New Yorker magazine alert thread

same here alfred

ipad version seems to come out monday midnight (nyc time)

It's a couple of issues old, but I liked the police dog story. Still, it seemed incomplete. I really wanted them to address the grieving process when dogs are killed in action, given all the allusions to dogs dying throughout the piece.

Yeah, I was waiting for the same thing actually, seemed like it was going to address that at some point but then it just tailed off after the visit to one of the competitions.

also it did a really poor job delineating the diferences between the new school and old school dog training approaches

'tailed off' ha

Well, fwiw, I think the author spent too much time barking up the wrong tree. He could've really made his mark by following up on the grieving process. I bet some of those guys wept like fire hydrants. Oh well, he'll have a new tale to wag another day.

also, he's a dog.

Really going to just shake me off like that, eh?

yeah look i didn't get to the end of your shaggy dog story so

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bx3EqoG7ptE/TngvhxPlXBI/AAAAAAAADSc/XODadeLjPdA/s400/spiegelman_open_me_im_a_dog.jpg

is that book anthropomorphically about genocide y/n

best thing this week was the piece about lawrence v. texas and the supreme court overturning anti-sodomy laws

yeah this was the first thing i read in the new issue and its outstanding

It's a couple of issues old, but I liked the police dog story. Still, it seemed incomplete. I really wanted them to address the grieving process when dogs are killed in action, given all the allusions to dogs dying throughout the piece.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I was waiting for the same thing actually, seemed like it was going to address that at some point but then it just tailed off after the visit to one of the competitions.

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also it did a really poor job delineating the diferences between the new school and old school dog training approaches

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All of you otm, except lagoon (it sort of implies a mix of the negative reinforcement with the positive, no?). The article really emphasizes the police-dog-as-tool, which makes the end kind of poignant.

lol if it did a good job of explaining that stuff why r u all uh it sort of implied this vague thing i dont really understand right

lol I am just busting ur chops my man.

gdamn it negative renforcement

Doh!

wow, talk about breaking house style:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/03/watching-kony.html

Whatever motivated the makers of the video—and since it was posted there have been questions about the actual effectiveness and philosophy of the non-profit group that produced it—Kony is a monster who should have been shot in a vacant lot years ago.

nyer gone internet

at first I thought you were saying they had spelled coöperate like 'cooperate'

damn nyer is thugz

finally read the tyler clementi piece. really remarkable reporting imo, admirably even-handed given the subject at hand.

i don't think my 2/13-2/20 issue was delivered?? >:(

you mean this week's? I haven't gotten it.

no the double issue 3 weeks ago, the one with the face transplant article and the plagiarism article, i think. (i finally have some free time and am working my way through about a month's worth of issues)

Wife, daughter, who knows where to draw the line in a family like Santorum's or Lot's?

Find the correct thread and win 57 dollars.

no the double issue 3 weeks ago, the one with the face transplant article and the plagiarism article, i think. (i finally have some free time and am working my way through about a month's worth of issues)

― been to lots of college and twitter (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:41 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my mailman is getting learned sitting on my pile of recent nyers. i got the double & have missed a couple either side of it. face transplant article good. i can't remember whether i mentioned it, but yeti publishing becomes relevant in the plagiarism piece, interestingly.

the article on rich people avoiding taxes this week was kind of fascinating in a very mundane way ... and thomas puccio, the lawyer who is a central figure in the article, just died on monday
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/thomas-puccio-lawyer-who-had-notorious-clients-dies-at-67.html?_r=1

I really like Donald Antrim but I didn't quite *get* the story in last week's issue. I mean parts of it were very good and very well-observed, but it left me shrugging.

nyer gone internet

― lag∞n, Saturday, March 10, 2012 12:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or intern

this is a couple weeks old, but i didn't get the doggy santorum issue . . .

so viktor bout. probably a bad guy, certainly a thoroughly amoral one, but . . . dude never set foot in the usa, did not ship or sell anything to the usa. how is he guilty of crimes in the usa?

(i realize that current policy is that the federal govt can do whatever it wants to anyone, i'm just asking. also it sounded like his lawyer was in way over his head.)

louis menand this week!

Damn, the piece on Turkey has some serious juice. (Last week's issue).

Also, my wife Karen is on page 68 of the one that just hit the stands ~proud~

Congrats! Nice take on The Good Wife too, incl subplots getting close to traffic jam.

That was the March 5th issue; checking back, I see Nussbaum's written about The Good Wife several places.

yea mookie, i wouldve liked the vik bout article to talk more or at least some abt that aspect; just from looking @ wiki, the link i guess is conspiracy to commit crimes against us forces, supporting terrorism etc

Jack Handey humor piece was solid. For some reason I could not read the line "The say that he was buried in the Caucasus, among the crocuses" outloud without dying.

see, i didn't even come close to smirking, and i love jack handy. for me, that proved conclusively that it's impossible to be funny in Shouts & Murmurs

romney book review was good, felt like dug into what makes mitt mitt, sloppy leverage buyout detailing notwithstanding

I mean parts of it were very good and very well-observed, but it left me shrugging.

It's a short story.

romney book review was good, felt like dug into what makes mitt mitt, sloppy leverage buyout detailing notwithstanding

I just finished it. I liked the conclusion: billionaires in Romney's line of work aren't trained to improvise or rely on instinct.

yeah i thought that was a good insight too

Tax dodgers in New York piece was very entertaining.

yeah. the guardian did a survey thing with a lot of wall street figures, eliciting the kind of quotes you'd imagine they would give; how could i live on a five figure salary or whatever. & the super rich thing was really intriguing, i wanted to know how they justified it. the coda about their donation was weirdly damning, i thought.

Maybe this should go on ILM, but the article on Rihanna's songwriting team is pretty interesting:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_seabrook

yah i liked it v much, songwriter in the booth just fn around singing gibberish then a few steps later youve got this multi millon dollar product

Finished the Viktor Bout article, and it's interesting that the writer sez at one point,

I have a faltering grip on two of the languages Bout speaks—Persian and Urdu...

He's the same guy who wrote the Killing Bin Laden article, which was critiqued (unfairly, imo) here, namely:

Mr. Schmidle wrote that the men in attendance mostly spoke Pashto but “knowing Urdu, I could understand enough [of their Pashto] to realize that they weren’t rehashing the typical J.U.I. rhetoric.” That made the rest of the article immediately suspect. I knew Mr. Schmidle, and knew that his language skills in Urdu were functional at best and, even if he had superb Urdu skills (and he did not), this would not render Pashto comprehensible in the slightest. (It is not an Indo-Aryan language like Urdu and therefore has a grammar and syntax that is starkly different from Urdu.) While one may recognize some Urdu words, without grammar and syntax the content of the discussion would have been opaque to Mr. Schmidle.

The music sounds sort of like this: thump thooka whompa whomp pish pish pish thumpaty wompah pah pah pah

ok, thanks new yorker.