menand follows up his macdonald piece with another good one on ts eliot
― k3vin k., Tuesday, September 20, 2011
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
I need to splunk down for a subscript
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
newest issue is really arts-focused, with pieces touching on jean-paul gaultier, alexander mcqueen, steven sondheim and the gershwins, and some famous photographer, but the best article in the whole issue is the one about a pharmacist working in a remote area of colorado
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.myabandonware.com/media/captures/F/freddy-pharkas-frontier-pharmacist/freddy-pharkas-frontier-pharmacist_2.gif
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
ha i'll read that one for sure then
― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that article's great. was trying to remember if the last time, if ever, the nyer did a profile on a random guy like like that.
― Moreno, Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
but the best article in the whole issue is the one about a pharmacist working in a remote area of colorado
this was really fantastic
― sleep \lim: $\lim_(x\to\infty) over (Lamp), Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
god, that old guy w/ the unsent letters asking friends to introduce him to 'men who are like him' just killed me
― iatee, Friday, 23 September 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
i want to go to nucla
― mizzell, Friday, 23 September 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ this "dude court" cartoon
― k3vin k., Saturday, 24 September 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lru4hg6riz1qav5oho1_500.png
― k3vin k., Saturday, 24 September 2011 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty good
yet i hate to see such a promising young man ruined by appreciation of nyer cartoons at such an early age
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 September 2011 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, most I thought about TOILETS since I was a lower classman.
― Leee, Lord of Wtfomgham (Leee), Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
mailing in a sub renewal today after about five years off
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
btw, have decided that Gopnik is the all-purpose Gladwell: glib, reductionist.
― Leee, Lord of Wtfomgham (Leee), Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
Like everyone else, I have a huge stack of back issues to complete, so I was thankful for the 9/11 issue, which I just couldn't read. Though of course, if anyone is allowed to put out a 9/11 issue, it might as well be the New Yorker. I want to say I did read the Gopnik piece, though, which I found very erudite and perceptive.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 September 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
my 9/11 issue was delivered a week late, which was just as well
― k3vin k., Saturday, 24 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
I want to say I did read the Gopnik piece, though, which I found very erudite and perceptive.
Actually, that's the article that's soured me on him; it felt very superficial.
― Leee, Lord of Wtfomgham (Leee), Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, I can see that criticism. I just think he juggled lots of ideas well, even if they were superficial ideas.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 September 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
And, yeah, my 9/11 issue was a week late, too.
Were those late issues all about 7 WTC or what.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 24 September 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
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god this was wonderful. i started off reading it & thinking it'd just be great like trillin's shopsin's profile, but it was so stunning, picking up the rest of the town & the few repeat themes that the guy wouldn't necessarily unify. stuff like 'it is an hour and a half from the nearest traffic light' was excellent.
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i loved that article, and that guy, predictably
― k3vin k., Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Story had this really pronounced gay subtext - his gay brother, his enthusiastic treatment of the 4 transgendered patients, the mysterious drifter at the end who also turns out to be gay. Not sure what to make of that, but it was a fascinating and beautifully written piece. Could be adapted into a TV show or movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 September 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think there has to be anything made of that beyond 'sometimes people are gay, also in rural areas'
― iatee, Monday, 26 September 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
that janet macolm thing on the photographer didnt seem v new yorkerish, the way she put herself in the article
― just sayin, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
i think it was more than this, because it was specifically exploring the fact that the people who are gay, in rural areas, are in some cases dealing with having to hide this from family or society or themselves, or whatever else. & the fact that this elicited the guy's compassion, & figured in the changing narrative of his life, having previously been cagey around his brother, made it a part of the portrait of him, too.
― mr. vertical (schlump), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
also it is one of the articles you can just read on the website in case anyone wants to send it around to friends, etc. it was really stunning.
half way through the malcolm/struth thing - narrator hasn't become intrusive yet, it is quite a 'bold', 'personal' profile of everyone involved though i think.
― mr. vertical (schlump), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
i wouldnt say she's necessarily intrusive, its just that usually they seem to sort of go out of their way to not personalise the profiles?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
just hunted down the pharmacist article - it's here http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/26/110926fa_fact_hessler?currentPage=all and it's really beautiful
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
when i think of the platonic new yorker article i think of at least one paragraph where the writer describes driving through the small town, stopping at the local pharmacy/gas station/petting zoo and having an off-the-cuff conversation with the pharmacist/gas station attendant/goat wrangler about the topic of the article
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't read that pharmacist article yet, but its author just won a MacArthur "genius grant."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
aye, & is about to move to egypt to cover it for the NYer for the next few years. going to read his 'personal history' about returning to the states from china, in the archives, as soon as i can squeeze it in between other articles.
― mr. vertical (schlump), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh i remember that personal history thing, it was pretty good iirc
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone else subscribe to the NY on their Kindle (or other device)? I've found it easier to keep up, week by week, reading on the device.
― President Keyes, Friday, 30 September 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
That's how I get it. Comes in so much earlier than the print version.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 September 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, I had totally forgotten about that move from China to Colorado Personal History and didn't make the connection. I remember it being pretty entertaining. Lots of stuff involving shipping all his belongings with no way to track their arrival time, the realities of getting his stuff from a boat to his rural home, that kind of thing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
Theo Jansen, Strandbeest creator: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/05/110905fa_fact_frazier
― Come On My Teselecta (Leee), Monday, 3 October 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
Ikea article is pretty interesting
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 October 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DDXkv.jpg
― dayo, Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
most of the IKEA article was good but the fretting about "our generation's furniture is so disposable, our parents' generation's furniture was solid and long-lasting, what does this say about us?" was, not really dumb i guess, but pretty inessential in contrast with nazi connections and corporate brainwashing
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
is ikea furniture really not long-lasting? igi if you have to move it, but some of the ikea stuff in our house has lasted for a decade at least
― dayo, Thursday, 6 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
it's probably more the fact that it wasn't hewn from a trunk of solid oak by a bronzed carpenter using a lathe brought over from england by his forefather on the mayflower
― dayo, Thursday, 6 October 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
did anyone read the piece on taylor swift? worth getting the magazine just for that?
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
i read it. i don't really know much or care much about her, the whole point of it was basically "she's nice."
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 6 October 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
lol ok thanking u
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
i read it today. i learned that her superfans are called "swfties" & she likes stamps & writes a lot of thank you notes, like to tech & radio guys, even. but it was cute idk. lizzie widdicombe isnt much of a journalist
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
A friend of mine told me this story about about how she was stopped -- almost vaguely accosted -- by a french guy on a subway, while she was reading the New Yorker, and he said something to the effect of -- "This magazine, do you feel that it stands for anything? I have read it and I do not think so."
When articles like that are printed I feel like he's right.
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.media-freaks.com/work/leilei/pepelepew/pepelepew-02.jpg
"This magazine, do you feel that it stands for anything? I have read it and I do not think so."
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure that was just someone doing an impression of a french guy
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link