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
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
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
i'm that guy who prints out longer articles from the web to read at home
― ★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
nobel prize for science to those hayes -> syngenta e-mailsso beautiful
― mustread guy (schlump), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
I was p pissed off about the Syngenta article cuz the day I read it, I was driving somewhere and npr did this really toothless summary/interview with the author where they presented the story as though Syngenta's actions were somewhat reasonable instead of being some sort of calculated Scientology-style mental fuckery
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Is there a name for a day where you read the New Yorker and listen to npr
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
Sunday
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
True
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 8 February 2014 04:08 (ten years ago) link
The piece about Diana Nyad this week is brilliant
― cerealbar, Saturday, 8 February 2014 10:52 (ten years ago) link
lots of New Yorker plot (w/Sparks Nevada as a NY writer) on Brooklyn 99 this week
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
i have issues w/diana nyad but first few pages of article were fascinating. will finish later.
― jaymc, Sunday, 9 February 2014 07:54 (ten years ago) link
Good piece but didn't they do a nyad piece in the not-to-distant past? Like withing a few years?
― quincie, Sunday, 9 February 2014 09:21 (ten years ago) link
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, February 7, 2014 11:19 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hah really, did u think he was dumb or something
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 February 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
I decided somewhat on a whim to read all the articles in the current issue - I usually read about one on average. The Roger Angell piece on being 90+ is great - kind of stunning in its frankness. The Batuman article on Turkey is pretty good, although it seems now that she's mastered that understated, knowing New-Yorker style there's less of her personality than in her older articles that I prefer. I ended up enjoying the piece on Amazon's fraught relationship with the NY publishing establishment a lot more than I expected to, mainly for how Amazon seems to have a gift for inciting the publishing world into paroxysms of rage that end up being kind of self-destructive - witness the whole Apple iBook anti-trust debacle, which seems to be a major self-inflicted wound driven by Amazon derangement syndrome.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
i read that nantucket boating article, the most baffling part was
Tom began running summer fishing charters out of the island's West End. He'd make himself a peanut butter, mayonnaise, and lettuce sandwich,
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
YES
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Haha, otm! I read that article last night and was baffled by that as well. I demand a follow-up story on that terrible sandwich.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
the Angell piece o.nate references is amazing.
― Simon H., Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
It's online here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/17/140217fa_fact_angell
― o. nate, Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
True rationalists are as rare in life as actual deconstructionists are in university English departments, or true bisexuals in gay bars.
fuckin gopnik
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 February 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link