The piece on the fashion photog who rents out his apartment to dozens of people at once was awesome. That could be a movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 August 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
the Thatcher book review got me to check the bio out of the library
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
steubenville date-rape twitter piece is a must-read
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Yes, it's brilliant.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Very uplifting. :\
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
group deduction culture
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
its the best thing ive read in a while for sure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
online for all now http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all
yea it's an amazing piece
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
just read it this morning. wow.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
A novelist couldn't have come up with Goddard's line about jackrabbits and her new boyfriend.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
she is a truly frightening person
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
yeah the little throwaway comments gave me a def nancy grace famehound vibe
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
cant shake "gravy legs" from bouncing around inside my head
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
ha otm
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
civil forfeiture piece was amazing, also wished batuman's article about the mysterious balkan kidney disease was longer
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
that one was good but i felt like it kinda underplayed the conclusion which was the disease is mysterious because of missing databases and bureaucratic infighting
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah it felt like it could have been laid out more clearly which is why i wish it was longer
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
that conclusion is kinda unsatisfying from a storytelling perspective, felt like she was going for a more experiential vibe
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
civil forfeiture was v eye-opening for me, I had no idea that went on as horribly as all of that.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Wow, that piece.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Yeah. Deeply deeply disgusting. Seriously fuck the police.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
I mean I just cannot get my head around the U.S. vs. One Gold Crucifix, I mean how is any of this remotely legal?
― quincie, Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
Carl Agatha and Hurting need to get on this shit.
― quincie, Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
everyone's right about the steubenville piece, it's a hell of a read.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 8 August 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
agreed
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 August 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
That rape story - wow
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 August 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
The whole thing is crazy but the bit referencing the Boston Marathon bombing is a wacked lil diversion, people can be awful
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 August 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
also like how it had a good old fashioned CNN facepalm moment, it really has it all
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 August 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
wow, civil forfeiture piece is outrageous
― k3vin k., Sunday, 11 August 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure wendy davis didn't mean for it to sound like this
"I was a nineteen year-old mom. But I wasn't a twenty year old mom, and I wasn't a twenty-two year old mom, because I had that clinic to help me plan my family."
― k3vin k., Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
steubenville piece was amazing, at first i thought it was weird how they kept appealing to that goddard idiot as an authority but after a couple pages the real purpose of the piece - the misguidedness and downfalls of Anonymous-type/reddit internet vigilantism - and the fact that levy was just giving her enough rope became clear. (not that any of the non-victim characters in that story come out looking great.)
― k3vin k., Monday, 12 August 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link
FSG book piece is cracking me up only one page in
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Old school trustifarians
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
old but: http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/new-yorker-profanity
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/the-debate-over-intervention-in-syria.html?mobify=0
george packer v. george packer
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
lol at thishttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/steiner.jpg
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
this paintings donation guy piece is blowing my mind. do museums just take anything any guy off the street gives them and hang it up?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
That's what the article said, Einstein
― waterface, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
matt damons gonna direct a movie based on that grann article abt the guatemalan assassination breaking
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
xpost The piece claims museum basements are filled with fake stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
they should make a museum out of it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
BTW, the Japanese suicide monk was a beautiful piece. I loved the bit where a) he accepts and advertised low-level monk position and b) when after this hard-ass monastery ordeal, he gets a job flipping burgers and throws everyone off with his impossibly positive work attitude.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
anybody read the Sanneh piece on MSNBC?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
yes
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
ya i liked the (anti) suicide monk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
ive heard similar stories abt major tibetan buddhist lamas getting menial jobs in exile and being really happy and cool with it, partially cause their level of responsibility had diminished so much, lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
YES. I think I suggested Tony Gilroy should do it.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
what did matt say?
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 30 August 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
so an article about sharks off the coast of massachusetts, called "cape fear"
― awake the snorting citizens (discreet), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link