It was so Ron Swanson.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
LA Mogul is the AEG guy?
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
Wow the Don Bosco article is a tour de force. I'm still not done with it, but I don't think an article has ever made me feel such a potent mixture of admiration and utter horror.
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Yeah, AEG guy, who doesn't do interviews and is a conservative Christian. For some reason it just felt like a story I've read several times over the course of the past few years.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
got all geared up for a bitchy hatchet job on callista gingrich but that article illustrated what happens when you have a non-cooperative (and essentially boring) subject
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
shouldve just been 10 full pages of portraits of he frozen real doll face
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
I want to say the current issue is at least the second and maybe the third in recent memory to feature an author overview that focuses on the writing of explicit sex scenes. In other words, this is two issues in a row that I'd consider a bust, unless the piece about the guy trying to save a breed of endangered turtle is worthwhile.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
i agree, i skipped most of the articles in the last couple of issues. although oddly shouts & murmurs was again at least amusing this week - your basic outsourcing/foreigners jokes but by gary shteyngart who at least is a little weird and funny.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
sorry i said at least so many times
main thing i learned from the gingrich article this week: his first wife was his high school geometry teacher!?!?
I thought I had totally missed this detail until I got the magazine last night and realized that you were talking about the Gingrich article in this week's issue (focusing on Callista), rather than the one from two weeks ago (focusing on Newt).
(Anyone think that the New Yorker jumped the gun about six weeks ago, when Newt was leading the polls, and assigned both of those pieces with the assumption that his campaign would be doing better than it is?)
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
kinda, but newt is p much a fascinating topic anytime
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
True!
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
plus newt is on the rebound now
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepics5/CallistaNewYorker.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
in real life she looks like an animatronic figure designed by ralph steadman
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
just read that article, yeah holy wow @ that illustration
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
i'm gonna crosspost this here just in case we have any harper's readers who check this thread:
i'm halfway through this article and it's totally fascinating: http://harpers.org/archive/2012/02/0083789story of peru's largest prison, so overcrowded and understaffed that the inmates essentially are able to live normal lives within its confines: it basically has its own economy (inmates own and run restaurants and shops inside the prison) run on contraband brought by visitors; its inmates' (drastically disparate) living conditions are determined by their wealth, much like the outside world; and in one literally walled-off community they even hold local elections. the story follows some of the delegado candidates in the days leading up to the big election― tebow gotti (k3vin k.)
story of peru's largest prison, so overcrowded and understaffed that the inmates essentially are able to live normal lives within its confines: it basically has its own economy (inmates own and run restaurants and shops inside the prison) run on contraband brought by visitors; its inmates' (drastically disparate) living conditions are determined by their wealth, much like the outside world; and in one literally walled-off community they even hold local elections. the story follows some of the delegado candidates in the days leading up to the big election
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.)
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
there was a similar piece abt a brazilian prison in the times a while ago, so nuts
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
Donald Hall's essay on growing old was great
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 27 January 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh alright i gotta read that, it seemed interesting but then i forgot about it
steve coll's piece on mullah omar and the relationship between the US, afghanistan, and pakistan (& the taliban and al qaeda) was a good read too, especially if you haven't read much about omar
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
yah it was p sweet
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
which 1
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
mullah omar
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
'essay abt aging' isnt exactly in my wheelhouse
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah me otm
xp aw u old
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm about to start the Hall essay. I'm getting old!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
we shall wear our trousers rolled
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
I hate peaches though
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
i'm up and down with gopnik but i thought this was a thoughtful and interesting piece on prisons in americahttp://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
― SELF DEPORTATION (Z S), Friday, 27 January 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
what do u people think of the new tv critic, anyone is better than nancy franklin but she called dexter like intelligent and charismatic so basically i have decided never to read her
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
i like her writing, i don't think i've watched any of the shows she's written about
― the American Enterprise Institute asks "How Thick Is Your (symsymsym), Friday, 27 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
"better than nancy franklin" is pretty much the most i can say for her.
read the Bosco football and the 13 year old kills grandpa, goes to jail for life stories this morning. It's a fucking hard time being young right now.
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
i find myself missing nancy franklin or like the idea of nancy franklin. i guess it was p lol that the ny had someone who p much totally resisted the default narrative abt tv's golden age or w/e and just seemed bemused and mostly indifferent to the prestige cable dramas and single camera sitcoms that most tv critics really love. i mean i cant imagine that nancy franklin even knew 'community' was a tv show never mind thought it was 'the smartest sitcom on tv' or w/e. i just wish she were a better writer or smarter or s.thing so that when she treated the sopranos w/the same breezy condescension w/which she wrote abt dance moms or w/e it wasnt just dumm
anyway the new critic is a better writer, i thought her piece in last week's issue was p good but its mostly just standard blog opinions i guess
― Lamp, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
w/e w/e w/e
― Lamp, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
w/e w/e w/e so excited
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol yes reading her on downtown abbey I thought to myself the nyer has hired a blog style writer how interesting
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol same
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
downtown abbey
for a long time i thought this was what the show was called, tht i was abt like cool nuns or s.thing
― Lamp, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
ha the iPad did that swear, but I have for sure thought abt how it'd be a good name for an olde timey prostitute
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
did nancy franklin die or something?
― President Keyes, Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
she just like resigned w/o really having a new job/diff project iirc
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
For some reason I always mixed her up with the Sci-Ti weirdo who voices Bart Simpson. Cartwright, I know.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 28 January 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
It seems like every issue of Harpers or the New Yorker has an essay about aging. A gentle reminisce with a sting in the tail about 2000 words in. Boooring
― badg, Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
nuh uh, and nope
― SELF DEPORTATION (Z S), Sunday, 29 January 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
v. good issue this week - sad but balanced article about rutgers suicide, chinese "work novels", cookie factory strikes; i even liked the classical pianist talking about his recording process even if he came off a little annoying. i think i read every article this week after a few weeks of skipping lots of stuff.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the last two weeks blew over me but the current issue is a grab bag. Putting it off until I have time to read it all properly.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
slight update to the don bosco article: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2012/01/on-youthful-indiscretions-and-high-school-football.html
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting, not to defend some of the words he was using in the least, but have some of those people never seen a teenager's Twitter feed before? Seems like such an innocuous thing to lost a football career over.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that seems like some pretty sanctimonious bullshit
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link