which stand to reason if you look at how much work is put into it compared to its ad pages xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
I resubscribed for $39 last October and got a letter last week saying "later this summer we'll be sending you your renewal invoice, just letting you know now. PS, renewal will be $69, kthxbye."
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
I love the weird outdated upper crust ads in the NYer - handmade safari hats etc.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
I seem to remember Harpers having a great snobby personals section at one time where posters would rattle off advanced degrees and esoteric requirements. I guess that's off topic.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
haha yes
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
dont know what street youre on! its either made a profit or been pretty close since the early 2000s. last few years were probly rough but its not like harpers or whatever
― max, Monday, 30 July 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
what r u even basing this on max
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
the only time i ever heard about nyer finances was wrt its editors - iirc the Remnick Era is cited w/turning it around & making it profitable? but then that might be wrt not spending money on a big wedding cake for tina brown to pop out of every time she entered a room.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:45 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha otm, also upstate schools for sensitive childrenthis thread has convinced me to nobly re-up at full cost when i get around to it, anyway
― , Blogger (schlump), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
argh what was the harpers personal section called, something like "discerning singles"?
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
distracting shingles
― , Blogger (schlump), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:49 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"word on the street"?
― max, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
i already took word on the street, maybe try talk of the town
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
As an Oberlin alum, I like seeing the ads for Kendall at Oberlin, the retirement community in Oberlin. For old people who like access to world class music performances, good film series, obnoxious college students, cornfields and economically depressed Ohio.
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, with the sheep right
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
i dont think so! pretty sure it turns a profit
― max, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:37 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well no one but conde nast knows but the word on the street is its a prestige loss leader
― lag∞n, Monday, July 30, 2012 10:41 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is also what I have heard from my friend 'the street', fwiw.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
googling turns up a couple references to it turning profits in the late 90s/early 2000s. if its losing money its not losing money on the order of harpers, newsweek, etc.
― max, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
let's write fanfic about it
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, July 30, 2012 10:45 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i thought it would be a good idea to write a piece about the longterm advertisers in the nyer, like the guy who's still selling french berets 40 years later
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
So many adds for psychiatric treatment!
― quincie, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
ads, even
i want to live in the basketweaving/potterymaking/afghanknitting communities for seniors that they push
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
psyched for this
https://twitter.com/DavidGrann/status/229746942727557120
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
i love con people
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
have you ever read david maurer's the big con?
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
me tooxpost
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
its one of the most entertaining and fascinating books ever imo - maurer was a linguist in the 30s who wanted to write a book about underworld slang, but then was so captivated by the con men he met in his research he just devoted a whole book to them
i should check that out, someone was just telling me abt another con book last night which tells the true story of a mark who later after much effort turned the tables and ran a con on his conners
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
whoa what's that
DEF read the maurer, its a nonstop delight
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
lol i dont remember what it was called, ill check out the big con tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
its called 'the mark inside' apparently
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
whoa my name is mark
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
or is it
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
let me give u this envelope with $50 in it
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
ok but I'm going to need you to give me a $25 start-up fee as well
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
whoa can i get in on this
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
recommend me some con movies
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
past issue was partic lame; I'm slogging through the bruce story which ain't half bad but i hardly feel motivated to tackle an episodic zadie smith short story and, i'm sorry, is this a shouts and murmurs told from the perspective of an unopened condom in rubber patois?
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
I also liked the condom story.
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
farewell, jonah lehrer. you've always been a bit slipshod in your attempt to out-gladwell gladwell but i didn't expect this.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-new-yorker-after-making-up-dylan-quotes-for-his-book/
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
Such a waste. For one thing, there are existing quotes that would have done the job almost as well. For another, don't fuck with Dylanologists - they know everything. If you're going to lose one of the best jobs in journalism for making shit up go the full Blair/Glass. Use your - heh - imagination.
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, July 30, 2012 11:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so i read this story at lunch ... it's interesting but not completely satisfying? i would like to talk about it with you guys once you have a chance to read it.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
btw this is an actual final line from one of the articles this week:
The call reverberated through the neighborhood: "Turd!"
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
screen name waiting to happen
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
sigh
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
"so i read this story at lunch ... it's interesting but not completely satisfying? i would like to talk about it with you guys once you have a chance to read it."
Is this the article about the cheating marathon dude?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
It seems kind of a low stakes bit of cheating to me. Looking at pics of the dude and imagining him running a 17 minute 5k is pretty funny though.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, July 30, 2012 4:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^posts very much in character waiting to happen
― Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
^response very much in character to posts very much in character to screen name waiting to happen
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
wait let's pause this i have another good joke to make
― Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link