Is there a general agreement about acceptable tones in NY Times Fashion and Style pieces that means this [link] is totally self-aware and not as creepy as it seems to my literal eyes?

Is there a general agreement about acceptable tones in NY Times Fashion and Style pieces that means this [link] is totally self-aware and not as creepy as it seems to my literal eyes?

That's from a few years back and, I think, was generally considered to be pretty creepy.

Although, NYTimes style pieces seem to have a problem with tone pretty often.

The Modern Love columns are very personal and often somewhat creepy.

I do not envy her the day that her son finds out about that essay.

And it strikes me as on the creepy side, too, ita !.

Yikes!

Ewww. Also, why on earth did she name the poor kid Sarvis?

Yeah, Sarvis sounds like a villain in a sci-fi novel.

Roomie and I walked around the lake this afternoon (~3 miles). She had a groupon for Ben and Jerry's, but it turned out to be closed. So instead we had fish and chips, and then froyo. So much for the benefits of lake-walking. :)

DH want to go to this. And he wants $3000 to buy a Thacher Calculating Machine.

That article made me a bit tense, to be honest, I am not sure why a mother thought it would be okay to share that she puts herself on the level of pre-teens who scrawl their love in bathroom stalls with regards to the nature of their affections for her son, and why she'd immortalise it in such a fashion.

I mean, I can get that they're people who want to read that, because we delight in what we see as other people's flaws--I just don't get why you'd step up to be that person. Does it pay that well? Is the byline worth that much?

My sister called me twice when I was sleeping. This means my mother has freaked out. Well, it might have been my mother who called. Whoever it is, they always call multple times, right on top of each other. At least this time it wasn't five times in quick succession, because that makes me freak out.

Jesus, man. Can't I have some privacy to be in pain? But, hey, at least I'm not named Sarvis.

Which, tangentially, reminds me--the most universally commonly mis-pronounced word in many different Indian accents I've heard is "determine". It's so often pronounced deh-tur-MINE. I have no idea why. I asked a co-worker about it last week, and he was all "Oh, really? I don't remember what we were taught in school." Was it possible that one wack pronunciation coloured the whole continent?

Anyway, let me go reply to Mother's email.

eta: Jesse, I can't work out how to submit a photoset to goodstuff, but if I could, I'd submit the first three chalk photos of my (currently) penultimate posting. They're kinda cute, if you leave out the last one.

Yeah, that Modern Love article was several years ago, and I'm pretty sure I remember Salon and Slate and a bunch of other websites having "WTF?"-type reaction articles to it.