seriously
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"intellectual heft" apparently does not include much heavy lifting
― m coleman, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
oh and if a freelancer handed in a piece w/errors like that?
― m coleman, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
The Cronkite episode suggests that a newsroom geared toward deadlines needs to find a much better way to deal with articles written with no certain publication date.
hmm you guys haven't figured out how to do this in your 150 years of publishing?
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
you guys weren't exactly trying to figure out how to twitter the Obituary
WALTERGATE
― m coleman, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I promise you that in ANY kind of publishing, if something doesn't have to get done RIGHT NOW, no one will look at it until it does. This is just business as usual.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
NYT fail right guys
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I hate to be that guy, but not knowing these two dates off the top of one's head kinda boggles my mind.
wait wait hold up now: not talking about Stanley here, but ... you two really have those exact dates as part of your store of instant top-of-head knowledge? really honestly? like to the point where you're surprised other people don't? I mean, not to hurt your mind or anything, but I totally don't. I'm pretty sure like 99.9% of people wouldn't have instant recall on those.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
well maybe not 99.9%
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
can i admit something
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the one way i remember the day MLK was shot?
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Nope. Wouldn't know those dates if they came with an identifying tag on their collars.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
(or the way i used to remember)
is via that song by that Irish band
they might if they recall the lyrics to "pride (in the name of love)" still, basic point taken.
xpost
― Smells like meat. Rotten meat. (Eisbaer), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
the Neil Armstrong is just there--i'm not aware of a U2 song about him
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Man why didn't U2 make a song about all the important events & their dates, 1967-199?
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, I can be pretty catty about having to make reprint cx to a book in which someone MISTAKENLY CORRECTED Michel Legrand's name to "Michael" and now I have to fix it, when I could have proof-read the goddamn thing for them in the first place. But dates...apart from 1492 and 9/11? No.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
NEVER FORGET
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"we didn't start the unforgettable fire"?!?
― Smells like meat. Rotten meat. (Eisbaer), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
but laurel, can you a copy a date from one place to another and not fuck it up??
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl who make mistakes should be shot imo
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really think it's necessary to have all these historic dates archived in yr brane but at least know a reliable place to look them up & know how to copy & paste them into your word processing computer machine???
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i bet whoever did it can't even tie their own shoes
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
making these shoes the NYT footwear of choice:
http://img.hottopic.com/is/image/HotTopic/372413_hi
no laces!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
That gives me a much different vision of their editorial meetings.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
They play a lot of Razed in Black and forget important dates together.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that's the confusing part: I don't know how you check a date and then copy it wrong. dates are pretty short.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
british to american date formatting confusion? maybe?
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
On 11/9/2001 absolutely nothing of importance happened
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe I just have a mind for dates and other numbers. (I also have nearly all of my credit card and bank account numbers memorized.) Plus, July 20 -- the moon landing date -- is also my wedding anniversary.
― I am moving on baby, I am moving on (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
did anyone finish that michael pollan article on julia child and how no one cooks anymore? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude's kind of one note, isn't he.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The New Antiquarian abodes look like my brother's house, except his is all comic book shit and Nightmare Before Christmas memorabilia.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, unfortunately, since i feel he's right abt a lot of food issues but he always ends up preaching the same homily over & over
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
would still prefer to see pollan movie adaptation than that julia child blogger thing no matter how awesome meryl streep's impression is.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
unless she dry-humps philip seymour hoffman as capote or something spectacular like that happens
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
her and ed harris' pollock go on a crime spree
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
there is a commercial for that film that makes me worry they have tried to make Julia Child into the kind of plucky know-nothing heroine who goes "whee" and claps for herself after successfully making a dish in cooking school. I hope I've just misinterpreted it or seen something out of context, because my sense is that Julia Child was sort of a badass?
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i read somewhere over the weekend that she uses a machine gun to make coq au vin at some point in the movie--i'll try to find it
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
she was a college baller and tried to join the Navy
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
smart, well-educated, sophisticated, tall, and according to Wikipedia helped develop a shark repellent to keep sharks from setting off mines
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i think thats from the early part of her life, when she first moved to france and fell in love with food but didnt really know what she was doing
― max, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont know if the "whee" part is true-to-life
it seems wrong to give someone space in the back of the times magazine to talk about his important experience, as a presumably non-autistic grown man, of how not to get along with neighbors.
haha thats how that thing always seems to work ~ like the one before this one was a dude thats like 50 coming to the groundbreaking realization that while its foolish and limiting to be overcautious lyfe is still dangerous and bad things can happen, even if they usually dont. also that he doesnt no how to work his kids car seat
― she looked like blanka from sfII but chubbier (Lamp), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasnt she a spy?
― mayor jingleberries, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
she comes across as totally confident and awesome and someone i'd wish i'd known in this movie
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly it's like two seconds of a TV commercial, what do I know, but it seemed to be going for empathy between the modern light-film viewer and Julia Child in that kind of romantic-comedy way that often makes women relatably inept -- which is fine, male and female characters both get the "relatably inept" thing, but Julia Child going "whee I cooked something" and clapping (possibly while surrounded by dismissive-looking male students) seemed a tad much.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yay, s1ocki, glad to know it's just the ad!
tell you what, when i cook a Beef Bourguignon the first time, i'm clapping and saying whee, too. and i'm a badass.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link