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Oh, hey, people of The South! The New York Times might like to hire you as a stringer/researcher/ admin/journalistic sharecropper! But please remember: This is an elite newspaper for the elitist elites in fancy New York, so please no redneck type people. To help ensure you are not a hick, the Times has asked you to pre-pitch five stories NOT involving anything the Times has ever covered before (you do take the Times right? It's only $665 per year in trashy zip codes!), and also NOT about cliché things only of interest to the poors: "Please do not submit ideas concerning dog fights, cock fights, or the Confederate flag." Anyway, if you do get the job, you'll be rewarded with good pay and creative freedom. Ha ha, just kidding, you'll tackle "light administrative duties" and also "the pay is very modest," but at least you'll learn how to talk right, and the money will probably go a long way in your shantytown or whatever. Full job listing after the jump!
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Times: "Do Not Submit Ideas Concerning Dog Fights, Cock Fights, Or The Confederate Flag"
Oh, hey, people of The South! The New York Times might like to hire you as a stringer/researcher/ admin/journalistic sharecropper! But please remember: This is an elite newspaper for the elitist elites in fancy New York, so please no redneck type people. To help ensure you are not a hick, the Times has asked you to pre-pitch five stories NOT involving anything the Times has ever covered before (you do take the Times right? It's only $665 per year in trashy zip codes!), and also NOT about cliché things only of interest to the poors: "Please do not submit ideas concerning dog fights, cock fights, or the Confederate flag." Anyway, if you do get the job, you'll be rewarded with good pay and creative freedom. Ha ha, just kidding, you'll tackle "light administrative duties" and also "the pay is very modest," but at least you'll learn how to talk right, and the money will probably go a long way in your shantytown or whatever. Full job listing after the jump!
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the rich
Money Doesn't Matter, Billionaire Oprah Tells College Grads
Talk-show host and self-made billionaire Oprah Winfrey was the commencement speaker for Stanford grads this past weekend. Her advice for the new grads? Do what you're meant to do! "When you're doing the work you were meant to do, it feels right. And every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid." Easy for her to say. Following your dreams! It's a great prescription for poverty. (As if every talented person who followed them ended up rich!) More »
top chef
'Larval Lisa' Will Only Listen to The Criticism Of the Rich
Ohhhh Lisa. Horrible, greasy-haired, bull terrier of a chef that she is, she's still hanging on in this season of Top Chef. Our good friend and blogger Joshua David Stein despises her. Our commenters despise her. Other bloggers and commenters on other blogs despise her. Why? Because she's nasty and petty and back-stabbing and wins only by undermining others' achievements. So yes, there is lots of vitriol on the web. But does she read all of it? Does she care? No. Because people who read blogs and write blogs are too poor for her taste. More »
the most important movie ever
It... it leads to babies? [NYT]
'Times' Shock: Colored Folk in Other Boroughs Watch 'SATC' Too
It... it leads to babies? [NYT]
branding
Ethiopia's Problems Solved By New Logo
Ethiopia doesn't have the world's most sterling reputation. Many people think of "famine" and "drought" when the country's name is mentioned. But the Ethiopians are lucky, in the sense that Starbucks has forged a connection between the parched and war-torn nation in northern Africa and yuppie coffee swillers across America who just adore the subtle fruity undertones of the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe blend. So the country went to a branding firm to come up with a logo to stick on all of its coffee, to make people think of it as more of a luxury item. The logo is pictured. It looks like it should be in lime green on the side of can of a new and exotic type of energy drink. Instead, it's on the oldest energy drink ever. The kind that comes from Ethiopia (and is not qat)! We wish the country well in its yuppie-swindling mission, but we would have gone with a logo that's a little more cutting edge, with both hipster appeal and a strong connection to Ethiopian history. Like this: More »
urban anthropology
Filthy Hipster Dorm Infiltrated
A daring Times reporter infiltrated the bedbug-ridden, crime-infested, lame-party-throwing McKibbin lofts in Bushwick. Was it dirty and gross like you might expect? Oh yes, very very much so. Also, saddest thing ever, there was a 61-year-old living there, with his wife. Unironically. Because it's the cheapest place in town. Where to begin? With the urine, I guess: More »
punditry
Today in Lists
Today, the UK Telegraph unveiled its "50 Most Influential US Political Pundits" list. Though only entries 50-41. This merits a Drudge link? The rest of the entries will apparently be revealed as the week drags on. We anxiously await learning who some center-right Brits think pull our strings! Meanwhile, Nerve today posted the more satisfying "Top 10 Rich People Who Look Poor" list, so we figured we'd just combine them and present the Top 2 Influential Political Pundits Who Look Poor. More »
maps
New York Is Full Of Poors (Like You)
The United Way and the Community Service Society have just released a slew of demographic maps of New York City, which handily answer the question: Are The Poors in your hood? Pictured, the household income map (click to enlarge), which is perhaps most surprising for revealing that Williamsburg, despite its yuppie influx, is still broke, along with HOT HOT NEXT BIG THING neighborhoods like Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, et al. After the jump, neighborhood-specific maps of the city showing unemployment rates, immigrant populations, and "disconnected youth" who aren't working, in school, or concerned about you very much. More »
the poors
Doggies the Littlest Victims of Subprime Crisis
Subprime crisis, predatory lending mortgage catastophe affecting the poors and middle class, blah, blah. Wait... doggies? Finally, a reason to care about this devastating economic catastrophe! The Washington Post reports that due to an increasing number of foreclosures, animal shelters are overflowing with dogs whose owners had to give them away. More »
urban anthropology
Hipster Lofts Will Afford You "Respect and Dignity," Little Else
A Craigslist ad advertises our favorite Bushwick loft space, the McKibbin lofts! Those kids are always up to something, whether fighting bedbugs or fighting the police. The ad, for the 255 McKibbin (248 are the ones with bedbugs) neglects to mention the building's lame "Sausage Parties, a recent flyer for which read, "Sausage Fest testosterone and PBR fueled nights on the town with lukewarm passion and a taste for the tepid. Come to 255!" For $2150 to $3000 a month, we'd like Champagne parties! According to the building's Wikipedia page, an apartment of theirs exploded in 2005. But those problems are easily overcome with a little catchy ad copy: More »
the poors
Madonna Creates Dickensian World of Orphans
The world has changed since Madonna sneaked, Grinch-like, into a little African Whoville and stole a Christmas tree. I mean baby. When the singer/aging woman adopted little David Banda from Malawi, the demand for exotic foreign babies (but not the disease-riddled ones!) skyrocketed. This is a good thing, yeah? Well, actually, maybe not so good. More »
the rich
The Official Pooper-Scooper of Barney's
We hear that Barney's, the high-end Madison Avenue department store, actually has someone on staff whose job it is to be the store pooper scooper, cleaning up after all the little purse-dogs that the veryveryvery important ladies who lunch bring in... As the saying goes, the stagehands have the best view in the house, et cetera.
the poors
Lindsay Lohan May Be Broke
Poor Lindsay Lohan may have run out of precious, precious money (and, by extension, precious, precious drugs). The troubled (haha, I said it!) actress hasn't really been getting job offers the way she used to and has been enjoying a rococo lifestyle that consists of spending $70,000 on fake tans and living in a $2,700-a-night hotel. Her only way out of this is a big role in a big movie that puts her back on the map! (She'll do it, you'll see! Someone get her agent on the horn!) Oh, and leggings. Designer leggings. "It will be a while before it comes out, but I'm going to do it. Some of them will have prints and some will have patterns. I love leggings," she recently said. Then she fell down the stairs. And talked more about leggings. Here's hoping that this faraway, crazy dream of making leggings becomes a reality for the very, very troubled (deal with it) young lady. [MSNBC via Showbiz Spy]
the poors
Brandon Davis No Longer Getting By On His Charm, Inheritance
Is international asshole and oil heir Brandon Davis broke? He's been bumming money off friends and asking strangers to buy him drinks. But this is the same international asshole and oil heir who was detained at Syndney International airport in January for carrying too much cash around. Rumors of Davis getting cut off have been going around since July, but maybe he just forgot to deposit his allowance this month. Rich people don't understand that regular people don't casually lend out thousands of dollars (unless you are trying to buy an over-valued home). Perhaps he's just asking for loans and drinks because of the "asshole" bit. The man should be living large off royalties from coining "firecrotch" alone. [P6]
the poors
Mary Rambin Told The Funniest Homeless Joke!
Mary Rambin is a fashion designer who is all about "liberating women" and who is the sister of actress and social hand grenade Leven Rambin, friend to sex columnist Julia Allison and recent recipient of a hilarious joke from her father in which a filthy starving homeless woman sets up a punchline about the importance of privileged wealth. Rambin illustrated the joke with the picture at left of the funny-looking brown woman. The joke is after the jump, along with a brief story about what Rambin said at this one party to this one girl who was all, "Bitch!" More »
the poors
Goldman Sachs Cafeteria Workers Feel Especially Poor
The average compensation of a Goldman Sachs employee was $660,000 last year, and chief Lloyd Blankfein took home the largest Wall Street CEO payday in history in 2007, at $69 million. The average salary of a worker in Goldman Sachs' corporate cafeteria, as paid by food service firm Aramark? $21,000 per year, according to labor union UNITE HERE. That is, of course, a huge gulf in pay. But why is the union bringing this up now? More »
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