article about this fuckin _modern farmer_ magazine lady is hilarious http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/read-reap
― adam, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i thought the modern farmer piece carefully walked the line between "young entrepreneur in transition" and "can you believe these fuckin people" until it didn't and then it got funnythe part where she was unwilling to carry the recently killed chicken (but not to buy and have someone else prepare them for her to eat!) was A++
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah the authorial "I" during that bit carried a disdain for the article's subject that teetered on the edge of unseemly, new-yorker-wise
― adam, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
at least in the remnick era
― adam, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
loved the rachel aviv piece on the sex abuse and the hasidic jews
― k3vin k., Sunday, 16 November 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Aviv is so good.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Sunday, 16 November 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
must have been a nightmare to fact-check
― mookieproof, Sunday, 16 November 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Rachel Aviv's underutilized Twitter also pretty special https://twitter.com/RachelAviv/with_replies
― Geoffrey Splenda, the first Baron Splenda (silby), Sunday, 16 November 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
The drone war in Pakistan
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/unblinking-stare
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 November 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
good article. i assume we can expect boycotts and hysterical cries of genocide any minute now?
― Mordy, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
i just bumped into anthony lane's scarlett johannson profile whilst flipping through the backlog. Good lord is that thing ever embarrassing.
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 November 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
so embarrassing, like being naked in front of a bunch of people, soft shoulders and toned body in full display??
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
are you... are you watching me right now?
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
listen i just love film
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
i've been really enjoying the recent spate of hipster takedown articles lately: the emotional-support animal one, specter's pieces on GMOs and gluten intolerance. nicely sums up most of what i hate about vermont
― k3vin k., Monday, 24 November 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
although the food issue had an advertisement for an "integrative cancer center" so there's that
― k3vin k., Monday, 24 November 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/double-jeopardy-3
this was a fantastic piece of reporting. the judge's justifications at the very end almost made me physically ill
― k3vin k., Monday, 1 December 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
osnos: i shall build this profile of samantha power around the theme of her astounding height
fact-checker: 5'9" is above average but hardly unusual
osnos: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
Yes but over 6' when wearing heels
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
o shiii
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
I also like how they found room to add a paragraph describing the horny French diplomat's feelings
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
in france we do not have zis . . . politique correctness, oui?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:53 (nine years ago) link
We do not know of zee appropriate way to live!
*squeezes ze airboobs*
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 04:56 (nine years ago) link
Who knew that New Zealand had a mammal problem?
Not I.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
Me neither! Grim but fascinating.
― The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain (silby), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 08:24 (nine years ago) link
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is my new favorite thing
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 09:23 (nine years ago) link
"People have hoity-toity reasons for preferring one kind of entertainment to another," he said later. "To me, it doesn't matter whether you're looking at cat photos that inspire you or so-called 'high art' that inspires you."
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 December 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
that is so generous of him
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 December 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
i mean, it really sets my mind at ease
wau that guy
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 03:08 (nine years ago) link
The most amazing thing about the New Zealand mammal problem a few weeks back is that I can't buy a t-shirt with this on it: http://www.rimutakatrust.org.nz/images/pfnz..png
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
My god @ the viral king and his horrible father who made him listen to Tony Robbins while being home-schooled.
I do appreciate the NYer profiles were you can tell the author is filled with disdain for the subject.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 January 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
lol that the "biographies" his parents had him read were all one page long
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Whoa: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/pop-music-critic-leaves-the-new-yorker-to-annotate-lyrics-for-a-start-up.html
Sasha Frere-Jones leaving the building for more money and better hours, it appears
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
How dare he.
Seriously, though, has the guy ever written a NYorker piece that was either persuasive or perceptive? I liked his recent Eno profile, and sometimes he does a good job describing something, but mostly his essays are just a bunch of background setup, and then at the end he sticks in a graf about the album in question.
Fortunately, there are so many music writers out there with nothing to do, or not as much as they should be doing, that they should have no problem finding a replacement. Though at the same time it would be nice if they just tossed Christgau in the ring again.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 January 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
RIP ABQ: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/son-deceased
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
found the batuman piece very moving
i am in an unprecedented unsubscribed phase, right now, & worse still have temporarily transferred my attention to harper's; what else was good lately?
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 30 March 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
So is there no successor to Sasha Frere-Jones on the pop music beat? Online I see one piece by Hua Hsu on Future Brown and one by K. Sanneh on Waxahatchie.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
i think they're still figuring it out.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 March 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
probably still in negotiations with DeRogatis
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 30 March 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
oh god
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 March 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Monday, March 30, 2015 2:31 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
from what i've heard hsu is, like, "trying out" for the position or something... i don't think it was a one-off piece
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
And K. preceded SFJ and graduated to bigger things, so likely not moving back to that position.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
he wrote about pop music for the nyt, not the new yorker
― just sayin, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAWdc9haQcA
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
That snooker piece was great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
i'm an issue (two?) behind, but the seymour hersh return to my lai was brutal/very good
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that whole issue was pretty strong
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
Xpost crap, that's right, though I could have sworn Sanneh was writing for the times and the New Yorker at the same time for a while. Getting old, memory going.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
yea i was into the snooker article
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link