NYT op-ed page
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 May 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
the guardian
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 May 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
a couple years ago when Jonathan Franzen said he considered adopting an Iraqi war orphan but was dissuaded by his editor "because it would negatively impact his work," i bought his newly released book PURITY because i fell into the habit of clowning on Franzen without ever having read any of his books. i ended up really liking it, and then loved FREEDOM. at the same time, it's impossible to ignore his squareness and prickishness, so i think he qualifies?
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 May 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
amanda marcottepeter daoujason whitlockoliver willisjonathan chait
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 30 May 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
Ooooo Amanda Marcotte is a good one
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
That Sgt Pepper piece... đł
peter daou's twitter is probably my favorite hate read
â k3vin k., Monday, 29 May 2017 17:51 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Wow this is actually the same peter daou who made 'surrender yourself' and 'give myself to you'.
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
I think the fact that Franzen is actually good at writing novels is exactly what gives Franzen hate its meaning and force! If he were just some dude who's bad at things there would somehow be no point.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
But the hate read of all hate reads, for me, is Metropolitan fucking Diary.
aside from Chait, do you actually Read these ppl, or just know them for bad tweet infamy? im more angry about knowing about them in the first place. like you could call "the game theory guy" a hate read, but he's a random dude with no platform recursively famous for, making a bad tweet
― flopson, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
â i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:04 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love that daou's house music was actually good
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
i used to hate-read an arthur chu piece whenever i saw it but i haven't seen his name outside of twitter for a very long time
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
too busy fighting off ants
― mh, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
xp- ur probably blocked
― flopson, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
i stopped over the past few years but i've been hate-reading amanda marcotte for like a decade now? maybe more. she's such a horrible writer. bad person worse writer. that's what makes her so hate-readable, i guess.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
The company I freelance for is on The Spectator mailing list, so I get to hate read that every week. They have to be commended for getting the three of the biggest cunts in Britain - James Delingpole, Toby Young, Rob Liddle - together in the pages of one magazine.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link
the dream team
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 10:23 (six years ago) link
At this point, prob BIll Simmons. I should stop hate-reading him cause each of his columns is like 30,000 wods long
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
Any dumb article about people using their cell phones too much or how we no longer connect with people.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
any dumb article deploring participation trophies
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
frederik b
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 31 May 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
Good morning. I think you're going to want to build dinner tonight around Samin Nosrat's new recipe for herb-stuffed garlic bread (above), which I think might end up as the "Bodak Yellow" of the Cooking world this month â maybe this year. It's really, really good.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
any otm & futile takedown of tory bullshit, such as this:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2017/09/i-ve-annotated-government-s-response-petition-calling-another-brexit
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
For all the terrible news of this morning, for all the heartbreak and terror, this is still, as Robert McCloskey put it, a time of wonder, a time of change. The temperature may be summery where you hang your hat, but the birds know the score. It is fall now, time to gather your provisions even as your heart swells with fear, time to shift gears.So it won't be caprese for dinner tonight, as it has been these last three Mondays. (It could be eggplant, but we're done with the grilled corn.) Instead, maybe something hearty: chicken wings with gochujang, ginger and garlic, for instance, and a viewing of "The Bletchly Circle" on Netflix. (Or, you know, the Redskins-Chiefs game.)
So it won't be caprese for dinner tonight, as it has been these last three Mondays. (It could be eggplant, but we're done with the grilled corn.) Instead, maybe something hearty: chicken wings with gochujang, ginger and garlic, for instance, and a viewing of "The Bletchly Circle" on Netflix. (Or, you know, the Redskins-Chiefs game.)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 October 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
Comments sections.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 03:45 (six years ago) link
Thank you for these excerpts TH
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
you're welcome. just panning for gold. like this excerpt, which would make a fine hate-read for anybody. you could read it tonight.
Don't let the pork be all you cook today, though. It is for some the start of Advent today - the first day of the liturgical year in many Christian churches and the beginning of the season that culminates in celebration of the birth of Jesus, at Christmas.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
there's a natural wine restaurant/bar whose mailing list i'm on, for some reason, and i'm fairly sure the eponymous proprietor writes their weekly email, mainly because nobody paid to do it would manage such a blend of pomposity and passive aggression. i look forward to reading it each week to find a new instance of this man's awfulness.
this was one recent highlight:
Come work with me! But why would you? Eric Schmidt talking Sheryl Sandberg into joining Google:
âDonât be an idiot. Get on a rocket ship. When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves. And when companies arenât growing quickly or their missions donât matter as much, thatâs when stagnation and politics come in. If youâre offered a seat on a rocket ship, donât ask what seat. Just get on.â
Whilst we arenât exactly Google, we are definitely getting busier and trying our very best to have a memorable impact on the way people go out to eat and drink. It has always been hard to find the right people to join me on this journey. But every single person who has taken the risk of working with me, has grown into someone magnificent and has managed to exceed their own expectations of what can be achieved in with a career in hospitality.
Sure, the path has been rocky and I would like to admit that I have not always been the best employer or spotted where things were going wrong in my own business. I have however learnt to not do the same mistakes again and slowly moulded my business into a place where creativity, freedom, financial reward and training are all corner stones of Sager + Wilde.
Now, in our fifth year, I feel ready to take on anyone wanting to be on our journey and to grow with us.
Reach out to me if you want to join us, be it on the floor, behind the bar or in the kitchen. And please do tell as many people as possible about this. You donât need loads and loads of experience, I prefer to work with people full of character and develop the skills.
I cannot wait to hear from you and see where this will take us!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
how many warning signs can we spot?
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
What are you wine-ing for?
We have bought a shitload of amazing wines and listed them at ridiculously low prices, many of them way below retail.
From old Barolo, via badass natural wine, to the cheapest Selosse on the market, there is not a single wine on here I wouldn't smash right now.
Oh christ
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
hahaha that is hilarious
BUT
said restaurant is actually great
― imago, Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
whilst we arenât exactly Google, ILX has always felt like a rocket ship to me, specifically the kind where it takes decades to reach the destination, which may or may not be suitable for colonization, and suspended animation hasnât been invented yet.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
We are definitely getting older and trying to have a barely noticeable impact on the way people talk about race, politics and the arts.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
Reach out to me if you want to join us, be it on ILM, behind the 77 or in the server farm. And please do tell as many people as possible about this. You donât need loads and loads of experience, I prefer to work with people full of character and develop the trolls.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
I'm in
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
ignoble rot
― ||||||||, Sunday, 3 December 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
Bad news and scary facts swirl around us even as we grow hungry, and even as we choose to make an Ethiopian-style spicy chicken (above) for dinner instead of simply eating takeout protein while scrolling through our news feed, worrying about the future. That is more than right. That is as it should be. We feed ourselves well because good food makes things better, makes possible the belief that despite all, everything will be all right.
Bear that in mind this weekend, as Hanukkah continues and the Christmas holiday looms. The weather outside is frightful (here, anyway, dour and chill), and the news may be as bad, but there's still the possibility of happiness around your dinner table, at least if you cook low and slow with one of our five-star recipes for chilly days, or see your way to baking a batch or two of thin-and-crisp chocolate chip cookies.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
Good morning. The streets are still a little quiet in the wake of Christmas, people staying on with family in Waukesha, padding down the beach at North Cap, walking to yoga class with Michelle Obama. Manhattan offices are running at 60 percent, good people crunching end-of-year numbers and eating Popeyes for lunch, then hitting the H Mart en route to the subway and home: mapo ragĂš (above) for supper, and six new episodes of "Peaky Blinders" to follow. Stay up late, and trickle into work in the morning tomorrow at 10. No one's stressing anything this week. The nation's at idle.
Still, we'll cook a lot. I'd like a Gruyère and chive soufflÊ this week, really I would. And a spinach, tofu and sesame stir-fry as well. This would be a great week to make garlicky chicken with a lemon-anchovy sauce, or to simmer lamb meatballs in a pomegranate glaze.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
that tone really is quite special
― Number None, Thursday, 28 December 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
i don't know if it's author photo that's suggesting it but i picture sam sifton as fred macmurray, tucked-in polo shirt, clean apron over the slacks, setting down a gin-and-tonic and sticking out an honest hand to shake yours, somehow remembering the name of your aunt. he's johnny carson, nebraska values in a faithless world, a rock in the storm. i mean just look at that name! it's the name of a sheriff's deputy who has three lines near the beginning of the film. he has such longevity as a hate-read for me i think because he is, apart from the absolutely back-breaking bathos of his format, a pretty good writer, and also because the small-town guy in the big city trick is straight out of my own bag. he got out of winesburg, ohio while the getting was good (look, i'm starting to sound like him) but he carries this core of common american white male plain-spoken decency around with him that lets him get away with all kinds of fruity pronouncements on exotic tapenades etc. i absolutely hate him and cannot stop reading his newsletter.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
The only hate read I can think of is Bob Lefsetz's blog, but that's mainly through the ilm thread on him.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 28 December 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
ILE
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
even seemingly innocuous grafs like this push all my buttonsYou could make velvety chicken breasts with mustard sauce for dinner. Or you could spend the afternoon making shrimp and scallop DUMPLINGS! instead.look i do this "false choice" trick with my kids all the time, stop pressuring me into shit, sam
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
i have no idea why "DUMPLINGS!" capitalised and got an exclamation point on post, sorryi read this yesterday. after the familiar claims made on my afternoon he said:Do this at the very least: Take a few navel oranges, and put them in the fridge overnight, then slice them into eighths in the morning and eat them standing over the sink, before you've even made coffee or tea. Then tell me if there's a better fruit available, save a perfect watermelon or, like, three mangoes a year. I dream about those oranges this time of year, and they surprise me in the morning every time. Plain yogurt is a good chaser, and then I see about the coffee and head off to work.now, this actually sounds pretty good. but it brings me uncomfortably close to sam sifton the man. i feel like i'm in his underwear, there with him as he scratches his nuts. DO NOT WANT. (see you tomorrow!)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
vox.com
and also the former colleague who is loading up her Instagram feed with her new business of being a "thought leader" and doing the requisite online webinars.
― Lyudmila Pavlichenko (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
oh man, colleagues doin thought-leader life-coach stuff on their instas is like a whole nother grisly category
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
ILX
― akm, Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
I'm starting to take this personally now
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
i really hate 'the outline'
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 11 November 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
Scott Adams!
I don't knowingly read anything Scott Adams writes, but I will read Dilbert out of habit. I'm not sure how much Adams actively participates in the strip these days. I think he gets most of his ideas from fan mail and delegates the inking to interns or something.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 November 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
I resubscribed to the NY Times Cooking newsletter just to hate-read Sifton. This isnât as bathetic as usual but itâs just as grasping. Imagine this being said by Dick Cavett:Good day. Howâs it going for you right now, where you stay? Itâs unsettling, whatâs happening in our nation and across the world, and itâs maybe super-unsettling whatâs happening in your neighborhood, your village, your building, your apartment, your head. Loads of people are sitting scared, some frozen, unsure what to do besides look at screens. Will it be worse tomorrow, or just the same?The answerâs in the kitchen, Iâm certain. Many have stockpiled for weeks of social distancing, if the shelves at the market are any indication. Theyâve hunkered down. And perhaps you have, too. I hope so. The time to make the most of it is now.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 March 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
so i'm not alone in that!
― forensic plumber (harbl), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
there was one when he was in the hamptons, i died
his rhythm and tone are so chirpy and unrelenting, if he was a budgie youâd throw a tea towel over his cage
― estela, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
shame to burn a good tea towel like that tbh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
what if itâs an old waltzing matilda tea towel with a big scorch mark on the jolly swagmanâs boot
― estela, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
cavett emptor so
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:43 (four years ago) link
Good morning. I hope you got some time to rest and reflect this weekend, to sit with where weâre at in the world, and where we might go. I hope the conversations you were able to have at the kitchen table were good, even if they were just with yourself, and I hope that this week brings you grace and hope in equal measure, even against a backdrop of anger and anxiety.
I believe cooking can help. Both the activity of it and the fellowship it provides â again, even if youâre just cooking for yourself. It is difficult not to become a little cheerful, for instance, making Ali Slagleâs puckish new recipe for crispy sour cream and onion chicken (above)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
NO
― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
haha what a sanctimonious twat
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Thursday, 18 June 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
the fellowship it provides â again, even if youâre just cooking for yourself.
yeah like the yale club for losers
― j., Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
Tracer, is that Sam Sifton? Please link to your hate reads so we can all hate read them.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
Lol yes it is and yes I will - however I like to think my judicious hate-filled editing really conveys him at his least attractive
here's the column in questionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/dining/what-to-cook-right-now.html
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 June 2020 08:08 (three years ago) link
âPuckish new recipeâ
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
so glad i found the sifton hate club, dude writes like a youtube yoga influencer
― adam, Thursday, 18 June 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
sam sifton you never disappoint when i am looking for innocuous things to hate
So, maybe: a kind of Eastertime stir-fry of onion, shredded cabbage, apples and ham? Itâs pretty simple, a hack of an old Nigel Slater recipe someone once sent me: Melt some butter in a large pan, and sweat the onions in it, with a clove or two of garlic, if you have any./
please sir, can you spare some garlic?
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
can't stand the "clove or two of garlic" approach to cooking, imagine making a dish with 0.25 cloves of garlic per person, why bother putting any in at all? also feel annoyed every time I read/hear the phrase "a stir-fry" - you know it's going to have undercooked carrots, overcooked beansprouts, tinned water chestnuts, limp red pepper and taste of absolutely nothing.but yeah it's also bad writing
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
when I make some garlic infused oil for pasta I use 2-3 bulbs, cannot take people seriously who talk in units of cloves
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
a whole bulb in curries at least, sometimes three depending on my supplies
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
I don't know if my taste buds are knackered from smoking, but I cannot sense the taste of garlic on the 1-2 cloves in a recipe range.
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
idk i could never be accused of under-seasoning my food but i could see using two cloves to make cabbage because i like the taste of cabbage, and i use 5 or so cloves in curry. but this it not about the garlic quantity it's about sam's ability to stuff every sentence he writes with these annoying and meaningless flourishes.
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
I always imagine it's these so relaxed, we're-only-throwing-together-a-simple-supper dudes who would be simmering with barely contained fury if you were cooking in their kitchen and chose the wrong salad bowl.
― mahb, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
i have fantasized so many times about doing a podcast of his columns where i just read them in the most earnest midwest accent possible.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
But if youâve got a little bit of gas left in your tank? How about putting together the very best charcuterie board (above) for dinner tonight?
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, 2 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
emails from certain co-workers
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 2 December 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
harbl i just shuddered visibly
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 December 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
surely homeopathic use of cloves has some benefit. Keeps fractions of vampires away at least?
BUt I do tend to use one whole bulb in a meal preparation.
I don't think UI have had the chance to work out what a hate read would be, spending too much time reading through part of what I want to read for itself and surrounded by loads of other possible great reads. Do you use a hate read as a palate cleanser or at least resetter?So you have a baseline to compare good writing to?I do remember reading a music journalist I cant read and Hilary Mantel in quick juxtaposition and thinking the quality difference was mammoth. But find it odd that anybody would have the time to actively hate read. Would be good to have the time to read everything one would actually want to. is there a level of masochism involved?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:14 (two years ago) link
I tend to use a whole bulb of garlic at a time as well stevo, it's the key to immortality imo.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
Thatâs not what John Retoul says
― mardheamac (gyac), Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
I've got the power to weaken the undead knave, just by breathing on him!
― calzino, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
apparently when you crush garlic there is a chemical reaction that alters its cellular makeup and makes it very good for your health.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:38 (two years ago) link