New Yorker magazine alert thread

the article on contractors in iraq is really good & depressing too

― ☂ (max), Monday, 6 June 2011 01:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

just read this and I think it was one of the best things I've read in a few months. the burlusconi one was awesome too.

also read the Acai story and the mental health story in the May 30th issue- totally recommend both.

finally finished this ish; the bunga bunga and contractor pieces are both equally o_0

Mental health was brutal and sad. ;_;

did you read the recent article by the man who lost his 10-month-old daughter? jesus.

rebecca mead (who i think is regularly fantastic) has an article abt alice walton's new museum thats really good but then its on a topic that fascinates me so

the article about third party contractors left me furious

did you read the recent article by the man who lost his 10-month-old daughter? jesus.

oh god, i read the mental health one on my ipad on the train and there's a "bonus feature" where you can read the last six photographed pages of her journal before she died and it is just the saddest thing ever and i was kinda choking up on the train and feeling the deepest kind of despair and then it was my stop

the article about third party contractors left me furious

the contrast between the story and the army's boilerplate platitudes - any illegal offence committed on an army base is an illegal act and will be investigated as such, etc - and the ringing telephones was pretty damning.

found myself patting down some acai surveying its sugar content a couple of days after reading the article. maybe this will be the next wave.

is that new george saunders story sufficiently exciting that i should borrow a copy of the new yorker to read it, or should i just wait for the collection, yes this is an appropriate thread to ask this question in

― thomp, Thursday, 23 June 2011 11:54 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

i mean, is it 'yeah it's george saunders it's pretty good' or is it 'george saunders at the top of his game' or is it 'my god, this is the best thing george saunders has ever written'

obv if you don't like george saunders none of these answers will be revelant

relevant too

the first one, i think.

working my way through the insider trading piece, p good, or maybe its just im interested in the topic

denby cgi thing bugged me cuz he does that thing where he basically says people other than kids might not like these kids movies too bad these kids movies aren't better for people who aren't kids. just a running complaint of mine. but in general yeah i guess cgi is outtahand or whatever.

I haven't received the new issue, so I'm still struggling to dent the fiction issue, which I've found rather non-descript, even Lahiri's why-I-write thing.

yeah the cgi thing was very unfocused

denby is srsly no cool

yeah fuck that dude

i mean for real bro

http://grab.by/cC5T

i should probably always skip his stuff just cuz.

he's good at bugging me. would rather read andy rooney essays on film.

All I ever remember about Denby reviews are the times when he spoils something (i.e., Schindler's List).

denby morelike NO COOL

"Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted" -- david denby on the movie crash

"romantic comedies aren't good anymore because women have more rights than they did in the 1940s and this makes me nostalgic"--david denby on some damn romantic comedy, paraphrased by me

i think that observation is sort of true, tbf, but he made it like an idiot savant, like he was completely uninterested in the implications

"Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted" -- a time-traveling david denby on cronenberg's crash

is there a less meaningful phrase than "brazenly alive"

ohhhhhhhhh i hate him

"For the most part, I stayed home in the apartment that I loved. And instead of going out, I entered in that summer of 1999 a dark and empty tunnel, an enclosure illuminated along the walls by a flash of naked men and women. I had discovered porn on the Internet. In the solitude of night, and in my little study at home, where mighty volumes of Plato, St. Augustine, Hegel, Montaigne, Nietzsche hardly my regular reading but a recent obsession loomed over the desk, the kneeling young women awkwardly turned their eyes to the camera. They often had long and beautiful hair that they must have laboriously cared for; they looked for approval not from their partners but from the camera, which I thought was the true object of their desire. They wanted to be seen. And the men, ugly and strong, sullen, tattooed some of them, thick-membered, concentrating on their erection and their orgasm, lest they lose either they were amateurs, not models, exercising the democratic art form of exhibitionism, with me as their willing audience. They all wanted to be seen, but I didn t want to be seen."

*barfs up entire internal organ system*

"Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted" -- david denby on the movie crash

i knew he was dim but what

i wonder what david denby thinks about deathdrone.com

That's also the summer he got into day-trading, I think.

the great thing about that crash quote is that not only is he WRONG but he is saying things that are the EXACT OPPOSITE of what is true about that movie

also the summer his wife divorced him iirc yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

i was going to write a parody about it but now im legit curious

i think he would have some cool thoughts

like he has about women that do internet porn that he watches

yeah "breathtakingly intelligent" as a description of Crash is hilarious

BOXCAR! XP DENBY PORN

"not for the fainthearted"

'for idiots'

"not for the fainthearted" is what really cracks me up, the meaningless descriptors are lol but i mean who did he think was walking out of the movie crash shook? i mean even the wealthy dowager could probably manage the movie w/o dropping her opera glasses

Where the hell is that porn thing from?

the book 'snark' by david denby

Yikes. That outdoes even Thomson's Kidman obsession

oh, that crash thing

max why

why is everyone on ilx so fainthearted

i was brazenly alive yesterday. i could have handled it then.

lol brazenly alive is like madlibs it keeps cracking me up