do whatever you want in yr bathroom man thats none of my business destroy the world and all the trees idc
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
why dont you destroy the developing world with all your rare earth materials while im cutting down the trees
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
ipads are essential to my lifestyle i apologize to no one
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
i hate reading things on screens
yes, i appreciate the ironing
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
I feel like I have this weird mini-buzz of anxiety reading the NYer app, like I need to rush through the story for some reason. not as chill as reading papes
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
i read plenty of nyer articles on my phone, v enjoyable experience imo
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
how can you "read" soemthing on a phone, unless you mean someone is reading it over the phoen to you?
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
no piles of magazines no need to be in the place where the magazine is delivered to
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
My wife totally makes me read articles to her.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
well i guess we know who wears the pants in this family huh fellas
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
ouch!
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
i have to tell it how it is im just that real
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
the cool thing about the digital subscription is you can pay for a single month's subscription-- you end up paying like $15 more over the course of a year but w/e
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
i'm that guy who prints out longer articles from the web to read at home
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
It takes a real man to read a whole 23-page story about human suffering in Syria or whatever out loud.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Actually, what usually happens is that I make it several pages in, then she tells me to stop. So the next day I look for the issue, to finish the story, and she's taken it to finish on the train. And then she forgets it at work. So I never learn how they end!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
marriage!
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
It's all about teamwork: I start reading the articles and she finishes them.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
you really read them out loud?
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Not all of them. But sometimes, yeah!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
only in new york
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
that is real love
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nprQDt7zoEA
― balls, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
Real love is having two print subscriptions so you don't have to share.
I'm finding that I get through issues more speedily on the kindle! Like I actually finish the articles I want to read, instead of dog-earring the pages in print and then letting the pile up until I move house.
― quincie, Friday, 17 January 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago
why marriage is doomed
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 January 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
What about the POEMS?
― tbd (Eazy), Friday, 17 January 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hey there
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 17 January 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
it's always a treat spotting a dude on the train reading something from a website he printed out at the office, people watching bonus points
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 17 January 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Sticking it to The Man, one A4 sheet at a time.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
neat article: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/the-ipod-of-prison-sony-radio.html
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 January 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
great read
― Mordy , Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter
putting this here so i remember to read it
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.readability.com dude
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
use pocket instead or something
― markers, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
Or fold the fucking page over like every other person on the planet
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Ugh I hate Patricia Marx so much. Her shopping updates were dumb enough, but this week she writes about taking a trip on a freighter, which is potentially interesting, but her writing is so self-centered and cutesy and trite that the piece is totally worthless.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
i have never been able to figure out if those shopping articles are satire or not
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
There's this part of the freighter article where she starts talking about the crew and their lives and for a few paragraphs it's actually a decent article but then she has to go back to describing her shitty cabin and what stuff she packed and what food she ate and it's so awful.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit that Syngenta article
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
"Ya fulla my jizz right now"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
NA otm about that Patricia Marx piece. So much potential, so much UGH.
― quincie, Thursday, 6 February 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah
― Lamp, Thursday, 6 February 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
the last line of the Wm. Burroughs piece is painfully OTM
i read a lot of his stuff in college (the more narrative, straightforward stuff mostly, the cut-up shit was too abstract for me then, can't remember if i actually made it through NL) but feel no need whatsoever to return to it for any reason now
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 7 February 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
it's a negative review? i love burroughs
― flopson, Friday, 7 February 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
i mean of his work not the bio
i guess i can just go read it or look at the last line
― flopson, Friday, 7 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
let me save you some time.
The line is
"William Burroughs sucks."
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 7 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
lol
yesterday i read the evil oakland county mayor (what a fucking asshole!!!) one and the 20 page obama profile/interview. kind of wish the latter was just a 5 page interview w/o all the flourishes & context but it was pretty good, was actually kind of surprised how aware he was of a lot of criticisms from the left, seemed clear that he had thought about them a lot and responded to them fairly straightforwardly
― flopson, Friday, 7 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Loved the Obama piece, partly because it illustrated how the things I admire about him as a person, eg his sense of complexity and nuance, are at odds with the demands of the presidency.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Friday, 7 February 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
TNC did an excellent dissection of what he disliked about Obama's comments on black achievements.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/the-champion-barack-obama/283458/
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link