i am david remnick
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 August 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
thought iatee was david remnick
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
i am iatee
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
gasp!
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
In hindsight a month later, funny that the giant Ben Stiller profile was kn the occasion of The Watch.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
who reads that stuff?
― flopson, Monday, 20 August 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
kinda like the big anna faris profile ahead of what's your number?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yep.
Also this week, new Jane Mayer:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/27/120827fa_fact_mayer
Wonder if she'll combine this with her Koch Bros. profile for a bok on billionaires and politics.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Monday, 20 August 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all
I found this inneresting
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
he's kinda zuckerbergian
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
After that top 40 hitmakers piece, we get two more how the pop sausage is made pieces: the Bieber bro and the One Direction bros. One more article like those and I think I'm all set to dominate the top 40.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
the piece about the violinist is surprisingly good
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
ooh thanks for reminding me to read that one
― There's gotta be an opposition party or something in Russia, right? (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
it made me actually want to listen to him. in fact I am right now
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
why surprisingly
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
violinist piece was v excellent imho, beiber bro was good, what an uninteresting fellow
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
i reread the paragraphs about Bieber meeting up with The Wanted 3 times, and then ditched the article because life was complete.
he sees someone from the Wanted and they calling each other bro and comparing tats. Wanted guy lifts up his shirt and has one of his own lyrics tattooed there, and it's really embarrassing, but Bieber's like "cool tat bro, let me show you mine". Bieber reveals his tattoo of Christ praying and everyone in the Wanted is stunned. Bieber starts flicking everyone's balls. after a few failures he finally lands a solid hit on someone from the Wanted. the Wanted guy wants to hit him back but "doesn't want to hurt his pretty face" or something like that. Bieber's manager is like "HIT HIM IN THE BALLS, WE'RE FAMILY", but then Bieber starts crying. he doesn't want to get hit, no fairsies! waaaaaaaaah. "Where is my dressing room" he asks
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the bieber manager himself seems pretty zzzzzzzzz but any of the parts of the article featuring bieber are hilarious, he's so dumb and infantile
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
From the online section: an appraisal of Lester Bangs. I love the clueless comments.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
My favorite bit in the Bieber article:
Bieber greeted the members of the Wanted familiarly. (Braun’s policy, among his acts, is that “everyone’s family, everyone has to get along.”)
“It’s your birthday, bro?” Bieber said to Nathan Sykes, one of the band’s singers. He had been prepped by Braun, who was throwing Sykes a party that night, at the Playboy Mansion. The young men immediately began comparing tattoos. George lifted up his shirt to reveal some song lyrics: “We try / we fall / we live another day.”
“Dope,” Bieber said, and pulled up his pant leg to show, on his calf, a large tattoo of Jesus with hands clasped in prayer. (Bieber and his mother are devout Christians.) The Wanted members looked a little stunned.
Biebs trying to be cool by using slang.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
I think I have a small lit crush on Maria Bustillos ever since I read her joint-review of the Olive Garden on The Awl.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
We try / we fall / we live another day
THOSE were the lyrics. i was sitting here at work trying to come up with the most stupidest combination of words of all time (usually something that comes very easily to me), but i couldn't remember.
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
I guess wrt the violinist piece, I just didn't expect to be that impressed or surprised by the approach of a modern violinist, and also I thought from the title and taglines that it was about something else (e.g. maybe one of these dull "science of making a violin sound good" kind of pieces). But then the guy seemed totally OTM to me, and he kind of expressed something I had experienced but not identified in trying to find good recordings of various violin pieces (lately, on Spotify) and feeling like too many of them were similar to each other and not quite hitting me the way I wanted them to.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Bieber’s fans, who call themselves Beliebers
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
I've lost all respect for the Biebster :(
― I am one who socks (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
it's really sad, he is an irritating little shitstain
― goole, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
Braun’s policy, among his acts, is that “everyone’s family, everyone has to get alongpunch everyone else in the dong.”
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha yes this was sublime
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
violinist piece was cool, you get a feeling for not only the guy's skill but also his inimitable artistry - to ppl who understand this kind of music better than i it must be like seeing marat safin play tennis for the first time, or manu ginobili playing basketball
― k3vin k., Friday, 31 August 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone get to Anthony Lane's piece on Portrait of a Lady?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 September 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
i was gonna finish that issue on the train tonight - should i bother with that if I haven't read the novel?
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
story on confidential informants was pretty fucked up
ariel levy on naomi wolf's new book was pretty awesome
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the levy review too tho the 50 shades connection seemed forced
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
curious about jets and satanic verses
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
My last three issues have said WARNING LAST ISSUE on the front, and yesterday they accidentally mailed me an issue from 2-3 weeks ago.
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
WARNING WERE DRUNK
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
jets article has some solid LOLs, rushdie article is half fascinating and half weird (lots of self-aggrandizing and written in second person for some reason)
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
the 50 shades connection seemed forced
tru. tho tbh 50 shades sounded kind of ok in comparison to vagina: a new biography
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
i'll wait for the oral history
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
LOVED the Levy review. Much more elegantly devastating than the straight-up axe-grinding of, say, Katie Roiphe's Slate review.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
have to check it out, seeing all these headlines re her new book i realized i couldnt remember what i disliked abt naomi wolf
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Going way back to the Rachel Carson/DDT/mosquito debate:
When the recently created Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT for most domestic uses in 1972, this ruling had no force in other parts of the world and the insecticide remained part of the international anti-malaria arsenal. The United States continued to manufacture and export DDT until the mid-1980s, and it has always been available from pesticide makers in other countries.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/silent_spring_turns_50_biographer_william_souder_clears_up_myths_about_rachel_carson_.2.html
― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
FYI, Ware has been sneaking himself into his past several covers, Where's Waldo? style. That's him on the bike in the lower left of the Sept. 17 issue.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Catching up after being on vacation. Confidential informants article is seriously making my blood boil with fury. This is basically the death penalty for possession of weed.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it took me several days to actually finish the youth ci piece. i'd read a page and have to put it down, so disturbing and enraging.
― balls, Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
It is damning, yes
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 September 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
I glanced at the Rushdie piece, and isn't it in third person?
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, looking forward to that and the Elizabeth Warren profile once I finish the interminable article on the Danish architect.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, third person, you're right. mixed up my terminology.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Second person would be weird - like a choose your own adventure book but with a fatwa.
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link