lol, I've been reading that paragon of melancholic reflection on stuff since I was 12. It's gotten worse, and I've gotten less melancholic and reflective.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
the magazine article this week by the woman who left her husband for the guy who turned out to have mental issues was very weird
My favorite part was when she suggested that this was something of a trend-- ruling class NY women falling for quirky artists who are disorganized and touchy and possibly psychopaths
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
I like challopsy political philosophy so I have no real gripes about The Case Against Democracy. Sometimes it's worth listening to people criticize things you believe in, even if they don't make you abandon your belief you can still learn something.
― flopson, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
Anyone know how much the all access (print+digital) sub is after the 12 week intro period?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 14 November 2016 05:12 (seven years ago) link
I think we just pay $106 a year.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 November 2016 05:19 (seven years ago) link
So basically slightly more than Netflix.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 November 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
Cool, I probably spend that picking up occasional issues from the bookstore.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 14 November 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
Lol at this weeks cover
― flopson, Monday, 14 November 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link
something of a trend-- ruling class NY women falling for quirky artists who are disorganized and touchy and possibly psychopaths
Cool I need to get over there. And start doing art.
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 14 November 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
can't bring myself to organize my memory into What's Good lately but, just bc i ordinarily skip the fiction, i love love loved the anne carson story
― schlump, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:11 (seven years ago) link
lol'd @ shouts and murmurs this wk
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
the Megan Amram one a bit ago (Trump's American Girls) was good
― flopson, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
do you have a link (or title) for that?
― NI, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/07/fire-and-water-a-brooklyn-love-story
― na (NA), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
still hilarious to me that there's a Chapo Trap House profile in the NYer (although I guess Mennaker's family legacy make it not totally surprising). Need to read it.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
is that in print or web? Felix and Virgil were in talk of the town a few weeks ago, too
― flopson, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
it's here: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/what-will-become-of-the-dirtbag-left
― rob, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
ya no i read it, just wondering if it was in print. but now I see it's Persons of Interest so web only
― flopson, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
Menaker, who is thirty-three, told me that fans are drawn to the podcast because the hosts have “no special obligation to be nice to anyone, or get a pat on the head, or”—and here he briefly affected the voice of an aristocrat—“have a fine debate with mon conservative frère.” He rolled his eyes and mimed masturbation. “My reaction to that is a jack-off motion so hard it opens a portal into another dimension.”
Curious what a fan makes of that profile, because they come across as deeply unfunny to me.
― rob, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
(although I guess Mennaker's family legacy make it not totally surprising)
nah, the girl who wrote the profile is a former Gawker writer. just millenial internet media navel-gazing
― flopson, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah i have not listened to the podcast and the article did not make me want to listen to it at all
― na (NA), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
its really fucking hilarious that the Chapo guys spent the last two weeks on Twitter complaining about how the liberal media had its head up its lena dunham john oliver EVISCERATES hamilton slay kween social media ass all election, and then the new yorker does a written-through feature on the chapo traphouse podcast
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
anyway we should probably start a chapo traphouse thread now that lefty twitter has it's own Hipster Runoff
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
lefty Twitter has it's own Hipster Runoff
Ha. This is pretty succinct. Chapo getting a regular slot on Sirius XM coming next, no doubt.
Anyhow, they posted an ep already reacting to their own coverage and discomfort at being rendered in watercolor.
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
is this Chapo thing the new Ken Bone?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
also what is a "trap house"
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
A better written intro: here.
Or this unofficial pilot, an excoriation of and discussion of the bizarro psychopathologies in the Michael Bay Benghazi movie.
Your mileage may vary, like with every other single thing on the internet.
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I've been listening to this for awhile and the hosts are not funny at all. Some of the writing they find on the web is pretty hilarious though.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 21 November 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
They're definitely at their best in interviews and when doing "reading series" stuff. It's fun to hear them shoot the shit for a while but it gets a little repetitive, especially Felix ("cucks" "he taught me it was ok to be weird" etc.). I don't really listen to it as a comedy podcast, more as a political podcast that is sometimes funny.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
I thought I said this on this thread earlier, but the profile to me did not at all convey the appeal of the show
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Also, I've been a fan for a while and have listened to nearly every ep, but I'm wondering how it will sustain my interest in a Trump presidency. I think even Will expressed that concern about the show. It's almost like they were right about the center-left and center-right punditocracy they targeted and it indeed proved to be irrelevant and now they're stuck trying to figure out a more original take on cheeto mussolini jokes.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, if you want a good intro to the show, I'd listen to one of the Freeway Ross Douthat episodes and stick through the banter to the part where they actually read from Douthat's book.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
ya they're fucked now that Trump won
― flopson, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
More podcasts should be short-lived imo
― rob, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
I expect the flourishing of intra-left bickering we saw under Obama to subside now that we have zero power anywhere
― flopson, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
The two episodes per week model is kind of crazy (one free and one premium) -- hard to fill that much time with good content. Also not so sure about the new five-person model with Amber and Virgil Texas, always liked them as guests but it feels a bit crowded now.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
Anyway sry to turn this into Chapo Trap Thread instead of NYer thread.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
rob otm
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
just have to say the illustration of the chapos was extremely hilarious and weird, no idea what it was going for
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
all the articles in that section have the same style - http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest
― just sayin, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
― flopson, Monday, November 21, 2016
bush years suggest this will not be the case
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 06:33 (seven years ago) link
Batuman-signal: A fictional story about freshman year at Harvard.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/constructed-worlds
― o. nate, Thursday, 19 January 2017 03:08 (seven years ago) link
It's an extract from her forthcoming novel, The Idiot
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 January 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link
so it's basically a fictionalised retelling of her previous book? She seems really invested in her college years
― Number None, Thursday, 19 January 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
Well, she has written a lot of other pieces for the magazine in the meantime, most of which didn't have anything to do with college. Also the last one was about grad school, this one is about undergrad.
― o. nate, Friday, 20 January 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Evan Osnos on Peter Thiele, other Silicon Valley tech titans buying up chunks of New Zealand in advance of global "trouble" / apocalypse.
Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer. But in recent years survivalism has expanded to more affluent quarters, taking root in Silicon Valley and New York City, among technology executives, hedge-fund managers, and others in their economic cohort.
Last spring, as the Presidential campaign exposed increasingly toxic divisions in America, Antonio García Martínez, a forty-year-old former Facebook product manager living in San Francisco, bought five wooded acres on an island in the Pacific Northwest and brought in generators, solar panels, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. “When society loses a healthy founding myth, it descends into chaos,” he told me. The author of “Chaos Monkeys,” an acerbic Silicon Valley memoir, García Martínez wanted a refuge that would be far from cities but not entirely isolated. “All these dudes think that one guy alone could somehow withstand the roving mob,” he said. “No, you’re going to need to form a local militia. You just need so many things to actually ride out the apocalypse.” Once he started telling peers in the Bay Area about his “little island project,” they came “out of the woodwork” to describe their own preparations, he said. “I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
yea it was good. some discussion of it in this thread: rate the chances that you will experience a cataclysmic, world-threatening event before you're 70
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
clearest red flag of them all in second para
he was a competitive ballroom dancer
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 January 2017 13:29 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds?mbid=social_twitter
great article!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 February 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
if you're into evolutionary psychology, yes - if not, you might find this description of rationality... funny:
It emerged on the savannas of Africa, and has to be understood in that context.
for me the premise of the article is backwards, and I'd be more curious to trace and understand the notion of contemporary society and citizens as rational, than to understand why natural science hasn't by now turned us all into rational robots
― niels, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 07:42 (seven years ago) link