have u eaten @ lady gagas parents restaurant? that review just seemed otm
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 12 August 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
i actually like those lil table for 2s
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 August 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
- fiction (can't stand it in columns)
lol what!
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Monday, 13 August 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
probably meaning that NYer three column format--not ideal for fiction, at least for people used to reading it in books
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
i've eaten at a few table for two places both before and after reviews. it's sorta an easy way to find a hot restaurant i guess?
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
didn't know the new yorker yelped
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
at least they know enough to say 'people WHO yelp are a bunch of fucking savages'
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
saväges
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
jüst sö
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, August 12, 2012 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 13 August 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
things i never read in the nyer:- fiction (can't stand it in columns)
haha this bothers me too -- something about the format is distracting in a 'DON'T FORGET YOU ARE READING THE NEW YORKER' kind of way.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 13 August 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
i like columns, you fold your magazine into a reading tube
― , Blogger (schlump), Monday, 13 August 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
whatever next, longform bibles
I had a friend who used to work at the New Yorker, and when they moved offices a few years back a lot of the staff was gifted stacks of old issues from the archives. My friend pointed out that as much as people like to bitch about the mag's layout, or especially its commercialization or whatever under Brown or even Remnick, it used to be so much worse! Like, 20 page stories on nothing with, like, ads running down the middle of the page and stuff. Total mess. I suppose anyone with one of those impossible to navigate Complete New Yorker collections can see for themselves how much more user friendly it has become.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 August 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 13 August 2012 00:34 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i understood this and my post was not 1 of confusion but of disbelief at such a particular or petty reason (not that nyer fiction is worth reading anyways but)
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
would u read a really skinny book??
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
ew NO
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
it made me angry but i liked the cadence of it and it was really engrossing although i wonder if everyone in boston isnt a racist they just realized that the narrator was a total piece of shit
― Lamp, Saturday, 11 August 2012 13:31 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ya word asked because i am a fan of the writer but kind of hated this story and iirc there was another one with a similarly repulsive narrator, now wondering if the author is just such a shithead? i loved his novel, even the parts narrated by the sisters bf, but idk if i can get down with this level of depravity. like the way he justs lists girls is so dehumanizing, and i get that that's the point but then like, even more fully fleshed out characters made me feel the same way
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/16/andy_borowitz_not_funny/
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Thursday, 16 August 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
pareene otm
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 17 August 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
not a fan of adam gopnik and his review of some books on mormonism is typically glib but tacked on the end is a riff on mitt romney that however obvious seems otm. basically he says romney is driven less by religious righteousness than good ol' yuppie entitlement, that he sees financial success as proof of his virtue. gopnik sorta ties this in w/mormonism but i recognized in the few non-mormon rich folks i know. not all, but some people who become wealthy start to think 'hey i must be pretty special' - not profound but more insightful than i expected from gopnik.
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Friday, 17 August 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
LOL the solemnity/earnestness of the 60mins profile embedded in that Salon takedown...^
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 17 August 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
Next week is the, urgh, Swimsuit Issue.
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
trying to imagine the conversation between gawande and the cheesecake factory PR rep"so you want to compare us to health care... as a favorable alternative? I... I'm really gonna have to talk to my supervisor about this..."
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
did that piece turn out to have any value? Cause as soon as I saw where it was going I was like DNW.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
it was readable but i mostly just like his style. can't really rep for it.
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
swimsuit issue apparently has William Finnegan on surfing, so that's at least one positive for me
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
how do you guys have 'next week's new yorker' underground info
― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
i thought every week was a pre-vice-presidential-candidate-announcement effort to generate suspense
they tweeted abt the finnegan story
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
ty. gonna keep my ear to the ground.
― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, 17 August 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Also announced on their blog.
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Saturday, 18 August 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
i am david remnick
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 August 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
thought iatee was david remnick
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
i am iatee
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
gasp!
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
In hindsight a month later, funny that the giant Ben Stiller profile was kn the occasion of The Watch.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
who reads that stuff?
― flopson, Monday, 20 August 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
kinda like the big anna faris profile ahead of what's your number?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yep.
Also this week, new Jane Mayer:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/27/120827fa_fact_mayer
Wonder if she'll combine this with her Koch Bros. profile for a bok on billionaires and politics.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all
I found this inneresting
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
he's kinda zuckerbergian
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
After that top 40 hitmakers piece, we get two more how the pop sausage is made pieces: the Bieber bro and the One Direction bros. One more article like those and I think I'm all set to dominate the top 40.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
the piece about the violinist is surprisingly good
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
ooh thanks for reminding me to read that one
― There's gotta be an opposition party or something in Russia, right? (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
it made me actually want to listen to him. in fact I am right now
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
why surprisingly
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
violinist piece was v excellent imho, beiber bro was good, what an uninteresting fellow
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
i reread the paragraphs about Bieber meeting up with The Wanted 3 times, and then ditched the article because life was complete.
he sees someone from the Wanted and they calling each other bro and comparing tats. Wanted guy lifts up his shirt and has one of his own lyrics tattooed there, and it's really embarrassing, but Bieber's like "cool tat bro, let me show you mine". Bieber reveals his tattoo of Christ praying and everyone in the Wanted is stunned. Bieber starts flicking everyone's balls. after a few failures he finally lands a solid hit on someone from the Wanted. the Wanted guy wants to hit him back but "doesn't want to hurt his pretty face" or something like that. Bieber's manager is like "HIT HIM IN THE BALLS, WE'RE FAMILY", but then Bieber starts crying. he doesn't want to get hit, no fairsies! waaaaaaaaah. "Where is my dressing room" he asks
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the bieber manager himself seems pretty zzzzzzzzz but any of the parts of the article featuring bieber are hilarious, he's so dumb and infantile
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link