idk, i just saw her on the daily show & realised i'd missed an issue. i'm really behind though generally, i shamefully couldn't motivate myself to engage with the money issue, which is deeply shallow of me & apparently meant i missed out on that article about maybe an indian guy, i forget
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
the money issue was great! from it i'd recommend, if memory serves, the article you mentioned, the bitcoin piece, the piece on keynes, and (i think) atul gawande's piece on coaching
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
ty man. am going away for a couple of weeks & will pack a couple to catchup, will def make a concerted effort with it. the bitcoin one sounded amusing.
the pp article i mentioned before is good, btw; better historically then on the present (which it depicts as a kind of doubly partisan gridlock, which i don't think is totally accurate). i kinda "met" c3cil3 r1chard5 once, she talked to a bunch of us in ny, she was v inspirational
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
the bitcoin piece was really really good
― Mordy, Monday, 7 November 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
kaling is super light just in general. her ny piece was wafer thin.i'll also cosign on the money issue, it was fucking great front to back. The cattle broker! Bitcoin! The Carolinian powerbroker!
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
well boy is my face red
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Loving Elif Batuman's article on Turkey; it's all over the place but I love her storytelling.
― daschund derrida (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, November 7, 2011 11:00 AM (9 hours ago)
and duh didn't this one have the art pope story too?!
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
still have not seen the inside of my mailbox in 3 weeks btw
fwiw, the money issue also had the taylor swift piece!
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
ha, I must've put a dent in it if it had the Art Pope & Taylor Swift, both of which I read. I've straightened out some crumpled issues I was carrying around for awhile, anyway - kinda ashamed I haven't read the recent Batuman piece - so am all set.
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
also nb taylor swift's mom is weird
kinda makes me mad to think how much gladwell got paid to write that jobs piece
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
i thought the mindy kaling excerpt was about exactly as funny as youd expect it to be which is at least 100x funnier than almost anything else printed in shouts & murmurs this year
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
No wai I read something really funny in shouts n murmurs a while ago, don't recall what it was
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
im p sure that was my twitter you reading, you were confused because my profile pic is me wearing a monocle
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
Oh right my b
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
shouts + murmurs more like hooch + turner amirite?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
idrk what that means
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
dirk, what that means?
http://jocksandstilettojill.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Dirk-Nowitzki1.jpg
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/19000/19019/dirk_19019_md.gif
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
The New Dirker
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
mindy kaling new yorker piece ruled fuiud
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
why are people pretending mindy kaling is funny is what i wanna knowshe's cute and seems nice but she's really not funny except in a loose kind of hipster nora ephron way which is nagl imo
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
i am seriously going to kill you
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.the3rdfloormovie.com/app2/img/593x385xS/scet/photos/22/6291/017_NUP_141812_2334.jpgcome at me bro
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
horseshoe you are arguing with someone who is well known to have the worst sense of humor on this board
― max, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
Truly, my lack of respect for a writer on that effervescent gem that is the post carrell office speaks volumes to my deeply flawed humo(u)r
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
nov. 14 issue has two really good long articles (planned parenthood + murder/DNA/court martial stories) but the sasha frere-jones piece on the fall was annoyingly simplified/condescending. i know he has to write to his audience but he keeps talking about how mark e. smith writes nonsense lyrics - even if i don't know what he's singing about, i'd never assume it's intended to be nonsense.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'm always impressed when people decipher them. It's all got meaning, even if I'm not smart enough to parse it.
And the Mindy piece was very funny.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
food issue!
― just sayin, Monday, 14 November 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
The Mike Bloomberg snowstorm diary was pretty funny:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/01/17/110117sh_shouts_kenney?currentPage=all
― o. nate, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
food issue not looking terribly appetizing (...) - i really want to read last week's issue once (1) my mail situation is sorted out and (2) my tests are over
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not done with the food issue yet but so far the article about apples was kinda interesting and i'm a sucker for calvin trillin pieces, even when they're totally unfocused. the ones about trying to recreate medieval meals and foraging were pretty dumb.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
The review of the George Kennan bio is terrific.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
i get my issues so late and then take an additional 4 - 8 weeks to get to them that i wish ppl would post "the one with the picture of ____ on the cover" when talking about issues :-[
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
food issue also has a decent shouts and murmurs from eric idle (can't tell if it's really "funny" or if it just caught my attention by at least varying from the typical S&M style) and a short story by sam lipsyte (which i haven't finished but i'm actually reading it, unlike most NYer short stories).
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
that bloomberg diary is awesome -- reads a bit like a more pointed barthelme.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
oh hey, new-ish george saunders story?
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the Planned Parenthood and DNA/double jeopardy articles were good, but both sort of buried the lead. Like, the PP one was a solid history that concluded with a rushed bit on how abortion became the prime Republican boogeyman; I would have preferred a whole article on this. Same thing with the very entertaining/interesting DNA/murder story, which is detective fiction-fascinating, but only closes with the historic import of the double (triple?) jeopardy nature of the case. Both pieces were good, really well written - made me want to donate immediately to PP - but their stories curiously composed.
I really liked Jon Lee Anderson's Libya piece. It made me wish we could bring Qaddafi back to life just to have someone kill him in cold blood all over again. It's a shame these dictators design their rule so that the only way to take them down is in essence to destroy the country with them.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
how was the menand essay a couple weeks ago?
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
The one about Kennan? Excellent. I put the bio on reserve at the library.
I thought the Planned Parenthood and DNA/double jeopardy articles were good, but both sort of buried the lead. Like, the PP one was a solid history that concluded with a rushed bit on how abortion became the prime Republican boogeyman; I would have preferred a whole article on this
Agreed.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
that libya piece is fascinating.
― Don't attack when he is black. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
lipsyte story is really good if you're into lipsyte btw
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
"the PP one was a solid history that concluded with a rushed bit on how abortion became the prime Republican boogeyman"
I feel like this part of the history is really well know though, whereas the how we got to 1972 is kind lost a lot.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno about that. I learned a lot from that little bit, not least that until relatively recently Republicans were often more or at least as pro choice as democrats. Also interested in how abortion, for a while, has suited various political agendas, and rarely aligned along the strict divide we find today. Considering the implicit theme of the piece was the reinvigorated assault on reproductive rights, it just follows that that should have been the focus.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
"I learned a lot from that little bit, not least that until relatively recently Republicans were often more or at least as pro choice as democrats."
Uh this might be one of those age things so nevermind.
I feel like the theme of the piece was sort of how Planned Parenthood got from there to now. It covered that pretty well.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Reading the PP story and the Hugo Black bio I finished yesterday shed light on even the most liberal justices rolled their eyes at William O. Douglas' penumbras and emanations used to carve a right to privacy.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
i am literally paralyzed over whether i should re-up my print subscription or just go ipad-only
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
print for train/bus commute and toilet; ipad for social situationshow much more expensive is dual?
― do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 November 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link