this is the worst cover I can remember I think
― schlump, Monday, 23 September 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
it's pretty bad. jesse looks like peyton manning!
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 23 September 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
um, that's not jesse
― balls, Monday, 23 September 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Bashar_al-Assad_(cropped).jpg
― balls, Monday, 23 September 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
lmao @ myself (although tbf i'd been watching nothing but football and breaking bad for the previous 15 hours)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 23 September 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
hah
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
its actually tom brady
At 4 A.M. Afrojack left the stage, dropped his shoes off in his room, and headed to an after-party in the suite of a friend, the French d.j. Cedric Gervais, who had performed at a different Wynn club that night. A few members of the Denver Broncos were there, and a young cosmetology student in black short shorts went around offering small white tablets of MDMA, or molly, the drug of choice for many clubgoers. (Gervais denies throwing a party.)
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
eileen fisher piece is bizarre
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
i loved it
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Me too! And I've always thought of Eileen Fisher at the Brand for Women Who Have Just Given Up
― quincie, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
the afrojack/vegas thing was a fun read but i wish it had been given to sanneh or even sfj
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
From the Bible onward, two men having intercourse has been viewed as more disturbing to the social order than two women doing whatever it is that lesbians do.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
That sounds like Gopnik.
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
i thought this adelle waldman essay was really good, and reminded me that i have a copy of her new novel that i should probably read
― Lamp, Friday, 4 October 2013 06:44 (ten years ago) link
i love that talk of the town piece revealing jimmy webb as a huge concorde nerd
warning: new one has a truly revolting piece about SF tech dudes
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 7 October 2013 09:15 (ten years ago) link
wow this tech dude piece is making me want to destroy everything
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Monday, 7 October 2013 09:49 (ten years ago) link
Who is Nathan Heller?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 October 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
i'm guessing a journalist, given that he has written a longform article in the new yorker, but i could be wrong
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Monday, 7 October 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
He's film & TV critic for Vogue, writes for Slate, New York, the New Yorker and others. Frighteningly sharp imo.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Used to write for the Atlantic, and before that the AV Club, I think? I seem to remember him writing something okay but too long about John Kerry. Is it the writing that's gross, or the subject?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 7 October 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
Kinda both.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
Did anyone else like the Joshua Ferris fiction? I read it before I noticed the author (happens to me a lot on the Kindle, for some reason), and was like WHOA that was something.
― quincie, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Please let this SF article be a Stephen Glass/Jayson Blair thing, exposed when someone sends it to the Third Eye Blind guy...
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I mean, the overall premise is interesting, and a look into the Summer of Love (or probably even the 1849 prospectors) would feature a lot of flakes...
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
this is unbearable
the logo should be a graffiti mural of the word CULTURE being pushed forward into a butt
― schlump, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
it is nicely written though? i am obviously waiting for some devilishly packeresque takedown penultimate paragraph but i think it is a good piece, in keeping with the recent bussle thing, that just strung up its subject with his own words, & also the piece about the weird elective private i think SF startup school, which actually i feel like was the weird Draper's University for Heroes thing but maybe wasn't.
― schlump, Monday, 7 October 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
OMG just read that piece. Barf barf barf.
― quincie, Monday, 7 October 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
I can't tell if you guys are complaining about the article or the subjects. The people are gross but the article was pretty good, and there was a tone of mockery running through the whole thing. I agree w the comment that the tone was similar to the Bustle piece.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
Anyway the article about the disintegrating law firm is better. So much drama!
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
The Guardian/Greenwald article was good but...too late? I dunno. Something about it bothered me.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
The subjects were barf barf, the writing was barf. Thus my barf barf barf.
I am in the midst of the law firm article! So much build up that I'm worried the ending will be a disappointment.
― quincie, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
James B. Stewart's a bomb-ass journalist.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link
Ah, I just remembered this unspeakable Heller piece, which doesn't build up my faith for the SF story.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
Writing is not good guys, sorry, and article takes subjects way too seriously not nearly mocking enough.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 11:58 (ten years ago) link
Article rife with "result is a rising metropolitan generation that is creative, thoughtful, culturally charismatic, swollen with youthful generosity and dreams" gtfo.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Not even sure this Leap Transit thing is still going. What a lame ass idea.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link
"result is a rising metropolitan generation that is creative, thoughtful, culturally charismatic, swollen with youthful generosity and dreams"
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rlfss-RDWx4/T94uewywqYI/AAAAAAAAAk8/Z8HWGp504rg/s640/reality1.jpg
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
swollen with youthful greed and dreams
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Ethan Hawke has written novels! And Ben Stiller made the hotly anticipated Walter MItty movie! Granted, Wynona flamed out, and Garofalo is likewise wandering the wilderness, but otherwise - Reality Bites batting .500! Clearly the New Yorker should do a piece catching up with that particular hotbed of creativity.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
I think you are confusing actors with characters in that shitty film.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Joe Don Baker also more successful than any of them.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
Was he in Reality Bites?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Reality, Texas
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
xpost yes he was her dad in the movie
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Certain of his friends “spend all week doing due diligence, and other businessy things”; others “are, literally, starving artists in Oakland.” I’ve known Casnocha since, literally, his infancy: we grew up a few blocks away from each other, in San Francisco’s Cole Valley, and our families were friendly through a babysitting co-op. (That such a co-op existed perfectly distills the area’s mood and demographics in those years.) “It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again. “I had friends who were raising rounds for their companies. They were all awesome—like, literally, I could totally see these guys being millionaires soon. Some of them already are!”“What we’re seeing now is literally a shift in the way that people do business—a shift from hierarchical architectures to networked architectures.”
I’ve known Casnocha since, literally, his infancy: we grew up a few blocks away from each other, in San Francisco’s Cole Valley, and our families were friendly through a babysitting co-op. (That such a co-op existed perfectly distills the area’s mood and demographics in those years.)
“It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again.
“I had friends who were raising rounds for their companies. They were all awesome—like, literally, I could totally see these guys being millionaires soon. Some of them already are!”
“What we’re seeing now is literally a shift in the way that people do business—a shift from hierarchical architectures to networked architectures.”
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
barf
― marcos, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
“Hardware? No, now you just put it on Amazon or Rackspace. Software? It’s all open-source. Distribution? It’s the App Store, it’s Facebook. Customer service? It’s Twitter—just respond to your best customers on Twitter and get satisfaction. Sales and marketing? It’s Google AdWords, AdSense.
― marcos, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
This braiding of tech-business growth with life-style values and aesthetics—and, from there, the world of art—creeps many people out.
http://i.imgur.com/angTNvK.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link