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
lolll
― k3vin k., Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Do we just expect excellence from Atul Gawande and that's why no one has linked to his newest one (on how doctors and other professions can benefit from coaches) yet? He totally shows how you're supposed to challenge conventional wisdom.
― Come On My Teselecta (Leee), Sunday, 9 October 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
that 1 was alright, kind of a boring issue imo. at least in terms of my tastes in topics. the fiction was hilarious tho
― u0sd0ןɟ (flopson), Monday, 10 October 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah btw i almost always skip the fiction & would appreciate fiction alerts itt too
― k3vin k., Monday, 10 October 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
otm ^^, samei kinda liked the guy's story about tracking down his iphone? like the writing was obv p cloying but it, & its wau-@-technology 70 yr old vantage point, was quite endearing i thought.
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
the patti smith was very true tales of american life/npr
Anyone read James Wood's masterly review of Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child? He's one of the few critics who can explain how good prose works. In addition, it's one of the most judicious mixed reviews I've read in months.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ppl on this thread will be pleased by the news that Emily Nussbaum replaces Nancy Franklin as the TV critic.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
too bad wood's prose never reaches such heights
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
i might read that since i won't read the novel & so have no fear of spoilers, etc.
am still working through whichever week's issue it was that had the big NC/pope thing. couldn't believe some of the examples of attack ads - the guy who they drew a sombrero on & wrote 'mucho taxo adios senor' next to.
― interspecies smalltalk (schlump), Friday, 14 October 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
nussbaum is a much better choice than franklin but cmon yall i wouldve KILLED IT
― max, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
u can't write about downton abbey every week max
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Wood's way of pinpointing good sentences and bad ones, and explaining how they work, is sublime.
Loved the Andrew Stanton profile - much more revealing than Anthony Lane's Pixar piece.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 14 October 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Friday, October 14, 2011 10:52 AM (1 hour ago)
can you please start sending them stuff on spec every week?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 14 October 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
haha my mom is always like 'you're a good writer! why don't you submit something to the new yorker?'
i don't think it works that way mom . . . unless you're david brooks i guess
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 October 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
<3 parents
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Friday, 14 October 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
"you always fix our computer! why don't you become a computer scientist?"
Jeff Foxworthy did the same routine, but when I was doing public announcements for the portrait studios inside a Coon Rapids Wal-Mart, my mother suggested that maybe some hotshot radio executive would hear me over the speakers and hire me away on the spot.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 14 October 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Couple not so current ones:Susan Orlean on Jean-Paul Gaultier (accompanying chat is pretty cute too)Dyson Vacuums (paywall; 2011/09/20)
― foxes freud (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
whoa this article on bitcoin is pretty fascinating, much of this had managed to pass under my radar
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Sunday, 23 October 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
otm!!
― foxes freud (Leee), Sunday, 23 October 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
Its funny how that came out, I was enthralled by it, and bitcoin immediately lost 90% of its value
― Brakhage, Sunday, 23 October 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
link?
― iatee, Sunday, 23 October 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
The <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_davis">bitcoin NYer article</a> is behind paywall for the Oct 10 issue, the <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/bitcoin-implodes-down-more-than-90-percent-from-june-peak.ars">drop in value</a> is all over the place <a href="http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=bitcoin+implodes">on the internet</a>
I'm hoping the new Stuxnet variant is some super villain trying to corner the remaining bitcoins
― Brakhage, Sunday, 23 October 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
guuuuh
The bitcoin NYer article is behind paywall for the Oct 10 issue, the drop in value is all over the place on the internet
― Brakhage, Sunday, 23 October 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
aw darn kinda sad to hear that. otoh the whole thing kind of sets off a lot of libertarian alarms in my head but still
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, 24 October 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
otoh the whole thing kind of sets off a lot of libertarian alarms in my head but still
Yeah, in the article, the people who are ideologically all over it are the ones who are against fiat money, but, like, from my layperson's understanding, bitcoin doesn't have a fixed value/isn't backed by Ron Paul bucks??
― foxes freud (Leee), Monday, 24 October 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
bitcoins are like, if money was backed by gold but we could magically conjure up a pound of gold every few days or so
― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoyed thing about Lexicon, the naming agency, although a lot of the 'insights' seemed kind of obvious and intuitive.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 October 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
some1 transcribe the whole article itt
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 October 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
which one, bitcoin?
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 October 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
ya
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 October 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link