[lbo-talk] The routinization of crappiness

[Dennis Claxton]

At 11:54 AM 3/23/2011, Jordan Hayes wrote:


>>I'd forgive him the plaster vulvas.
>
>I've heard that if you spend the night you have to make one.

They're gone now:

http://gawker.com/#!5730855/now-you-can-live-in-nouriel-roubinis-former-vulva-palace

Nouriel Roubini­the fameball economist and "Joe 
Francis of Pessimism Porn" who predicted the 
Great Recession­is putting his TriBeCa party pad 
on the rental market. Sadly, the walls have been 
shorn of the plaster vulvas that once adorned them.

Roubini's 1,300 square-foot, one-bedroom 
apartment has been host to all manner of 
Eurotrashy soirees featuring some of the world's 
most awful people. Its walls used to feature 
vulva-shaped protuberances sculpted by artist 
Analia Segal. But he bought a new penthouse 
apartment late last year for $5.5 million, and 
had to de-vulvify the old place in preparation for a sale.

But­perhaps because the economy is precisely as 
shitty as Roubini predicted it would be­selling 
hasn't come easy. He put it on the market in 
October for $1.89 million, according to The Real 
Deal, only to quickly drop the price to $1.79 
million before taking it off the market 
altogether (he bought it in 2002 for $860,000). 
Now he's just trying to rent it out for $7,600. 
Would you like Nouriel Roubini to be your landlord?