no it's not very cover-y at all
haha xp
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ya i assumed it was from deej's "which awful alt-weekly cover story essay on jay-z is worse??" but i guess you'd know better
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Is It OK To Like Chris Brown's New Single?What to do when a bad person makes a good song.
Creed Is GoodScott Stapp's nu-grunge foursome was seriously underrated.
Can Miley Cyrus Save Health Care Reform?The pop starlet's new single is great, goofy—and bipartisan!—fun.
The Last SelloutsPearl Jam's brilliant new single, brought to you by Target.
Over the HumpThe Black Eyed Peas' inescapable, incoherent, irresistible new song.
Was Limp Bizkit Really That Bad?Why the most hated band ever deserves another listen.
Ladies! I Can't Hear You! No, Really, I Can't Hear You!Where did all the female rappers go?
Lil Wayne and the Afronaut InvasionWhy have so many black musicians been obsessed with outer space?
The Cure for the Common ColdplayThe band's surprising new album.
― jØrdån (omar little), Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Impressive corpus.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
You missed this one:
Unbearable WhitenessThat queasy feeling you get when watching a Wes Anderson movie.
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Slate's new challops column.
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― jØrdån (omar little), Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
My new Slate column: "Received Contrarianism"
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the rest of Slate any good? I rarely read it.
― kshighway1, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Varies wildly from writer to writer, but I'd say overall it's gotten worse over the years.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit, that city paper story takes the fucking cake - easily the worst thing I've read this year
― Brio, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Craziest thing about the CP story is that it's not by some dumb young kid:
http://www.nathanielturner.com/baltimoreoratorbarrymichaelcooper.htm
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
:O
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Totally thought that was written by a college kid.
― Brio, Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Every single one of this guy's article titles outdoes most of the #slatepitches responses.
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23slatepitches
― dabug, Friday, 6 November 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, you can't out-Slate Slate...
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Friday, 6 November 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
from city pages in mpls, steely dan concert review:
http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2009/11/steely_dan_at_t.php
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I imagined myself in a wood-paneled basement rec room party with Chicago and the Pat Metheny Group.would go to that party.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
City Pages, RIP.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think that's a badly written piece at all
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i thought of a slatepitch this morning... what was it
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 9 November 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh, that Dan piece. being a middle aged loner with no taste and a clear disdain for people more successful than you is NAGL. it would help if she at least learned to write a serviceable punchline
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 November 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i just hate that smug failure to try to even engage with something, just recycling lazy "zings" about something you clearly don't even really understand
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yup
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 November 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
oh I don't agree with her at all and think her succession of lazy zings are very revealing about her own very funny and fairly arbitrary insecurities but I don't think its badly written per se. its kinda funny.
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
she would make a perfect subject for a Becker/Fagan song lolz
not really--how fucking old are these jokes at this point? cocaine! wine coolers! parents are old! lol!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
there are (perhaps unintentional?) lolz at the fact that she stresses how HER parents wouldn't be here, just YOUR parents. whoah, judgmental much...
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
also hey who has issues about being 30yo and unmarried and clinging to juvenile aesthetic positions derived from received wisdom
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
but mostly she just hates nerds!
― Brio, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.city-data.com/forum/members/bs13690-83559-albums-random-pics-pic43266-nerds-ogre.jpg
― Brio, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
having a downtown condo and drinking chardonnay sounds tite imo
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Starbucks wasn't hiring, huh?
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the best thing about the steely dan thing was when i clicked to the second page and there were pictures of john d. and donald fagen both singing with their heads held high. wanna hear that duet!
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait its on the first page too.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
pwned
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
matos, come home.
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, November 9, 2009 4:13 PM (50 minutes ago)
ok but the entire glue of her piece is supposed to be this wit she brings - if we agree she can't write a punchline and goes for only the laziest of zings, what's of value? was there any insight you gained?
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 November 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so tempted to RAMPAGE THOSE COMMENTS, but, why
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Monday, November 9, 2009 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
^^ this ain't no shit btw
goole do you even do stuff for them anymore?
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
the insight i gained is she needs an editor: "I have to say it's a pretty brilliant concept to feature entire album on tour." if you're gonna do a disreview your writing should at least be clean, especially at your zing-a-sentence ending there
― kamerad, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, but my mom tells better jokes and has more insight than this critic.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
was there any insight you gained?
main insight is that the writer is neurotic. I def. didn't learn anything about the music haha
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
What is the ridiculous strawman that Steely Dan fans think that Dan music is somehow the apotheosis of jazz fused with rock?
I will say that while I thought her writing was horrible, the gig she described sounded great!
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I see wine coolers at the Publix every visit and always wonder who the hell buys them in 2009.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ shakey's halfhearted backhanded defense of this awful piece
― heart goin ham (deej), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
jk i havent even read the piece
oh, right: Becker-Fagen groupies buy wine coolers.
is this piece online only? i know the alt weekly in my city is under huge pressure to just churn out content constantly for the web these days, so "editing" is kinda a thing of the past. Gotta get those click throughs y'all!also, i don't think I've ever had a wine cooler. are they tasty? are they like the steely dan of beverages?
― tylerw, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link