"The Internet is always spoken of as a medium of connection, but it is also a medium of isolation that surfs the user and breaks him into separate waves going nowhere. There was the movie hunger, and the lust hunger, and the early stirrings of the money hunger. But where was the core, reconciling and joining the many elements together? In the tomes above the computer? My book about the classics was devoted to Columbia's version of the "core curriculum." That's why the big boys were up there, in the shelves above the monitor. What would they have said? Plato, observing a man staring at shadows in a cave, would not have been in the least surprised. But Hegel, I imagined, would have been dismayed by the passivity of erotic contemplation, just as he was dismayed by the passivity of religious contemplation, and Nietzsche, I was sure, would have been disgusted by the absence of vigorous, joyful activity -fighting, dancing, revelry, lovemaking - even though Nietzsche, poor crazy bastard, was as terrified of women as any man who ever lived."― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:57 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkthe internet surfs the user!! wow, man, mind...is...blown.― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:58 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:57 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the internet surfs the user!! wow, man, mind...is...blown.
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Sounds like he's using that Soviet Russian Internet.
― some greenzo (onimo), Friday, 24 June 2011 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
huh? whats shit about the chelsea clinton post? jim even _explains_ it in the post on denby
― ☂ (max), Friday, 24 June 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
it requires an explanationit is snarky without a pointit isn't funny
― little mushroom person (abanana), Friday, 24 June 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
look at david denby over here
― ☂ (max), Friday, 24 June 2011 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
it doesnt require an explanation if you are vaguely familiar with the very famous film "the miracle worker"its point (as jim explains) is that the original article is shocked that an accomplished, stanford-educated 28-year-old woman is being "allowed" to speak for her mother at campaign eventsit makes that point by humorously contrasting chelsea clinton with helen keller
― ☂ (max), Friday, 24 June 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Just out of curiosity, what/where is the "original article" that post was responding to?
― Don Rickles on the Dime (jaymc), Friday, 24 June 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
sorry I misread jims post there is no one specific "original article"
― ☂ (max), Friday, 24 June 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
Rick Moody on that John Lurie profile:
http://therumpus.net/2011/06/swinging-modern-sounds-30-what-is-and-is-not-masculine/
― Let me tell you something about that song. (Eazy), Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Also from DD this week:
"In regular movies, representation is obviously more intimately joined to physical reality than, say, books or paintings are."
I guess this one should be put on his editor but still...in movies, books are not as close to reality as representation is...?
― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 26 June 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
hmm. i'm not sure your rearranging of the original sentence is accurate. the original makes sense to me.
― Z S, Monday, 27 June 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
no, hadrian's right... to get denby's meaning the sentence should read
"In regular movies, representation is obviously more intimately joined to physical reality than in, say, books or paintings."
or, preferably
"Representation is obviously more intimately joined to physical reality in regular movies, than in, say, books or paintings."
― ☂ (max), Monday, 27 June 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
without the first comma tho
― ☂ (max), Monday, 27 June 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
guys, its never gonna make sense
― ice cr?m, Monday, 27 June 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait, yeah, i see it now. it's like a magic eye poster, but way less satisfying!
― Z S, Monday, 27 June 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
because the satisfaction of seeing that 3D dolphin is fucking untouchable
Correction, June 28, 2011: The original article erroneously stated that 95% of Italian men had never operated a washing machine.
haha the fact too good to check
― caek, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
the aleksander henon thing was very sad
xp max you should post that to reddit/mens rights.
― caek, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
Love the piece about Rays outfielder Sam Fuld.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Friday, 1 July 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
Sam Fuiud
― goole+ (dayo), Friday, 1 July 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Really like Joan Acocella's stuff on dance, the one from 2011/6/27 on Alexei Ratmansky is pretty good (haven't finished it yet):
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/27/110627fa_fact_acocella
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 2 July 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
xp I'm uneasy about the Lurie profile but Moody's got some serious issues with the New Yorker and a weird idea that profile-writers should only be engaged in promoting their subjects' art and praising their wonderful personalities. I wonder which interviewer or New Yorker writer pissed off Moody years back.
clever and arch in that New Yorker way, clever, condescending, self-satisfied, off-handedly cruel, lazy, elitist, devoid of bona fide literary purpose
a sprinkling of the kinds of details beloved not of artists but of media workers
if you think like a tabloid writer, or like a hack, it’s perhaps possible to understand why this would seem like the meat of the story on John Lurie (ostensible subject of the profile); it’s the meat of the story if you are a meat-and-potatoes guy, a fetishist of parodistic ideas of the masculine, but it has nothing to do with who John Lurie is among family and friends.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Saturday, 2 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
haha i tried to read that post and i was just like 'this is how you write'
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 2 July 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
the nyer lurie article was awesome and salacious imho
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 2 July 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Moody describes it in one para as both "salacious and tawdry" and "exceedingly boring". How can it be both? I like his idea that only interviewing Lurie's friends and admirers and going on at length about his individual recordings would be some kind of thrillride.
Also, get off your fucking high horse.
It’s ugly and dull and perhaps even morally embarrassing, at least if you give a shit about art, music, literature, or the loftier aspirations of man and woman.
Makes me want to go and reread that notorious Dale Peck takedown of Moody, just for lols
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Saturday, 2 July 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
i gave up early on when he started picking apart "everyone in 'downtown New York,' a.k.a., 'the known universe—basically,'"
― gr8080+ (gr8080), Sunday, 3 July 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
this isn't a criticism, but, the larry david piece in the july 4 issue is really helped by how easy it is to summon a manic, conversational, larry-david-voice in your head while reading
― devoted to boats (schlump), Sunday, 3 July 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I like Larry David, but I thought that piece was dire. Jokes based around the Kubler-Ross stages of grief are pretty damn tired at this point.
― jaymc, Sunday, 3 July 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
excited to read this! (not being sarcastic)
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta?currentPage=9
― ⓢⓤⓟⓘⓕⓨⓞⓤ©ⓐⓝⓡⓔⓐⓓⓣⓗⓘⓢ (markers), Monday, 4 July 2011 04:42 (twelve years ago) link
wait, that's a link to page nine -- here's the whole thing: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta?currentPage=all
"I like Larry David, but I thought that piece was dire."
that page is where funny often goes to die. i don't blame him. its like the bermuda triangle.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 July 2011 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 July 2011 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
But does that excuse go for Paul Rudnick as well, or is he just unfunny?
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 July 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
probably my general uniform positivity about the main articles every week isn't going to help gr8080 pare down his pile of unread articles, but paumgarten & the han-han piece in last week's are both p engrossing. feel like the online dating thing probably has gladwell feeling like it shoulda been one of his ..?, in being in that ballpark.
i think the sole redeeming element of my print copy arriving on thursday is when it's a double issue, & the wait doesn't feel so long.
― neo-realist shit i ever wrote (schlump), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
han han was nice, online dating felt like a slightly more polished times magazine piece
― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
Seems like a swell guy, too bad about coming from Stanfurd. Also, companion podcast to the Fuld article, with McGrath and ~*sigh*~ Amy Davidson: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/07/04/110704on_audio_mcgrath
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 9 July 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
sports. it is not good. for humanity.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 9 July 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
does amy davidson write anything longer than the comment on the ny-er blogs?, & in the magazine? she's so consistently good lately, i wondered if she had any longer pieces up in the archives.
― Genre Fiction › Men's Adventure (schlump), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
george packer making me sad again
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Monday, 18 July 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
Going all the way back to Eagleman in Texas, trying to see if time slows down for real when a person senses they're in danger. I finally found video of the "ride" he uses to gauge his research subjects' fear factor with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBJ5e2ihVUg
From Cracked.com, of course.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
good find!watching that makes me feel. unwell.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
i really want to try it. (for science.)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 18 July 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― max, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
getting the shakes just thinking about it
I'm 100% sure if I did this I would turn around mid-fall, stretch out like superman, catch a draft and fly right outside of the net and plummet to my death.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
That cracked article was great btw, read it this morning as well. I remember Action Park from when I was a kid. Glad I never went.
Actually I did sorta go, Action Park was part of Vernon Valley/Great Gorge, which is the only place I ever went skiing.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
Then, in July, a scad operator in the Wisconsin Dells triggered a drop before the net had been lifted fully into place. When the rider—a twelve-year-old girl named Teagan Marti—landed in the net, her momentum stretched it to the ground. The impact fractured her skull and broke her spine in ten places.
― dayo, Monday, 18 July 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
I rode this once:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Drop
NB I am terrified of rollercoasters but was forced to by peer pressure. luckily my friend next to me was even more scared and I distracted myself by telling him everything was gonna be alright.
― dayo, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8SxuR1GTsg
according to the web it takes you up 62 meters or 200 feet. O_o
― dayo, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link