n/a, true but wtf with the repeated references to "old Chinese lady," jesus H.
― quincie, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Telling parents back east "Here's what your kids are up to."
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the article makes these people seem gross and out-of-touch and terrible, it is not doing any of them any favors unless you already think people like this are cool --Lamp
Don't think this is what Nathan Heller thinks at all.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
otm, the whole thing is written with this wide-eyed reverence that's just as terrible and out-of-touch as the article's subjects.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
totally different from the bustle.com piece
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
Rewinding a couple of weeks, I loved Josh Eells' Vegas EDM piece. Nice deadpan black comedy. Love the details like the girl falling off the stage and the man employed to clear a path for the promoter. And the main players seem somewhat aware that this is an absurd and depressing bubble even as they rake in the $$$.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
the Heller piece felt like it should be in the Atlantic with a title like "How the new San Fran techno-aristocracy is changing the way we think and making our lives better and saving the world"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
this is sub req, how is it?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/14/131014fa_fact_seabrook
first sentence is not good
― goole, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
the whole thing is written with this wide-eyed reverence that's just as terrible and out-of-touch as the article's subjects
well heller obv thinks people like this are cool but the piece is still presented in such a way that it undermines that i guess, or at least doesn't obscure how lame the people hes writing about are? maybe thats just completely unintentional idk
― Lamp, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, October 9, 2013 8:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the killer quote being the one where someone tells afrojack that track intros are usually timed by bars not seconds and hes like whats a bar
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
hah yes i respect that so deeply
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
iirc he says 'whats bars?' lmao
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
i mean it could be a translation thing as english isnt his first language i think, but still
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Lamp I think if you are pre-disposed to think subjects are douches there is no article about them where you won't find plenty of evidence to affirm that belief. I don't think that is evidence that the article is critical of them.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
Reflecting on that SF article, I have to continuously remind myself that these douches are, like, 25 years old. Were we not all douches at 25? I certainly was.
It is easy for me to forget their true ages when their resumes already have three/four different "started a company, sold it" entries. Starting a company and selling it used to take a lot longer, which is part of the articles point.
Still, barf.
― quincie, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
goole i bet you will love the vegas/afrojack piece-- can YSI a pdf if you want me to
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah totally! plz do :)
― goole, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
idk anything abt afrojack but i find it almost impossible to believe that anyone working with music software even as a clueless amateur doesn't know what 'bars' are. that's how the visual mapping of everything is delimited. calling them 'measures' is more classical/euro, maybe?
― goole, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
oh whoops you linked to the dr luke thing then i started talking abt the vegas/ afrojack thing.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
send me whatever man, i'm not choosy
― goole, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
sent via ilxmail
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
cool man. can't d/l at work but i'll check that soon.
― goole, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Deadpan profiles of douchebags seems to be the New Yorker's new speciality.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Hasn't John Seabrook already written that piece btw?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_seabrook
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
also
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/08/121008fa_fact_seabrook
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
yeah seabrook has apparently made a specialty out of writing about the machinery of pop music, amusingly he apparently is a) a huge eagles fan b) doesnt really like pop music
― Lamp, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
i loved the ester dean piece, like even tho he was condescending i found her creative process totally charming and inspiring
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/10/new-private-club-in-san-francisco.html
LOL now this lady on the other hand really does not like these douchebags:
"The seagull population in San Francisco has risen, from twenty-four birds in 1980 to more than fifty-three thousand in 2013. The gulls threaten endangered native species, interfere with landings and takeoffs at local airports, and even upset Giants fans by eating their snacks and defecating on them during games. They are opportunistic scavengers who adapt easily and can unhinge their jaws to consume what looks like more than their fair share; they may have started out as a small group of not-so-charming birds, but now they’re running the show."
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 10 October 2013 12:12 (ten years ago) link
clubs that select their own members are, by definition, not diverse
This is incorrect?
― badg, Thursday, 10 October 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Gottwald's cell phone rang."Hey, man," he said. It was Katy Perry's manager, Bradford Cobb. "What's up? Talk to me."
"Hey, man," he said. It was Katy Perry's manager, Bradford Cobb. "What's up? Talk to me."
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 October 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
The NY law firm article was bonkers in a vicarious John Grisham kinda way
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 11 October 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
Henry Wallace article showed him bonkers in a hilarious way.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 October 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
I started the law firm article...it's like a Louis Auchincloss story.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 October 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/davepell/status/388722039705460736/photo/1
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 11 October 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWUEoq2CUAAQWr1.png
This is great: Michael Shannon gets rejected by the NYer
― Brakhage, Friday, 11 October 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
I love articles about collapsing law firms, looking for a novel version.
― i too went to college (silby), Sunday, 13 October 2013 07:33 (ten years ago) link
Is Edward Snowden coming back to fix http://healthcare.gov ? @BorowitzReport http://nyr.kr/1daZQ1c
― schlump, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
fp borowitz is the worst
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 24 October 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
the austerity of his formula is getting kinda seductive to me. it is ... so base.
― schlump, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
if you like reading about collapsing law firms here's another good article: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113941/
― 乒乓, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
The air was warm and moist and pungent with the scent of soured milk, like the cleavage of a nursing mother on a warm day
― quincie, Sunday, 27 October 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
did anyone else lol at "The number of homeless people in New York has gone through the roof they don't have."
― flopson, Monday, 28 October 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
shameless coldblooded homeless zing. in like the first paragraph. bam!
― flopson, Monday, 28 October 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik reminds me of a smart kid who has to stick his hand up in class every single time in case we forget he's smart.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
Is Jill Lepore's thing on Doctor Who worth resuming my subscription for?
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
main weird ultra new yorkish new yorker thing in the homelessness piece is the author offering up itineraries of his every subway transfer as evidence of his dogged journalistic skills. it's like janet malcolm including her expenses receipts, just really strange.
― schlump, Monday, 4 November 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
the doctor who thing is pretty good, but the thing about the anti-semitic hungarian politician who discovers he's jewish is even better imo
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
i think the itineraries were intended to demonstrate how fucking big nyc is and how much it sucks to be shuffled all over the system. i doubt that ian frazier (the author of the homelessness piece) was trying to impress you
he maybe gets away with some things due to his long tenure there, tho
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
in other news, it turns out that I really, truly, could not care less about the new translation of the Decameron.
― quincie, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link