i'm moving in a few days and am thinking about trashing a couple years' worth of NYers :(
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
well they're not National Geographic
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
so you're saying they burn faster
― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
what is nat geo mag like these days? i've been thinking about sub'ing
― Mordy , Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Read the NYer article about it first!
k3vin I did the NYer trashing thing and what made it OK was/is Kindle version and bookmarking a bunch of the free articles that were pimped itt but that I had not yet gotten around to reading in print.
― quincie, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah i mean my subscription is still going to continue and if i want to reread anything i can just use the web archive, i just hate reading the digital NYers haha
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
mindy kaling, whoever you are, your "imagined invention" article titled "Leaning In" is an abomination. in your first paragraph, you mention that you play a character named Dr. Mindy Lahiri, so i can only assume that whatever television show or whatever you appear in is also terrible, and i feel sorry for the cast and crew that surrounds you. the completely unnecessary paragraphs that go on a deeply unfunny journey into the hypothetical 'albert-einstein-photo-guy-you-slept-with' scenario are somehow exhausting even though they take up no more than one column of space. the Kiss Monitor(tm) idea is not funny at all. even the illustration is stupid. go to hell mindy kaling, whoever you are, go to hell.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Her sitcom is pretty good.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
is there a new one this week? i didn't get one. huh.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
xpost oh, she was Kelly on the Office! hmph. well, i've never heard anyone say they like the office before, that's for sure. pretty obscure show imo
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
didn't she also do some terrible social-media-inflected reality show
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
guys don't panic, i got the new issue to download, just had to restart my kindle
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
oh thank god thank god
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
n/a I have to thank you for holding my hand through my NYer kindle edition transition. I end up reading a lot more of each issue now, for some reason.
― quincie, Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
no prob bob
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
i never got the ilx love for mindy kaling
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
she's a funny and talented woman iirc
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
she wrote lots of offices back when it was good and was a standout character -- what's not to get
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
disagree with your first two assertions. and the last.
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
you disagree that she wrote lots of offices?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
1 - funny2 - talented3 - wrote lots of offices back when it was good (even here i'm a lil shaky)4 - standout character
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
you forgot 2.5 - woman
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
guess what there's already a whole thread for everyone's amazing mindy kaling opinions: C/D MINDY KALING (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
she wrote a bunch of offices in season 2, 3, 4 -- there is no denying that that was "when it was good" and therefore there is no denying she is funny and talented QED
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
n/a: i know! that's why i said it's an ilx OPINIONtmi'm okay with "when it was good" more than when it was good
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
therefore there is no denying she is funny and talented QED
i must offer up this evidence in opposition:
Let me pain a pretty typical picture of the last person you made love to. Lying in bed afterward, you get to chatting. It is very nice at first; both of you use low bedroom voices and have mussed-up hair. Then he mentions off-handedly that his favorite photograph of all time is the one of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out. You laugh, thinking it is a joke."What? Of all photographs, of all time?""Yes."You sit up in bed."More than the protester in Tiananmen Square in front of the tanks? Or the National Geographic girl with the crazy penetrating eyes?""Yes, more than those photos.""Why? Why on earth?""It makes me feel like even though Albert Einstein was a big shot, he didn't take himself so seriously. It's like he's a genius but also chill. You know, work hard, play hard?"I'm of the mind that Albert Einstein was fine taking himself seriously. Not everyone needs to be an entertainer. (That's why I hate it when President Obama goes on talk shows too much.) Anyway, if it had just been a kiss, you never would have had to hear this stupid opinion. You would shudder remembering "the Albert Einstein-photo guy you slept with." You would still smile, thinking back wistfully to the "nice-smelling guy you smooched during intermission at 'The Book of Mormon.'"
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
I think LD already proved that not everyone who creates buzzed about tv shows is necessarily going to be good at writing NYer articles
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
she just kind of falls flat when she's writing/on talk shows/basically anything where she doesn't have a bigger cast to support her?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Read the article about Elmhurst Hospital in New York, and by the end I felt it was about three or four different subjects, none of which were quite written about to fruition. Frustrating.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, i got the sense it was a promise the author made to herself more than an essay
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i liked her dog article!
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
woody allen and steve martin proved that about tv writers well before dunham, odenkirk, and kaling got in the game
― balls, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
I actually liked most of the Style issue--Dapper Dan, the crazy billionaire aussie lady, the punk fashion article had some Richard Hell stuff, even the Lena Dunham, though way beneath NYer's standards, did have a circle of puppies sucking each other's dicks.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:50 PM (1 month ago)
― gr8080, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
the Kaling piece better have a cat orgy
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:07 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark'
woody allen wrote some amazingly hilarious stuff for the nyer back in the day
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
was gonna say. martin wasn't too shabby either... and labeling either of them as "tv writers" suggests that those balls are surrounded by a touch of grey
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
oh god forks
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
I was pretty neutral on Mindy Kaling before reading her NYer piece. Normally I would feel like "hey, kudos, it must be pretty cool to be published in the NYer!" But mostly I feel embarrassed for her. Like this is something she is going to regret in the morning.
Because it is really bad.
― quincie, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
tbf the margaret atwood inventions piece is shitty too and she's margaret atwood
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
i think the concept for those pieces was just bad overall
i will get by
― balls, Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Cyber espionage piece is A+, if not something I should be reading first thing in the morning.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link
"We're completely fucked."
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link
a lot of times people who do good work try something a lil out of their wheelhouse and maybe dont care so much and it comes out bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 12:24 (ten years ago) link
anyone ever read David Mamet on politics and life my god
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, May 17, 2013 5:56 AM (3 hours ago)
is this in the newest one?
― gr8080, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
yerp
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 17 May 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Looking forward to getting my hopes up and ultimately quashed with the fungus plastic and the renewable turbine energy articles.
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
i noticed two different articles commented on the number of piercings the person being profiled has
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Finally got an ipad subscription after usually buying loose issues. Will start with the cyber crime one first (in the evening)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 May 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link