carre was very meh
― gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Thursday, April 11, 2013
the thing builds to a climax that doesn't happen. Instead of Richard Burton awesomeness we get "I coulda been Paul Scofield."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
Salter profile? Must investigate. Also, didn't know ILX cared.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the salter profile. weirdly, i have the movie he directed called 'three' saved on my dvr, just thought it sounded obscure & f/ charlotte rampling and i was on board
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
the Salter profile...was missing something? It felt incomplete. Anybody agree?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 12, 2013 6:55 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it read like half obit and half interview. if the central question around salter is "why were his books not more popular" this piece did not supply the answers. the piece in the last harper's was much more interesting.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://via.me/-biiu1la
― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 20 April 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Glad I didn't skip the puppeteer profile--loved it, even though I have not seen a lick of his work!
― quincie, Saturday, 20 April 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
the hbo vice show is p bad btw
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 April 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
basil twist is amazing; i saw the joey arias show and it stands out as one of the best pieces of theater I've ever attended
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Gonna have to try to find performances on the youtube!
― quincie, Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
video doesn't do it justice honestly, part of what makes twist so effective is his vision really brings you in on the spot in a tremendously immersive and persuasive way
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
I was agog over the descriptions of his set designs--agree that you'd HAVE to see that in person to truly appreciate it.
― quincie, Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VK4ymLduo^here's some arias with a twist, certainly worth a lookhe was selling simple leg puppets for fifty bucks in the lobby, wish i had bought one
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
very much enjoyed the salter profile but agree it was missing a certain something. perhaps it lacked a narrative cohesion (like the opening anecdote did not connect well with his sit down with Salter at the end)? still, paumgarten is my favorite staff writer (along with schjeldhahl and woods) and it got me reading salter's 'light years'.
― viacom dios, Sunday, 21 April 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
i appreciated the fact that the tc boyle short story in the same issue namechecked salter
wasn't really into the story tho
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 April 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'm usually big into TC Boyle but I wasn't into that one at all, either.
― quincie, Sunday, 21 April 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
Couldn't get behind the paywall to read the James Salter article thought about buying paper copy, maybe just will borrow from neighbor. In the meantime I found this http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/james-salter-month/
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 April 2013 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, that puppet dance. Now I have to read that profile.
New issue seems better: Colombian danger-hiking, gondolier ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 April 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
colombian danger-hiking wasn't that great
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 April 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
psh get back to me when you danger hike EVEREST
― brony james (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 April 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
omg darién gap vs. nice ladies asking for beads
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 April 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
guys i know i'm behind but omg the faludi remembrance of firestone! i finished it right before my first class today, which was a mistake bc i had to try not to cry all through first period!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it was hella sad
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
ICE story this week was scary. i wish it was longer.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
also noah baumbach leaving jennifer jason leigh for greta gerwig grossed me out in light of the thurston moore/kim gordon stuff
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
gondolier story is pretty beautiful
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, was reading it last night. It's really well written, in a beautiful prose sense.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
I kinda hated the gondolier story! Odd because I liked that dude's memoir from way back.
― quincie, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
idk i think iditarod-ers should be able to smoke weed
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 25 April 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
loved the photos accompanying the iditerod piece
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 25 April 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Basil Twist quick video profile: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/04/video-basil-twist-discusses-puppetry.html
Also, a rehearsal of his "Rite of Spring": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-AASL52zLU
― R = J - L (Leee), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for turning me on to that Twist profile. Was great!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 April 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
OK, it's not the New Yorker, but the New York Times has a fascinating piece on a Staten Island/Bronx Holocaust survivor and real estate developer who died last year, leaving behind no will and a $40 million estate, the largest unclaimed NY inheritance in history. It's full of odd details and anecdotes, from 40k hidden in the bathroom ceiling to the close knit survivor community to the search for an heir.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/nyregion/holocaust-survivor-left-an-estate-worth-almost-40-million-but-no-heirs.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
Grampa!
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
iatee cries tears of joy
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
George Packer's depression journalism piece is great, if sad.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 29 April 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
ariel levy piece on cat breeders this week is awesome. sample quote: "The spiked cat penis is why it's nearly impossible to artificially inseminate cats, and it is why a serious breeder simply can't get by with five cats."
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was great and the article about finding lost cities in the amazon using LASERS was cool too
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
Loved that cat article. Gotta say that the Kindle version gets me through articles I might have dog-eared and forgotten about back when I was a print-only gal.
― quincie, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I would have read the cat article, but probably not the depression journalism piece, which I at least skimmed through!
pretty great ish overall this week actually
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
there was something kinda weird about the ra dickey profile - like the author is oddly critical of him or something - but it was still an interesting read
http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/05/06/cartoons/130506_cartoon_054_a17485_p465.gif
these are my least favorite new yorker cartoons, the ones where some semicurrent buzzword is just dropped in as the only punchline. they run these all the time and it's really hacky. you'll be seeing a google glass cartoon in about three months.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
From the submitting cartoonists perspective, it is a v effective way of increasing yr chances of getting a piece accepted though.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
but i'm not a submitting cartoonist. i'm a guy reading the cartoons. so fuck them.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
n/a otm. i still get a kick out of "cavemen with first world problems" tho
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_longm6ePDh1qav5oho1_500.png
― flopson, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
ha that one is great
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Xpost word, I'm not saying they're not crappy gags, I expect the cartoonists know that as well as anyone.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Rebecca Mead's TOTT piece on Amanda Knox was arch and obnoxious, buttressed by Henry James parallels and specious remarks (e.g. many young American women "caught in post-post-feminist narrative in which it is proposed that sexual emancipation maybe achieved through emotional disengagement").
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
feel like I might be caught in a post post post feminist whirlpool plz help
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
enjoyed the article on the "river martyrs" from last weeks from aleppo. even in the midst of a civil war, people still have to live their lives
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Saturday, 4 May 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link