I saw that, and I thought, How can you live with glassware that's almost $100 a piece? I'd be afraid to ever use them, especially not for drinking alcohol.
OTOH, I was also struck by the fact that it was a mix of pretentious bullshit like $100 stemware and ridiculous napkin rings, and practical stuff I'd buy from Bed Bath and Beyond like a moderately priced pot set and various Oxo gadgets that are inexpensive and high quality. I guess entertaining vs. every day use, but while I can totally see him using the pretentious entertaining stuff, I don't imagine him using a basting brush or cookbook. Maybe we should play, "Guess which of them put this on the registry?"
Someone--two ones, sequentially--have agreed to marry David goddamned Brooks? What the hell is wrong with everybody?
Things Too Awful To Talk About:
- the New York Times is on the wrong side
- another young black man was unjustifiably killed by police
- someone wants to marry David Brooks
3: This someone is/was his research assistant, so at least we can blame Stockholm Syndrome.
Rockefeller was killed by having sex with his research assistant. It's not all table settings and orgasms.
Maybe it was for her and that's why she never did a Barbara Walter's interview about it.
it was mostly tasteful, expensive, metallic and white.
Also, some of the very expensive dishes seemed to have edges that are not perfectly round and smooth? For sort of a gilt-edged oyster-in-the-raw effect, which signals 'I have very expensive, haute bourgeoisie taste, and I can afford to indulge it, while keeping abreast of the latest developments in the bourgeois bohemian scene.'
6: are the table settings or orgasms the shameful part? Asking for a friend.
Not sure. But it's a bit reassuring to think that somebody might have watched Clerks, got the wrong heart-warming message, and decided marrying David Brooks is the best odds of having sex with a dead guy without legal consequence or bad publicity.
JPJ: You folks are besieging Frel/ing/Hayden, right?
Extra anonymity through predictive text! Huysen, that should be.
Very few women will make the kinds of life choices where marrying Brooks can seem like a good idea, but many women have sex with old men. Do they worry about the guy dying? Adding for a friend.
Tacky items pretending to be tasteful items pretending to be tacky, of course.
11: We've been calling and faxing Frelinghuysen's offices in DC and in Morristown (NJ) every day for the past two months. Also visiting his NJ offices every Friday. Also, a few weeks ago, I took a bus trip to DC to actually meet with Rodney F. (and I also met Cory Booker, btw. Yeah, I know, neoliberal this and that, but Booker really is impressive IRL). Well, good luck to us (NJ 11th for Change), and bad luck to Sir Rodney if he breaks his promise to not support a bill that does not guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions. I fear he is about to break that promise.
Booker really is impressive IRL
Holy shit yes.
14 is the joke I couldn't figure out how to make. Thank you.
15: Thank you, thank you. Would send you a card if I could.