Can very much say to dow that the Louise Brooks book is excellent.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
Another reliable source! Thanks, James, well def check it out.
― dow, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
i'm usually ok with kelefa sanneh iirc but the shane gillis profile was so pointless. it seemed to want to imply that he's somehow smarter or more thoughtful than the 8 billion other "shocking" white dude comedians but didn't provide any evidence of this in describing his personality or his life. wasn't crazy about the article on the woman who makes centerpieces for art exhibitions either (the photos of her work were not impressive) but she at least seemed interesting as a person.
on the other hand i'll devour any article about art authentication controversies, and the lucian freud one was particularly good
― na (NA), Friday, 23 September 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
Didn't Sanneh once do a sympathetic profile of Michael Savage? Maybe he's got a soft spot for this type.
― SincereLee 'Scratch' Perry (President Keyes), Friday, 23 September 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
Yeah, a lot of Sanneh's NYer profiles seem to be of people ignored by or looked down upon by the urban cognoscenti: Morgan Wallen, Jake Paul, etc.
― jaymc, Friday, 23 September 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
He sorta leans that way on social media
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 September 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
Can’t imagine why anyone would want to look down on either of those charming fellows!
― barry sito (gyac), Friday, 23 September 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
yeah the gillis piece felt like something to round out a book and was genuinely uninteresting
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
Does the centerpiece article ever explain what it means to be the"Bjork of food?"
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 29 September 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
a fountain of blood in the shape of fondue
― mh, Thursday, 29 September 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
Lol
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 29 September 2022 11:22 (one year ago) link
the bread chair was fire tho
https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2020/01/loaf-comfort-omar-sosa-friedman-benda-new-york_dezeen_2364_col_0.jpg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 30 September 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Chotiner interviews Matt Duss on Ukraine, etc..
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
Molly Ringwald reminisces on working with Godard on King Lear.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
that was a good one. what a weirdo
― na (NA), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
Watching Burgess Meredith drink wine was my favorite part.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/the-repressive-politics-of-emotional-intelligence
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 December 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
So many stories about Burgess Meredith, didn’t know what to expect in the Molly Ringwald thing.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
It's not like I have much faith in liberal journalists but it's truly astonishing to see this passage in the New Yorker. What year is this? pic.twitter.com/WvXUUMJWWT— Erik Baker (@erikmbaker) December 29, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 December 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
It's unfortunate to see some of the most respected venues in journalism taking this turn—exceptionalizing individuals and groups who advocate for greater public health protections and portraying them as deviant, immature, countercultural, Marxists, etc. 1/https://t.co/eqqA8x6YOY— Martha Lincoln (@heavyredaction) December 28, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 December 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
That headline is awful.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
the headline seems designed to be hate read bait for the right, whereas the contents are not. and sure enough ian cheong is tweeting it and musk replying. congrats to the new yorker.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
The problem with creating hate read bait for the right is that the right doesn’t read.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
if this is in reference to the emma green article, I haven’t read it and am not terribly interested to do so, I’m not a stan or anything for the new yorker but there is a certain… standard that she consistently falls below, just a very odd fit for the institution. her heterodox bumpkin david brooks-citing approach seemed more suited for the atlantic, where she was previously
― k3vin k., Friday, 30 December 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
an editorial failure I suppose
yes
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
One to skip
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:33 (one year ago) link
I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it. pic.twitter.com/Qrsa1UJsfA— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) February 13, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 February 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
amazing tweet
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 February 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
…
Man. (At the tweet, the video, the responses.)
Wright also had a very, very long story about Austin, Texas and how it’s changing in the latest issue.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 February 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
That Austin piece was a rare example of a New Yorker article that seemed like it should be a book (in the vein of Sam Anderson's Boom Town, about Oklahoma City), rather than the reverse.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
I mean, he's not wrong about the dehumanizing effect on soldiers but ...
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 13 February 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
I am currently irritated with the NYer because it feels like they are doing “double” issues way more than they used to.That Austin piece was kinda irritating, too.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 13 February 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
That Austin piece was a rare example of a New Yorker article that seemed like it should be a book
He already wrote a big book about Texas, "God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 February 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
Hope it was better than his novel, which was a pile of shit.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link
Scientology book was ok, but fell short of being the definitive outlier text
― mh, Thursday, 16 February 2023 04:34 (one year ago) link
that tweet phrasing is abominable
― mh, Thursday, 16 February 2023 04:35 (one year ago) link
should i read the agnes callard thing
i mean i love a trainwreck as much as the next person but possibly it will be too depressing
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 01:30 (one year ago) link
i read it and just kind of shrugged but she seems like she sucks
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link
Yet another pseudo-intellectual justifying their fucking around with bullshit, this stuff should have died with the Fabian Society.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 08:01 (one year ago) link
seems like she's surrounded by people who like her for some reasons and just kind of let her do whatever because it's not worth disagreeing
I did see some reactions on twitter from the guy she co-hosts a podcast with and he was kind of brutal!
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
A few years ago, I wrote an essay that, in passing, questioned faculty solidarity with unionizing graduate students. I had not realized how sensitive that topic was, and I was inundated with angry and hateful messages and a few threats online.
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1240w,f_auto,q_auto:best/ap/06990af2-6d7a-4d62-b9c3-1ddcf771b5e5.jpg
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
that bad stance still far outweighs the weird and bad relationship hijinks
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
JCO multiple-driveby for those who celebrate
(excerpt from an uncompleted novel of Iris Murdoch focusing intensely, one might say hysterically-minuscule-ly, upon banal-stereotypical notions dressed up in philosophy-speak is no departure for the deceased novelist but her usual fatuous characters are here unleavened by wit.) https://t.co/YLvTL4SYdS— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 8, 2023
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
damn
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Thought JCO would like her for throwing out her kids' Halloween candy
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
JCO = out there everyday, proving what a power user she is.
I read 2/3rds. Veered between "that's the piece I would point ppl to if they wanted an answer to "what is philosophy for?" question to juvenile giggling at stuff like this:
After seven years of marriage, they watched Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes from a Marriage,” a portrait of a couple as they struggle to understand the limits and possibilities of their relationship in the course of a decade. “It’s extraordinary that two people can live a whole life together without—” the wife’s mother says. “Without touching,” the wife answers.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
you've got to read to the end to get the final story twists
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
It turns out she is...a cat person
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
the proposed book title "Marriage is a Preparation for Divorce" is like an alternate world Lana del Rey album title
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link