xp i agree there were several descriptor details (not just weight stuff, cant remember off hand) that made me cringe
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
It'll be a decade for me this summer. One of the first issues I got featured that Alex Ross article on Radiohead.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
o one was not eye candy but "eye protein"i guess that might'ev been str8 reportage tho
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah just the constant status updates on his weight like it must be a sign of his anxiousness!!!
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
when my mom visits she always asks why i read the new yorker when i no longer live in new york.
:-/
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
no answer will satisfy her
I'm on a $20-something subscription for one year, I randomly got a solicitation letter one day and was all, woah nice deal.
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 05:03 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol my friends do this too, it is annoying
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
what, ask? or read it?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ask
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"why do you read entertainment weekly if you're not an entertainer"
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"why do you read the atlantic monthly if you're not a large body of water"
― Lamp, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, then she'll thumb through the first 20 pages or so and see a bunch of listings for upcoming local NY events, so I guess I can sort of see it. I'm trying to give my mam the benefit of the doubt, dudes
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
when people ask me that i just tell them the nyer has hilarious cartoons and that's why i subscribe
― gr8080, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i tell them it's for nancy franklins incisive tv criticism
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i need to know consumer goods prices from patricia marx
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
what is up with patricia marx anyway?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
she's working it on the avenue
― Prom Dressantino 2011 (Lamp), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
partricia marx stuff is just crazy. how long has she been writing for the magazine?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes it's funny, but most of the time I start reading it without paying attention and start thinking, when is this interesting article about shopping going to get to the point? Then I notice it's her article and I realize it's just going to be 3 more pages of gift prices and snarky comments.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh fuckin hate patricia marx
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like shes been writing the xmas issue 'upper west siders buy shit' article since i started reading the mag in high school but google says 1989
sometimes i half enjoy the ivy league legacy types @ the new yorker but marx is p worthless & unfunny
― Prom Dressantino 2011 (Lamp), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but as bad as she is, even she isn't as unfunny and uninteresting as shouts and murmurs routinely is.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
do people find the woody allen shouts & murmurs funny? i can barley get through those and they're only like a page long.
and patricia marx articles are the only ones i skip by byline alone.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder why i don't spend more time being enraged by patricia marx, the way i do with nancy franklin? it's like i forget she exists as soon as i see her byline and think "wtf?"
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't mind Nancy Franklin.
I loved Woody Allen growing up, but his S + M stuff is terrible. Maybe it's no different and I'm the one who changed. I love Jack Handey and a few others. Every few issues there's a S + M that I think is pretty funny.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Did not know that Ben McGrath was only 34.
http://www.newyorker.com/images/contributors/p233/contributor_benmcgrathphoto_p233_crop.jpg
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure that I've ever laughed, even internally, at Shouts + Murmurs. Not even Woody Allen, and I love that guy.
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
this was good - What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was...
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
sad to see bob odenkirk being unfunny in last weeks S&M.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like trying to be funny at a funeral; the location makes things more difficult.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Simon Rich has a lot of funny ones:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/simon_rich/search?contributorName=simon%20rich
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't care for any of those really.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
but that's me i guess.
i don't even bother w/ "shouts & murmurs" anymore
― gr8080, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I like a enough of them. Maybe you guys aren't "new yorker" enough. Maybe Hawaii and New Jersey have their own funny magazines for your sensibilities.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, dude i am posting from 53rd and 5th. i was mugged on the way in by the statue of liberty.
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I AM NY
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
simon rich and jack handey are the only shouts and murmurs authors worth reading
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
patricia marx sucks but its harder to be mad about her than nancy franklin b/c theres no reason for them to have only one, terrible tv reviewer, instead of one terrible one and one p good one, the way they do with all the rest of their critics
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
name names
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lane - gooddenby - terrible
alex ross - goodsfj - hit or miss
james wood and some of the other bros - okadam gopnik - f this dude
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
poor joan acocella
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"some of the other bros"
― max, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
if you are a(n american) sports fan, it's def worth reading ben mcgrath on concussions in football ― mookieproof, Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmarkthis one from 2009 is a great read too: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell― gr8080, Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mookieproof, Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
this one from 2009 is a great read too: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell
― gr8080, Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I was like wtf big-upping a Gladwell piece, but after I read it, it's actually a little bit better on both the medical side and the moral side (though I can imagine people thinking that MG is stretching the analogy).
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Thursday, 3 February 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol malcom gladwell hating is such an ILX cliche
― gr8080, Thursday, 3 February 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
lol so is ur face. ^_^
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Thursday, 3 February 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm a big peter schjalujkojahl fan. forget who the other art critic is.
― Moreno, Thursday, 3 February 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think they have a second art critic. not in the back of the book.
and yea i like schjeldahl too. dont always agree with him but hes a great writer.
― max, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I can see that Gopnik is incredibly intelligent and a deft, original prose writer but something about him aggravates the hell out of me. It's self-conscious "fine writing" of the kind that James Wood is always slamming in fiction.
I saw that Ben McGrath was 34 and that he'd first contributed in 2002. I don't know how anyone gets to be a New Yorker contributor but certainly not a 25/26-year-old. Do you just get the call one day? Do you hang around the office until they get tired of telling you no? Do you have to make your bones, mob-style?
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 3 February 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link