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
this is the first thing i've read by her, stirred by her paris review interview cropping up elsewhere. i have been meaning to for awhile, half on the rep of the journalism piece, half thinking that i could probably manage another cold-as-ice dissection journalist in the mould of didion. really good so far. had wondered whether to pick up the iirc extended but still short journalist/murderer book? let me know if i am making a mistake & should switch.
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
Book is great but I don't know how much it adds to the New Yorker piece so not sure if it's worth the extra $$$.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
thanks; will maybe slip onto something else of hers (the psychotherapy one?) after.
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'd check out the book version, actually -- it's considerably longer, but still short (and not at all padded out).
If you want a detour from the investigative stuff, her book on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas is also pretty terrific and (just about) doesn't really require any prior Stein reading.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, September 7, 2011 5:49 AM (1 week ago)
^^yeah this is excellent!
― stalk me shithead (from the makers of tickle me elmo) (k3vin k.), Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
wait you like louis menand, kevin? this does ... does not sync with what i know about you.
― remy bean, Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
this sentence seems posed to give you hives:
But judging from my recent conversations with a handful of literary and intellectual types -- the heirs, you could say, to the Macdonald/Greenberg tradition -- we live, today, in a pleasingly hierarchy-free, almost utopian cultural world. Most people I know share my disparate taste, enjoying "South Park" alongside Franz Schubert, the crisply plotted novels of James M. Cain as well as the philosophically searching films of Antonioni.
― remy bean, Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
packer's 'state of the nation after 9/11' was suitably despairing (and a nice juxtaposition to gopnik's 'what me decline' piece) but managed to conveniently avoid a couple things:
a) despite congenially tearing walter russell mead a new one, did not mention that he himself supported the iraq war
b) no doubt beyond the article's scope, but maybe make a pass at why surry county, north carolina would continue to vote against its own economic interests
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
i never really cared for menand. macdonald was good though.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
The Metaphysical Club is as good as searching "popular" criticism gets.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link