http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/03/18/scarlett_johansson_profile_in_the_new_yorker_anthony_lane_reveals_nothing.html
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 March 2014 11:11 (ten years ago) link
Johansson’s backside, barely veiled in peach-colored underwear
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 20 March 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link
Lane has always had a pervy streak, which I think he means to be cheeky but which often comes off, well, gross. Which is ironic, because Denby is the one who had an actual addiction to internet porn, which makes his eliding the issue (in, say, his epic, rambling "Nymphomaniac" review) that much more conspicuous.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 March 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
how is that ironic
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
The guy with the porn addiction reviews the porn-ish movie about the sex addict without mentioning his porn addiction? Isn't that ironic?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
no
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
Also I read it as you think it's ironic Lane wrote the pervy article when it's Denby who had the addiction. still, not ironic.
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
How about rain on your wedding day?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:40 (ten years ago) link
is the de man profile called Who's De Man
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
De Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
De Man Who Would Be King (Of Literary Theory). Elegant headline. They missed a trick.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 20 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
she seemed to be made from champagne.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 March 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
The Derrida piece in Critical Inquiry that tried to exculpate de Man is actually really sad to read. He is just reaching so desperately to not face the truth and it's unusual to read something by Derrida where his vilnerability is apparent.
― Treeship, Thursday, 20 March 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Menand did a great job of articulating why deconstructionism was incredibly exciting to some people and why, after a brief acquaintance with it at university, it has almost zero appeal to me.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
He also did a good job of clearing up misunderstandings, especially this idea that there is something "nihilistic" in teasing out paradoxes in apparently stable texts.
― Treeship, Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
For me when I was studying literature, the thumbnail sketch of the idea was bracing and energising - it's always good to be told to question everything - but when I tried to go deeper I lost interest. It's just not how I like to read. But it was nice to see Menand push back eloquently against the current consensus that it was a pointless, arid detour.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/03/franco-moretti-and-the-science-of-literary-criticism.html
this is pretty fascinating
― surfbort memes get played out, totally (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
I thought this piece was really, REALLY bad, like maybe the worst thing I've ever read in the NYer (granted it's on the "blog" so I guess that's their excuse):http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/03/the-pointlessness-of-unplugging.html
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Saturday, 22 March 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that's a pretty dumb piece.
― quincie, Saturday, 22 March 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
the only shouts & murmurs piece that has ever made me teehee:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2014/03/good-meeting.html
― I don't care if you're Black Sabbath, James White, or Deep Purple (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/03/lord-jamar-rap-hip-hop-conservative.html
This seems like it would appeal to the ilxor audience. Can't say I have ever listened to any Brand Nubian,and this article certainly isn't going to change that anytime soon.
― JohnSock, Thursday, 27 March 2014 06:28 (ten years ago) link
Brand Nubian's music is awesome but I hated Lord Jamar on the Combat Jack show, bigot and true homophobe.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 28 March 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
the scarjo piece had me contemplating cancellation my subscription, whoever greenlit that piece deserves as much scorn as anthony lane for writing it.
i guess i can tell anthony lane and david denby apart now.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 28 March 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
tbh i couldn't even finish it.
The thing i find interesting about the Brand Nubian piece, is the way it shines a spotlight on the emerging reactionary impulses amongst some old school hip hop fans. It's like rap is getting it's very own version of classic rock and associated conservatism towards music that falls outside traditional ideas of "masculinity" or whatever.
― JohnSock, Friday, 28 March 2014 07:43 (ten years ago) link
?? that has always been the case
― just sayin, Friday, 28 March 2014 08:14 (ten years ago) link
it just reminds me of an old article about Death Row Records where Snoop and the Dogg Pound run into the guy from PM Dawn and start yelling anti-gay slurs at him
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 28 March 2014 09:00 (ten years ago) link
apologies for being arguably off topic, but do any of you fuck w/ a digital only sub to this? i haven't had any sub since high school, but might change that eventually and am considering skipping print altogether
― markers, Friday, 28 March 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
i guess it'd probably be a newsstand sub on my ipad
for 10 bucks more a year you get the print, too
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 28 March 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
i don't get the point of a digital subscription. NYers are easy to carry with you, no?
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 28 March 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Digital subs arrive on time & your roommate can't steal them as punishment for not doing the washing up (that's me)
― badg, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, March 28, 2014 5:00 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this avail or can i get an issue date to pull from the archives? sounds dope
― johnny crunch, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
I hated the digital but am happy enough with the Kindle edition.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
jc, couldn't find that but DID find this:http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/14/magazine/does-a-sugar-bear-bite.html?pagewanted=allgonna slot this in the hip hop stories thread as well because it's a helluva read
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 March 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
thx 4ks
― johnny crunch, Friday, 28 March 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
xpost the Death Row thing was not in the New Yorker--Spin, maybe?
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
Snoop, Dre’s little brother Warren G and Daz have come to pick me up for a ride to Long Beach. Downstairs, in the hotel lobby, Li’l Malik (of the group Illegal) and Snoop’s cousin, Big C-Style, are waiting, watching cars. Malik runs up to Snoop, “Yo, that fat PM Dawn nigga is right there. Look!” Prince Be is waiting for a valet to park his convertible. ” Faggot, biiyaach!” Snoop doesn’t join Malik in dissing Prince Be, but he doesn’t speak to him either. Once we’re inside Snoop’s black Grand Cherokee 4×4, I glance back at Prince Be through the tinted windows; his feelings are visibly hurt.
http://dreamhampton.com/1993/06/24/snoop-g-down/_2696090972.html
― Number None, Saturday, 29 March 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link
the article on Svetlana fascinated me, especially since I've been reading about George Kennan lately.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 March 2014 11:59 (ten years ago) link
Not sure why Brand Nubian guy being a homophobe is shocking. "Punk Jumps Up to Get Up Beat Down" came out 20 years ago.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
the story on the West Virginia chemical spill is the first I've read in months that felt like a slow wrenching of every organ in my body.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
great new yorker momentz, this afternoon. i'm not sure if they occasionally hold off on publishing an article until the moment is right or if it's just a happy coincidence, but the Evan Osnos article on the recent West Virginia chemical spill, Chemical Valley is simultaneously the best article I've read on the spill and a powerful rebuke to the recent Supreme Court decision that was based on the idea that "Ingratiation and access … are not corruption."
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 April 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
but they aren't! Roberts said so.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
citing the infallible "earlier dumb opinion that we wrote"
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
man that pain dr one
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I felt awful about his daughter getting blackballed as a result of everything
― axe douche for men (silby), Monday, 5 May 2014 05:08 (ten years ago) link
the detail about them picking out prison-friendly wedding rings at k-mart :/
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 5 May 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
the guy seemed like such a fascinating chump, too, like a coen bros character
blanking on what i've read & liked recently but it dawned on me to hit up this thread, are any of you listening to the longform podcast? it's really good. nerdy interviews with nerdy journalists. it's really good. cool eps with like sarah stillman, ariel levy, rachel aviv, &c&c.
― schlump, Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
Loved the Ariel Levy and Emily Nussbaum ones. As always I could do with less Gopnik.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link