http://rlv.zcache.com/i_wont_apologize_for_being_american_skull_gear_tshirt-p235838770202405518u2o7_400.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 1 September 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
"the scientology response with the fake cartoon captions i posted upthread!! its hilarious!!!!"
But it's just hard to read scans!
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
last genuine american animal star was maybe spuds mackenzie? Or Benji if you mean non-ad based?
― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Free Willy
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Socks the Cat
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
For that matter, when was the last time Orlean popped up in the New Yorker?
From what I recall from Max's classic "you guys new yorker writers are fighting on twitter" thread, she's basically been working on this Rin Tin Tin book for the last few years and has some sort of cozy deal with the magazine where she only has to write like one article a year and they still keep her on staff.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, September 1, 2011 4:30 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
Fuckin' Winston, yo.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
I won't apologize for being American, either (had nothing to do with that), only for shit that's worthy of an apology ffs. Man, the whiny, puerile, CO2 emitting annoyances that call themselves humans sometimes...
Nice crop, tho
― Ohkneeswakeymaleeponce (Michael White), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
what about Eddie from Frasier?
― beemer, I mean BIMMER douchebag (DJP), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, September 1, 2011 4:30 PM (28 minutes ago)
AIR BUD
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
i think the question is like, an animal who could carry a movie or a tv show as the lead? and not just as a one off novelty, but an animal that people paid to see the same way they go to see clooney in movies
― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
So i'm going with benji.
― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
there were like 5 air buds! i watched at least 2 of them!
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
channing tatum
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure people are paying their monthly broadband bills almost solely to watch Winston on YouTube.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
Well, Toobin, like lots of practicing lawyers, is bound by their honor code; he can't get as critical as we'd like. I accept his toothless prose cuz he's the only one offering these insights.― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Didn't stop him from airing thos eunsourced comments about how Sotomayor was supposed to be stupid.
― c("c) (Leee), Friday, 2 September 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
In fact, wasn't there an implication that she only reached her pre-SCOTUS status because of affirmative action? Maybe the source was Clarence Thomas?
― c("c) (Leee), Friday, 2 September 2011 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
You're thinking of Jeffrey Rosen.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2011 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
Here: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-case-against-sotomayor
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
Snap, I've been beefing on the wrong law-talking guy named Jeff all this time.
― c("c) (Leee), Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
The Parfait profile is great!
― Mordy, Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoyed the Louis Menand piece on Dwight MacDonald and middlebrow. He's such a sleek, wry writer - he doesn't bulldoze MacDonald with his own opinions.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 09:49 (twelve years ago) link
Especially love his Thornton Wilder review: "I agree with everything Mr. Wilder says, but I will fight to the death his right to say it this way."
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
― Mordy, Saturday, September 3, 2011 5:26 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^
― johnny crunch, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
(is "parfait" some kind of nickname for the dude, i am not that into philosophy)
― comes correct with his gameboy (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol it was just a typo when i wrote that
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
(an auto-correct typo)
Good news for Nancy Franklin haters (I think she's OK but I seem to be in the minority)
http://www.observer.com/2011/09/new-yorker-television-critic-nancy-franklin-taking-a-break-from-writing/
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol i was about to post that
― max, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
PEACE OUT NANCE
max! didn't he want that job????
― quit stalking me shithead (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
gonna email remnick right now, would really appreciate a letter of recommendation que
― max, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
on it
― quit stalking me shithead (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
all joking aside though dude, you should do it. get a pitch together.
― quit stalking me shithead (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
i nominate the ilx tv krew to collaboratively write the new tv column for the new yorker
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
last couple of issues have been snoozy. did not really need 20 columns from different authors/columnists/whoever about how 9/11 impacted them. the long piece in the newest issue about the murdered pakistani journalist was pretty good but the rest was boring.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
every time this thread gets bumped i hope it's for a new david grann article
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
i would welcome anyone over herfor real, i can think of at least six people on ilx that could do better
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
i havent gotten an issue since the friday the 2nd :(
― stalk me shithead (from the makers of tickle me elmo) (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
i feel bad but i didnt even crack the cover of the 9/11 issue
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
i feel a lot less bad about nancy franklin not having a job as a tv critic
i skipped all the 9/11 pieces, felt ok about it
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
ha i liked a lot of the 9/11 pieces (zadie's, remnick's, mccann's), & that's where i'm up to in that issue, having fallen behind, etc. idk, i read those from the issue after 9/11, not so long ago (mainly for the poem on the back) & thought they were v memorable & insightful, even/particularly franzen's, someone probably people don't give so much of a shit about the political insight of, but who talked p presciently about the change in tone between the boom of the 90s & the different mood of the next decade, which, i don't know, might or might not have been excellent foresight on his part but which proved correct, iirc.
it's not so long since i re-subscribed, so i am maybe in my own ny-er golden age, but i've thought the last few issues good, the one with the neanderthal piece a pick-up from a quieter spell (the ones with dogs &c). there's always some small nick paumgarten/staffer piece i like, of the thing about the bus driver in the 9/11 one that's enough to chew on for awhile.
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Nancy's okay.
― em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
I liked it (not as much as the NY magazine 9/11) but if it's worthy, it will last. Good NYer stuff generally does.
― em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
i am reading janet malcolm on the journalist & the murderer out of the archives at the moment, it is great.
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
did anyone make a thread to compile the worst/best/o_O 9/11 10 year anniversary pieces?
i thought abt it but then decided not to mostly cause i didn't want to spend an afternoon looking for one worthy of an opening post :(
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Not to mention the fact that we were fcuking inundated w/9-11 anniversary pieces...
― em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
janet malcolm is a national treasure, love her so much.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link