I don't care if you have to set up a desk in some god-awful club out there. You will take one for the team.

It was just last month that we noted that you could once again buy that $300,000 car you’d had your eye on without people judging you. “I have the cash for this thing and I don’t have to worry about someone thinking I’m a douchebag for buying this thing,” you were finally able to say to no one in particular. It felt good! No, it felt great, particularly for those of you who were so excited the good times were back you chose to spring for the auto-fellate enabling dashboard tilt feature. And now, this. This total crock:

[Before the shit hit the fan] many financiers took it a step further. Hedge-fund manager Jim Chanos (of Enron fame) has kept an office in East Hampton for years. Hayground Cove founder Jason Ader works from his East End home on weekends and the occasional Friday. Why stick around the city on a summer Friday when you can log on and invest from the beach? But the wave of “beach bankers” who opened temporary summer offices crashed along with the stock market three years ago. Realtor Robert Kohr of Elliman told me that during the boom, groups of Manhattanites would often turn home rentals from $50,000 to $100,000 into summer offices. One innovative CEO, Brian Villante of Grace Financial, opened a “hedge-fund hotel” in Southampton in 2005. Leasing East End office space to other money managers seemed like a good idea when virtually everyone was hanging out a shingle in the $2 trillion hedgefund industry. But in the jittery post-crisis world, fewer financial types are swapping their loafers for flip-flops. Last year Villante shuttered the hotel and decided to take advantage of the cheaper rents himself: His mini broker-dealer reopened in a single-firm location next door to Saks Fifth Avenue.

God damn these people! You will set up your offices out East in order to give us a sense of confidence and you will like it. And on a related note, here’s a q: why must Jim Chanos always be the one who has to do all the heavy lifting? Why does he have to be the guy always holding this place up like Atlas? I mean, really.

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Comments (40)

  1. Posted by Goldteef | June 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM

    Pop ‘dat coochie you nasty bitch!

  2. Posted by Lime Rickey | June 22, 2010 at 3:19 PM

    Yes but does he have the corner booth at Sip ‘n’ Soda? I think not.

  3. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:19 PM

    Bitch stole my move!!!

    Debrahlee Sloranza

  4. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:20 PM

    # You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.

  5. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:22 PM

    Usted está enviando sus comentarios demasiado rápido. Baje la velocidad.

  6. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:23 PM

    Vous envoyez des commentaires trop rapidement. Ralentissez.

  7. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM

    Sie sind von Kommentaren zu schnell. Fahren Sie langsamer.

  8. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM

    Damn you’s a banker’s bitch…

  9. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:25 PM

    My parrot and I work out of a pirate ship in the summer.

    –Tom Hudson

  10. Posted by ExtraordinaryPopularDelusions | June 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM

    Bess, You look good with blond hair.

  11. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM

    Who is that chick? I wanna get me some a’dat!

  12. Posted by Tax Chick | June 22, 2010 at 3:29 PM

    If the tartlet shoved her ass any further into that douchebag’s crotch, she could take a Kouwe for him.

  13. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:31 PM

    grindface.com

  14. Posted by Bess Levin | June 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM

    @9 that made me laugh.

  15. Posted by NakedShort | June 22, 2010 at 3:34 PM

    Nice set of getaway sticks

  16. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:34 PM

    is that gissum leaking off the front of her blouse?

  17. Posted by Anal_yst | June 22, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    Didn’t a TM (etc) profile of Chanos a few years back refer to him as “barrel-chested” and claimed he bench-pressed 300lbs+? re: heavy lifting.

  18. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:37 PM

    Is that Mr. AJ “models and bottles” in the pic?

  19. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:50 PM

    I miss going to Jim’s July 4th bash in East Hampton. Those were the days, until that bitch had to divorce him and take the house.

  20. Posted by guest | June 22, 2010 at 3:53 PM

    @19 bizarre comment, given that he still has the house in east hampton and has continued to hold the party every year.

  21. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:55 PM

    Bess, what else frosts your cookies?

  22. Posted by Guesty Guest | June 22, 2010 at 3:56 PM

    Striped shirts are back!

    Or

    Striped shirts are back?

  23. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 3:56 PM

    Is that Muffie? It looks just like her. I wish she’d check in every once in a while.

  24. Posted by ExtraordinaryPopularDelusions | June 22, 2010 at 4:07 PM

    @23. I had the exact same thought.

  25. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM

    @2 i see what ya did there…

  26. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 4:12 PM

    @23 and @24, i thought the same thing.

  27. Posted by Investorcluzo | June 22, 2010 at 4:20 PM

    @23/24/26…why are you asking questions? yes, I hit that (right after she sends striped shirt dude to buy her a drink).

  28. Posted by Investorcluzo | June 22, 2010 at 4:20 PM

    and yes, it should be “I’d”

  29. Posted by Pfluger the Barbarian | June 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    Are there any dance studios in Manhattan that employ instructors to teach this form of dancing?

  30. Posted by Investorcluzo | June 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM

    @29 pfluger – yes, and they generally work on the west side of the island. the really good students get invited back to test their newly acquired skills in the “champagne lounge.”

  31. Posted by Pfluger the Barbarian | June 22, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    @31: So its like a regular Arthur Murray studio, but with champagne and a lounge???! That sounds like a good business model.

  32. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 5:36 PM

    @23/24/26/27 Ditto

  33. Posted by Louis Winthorpe III | June 22, 2010 at 7:19 PM

    @23/24/26/27/32- Totally agree

  34. Posted by Airhead | June 22, 2010 at 10:09 PM

    BESS,WHOSE PHOTO ALBUM DID YOU INVADE AGAIN?

    For the last several days you were all over DebraCitiLorn’s photos
    and diary.

  35. Posted by Finnegan | June 22, 2010 at 10:15 PM

    @1 How dare you. She’s a nice lady.

  36. Posted by PermaGuest | June 22, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    @35 “Lady”??

  37. Posted by J. Buffet | June 22, 2010 at 10:30 PM

    It may lack class to acknowledge it, but it’s well known that most of the good trades are made from the WC. Once that point is conceded, one can hardly argue that it matters whether there is a salt water aroma beyond the nearest door.

  38. Posted by Anonymous | June 22, 2010 at 11:56 PM

    @23/24/26/27/32@33 – Count me in

  39. Posted by Anonymous | June 23, 2010 at 8:19 AM

    @21 I’d frost her cookie

  40. Posted by MD | June 23, 2010 at 4:20 PM

    Just found a Pornstar on match.com, threw out that i am casting a Playboy shoot via email; she responded, per her cell# on google, she has done Playboy , Hustler, Club, Hard Core Porn.

    again a cut & paste of her Cell# and exact tatoos in her match profile & some triple penetration scenes on pornhub.

    She wants to settle down now at 25.

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