haha joe
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxp yeah i liked it ok...i generally like franzens fiction but not really his non-fic; he def jazzed it up & had a legit point but i was v much groaning at his blackberry/Blackberry analogy
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Did anyone else notice one of the entrants to this week's caption contest?ha, yeah. gonna assume that it's THE roger ebert?Franzen essay was excellent despite some of the cringiness.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I cringed a couple of times, plus the whole conceit started out a little "oh, poor life of famous author on the road" (not at all to take away from losing a friend) for me, but it was still a good read.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
only so many r eberts in chicago i'd imagine
― My bad Van Buren! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ipad app dece?
― thetan is cheatin (cozen), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
it is him. he posted about it on his blog: he's been trying to get into the finals round for years and years
― they call him (remy bean), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
his caption wasn't that good iirc
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
no it wasn't.cartoon was a pair of people standing in the middle of a wasteland under a mall parking lot sign with an "F" on it and Ebert has the woman saying "Guess which word I'm thinking of now."har harvideo games aren't art btw
― My bad Van Buren! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― thetan is cheatin (cozen), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it's ok, pricey, would be better if you got access with a subscription. i just loaded it up to check the price of each issue when i saw that "remnick on remnick" gaffe.
― joe, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
"That might play big in Chicago, but the New Yorker has a different set of standards."
xp
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
"we prefer film critics with senses of humor, ebert. you know, like david denby."
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf anthony lane used to be kind of funny
― Number None, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lane is kinda funny, but i don't think he's that great a film critic
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
he's very funny!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't actually read a Lane review in a while but some of his takedowns of hollywood blockbusters are classic. It can feel a little cheap though.
― Number None, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
whole travel issue was pretty enjoyable imo. the astana and chinese people touring europe articles in particular
― dblake (symsymsym), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
didnt know that that dope 2-part travelogue about siberia from summer 09 had been expanded into a book:
http://www.amazon.com/Travels-Siberia-Ian-Frazier/dp/0374278725
― gr8080, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved the Franzen/Robinson Crusoe thing.
Haven't read the cover story ("Middle East of the West?") but I can tell from the subhead that it's going to be one of those UuuuuuNnnnnnngggggghhhh stories to read.
― ZERO TAXES (Z S), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
just like the story they ran on energy efficiency recently (which suggested that there's no point to pursuing efficiency measures because lol Jevon's paradox, uuuuuuuuunnnnggghhhhh). <3 new yorker but their energy stories blow. elizabeth kolbert rulez, however.
^thus concludes my new yorker minute
― ZERO TAXES (Z S), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Kazakhstan article indeed very entertaining, and all without making a single Borat joke.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
wasn't the chinese people touring europe article done recently in another magazine? i feel like harper's ran an article on the same topic maybe 3 months ago.
― ZERO TAXES (Z S), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the atlantic did one too a few months ago...but the new yorker guy went UNDERCOVER, embedding himself with an actual chinese bus tour! he spoke chinese and everything!
i was really bracing myself for a borat reference the whole article too lol. The last sentence does describe men in small swimming trunks, but i guess that doesn't quite count
― dblake (symsymsym), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"We spoke in Chinese, but when he was surprised he’d say, “Oh, my Lady Gaga!,” an English expression he’d picked up at school."
― just sayin, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a remote possibility that the harpers guy ended up interviewing the new yorker guy as part of his story without even realizing it! Journalists interviewing undercover journalists, the Journalistic Centipede, pt. II
― ZERO TAXES (Z S), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah texas arson thing was awesome, looking forward to re-reading it when my copy of the book comes.learning this was a little bit of a let-down tho: http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/crimblog/2009/10/willinghams-last-words.html― gr8080, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 4:22 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
learning this was a little bit of a let-down tho: http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/crimblog/2009/10/willinghams-last-words.html
― gr8080, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 4:22 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
just started working my way through the book and read this piece for the 2nd time since it first got published.
interesting to note that the passage that appears/appeared in the New Yorker:
Willingham had asked that his parents and family not be present in the gallery during this process, but as he looked out he could see Stacy watching. The warden pushed a remote control, and sodium thiopental, a barbiturate, was pumped into Willingham’s body.
appears in the book with an extended sentence:
Willingham had asked that his parents and family not be present in the gallery during this process, but as he looked out he could see Stacy watching; whatever calm he had obtained was lost, and with his last breaths he cursed her. The warden pushed a remote control, and sodium thiopental, a barbiturate, was pumped into Willingham’s body.
also the context being that though she divorced him she always defended him until towards the end when, having not seen the new evidence she suddenly changed it up and declared him a murderer.
well yeah i dunno after 14 years in prison for a crime i didn't commit i'd maybe lose my cool if i saw her on the other side of the glass too i guess.
― gr8080, Saturday, 23 April 2011 08:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the closing paragraph remains the same though.
― gr8080, Saturday, 23 April 2011 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah and it is problematic, but I don't think it changes the strength of the piece which isn't really "look Willingham is really a great dude and therefore totally innocent" and more "the evidence that convicted Willingham is a joke and the state of Texas killed an innocent person because the safeguards that should exist to prevent that from occurring are also a joke."
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 23 April 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
What really drove me crazy about the Chinese tourists was that they didn't try the local cuisine and went out of their way to find Chinese restaurants/McDonald's (having also experienced the exact same thing when I went on a canned tour).
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 23 April 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone tried commenting on the website before? Do comments get quarantined until a moderator approves them first?
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 25 April 2011 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Been reading the Eagleman brain timing article. Gets very ilx friendly when Brian Eno shows up. Also had to enjoy the reed krakoff article since I work for him.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the part with the drummers is pretty fun
I had a hard time visualizing what that amusement park ride of near death was supposed to entail?
― iatee, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
that article was pretty cool but eagleman seemed kind of annoying as a person
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
like he had cool ideas but wnkiw
― iatee, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
*unless brian eno came
actually brian eno is probably really annoying too
― iatee, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
first clue is his radical occupation of the 99th percentile of the "food as fuel" spectrum
actually all the clues are clues
― br8080 (dayo), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
For years, Eagleman was a confirmed bachelor and “serial dater,” as one of his friends put it, with a tidy bungalow that he liked to call the Eagle’s Nest.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
“I knew I had some intellectual horsepower,” he says. “But I didn’t know where my tires would catch purchase.”
― Moreno, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Liked the Chinese tourism article a lot, although I thought there was an irony in that the article exposes all these ways in which the Chinese tourists have their views about Chinese superiority subtly reconfirmed by the tour guide's framing of everything, and yet in the end the writer seems to be pushing a view that, actually, America will remain superior because of CREATIVITY or something.
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the same spin some of the anti-tiger mom articles take--"Maybe our kids will write some music that your robots will perform"
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Finished the Guatemalan murder mystery; holy shit
― forks (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
It doesn't seem completely surprising to me that the Chinese tourists only eat Chinese food, btw -- sounds very typical of group tours aimed at people inexperienced with travel. It's a common complaint about American tourists that they always look for the McDonalds.
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I knew Italians who travelled w/ their own pasta and can confirm that my ex-wife's French family weren't the most culinarily adventurous ppl either. Still, Chinese food in Italy, for example, is mostly food that I would avoid.
― Concatenated without abruption (Michael White), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, either these guys or my postal service needs to get their shit together. I've gotten the past three issues all within the last five days.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the tour guide didn't allow them local cuisine because European meals take up to 5 hours.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
That was one of his excuses at least
― Concatenated without abruption (Michael White), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Europeans--they eat so slowly! How can they expect their economy to grow?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― forks (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:01 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
holy shit is right.
― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link