"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
the afrojack/vegas thing was a fun read but i wish it had been given to sanneh or even sfj
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
From the Bible onward, two men having intercourse has been viewed as more disturbing to the social order than two women doing whatever it is that lesbians do.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
That sounds like Gopnik.
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
i thought this adelle waldman essay was really good, and reminded me that i have a copy of her new novel that i should probably read
― Lamp, Friday, 4 October 2013 06:44 (ten years ago) link
i love that talk of the town piece revealing jimmy webb as a huge concorde nerd
warning: new one has a truly revolting piece about SF tech dudes
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 7 October 2013 09:15 (ten years ago) link
wow this tech dude piece is making me want to destroy everything
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Monday, 7 October 2013 09:49 (ten years ago) link
Who is Nathan Heller?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 October 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
i'm guessing a journalist, given that he has written a longform article in the new yorker, but i could be wrong
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Monday, 7 October 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
He's film & TV critic for Vogue, writes for Slate, New York, the New Yorker and others. Frighteningly sharp imo.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Used to write for the Atlantic, and before that the AV Club, I think? I seem to remember him writing something okay but too long about John Kerry. Is it the writing that's gross, or the subject?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 7 October 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
Kinda both.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
Did anyone else like the Joshua Ferris fiction? I read it before I noticed the author (happens to me a lot on the Kindle, for some reason), and was like WHOA that was something.
― quincie, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Please let this SF article be a Stephen Glass/Jayson Blair thing, exposed when someone sends it to the Third Eye Blind guy...
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I mean, the overall premise is interesting, and a look into the Summer of Love (or probably even the 1849 prospectors) would feature a lot of flakes...
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
this is unbearable
the logo should be a graffiti mural of the word CULTURE being pushed forward into a butt
― schlump, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link