tbh i couldn't even finish it.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 28 March 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
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
the article on memory was cool, not sure i had ever known of that study where what was it 20%? of the subjects "remembered" details of being lost @ a mall as a child even though it never happened
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
That militia article is ultimately not that great but was super engrossing
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah the memory article was good. also really liked the piece on parkinson's a couple weeks before.
― schlump, Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
What is your definition of a "great" article then? To me an article that had me "super engrossed" would be great, imho.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
The writing wasn't interesting in itself, it wasn't emotionally doing much. The writer found a really horrific story about dumb army people and told it, seems like something that I may say that I read in the New Yorker if someone else talks about it idk
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
what was the memory article?
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
he can't remember
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
The woman w/ the holocaust survivor dad one
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
http://m.newyorker.com/the40s
saw this in a bookstore the other day and nearly bought it, but it's 40 bucks. it's on my birthday list
― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
the '90s one is gonna be expensive
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 May 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
lol
― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
I agree with this. It was kinda trashy I thought - I almost felt a little dirty for reading it when I finished. If you like true crime, it's competent enough, but ultimately just kind of gross and sad.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 May 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
the rambly Gopnik thing about Whorfianism was kinda weak but I would read an entire book of him telling stories about his parents tbh
― axe douche for men (silby), Friday, 23 May 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
i skip everything by gopnik on principle
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 May 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
his article about college sports was riddled with inaccuracies
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Friday, 23 May 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
― johnny crunch
― balls, Friday, 23 May 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
i'm going to use emily nussbaum's High Maintenance writeup as yet another excuse to further evangelize for it:
High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 2 June 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
a. The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong, by Jill Lepore
b. Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'Disruptive Innovation'
You keep referring to Lepore by her first name. Do you know her?I've never met her in my life.
I've never met her in my life.
c. lol
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah the article was a solid B+ the response bumps it up to A trolling
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
lepore piece reminded me of creationist 'takedowns', too lazy to have even a passing familiarity w/ what it's attacking, too smug to be bothered, eventual collapse into corny end of movie declaration of love for god/humanity/the easter bunny. she doesn't pretend to actually have any ideas though so she's better than yr gladwells i guess.
― balls, Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
balls disruption
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/30/140630fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all&mobify=0
the usual toobin caveats apply, but worth reading
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed the Rebecca Curtis story in the current issue.
― o. nate, Thursday, 26 June 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link