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• Regarding this piece from Business Insider entitled “10 First-Class Airplane Seats That Are Nicer Than Your Apartment”: Hey, Business Insider? You don’t know us. You don’t know whether or not our apartments feature marble shower spas, sheepskin mattresses, and limitless glasses of Dom Perignon. Don’t go assuming.

• Death and Taxes has published an explainer explaining why people are making fun of a Vox explainer explaining why people are talking about how Jay-Z got beat up by his sister-in-law. An excerpt: “Some of the reasons people are laughing at their Solange explainer story is because it’s not a complex issue that needs explaining, that it’s trivial celebrity gossip and can’t really be considered ‘news,’ and that the incident is shallow enough that explaining it in a ‘Patient Dad’ voice reads like deft satire.” It starts there and ends with death. Recommended reading.

• From the Guy who brought you Awesome Pretzel Chicken Tenders and Donkey Sauce, and who inspired one of the greatest restaurant review-slash-takedowns in recent memory, presenting: Guy Fieri jewelry. (Via Katie Notopoulos.)

• A post from the photo blog Humans of New York yesterday: “We’re jazz musicians.” / “If jazz was a person, how would you describe that person?” / “Some dick that doesn’t pay me.” Nice one.