wait, how were the characters in AD aware of the camera?
― jon and kate catch h8 (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh heh next post. just a one-time joke iirc
I have memories of Jason Batemen giving a knowing/pained look to the camera i.e. Jim from the Office at least a few times.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
good issue so far-- the George Packer article about the Biden staffer was riveting, even though not much happened.
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
that one was tl;dr for me. characteristically my favorite article was the one about the battling contingents on sark, the weird feudal island in the english channel.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
that sounds good, & i'm psyched for this issue, but how simultaneously good & long-term reorientingly depressing the last couple of big packer articles have been fills me w/dread
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
really enjoyed the last issue; lots of solid content top to bottom
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
I really don't like Nussbamum that much. I want to say this is the second or third piece she's written that just seems like a long list of shows she likes better than some show she mentioned at the beginning. Definitely the NYorker writer most likely to use the placeholder "like" in a piece, if, like, she hasn't already.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i am crazy behind on my new yorkers but omg that larissa macfarquhar profile of hilary mantel from a few issues back was amazing! it made me want to read everything mantel ever wrote.
― horseshoe, Friday, 26 October 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
if you haven't already, def read mantel. one of the few contemporary novelists i rate (obv wolf hall is gonna be the big one now, but i loved the one about the medium).
― Mordy, Friday, 26 October 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
i am obsessed with her and want to write a novel about her now. (probably macfarguhar would do a better job of that.)
― horseshoe, Friday, 26 October 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
i want to read the one about the french revolution
i know i am very very late on mantel and i have no time to read gigantic novels but whatever
― horseshoe, Friday, 26 October 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
where is max
― horseshoe, Friday, 26 October 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
the best part about gigantic novels is that there's no time for them. You just start them and finish them 1-7 years later
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 26 October 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of starting things and not finishing them, silby... :-D
― seandalai lama (Leee), Saturday, 27 October 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
What is Mantel's "thing" as a novelist?
― seandalai lama (Leee), Saturday, 27 October 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
she writes... mantelpieces!
― Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Saturday, 27 October 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
the nyer piece was all u can't pin her down she doesn't have a style! idk I only read wolf hall and the sequel, masterpieces the both
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
wolf hall is not that long guys jeez. and it's a p quick read.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
I think she was talking abt the French book
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
eh bien
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
in the nyer piece it said she wrote the French one first but it was never published then like 15 years later she went back and rewrote parts of it and then released it which is kinda interesting
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 27 October 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
also she believes in ghosts
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 October 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
― seandalai lama (Leee), Friday, October 26, 2012 8:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait what month is it
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
experiment in love is p good too
― max, Saturday, 27 October 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
sooo macfarquhar kind of copped mantel's style for that profile, no? at least that's the effect i got, being not entirely familiar with each.
― goole, Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
yes it read like she was taking the mantel approach to mantel. maybe that's gimmicky? i loved it.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
i think because it made it seem like macfarquhar had really fallen under her spell or something?
― horseshoe, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
this week's issue was the best in probably a few years
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 October 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
Good Jane Meyer piece tho I miss her writing on foreign policy.
Is seymour gone now?!?
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 29 October 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
He's probably under deep cover, disguised as a chair in the Oval Office to get the scoop.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 October 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
Been wondering about him as well. Did a Democracy Now interview earlier in the summer. Still probably looking at Iran.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Monday, 29 October 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
Lobbyist piece = was DAAAMN
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 29 October 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Is the Lobbyist piece also the Biden piece? Which issue is that?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 October 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
It's the issue with Romney getting his tats crossed out on the cover.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 29 October 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
that article is amazing. What's also amazing is how strong the agenda for this issue is.
1. talk of town replaced with extensive editorial endorsing Obamma2. Financial article on dangers of romneycare3. Article about voter fraud fraud4. sark article, I skipped5. on the obama campaign6. this pretty long article which is essentially an ad for this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Payoff-Wall-Street-Always/dp/1935212966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351569897&sr=8-1&keywords=the+payoff
that's where I am so far. I'm not complaining.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's solid for sure
And I am TOTALLY buying that book
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
SAUNDERS SAUNDERS SAUNDERS
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/10/I-was-Ayn-rands-lover.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
"also we’d sometimes see my friends there, and, like clockwork, there’d be this big argument about global monetary policy and whether Foghat was even real music."
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
it's like he knows us
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
that sark article was so great, i cant believe its non-fiction
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, 10 November 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Thought the "Iron Curtain" book review was so good I don't need to read the book.
The ?uestlove profile was great, too. It contained one of the saddest commentaries on race I've ever read, subtle though it may have been. After ?uestlove finishes an album, he likes to "test drive" it, playing in his car stereo as he drives around Philly. Growing up, the only people he knew who drove nice cars and big SUVs were drug dealers, so ?uestlove apparently drives a Scion. So he's driving his Scion around one night, and he gets pulled over not once, not twice, but three times. After the last time he asks the officer, come on, why me? And the officer admits that seeing a large black man driving around at night in a Scion, he basically assumed he had stolen the car from some college kid.
Damned if you do ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
I thought that article was interesting b/c I think ?uestlove is interesting, but there were some cringey middle-aged white-guy-writing-about-rap bits in it.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 12 November 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
wait til you guys read the kid rock profile this week
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 November 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
(it's pretty boring)
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, I thought it struck a fine balance. No "Mr. ?uestlove," 41, who makes a living performing with many notable rapper musicians between jobs disc jockeying and serving as the music director for Jimmy Fallon, a television program watched by young people" sort of stuff. I thought it did a nice job dancing around the issue of making music listened to largely through white ears, or played for white audiences, or for "Pitchfork and Slate," while at the same time underscoring that there is no escape from race, going back to the "damned if you do ..." situation.
xpost Is there really a Kid Rock profile?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 November 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
At least they captured him at the peak of his powers and popularity.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Kelefa wrote it! was wondering what he was up to
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 November 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link