New Yorker magazine alert thread

lmao @ myself (although tbf i'd been watching nothing but football and breaking bad for the previous 15 hours)

hah

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.)

eileen fisher piece is bizarre

i loved it

Me too! And I've always thought of Eileen Fisher at the Brand for Women Who Have Just Given Up

the afrojack/vegas thing was a fun read but i wish it had been given to sanneh or even sfj

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.

That sounds like Gopnik.

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

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

wow this tech dude piece is making me want to destroy everything

Who is Nathan Heller?

i'm guessing a journalist, given that he has written a longform article in the new yorker, but i could be wrong

He's film & TV critic for Vogue, writes for Slate, New York, the New Yorker and others. Frighteningly sharp imo.

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?

Kinda both.

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.

Please let this SF article be a Stephen Glass/Jayson Blair thing, exposed when someone sends it to the Third Eye Blind guy...

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...

this is unbearable

the logo should be a graffiti mural of the word CULTURE being pushed forward into a butt

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.

OMG just read that piece. Barf barf barf.

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.

Anyway the article about the disintegrating law firm is better. So much drama!

The Guardian/Greenwald article was good but...too late? I dunno. Something about it bothered me.

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.

James B. Stewart's a bomb-ass journalist.

Ah, I just remembered this unspeakable Heller piece, which doesn't build up my faith for the SF story.

Writing is not good guys, sorry, and article takes subjects way too seriously not nearly mocking enough.

Article rife with "result is a rising metropolitan generation that is creative, thoughtful, culturally charismatic, swollen with youthful generosity and dreams" gtfo.

Not even sure this Leap Transit thing is still going. What a lame ass idea.

"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

swollen with youthful greed and dreams

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.

I think you are confusing actors with characters in that shitty film.

Joe Don Baker also more successful than any of them.

lol

Was he in Reality Bites?

Reality, Texas

xpost yes he was her dad in the movie

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.”

barf

“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.

This braiding of tech-business growth with life-style values and aesthetics—and, from there, the world of art—creeps many people out.

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we have our Lyft and our Sidecar and our UberX and our InstantCab and our Flywheel

He twanged again.

Hwin asked the driver whether she had an auxiliary feed into her stereo. She did. He gave her his phone, and an electronic ballad started throbbing from the car’s front speakers.

“Who’s this?” the driver asked.

“My band, unreleased,” Hwin said. “Turn it up!”

The driver nodded appreciatively, and Hwin started singing along with his vocals. The windows were open, and the wind was in my face. We looped around Octavia and continued up Franklin, to the center of the life of a collective kid who, for reasons I still didn’t understand, seemed to have mastered everything about the new Bay Area and how it worked.

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ready the launch codes