#caucasity
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
#notallnewyorkercartoons
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
#whiteneurosesmatter
(also usable as a Woody Allen hashtag)
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
K.Sanneh's thing on free speech wars is OK but pretty superficial. I think there are more interesting things to say about all that, but he mostly makes the obvious points and then shrugs.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Learning this morning of the death (probably) of Natalia Molchanova, sure enough she was the subject of an excellent article on her back in 2009 (the only reason I had heard of her). The surprising degree of physical adaptability of humans came through, reading about her.
Hey, the May 18 2015 had one of those rare (i.e. less than one a year) "Shouts & Murmurs" pieces I've stuck my neck out to recommend, "Playground Purgatory" by Colin Nissan.
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 6 August 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link
Liked the Mexican tunnel piece.
Hey, what's Grann up to?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 August 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
i've been wondering that lately too
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Only online, but a new report from Jon Lee Anderson, who I'll read anytime:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/isis-rises-in-libya
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
there was a longform podcast - i can't remember who, but a guy who'd iirc written an atavist story, & maybe been on more than once - with this great story about the writer finding this sort of perfect time capsule of forgotten americana, finding some clipping about something like an old native american reservation & the various zig-zagging currents impacting the territory over time, & the guy getting a book deal on the strength of the premise, only to hear as soon as his press release went out that david grann had been working on a book about the saga for two years. so i guess he's writing a book.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah about this i think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
menaud on didion - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/out-of-bethlehem
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 12:02 (nine years ago) link
An editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Henry Robbins, encouraged Didion to turn the piece into a book. Nine months later, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” appeared as the title essay in her first collection of nonfiction. It is the phrase everyone knows Joan Didion by.
i like menand but this (tbqh) is so rong i want to slap a mofo.the phrase everyone knows joan didion by is "we tell ourselves stories in order to live.afaik yeats still owns "slouching..."
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 24 August 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
William B. (for "Bad Posture") Yeats
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 August 2015 06:33 (nine years ago) link
that piece on Trump and White Nationalists is pretty scary
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 24 August 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COECtWlWcAAHBY7.jpg
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 September 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
so garbage
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 September 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
waht
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 4 September 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
"So guys, do we go with Kanye as Truman or Nicki dressed as Khaleesi ordering her dragons to incinerate Miley?"
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 4 September 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
there should be an option where they'll send you coverless issues or like just the standard tophat dude cuz yeah thanks no thanks
― johnny crunch, Friday, 4 September 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes lately I feel a little fatigued by NYer style longform, partly I'm sure a product of my decaying attention span in the internet era, and perhaps also partly a result of just having been a NYer reader for about 18 years now. There's so much *atmosphere* in the stories, very often created with similar techniques, and I find myself more and more just wanting to get information and analysis. The writer was driving to meet someone in a jeep, he saw some stuff on the way, disconsolate mood ensues.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 September 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
someone explain why the kanye cover is bad
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, 4 September 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
not not good but bad
it's so obviously trying to become a meme just relax you're the new yorker
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 September 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
that's blitt's sop right?
― balls, Friday, 4 September 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
he's their amusing memey topical cover dude
― balls, Friday, 4 September 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
he's been doing it for nearly thirty years iirc so memey may be unfair
i subscribed to the nyer in the navy, remembering some awkwardness when this issue came inhttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/4e/e7/5b/.jpg
― balls, Friday, 4 September 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
why is Kanye so joyously happy to have been defeated by a racist bigot?
― Aimless, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
he wasn't, do u c
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
yes. now. good god that's convoluted
― Aimless, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
It doesn't seem all that bad to me. It's definitely a little "HAHA POLITICS IS A CIRCUS AMIRITE WE ARE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IRONISTS"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
If this is an attempt at a meme couldn't you level that accusation at just about every cover they've ever done?
― Position Position, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
only post-tina brown
― balls, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Well you can only do mr monocle and quaint central park scenes so many times, gotta appeal to the younger demographic, btw have they ever done mr monocle with a google glass monocle?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
spiegelman's topical covers were better cuz there was some anger behind them and he often seemed motivated to piss ppl off while blitt just kinda tweaks
― balls, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
even now i'm not sure if ware's or tomine's covers are memey as much as they 'comment on this world we live in'
― balls, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
their work is more fine art imo, this is editorial cartoon writ large (literally)
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 September 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Mr. Monocle!?! That's Eustace Tilley!
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
There's so much *atmosphere* in the stories, very often created with similar techniques, and I find myself more and more just wanting to get information and analysis. The writer was driving to meet someone in a jeep, he saw some stuff on the way, disconsolate mood ensues.
feeling this in general but NOT with the linked article, best nyer read in eons
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem
― got the club going UP on a tuesday (m coleman), Sunday, 6 September 2015 11:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't understand one of the cartoons in the latest issue. Will someone please:
1) guess which cartoon it is
2) explain the cartoon to me
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
http://boingboing.net/2010/03/30/recaptioning-new-yor.html
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 24 September 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/a-new-universal-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-id-like-to-add-you-to-my-professional-network-linkedin/406783/
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 September 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
The cartoon in question doesn't even have a caption!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 September 2015 00:08 (eight years ago) link
best as i can see there's only one cartoon in this week's issue with no caption of any kind and it's the Gross one with a sperm ringing the doorbell on an egg. Is that the one you mean? Because I guess it's just self explanatory and silly.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link
The only problem with that cartoon is that it looks like neither a sperm nor an egg and why does an egg have a door
― Josefa, Friday, 25 September 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link
I don't understand 2 of the 3 "Finalists" in the Caption Contest. Although that's not unusual.
― Josefa, Friday, 25 September 2015 04:51 (eight years ago) link
That's the cartoon! I did not get "sperm" from the drawing; spouse looked at it, thought it was a snake, and figured that it was "about how usually a snake just swallows an egg whole, and this one is getting inside to eat it."
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 September 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
cool, a feature on grimes!! *reads*
paragraph 2:
"Should my d.j. set be more chill?" Boucher wondered, not for the first time. ("Chill," One of her favorite adjectives, can mean "mellow" or "good" or, most often, both.)
uuuuuuuuuuuuugh
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Saturday, 26 September 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
wait, bad as in good or bad as in bad? i can't tell what the kids are saying these days
"And to 'shake your booty' means to wiggle one's butt. Permit me to demonstrate..."
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Saturday, 26 September 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
(somewhere in page 4..)
"On the train, Boucher had seemed excited about her d.j. set, but by the time she and Brooks boarded the aircraft carrier she had started to feel distinctly un-chill."
*thumbs back a few pages to get a refresher on 'chill' definition*
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Saturday, 26 September 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link