merch?"
Indie Sleaze is coming back baby! Long live 2008! Blog radio, the cobra snake, and and flannel that makes everyone look like the brawny man's cousin. It's not longer hipsters hating hipsters for being hipsters, it just hipsters hipsters hipsters!
"What did you get?"
They got to feel momentarily outraged, and to show themselves on Twitter as people with the right thoughts.
Yes, it's stupid, I know. That's one reason among many that I have never had an account on Twitter.
The ruthless paperclip harvesting logic cannot be stopped, Freddie!
Not going to click on a NYT or Tweeter link, so I'll just take your word for it.
Does everybody else have a NYT subscription? I mean, if you're going to post some elitist shit about BROOKLYNGIRLS and media knobs and all have a laugh about it, I wanna see too. What I''m asking Freddie, is will you share your NYT password with us? Can you do that? or can you explain how to get it free? Seems reasonable.
Also, it's my fish's birthday today and I forgot to get him something, his name's Marvin and he's a Minnow—not much of a reader, but your prose lights a fire in him. So, if you wouldn't mind too much giving him a shout out I think it might brighten what's otherwise been a rather dreary day over here—plus, major brownie points on my end!
Thanks Again
-I'm sick, and so I'm just blowing off steam to entertain myself, so if I offend or anything just delete this. My only point was is would be cool of you to give maybe more context at least, so that some of us aren't left out. (I don't know why I'm like this.)
You can use a web proxy to read the NYT articles without being a subscriber. This doesn't make the articles worth reading, but if you cannot help yourself ....
Happy birthday to Marvin. Minnows don't live all that long, so this is like 20 birthdays worth of birthday.
Thanks, Dick! And thanks fir the kind words for Marvin. Sadly, I think he’s on his way out. I panicked earlier when I couldn’t get a hold of Freddie and I fed him some of my Big Mac, it doesn’t look good. Do they float to relax sometimes?
"I fed him some of my Big Mac"
Did you eat the rest of it? Because this may explain why you are feeling under the weather.
If you have a student email address NYT will give you a free subscription until whatever you report as your graduation date. I doubt it would be hard to find one on the dark, or you could just bribe some poor college brat.
This party looks pretty fun man.
You love to see it!
I wonder if this is like back in the '90s when they trolled some of the newspapers into thinking there was a new grunge slang where "scooby" was the new word for cool.
Agree
I agree with what you're saying, wholeheartedly. How much does this apply to anything else written in the NYT (or for that matter anywhere else)? I guess that's kind of a rhetorical question, though not entirely. I get the impression that David Brooks' engagement is entirely driven by hate reading, for example.
I agree that there's no point scorning this party, but I will gladly defend anyone who's fascinated with the question of how many of these kids were trolling the NYT. (Or maybe they're so ironic that trolling is just their default method of communication?)
For example, https://twitter.com/Honors_Zombie/status/1585335886673321984
The best thing to do with attention seekers is to ignore them.
Although I thought it interesting that none of the individuals in any of the reproduced photos had any visible tattoos.
What are you into these days?
Weather Reports, man. Like how do they work!?
I'm so glad I got rid of my facebook and twitter. I still find plenty of dumb stuff to waste my time on, but at least it's not worrying about some rich kids having a party or whatever. That stuff was such a psychic drain.
I read that and thought, hey look young people doing things they like that I don't really relate to. Good for them. Seems like the natural state of the world keeps on keeping on. People are getting mad about this? To quote one of our greatest thinkers "Ain't nobody got time for that".
A few years ago PewDiePie got into trouble for trolling a job site called Fiver by getting a couple of guys in Bangladesh or India to dance while holding signs labeled "Death to Jews". He was roundly condemned.
But that narrative lacks important context. At that time Fiver was embarking on a massive ad campaign that saw posters plastered across New York subway cars featuring models that looked like these kids. The dissonance produced by the contrast between those advertisements and the implied Fiver work force versus the reality of a couple of impoverished denizens of the third world willing to do whatever to earn a couple of bucks: I have to admit I thought it was pretty clever.
No, it wasn't. There are other signs that he could have gotten them to hold up that would have actually been clever.
I’ll tell you something - being 50+ is amazing. I didn’t understand the email subject line, I’d didn’t understand the piece, and then when I clicked through to the Twitter search none of the people talking about it rang any bells whatsoever. (Not saying this to cast shade - probably the first time I have been totally unable to parse a Freddie piece). The people in the article are the same age as my sons and I absolutely never attempt to understand my sons’ enthusiasms unless they, of their own volition, talk to me about them. What I’m saying is, the solution to this one is being an old bastard. If you can’t be genuinely old, fake it by not giving a shit.
I believe the subject line is a reference to the movie Airplane! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0WdJx-Wkw
Oh! I have seen that movie, but I’m so old I’ve forgotten the references. (Recently I visited my dad, who has Alzheimer’s, and he was watching an episode of M*A*S*H* - I said ‘I don’t think I’ve seen this one before’ and he said ‘in a way, neither have I’ causing about three solid minutes of cackling on both sides)
I'm 50++, and in addition I don't really care what the New York "scene" is (it's not my favorite city, I'm sorry to say). So I'm definitely with you, Rowan. Not understanding the cool kids' tastes is not one of my current problems in life. Also, the NYT, we must remember, is a local paper as well as one with a world-wide reach, so we outsiders can easily ignore anything in it that is of purely local interest.
Your contempt is not only well-founded but location-independent. I’m in Brooklyn, and I felt every syllable of that.
Right??? Like, who GAF?*
*”gives a fuck”
I'm 39 and in the same place. I have no idea what the frig any of this is about.
How could anyone possibly take seriously enough to get angry an article in which this guy (https://www.instagram.com/p/CiGfTvlhNdl/?hl=en) is asked what he's into these days and responds with "rolling paper branded merch?"
Indie Sleaze is coming back baby! Long live 2008! Blog radio, the cobra snake, and and flannel that makes everyone look like the brawny man's cousin. It's not longer hipsters hating hipsters for being hipsters, it just hipsters hipsters hipsters!
"What did you get?"
That is the question of the last decade?
Mark Zuckerberg got $5 billion.
What did you get?
In this godforsaken "attention economy," the best we can do is refrain from taking the bait.