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would broke

i'm taking a self-imposed lurker role for the foreseeable future (or at least until we're out of sandbox), but really this needed to be shared:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/nyregion/a-wedding-as-a-festival-of-ideas-and-self-promotion.html

a loft-like store for arty bibliophiles

a lot of the stuff people include in the 'cost of living' in nyc is just keeping up with the joneses type shit.

The cost of the major expenses - housing and food - is not.

ooh u have to eat u bougie fuck

you can eat as cheap in ny as anywhere

i want to throw up on this paragraph:

During the reception, Mr. Friedlander asked his guests to please recycle their cups, “because we’re really in a serious situation with climate change.” There was no guest list in the formal sense; the reception was open to anyone who wished to attend. Friends came, and friends of friends, whom the couple had never met. Before the ceremony in the Brooklyn bookstore, Ms. Schmidt walked into the Starbucks at Main and Front Streets and told strangers they were welcome to drop by.

They did not want their wedding “to be just about us,” the groom told me

at this point, I stopped reading and started laughing hearitly

gah stupid typos

man if I were sitting in a starbucks and someone invited me to their wedding I would totally go

what if they didnt want it to be about u

Easiest argument against "Manhattan is 3x more expensive than <X>" is median incomes - IIRC from an old argument with gabbneb, median income in Manhattan proper is still only $60k or something like that, and lower if you include areas with (relatively) easy access to Manhattan. vs $42k national median, etc.

all weddings are abt me thats just how it is

what if you had to tell them what you were committed to

i am commited to doing the macarena with somebody's grandma in a hotel bar after too much shrimp cocktail

I would tell them that I was committed to punching them in the face

Ms. Schmidt, who once served as the creative director of Moomah, the children’s cafe in Tribeca that caters to parents in denial about some of the distasteful aesthetics of child-rearing, made the cards in her favored style of heavy stock, neutral paper and quaint typefaces. Through her company, Screech Owl Design, Ms. Schmidt makes beautiful, twee paper products that would seem to demand an existence inside a Miranda July snow globe. Synergistically, Powerhouse is among the many places where Ms. Schmidt’s work is sold.

oh my god the author of this piece DESPISES them

Beyond any of that, though, the wedding was probably the first in the city to be held as a kind of TED conference. After the ceremony, in which chants were chanted and vows, written by the couple’s friends, were exchanged, guests sat down to a series of talks, with PowerPoint presentations, on subjects of interest to the couple — ecological efficiency, neuroscience, holistic healing. Those who did not care to listen wandered about eating dumplings and popcorn, which made up the entire nuptial meal.

like seriously, she wants to see them flayed

holy shit that is the best ending paragraph ever

i wonder how many people there said "oh my god. soooo good" when they ate the popcorn

Easiest argument against "Manhattan is 3x more expensive than <X>" is median incomes - IIRC from an old argument with gabbneb, median income in Manhattan proper is still only $60k or something like that, and lower if you include areas with (relatively) easy access to Manhattan. vs $42k national median, etc.

Those are not especially useful statistics, at least for purposes of this argument, as there is extreme variation from the median. There are many lower-income areas of the city in which people could not afford to live absent public housing or rent control laws.

"the popcorn really brings out the notes of fennel and cardamon in the shrimp"

commitment life: to see you flayed on your wedding day

ecological efficience: science
neuroscience: science
holistic healing: horseshit

http://sofiainvitationsblog.com/2011/11/18/real-couples-wedding-jacqueline-schmidt-and-david-friedlander/

"liz lemon is influential upon us"

Those who did not care to listen wandered about eating dumplings and popcorn, which made up the entire nuptial meal.

This mental image is just hilarious, bemused bored people ambling aimlessly around munching on popcorn and wondering why the hell someone is having a Powerpoint presentation during their wedding.

http://sofiainvitationsblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/all-you-need-is-love.jpg

put a bird on it

quaint typefaces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbnYPrXx8H8

I really don't see how this couple could have made this entire enterprise any more about themselves without making everyone wear masks of their faces

I can imagine a horrible wedding like this in nearly every decade of the 20th century. and an article to correspond.

The '90s iteration would be all hobo style, with baja sweaters, henna tattoos, white guy dreads, tribal drumming, maybe brick-oven pizzas on a grill served beside samosa with weedy chutney

The '70s version would be better. Held on somebody's indoor/outdoor patio, involving crystals, essential oils, and readings of free-verse poetry followed by a bead-making party.

yeah, those would be fun in their own way, though, i imagine.

but this one is pushing it

also i would like to go on record as saying that TED is ass

come on everyone loves powerpoint

omg I didn't even read the captions on the pics: LISTEN UP David Friedlander spoke at his wedding, where there were lectures instead of a meal.

lol

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chris_Anderson_2007.jpg/800px-Chris_Anderson_2007.jpg

get your frogbuttons off of my eyeballs you shit

merry xmas, have a nice blood

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/12/18/nyregion/18BIGCITY1/18BIGCITY1-popup.jpg

^^^ this is the picture that caption came from

ALLOW FOR THE UNKNOWN AND AMAZING

UNKOWN actually

WHAT YOU CAN DO?

isn't there a german word for presenting ideas that are otherwise reasonable if not for being rendered in off-puttingly smug ways?

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Fahrvergnugen-a.png

lol obv I didn't notice the typo

xp yeh. my guess was going to be dellscheiß or dellschmerz

should give a TED talk on how to tie a tie

years and years and a few years ago i had a job interview straight outta college but had almost never worn a tie in my life before (yes i led a very sheltered life but not in any glamorous way) anyhow, i was waiting for my roommate to get home b/c i knew that he knew all about that stuff... but the minutes passed, and he never showed up. i ended up going to the 7-11 down the street where i went most nights anyway (insert "markers" reference here) to buy snackfood. the store was owned by a pun alert -thai family- and the guy tried to do it for me, but the end result was so pitiable that i ended up waiting up until 4am or so when my roommate finally came home.

anyway i got the job. it was some ridiculous temp job working for some horrible pr firm.

moral of the story is, yeah you should.

i have to resort to google every time i need to tie a tie

Those are not especially useful statistics, at least for purposes of this argument, as there is extreme variation from the median. There are many lower-income areas of the city in which people could not afford to live absent public housing or rent control laws.

perhaps you don't interact w/ these people but there are *millions* of middle class people in the nyc metro area who don't live in the projects or depend on rent control

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201112/nfl-stars-environmentally-friendly-palace

wow your eight bedroom, six-car garage, lagoon-shaped swimming pool castle has *energy-saving lighting*

Sarah Pease, the owner of Brilliant Event Planning in New York, was focused solely on weddings and parties until 2008, when a friend proposed with an engagement ring at the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. She then became a proposal planner as well.

is this paragraph intentionally or accidentally bitchy

How does the idea of putting a ring in the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken even happen, though? Like the only thing I can imagine being a worse idea is throwing the ring at the woman and screaming "DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED?"

How is that worse?

the ring is actually a bowling ball

hide the ring inside yr butthole #protip

that's actually how Bobby Brown proposed to Whitney Houston

encase the wedding ring inside a bowling ball

Throw the engagement ring into a room, scream "IF YOU WANT TO MARRY ME, GO FETCH THE RING!"

If the woman goes into the room, announce "I forgot to mention, inside this room, there are BEES!!!!!" as you lock the door.

Shout "BEEEEEEEEEEESSSS"

Tru <3 foreva

romance^

we are so going to put that woman out of business

don't you mean bees-ness

ILX Sandbox Proposal Idea and Honey Mfg Co.

how to go about asking this life-altering question memorably

oh, for crying out loud. eat leaden death, for you are unmasked as space aliens.

that's actually how Bobby Brown proposed to Whitney Houston

― OH NOES, Saturday, December 24, 2011 7:58 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

when whitney went to blow cocaine into bobbys butt there it was, she crey

https://www.facebook.com/people/Alison-Bamert/100001882422852

planners promise to help plot a scenario for the key moment and assist in its execution, with just the right helicopter, hot-air balloon or gondola, and along with it the proper locale and musical accompaniment

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell/H101A/Shark&Helicopter.bmp

the ring is inside the shark