the rowling profile was really needlessly bitchy i thought
― max, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
or not 'needlessly' -- fine to dislike rowling but came across as personal and mean rather than convincing. i felt like given the material it couldve been a lot more subtle
― max, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
yes, i agree -- there's something slightly chilly and withheld about rowling's public persona which could have made for a really interesting profile but the writer just seemed interested in making her look as unpleasant as possible.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
didn't really get that feel--except for the "she asked for quote approval--we said no" thing. how was the writer making her look "as unpleasant as possible" by trying to find the good things in her new novel?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 28 September 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
ha thats exactly it though, the kind of grudging "well if i look hard maybe theres something of value in this" tone
― max, Friday, 28 September 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
I had forgotten how much I like Tony Earley's prose; I gotta get the new collection based on this Jack and the Mad Dog story in this ish.
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 September 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
Roz Chast's cover for Sept. 24 is the worst NYer cover I've ever seen.
― Death Grits 2 (WmC), Sunday, 30 September 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
i really liked the piece about Campaign, Inc
― Mordy, Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:16 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, just got around to this. Interesting. I've read about the '40s health care fight before, but it's infuriating all over again to learn more details. And the through-line to Haldeman and Roger Ailes is good. Fox News really is the ultimate extension of the whole Campaigns Inc. approach, but I bet even they would never have believed they could actually own and control an entire news network.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 30 September 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
Combs said that he considers Burkle a “mentor,” but also likes that he is “never too big to listen and learn. He’ll roll with me to a Jay-Z concert, he’ll roll with me to an ASAP Rocky concert—he’s into culture.”
― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 October 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
disappointed the term sewards folly was never used cause thats still what I call alaska
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
crazy how the anti health care lobby are still using the same play book from 70 years ago, socialized medicine! what assholes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
At the event, Cooperman handed the President two copies of “Inspired: My Life (So Far) in Poems,” a self-published book written by Courtney Cooperman, his fourteen-year-old granddaughter.
loool
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Cooperman was surprised that the President didn't send him a thank-you note or that Malia and Sasha Obama, for whom the books were intended as a gift and to whom Courtney wrote a separate letter, didn't write to Courtney. (After Cooperman grumbled to a few friends, including Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, Michelle Obama did write. Booker, who was also a recipient of Courtney's book, promptly wrote her "a very nice note," Cooperman said.)
I hate to do this mr cooperman its really not my style but sir please up against the wall
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
If you give a gift expecting some sort of roi then it isn't really a gift.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
(so far)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
this is the 2nd Butthurt Billionaires piece in a few weeks
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
America
Free, united,Helping, working, playing,The best country ever,U.S.A.
― obamana (abanana), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the Romney piece in last week's issue could be inserted into Richard Yates' Collected Stories without anyone noticing
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
needed some alcohol
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
Couple recent blog posts that I like:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/amanda-palmers-kickstarter-scandal.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/uncle-pervys-k-pop-playlist.html (mostly for the title)
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Friday, 5 October 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://randomcartoon.s3.amazonaws.com/126586.JPG
haha
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Monday, 8 October 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
that joe girardi profile was one of the worst articles i've ever read in the magazine btw. it read like so many of the short baseball books i used to devour in my school library when i was a kid - short, choppy paragraph -> quote -> repeat. i loved those books at the time, but i was seven then. i don't throw this word around lightly but it was probably the most meaningless thing (of moderate length) i've read in a long time.
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
the author's obsession with batting average, home runs, and RBI didn't really endear the piece to me either
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
i liked when they found the guy who threw gerardi the ball when he was a kid and he didnt know it was gerardi but he remembered him
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the short fiction piece about girls on a wire
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't love it, but the Joe Girardi profile was written by Gay Talese!
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, he's no hack.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it was pretty bad! even gay talese can write a bad article now and then.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
i liked it
― max, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the girardi piece seemed to hover around sons becoming fathers and how baseball ties into this but never went big picture cuz really, everybody knows that tradition and specifically this kind of tradition and continuity is a big part of whatever appeal baseball has left. ultimately not much more than yr standard sports human interest type profile raised to nyer profile level cuz it was gay talese writing it and not rick reilly.
― balls, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
"Kim helped reconcile him to the move, however, telling him again and again, "This is God's plan." She resigned from her teaching job and headed to Denver, where she bought a pair of cowboy boots and rented an apartment."
embarrassingly i've never heard of this talese guy before - he seems like a big deal, and i'm definitely gonna read his famous joe d piece. but the whole piece was kind of relentlessly stupid and unsatisfying
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
he's pretty old now in fairness
― Number None, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
he's a big deal
― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was being serious about the big deal thing!
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 October 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
i felt like i got to know gerardi through the article and he is boring
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Monday, 15 October 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he's no don zimmer
― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Skimmed through the last few issues real quick.
Story about the hitman was amazing. Waiting for that movie to come out. Maybe David Simon will write/direct.
Also really into new issue story about bacteria. Makes a lot of sense.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
agree abt the bacteria article, well written & v interesting topic
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
looking forward to reading that one of my current fav topics
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah hitman article was cool
reading the sandusky piece now
― jon and kate catch h8 (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
just a little thing but i thought it was weird that in the parks and rec piece this week, nussbaum says that "arrested development" used a faux-reality show/mockumentary format like "the office." i never felt like AD was supposed to be a documentary or reality show.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
The characters in AD were aware of the camera, but I'm not sure it was ever spelled out that it was a reality show or something. Seemed more like a meta- thing than anything specific.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Idk isnt there that part in the court where they make the camera ppl leave?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe so. But at the same time, the camera often knows/shows information that the characters don't know -- like when George is living in the attic -- so it felt more like an undefined, free-form thing. Played for laughs when useful, ignored other times.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
huh yeah i guess so, good point (xpost). though i thought of that more as a weird meta joke than anything else. the narration is not very "reality show" and the characters don't seem particularly aware of the cameras to me.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
wait, how were the characters in AD aware of the camera?
― jon and kate catch h8 (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh heh next post. just a one-time joke iirc
I have memories of Jason Batemen giving a knowing/pained look to the camera i.e. Jim from the Office at least a few times.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
good issue so far-- the George Packer article about the Biden staffer was riveting, even though not much happened.
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
that one was tl;dr for me. characteristically my favorite article was the one about the battling contingents on sark, the weird feudal island in the english channel.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link