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
surprised that made it through fact checking
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 21 February 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
gopniiiiiiik *shakes fist at nyer app*
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 February 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
Gopnik wrote the article as if trying to impress disillusioned McSweeney's readers.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
is it played to complain about how shitty borowitz is
― goole, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
i mean, fuck
I've got a teaching colleague who posts Borowitz garbage on Facebook every day
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
are you implying there are people somewhere on facebook who don't post borowitz garbage every day?
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
I deny the existence of people who write "Essential reading!!" on a Borowitz garbage post.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
how about peolpe who write "haha" or "totally true" on a garbage borowitz post?
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
The top two slots on the "most popular" list are Borowitz yet again. Do you think the Gopniks and the Hertzbergs really hate him for that? I would.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
i am at peace with max's justification of borowitz's existence, which is essentially that he brings the NYer a lot of clicks so they can keep paying people to write cool stuff
― k3vin k., Thursday, 27 February 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
it is the search for the justification of those clicks that keeps us awake though
― mustread guy (schlump), Thursday, 27 February 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
what is up with the pluralization of 'SATs'
it's not even consistent
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 February 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
the borowitz report is a million times better than letting gopnik right about books
― Lamp, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
― mookieproof, Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:22 PM (Yesterday)
huh?
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 February 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Taking the SATs is not something to do lightly.The last time I took the SATs, there was no essay.she determined to take the SAT each of the seven times it was offered in the course of the calendar yearStier’s only experience with the SAT was the sort that most students have, or at least hadThe SATs were administered for the first time on June 23, 1926.
The last time I took the SATs, there was no essay.
she determined to take the SAT each of the seven times it was offered in the course of the calendar year
Stier’s only experience with the SAT was the sort that most students have, or at least had
The SATs were administered for the first time on June 23, 1926.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
oh i thought you were referring to there not being an apostrophe. yeah unless there's some sort of difference in i'm not aware of that's poor editing
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link