something == despairing imo.
― Leee, Friday, 6 January 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
I quite liked last week's Carrie Brownstein piece.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Are you talking about the Paypal guy, that libertarian?
The high school football story was great, as was the (sad) piece about the kid in Michigan.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 January 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the paypal guy. a few ppl on this thread (or the sandbox or w/e) were v complimentary of it, partic packer's denouement. he did seem to v subtly give the guy enough rope & be fairly unobtrusive until the very end.
really bummed my postman is kicking back with my nite jewel 7" & the last couple of issues of this, i want my elif batuman piece
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
The Chevron lawsuit piece was really great, I thought. A little light on legal specificity/detail, but that's to be expected.
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 January 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
have liked every Saïd Sayrafiezadeh story, including the 1 this wk
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 January 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
chevron piece was fantastic, h8 chevron so much
― iatee, Monday, 9 January 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
the documentary "Crude" that is referenced in there is p good if u can find it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 January 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
What are you, the teen-ager, to do? You want your hip-hop, your punk rock, a sound that will build a wall between you and the hideous adults who micromanage your life. Ideally, the wall is topped with cultural barbs charged with a thousand volts of fuck-off. But here they come: grownups, with their war stories of watching Jay-Z buy a jar of pickles, of Arcade Fire playing a transcendent show in a tiny church. Your mom gives you seven-inch punk records for Christmas and takes you to an Odd Future show on your birthday. But concerts with your parents don't help to establish a cohort and choose an anthem. How do you bond with your friends, stay out late, and not get an earful about how it was so much better the first time around? Increasingly, youths choose to go dancing, with the aid of glow sticks and a few thousand friends, until 5 A.M.
uuuuurrrrrgghhhhhhh
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh sashapaws
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 January 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Odd Future Mom
― buzza, Monday, 9 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://vglounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/parents+just+dont+understand.jpg
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Is that Nicki Minaj?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
r raves srsly still a thing
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
dubstep baby
― Thug Luftwaffle (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 January 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I liked the yakuza article
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 January 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I hav the nyer on my ipad now, im kinda a big deal
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 January 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol @it not being able to download in the background lol @ 100mb files
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
This is great, particularly the not-waiting-for-the-post bit.
― unflushed deuce (Schlafsack), Monday, 9 January 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
here's the chevron piece
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/09/120109fa_fact_keefe?currentPage=all
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
Man I've signed up twice now to access the digital edition and archives with my subscription, but every time I try to log in it claims my email address is not recognized. Super annoying.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
If you sign up to the ipad edition, you have to sign up ~again~ to get archive access. If you are not talking about the ipad edition plz ignore.
― unflushed deuce (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
archive interface is so awful its basically not worth it anyway
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
i think there's one login/pw for the nyer site, then another for the archives? also, the archives only work for me on ie.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure tbh.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:42 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
On the ipad I find an article, take screenshots and read those from the camera roll.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Man, Yakuza obsessive and oil company lawsuit would both make great movies.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I can't remember the last NYer issue in which I read four feature articles (those two, plus the Gingrich and Rubio profiles).
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Man, I read every issue from cover to cover. Ok, well I skip Shouts and Murmurs sometimes. And the poems.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
xpost I was thinking the very same thing with this issue! I mean, I want to read everything, generally, but this may be the first in a while where I actually read four articles before the next issue arrived: Gingrich, Yakuza, Chevron and Rubio. The quadfecta!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
(I always skip the fiction)
I feel like if I read every issue cover-to-cover, I'd never read anything else.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ that's what i was doing for awhile and finally gave up. like why am i reading this joan acoella dance review rather than one of the 20 books i've bought in the past year and never read.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
Lately it's rare for there to be more than one thing I really want to read.
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
i read every issue cover to cover BUT: only in the bathroom or on iPadand I'm always about three months behindnot in the bathroomon the magazine
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah unless it's something i really couldn't care less about i'll pretty much read all the features, talk of the towns, critics essays, etc. i mostly skip the fiction and always skip shouts and murmurs
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:42 PM (6 hours ago)
i really dont get their 'deal' tbh, why do they suck at the internet so hard? their stance on iphones is basically "go fuck yourself"
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
I just finished the Chevron feature -- it's Bleak House meets The Verdict.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
i'm usually pretty thorough, apart from the fiction and the non- book/music/film reviews. might skip some of the latter talk of the town pieces and shouts & murmurs. if i haven't finished it by the time the next one arrives, tho, i'm done.
it's bad enough letting nyrbs pile up -- and i'm better about skipping stuff -- can't do it with the nyer too
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
at least the NYRB publishes every few weeks and I can dispatch it at lunch.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Oh god I have such a NYer pile problem, which is now being exacerbated by the spouse's Atlantic pile problem.
― quincie, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
When we moved last summer (2011) I made myself throw away everything pre-2010, and it still haunts me that I had dog-earred so many articles that I will now never read :(
― quincie, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
atlantic is only 10 times a year!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
I made myself throw away everything pre-2010
you did the right thing (see holidays at home thread for full hoarding horror stories)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
I do sigh with relief when The New Yorker publishes one of its biweekly editions.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
This is a publisher that persists with diaereses in the 21st century so
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
i had to throw out a year's worth when i was moving once, i was mainly mad that it was just going _to waste_, because they're a good thing to just give away or leave for people to have in their bathrooms or w/e
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
donate New Yorker back issues to the underprivileged for xmas, leave them in their bathrooms like a highbrow santa claus
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
its because they just want u to subscribe to the print magazine
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but i do subscribe to the print magazine maybe i can't fuckin have my issue on me at all times sorry new yorker
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
yah they should hav an iphone app 4 sure
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link