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
It's not that the piece is really AWFUL as much as it's just really, really stupid; you get a sense that the author is WAY more of a douchebag poser twit than the people she's criticizing for SHOCK HORROR having fun at a Steely Dan concert
Wine coolers are awesome until you turn 19
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Like life.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
:'(
― tylerw, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link