want to start a thread about the article this week about the increase in the number of people who believe they are part of a truman show-esque reality tv show but it's a subscriber-only article
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 September 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
how long til they are available for cheapskates to read, usually?
that sounds cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 September 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
i think most stuff just stays subscriber-only forever, via the online archives
it's pretty interesting but one of those articles i wish was longer. the broader context is about how the time and area where psychotics live affects how their psychosis manifests itself.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 September 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
I liked that article fine, but it felt overly familiar. Has the NYer been doing a lot of schizophrenia stuff or is that just me? They have definitely been hitting the "medical" theme pretty hard in the past couple of years.
― quincie, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
yea i agree that article felt kinda bs/pedestrian idk
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
fuck you guys
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 September 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
j/k lol
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 September 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, September 9, 2013 5:31 PM (2 hours ago)
dude the NYer is like the biggest bargain in the world, what is it like less than 2 bucks an issue for some pretty consistently top-shelf writing
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
just launched today on zinio too, if ur 'over' paper (been on newsstand for a while i believe).
― spring has sprung the grass is risible (haitch), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
I just suspended my account till further notice. :-\ the back issues were becoming a physical hazard, or they still are because I am lazy.
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
if i haven't finished them after 2 months, i recycle them
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
my partner is still waiting for a "better deal" to renew. i'm like "better deal? it's almost free. just renew already."
or you could share...?
i haven't read the truman show article yet but it has been frustrating how abrupt the recent medical coverage has been. the one on the balkan kidney disease was kind of infuriating with how "talk of the town" it was, just blithe & condescending.
― awake the snorting citizens (discreet), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:43 (ten years ago) link
condescending?
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:45 (ten years ago) link
they've been sending me 'renew now for only us$60!!!!1' emails, but i pay fifty bucks through itunes discounts, so
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:51 (ten years ago) link
"condescending" might be putting it too strongly, it's an instance of the house style (and some pretty obvious editing iirc) not being equal to a condition that is some kind of deep legacy of underdevelopment, poverty & war.
― awake the snorting citizens (discreet), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:56 (ten years ago) link
I liked the Balkan kidney disease piece, but I'm generally a fan of Elif Batuman's work so maybe I'm biased. I didn't find it at all condescending. The personal connection through her father made it more emotionally resonant I thought. It was kind of inspiring to read about these researchers who keep plugging away for decades on some obscure disease, but also kind of melancholy in its acknowledgement of the lack of answers.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
nyu prez sounds like a freak
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
hes super freaky
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
The hugging!
― quincie, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Truman Show article is interesting enough but it's obviously just there to convince me I'm not in a reality simulation so is a bit on the nose. Nice try though and the rest of the issue is impressively realistic.
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 14 September 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 September 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
lol
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Sunday, 15 September 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
is nobody mentioning the line in that piece where the guy's parents are like you have to PROMISE to go to rehab THE SECOND you get back from the three-day jam-band festival
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Sunday, 15 September 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
haha yes
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 September 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
until then have a great time honey
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 September 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
lol s1ocki
― flopson, Sunday, 15 September 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
lol yes and then just briefly mention dad is a music promoter at the same festival
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, 15 September 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
bustle.com piece is hilarious
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
would read the shit outta this site if it was just verbatim transcriptions of the guy's blue-sky-thinking business platitudes
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Friday, 20 September 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
With his puffy face and untrimmed hair, he resembles a giant six-year-old.
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 September 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
i liked how repeatedly everyone talked about how bleacher report is the worst site
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 September 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
Nixon-Kissinger going ham on India reminds me what a gift to humanity those tapes are.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 September 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
women in their twenties care abt things? news to me
― johnny crunch, Friday, 20 September 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
Breaking bad dude piece is ok
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 September 2013 03:25 (ten years ago) link
'let's go drive by your childhood house' is so trite tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 September 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
Haha yeah
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 September 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
the cranston piece is good but it felt like kinda a missed opportunity to me, like there is this fascinating Generic Dad quality to him that they didn't quite get to the bottom of, he has a motto, he makes those weird score-charts, he is all charmingly doofy. I remember hearing him on Marc Maron, answering questions about Seinfeld w like "JERRY SEINFELD. FUNNY GUY." like I just wish it had exclusively zeroed in on this avuncular quirk & its perfect cohesion w Walter White but maybe that's just me
hey also I like the staff photographer guy now
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Friday, 20 September 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
it was odd to read the cranston piece one week after the claire danes piece. they were kind of the same article. great actors in great shows! took a long time to get where they are! crazy parents! commonly praised as the nicest person in show business! but i guess those are all standard celeb profile tropes.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 September 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
this is the worst cover I can remember I think
― schlump, Monday, 23 September 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
it's pretty bad. jesse looks like peyton manning!
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 23 September 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
um, that's not jesse
― balls, Monday, 23 September 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Bashar_al-Assad_(cropped).jpg
― balls, Monday, 23 September 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
lmao @ myself (although tbf i'd been watching nothing but football and breaking bad for the previous 15 hours)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 23 September 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
hah
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
its actually tom brady
At 4 A.M. Afrojack left the stage, dropped his shoes off in his room, and headed to an after-party in the suite of a friend, the French d.j. Cedric Gervais, who had performed at a different Wynn club that night. A few members of the Denver Broncos were there, and a young cosmetology student in black short shorts went around offering small white tablets of MDMA, or molly, the drug of choice for many clubgoers. (Gervais denies throwing a party.)
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
eileen fisher piece is bizarre
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
i loved it
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Me too! And I've always thought of Eileen Fisher at the Brand for Women Who Have Just Given Up
― quincie, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link