lol oh man i know, 'sweetie'
― blossom smulch (schlump), Monday, 4 June 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
documentary abt that french impostor grann wrote abt http://kottke.org/12/06/the-impostor
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 June 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
this is awesome: david grann discusses researching his most recent article - http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2012/06/08/david-grann-on-the-making-of-the-yankee-comandante/
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
how much does someone like Grann make for a big NYer story like that?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
if he's a staff writer hes salaried at ~100k a/y iirc
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
Just finished that story. Amazing.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 9 June 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
I take it back the SF article is awesome and btw the Ray Bradbury one ;_;
― brony ver (s1ocki), Sunday, 10 June 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
I mean issue
― brony ver (s1ocki), Sunday, 10 June 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
Also smh at hating on Ursula K Leguin
― brony ver (s1ocki), Sunday, 10 June 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
Just read the Jennifer Egan story in the sci-fi issue, very entertaining. I can't decide what I think of her, exactly, but I do think she's good at what she does.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 June 2012 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
Sexy philanthropy article is so much awesome for its schadenfreude.
― Moves Like Zappa (Leee), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't seen this week's issue yet but I'm a fan of this sentence. ^^^
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's a few weeks old, that article, actually.
― Moves Like Zappa (Leee), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
&*%$ New Yorker!
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
I think the gist is that staff get paid low six figures and are basically given a very long leash, required to submit so many thousand words a year in some shape or form but mostly left to write and research.
Hey, want to hear something cool? Apparently I was on the cover of the New Yorker's mother's day issue, in cartoon form, with my kids!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
What issue was the Grann article in
Ps cool josh
― brony ver (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
so in 2012 we need a Ben Stiller profile that takes up half the magazine?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
Dude's a rising star. "Greenberg," "Night in the Museum 2," etc. Going places.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2012/06/18/le-guin-s-hypothesis/
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
I blame Tad Friend.
― Moves Like Zappa (Leee), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
The current issue is really boring IMO. Generally find their US political coverage to be blah, and I also think they kind of over-cover the middle east. Right now would be a good time for some articles on Europe.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
hah!
"The trouble with the Litfic vs Genre idea is that what looks like a reasonable distinction of varieties of fiction always hides a value judgment: Lit superior, Genre inferior. Sticking in a middle category of Good Bad Books is no help. You might just as well make another one, Bad Good Books, which everybody could fill at their whim — mine would contain a whole lot of Booker Prize winners..."
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry I mean the June 18 issue.
Seth McFarlane = no one caresObama article = zzzMid-east elections article = zzzEvangelical Preacher guy = sort of entertaining, but very standard "OMG look how crazy and backward these people are" fare
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently I was on the cover of the New Yorker's mother's day issue, in cartoon form, with my kids!
Awesome. Was that an accurate depiction of the parenting scene in O.P.?
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Evangelical Preacher guy = sort of entertaining, but very standard "OMG look how crazy and backward these people are" fare
I didn't read this, but I was amused to learn that the guy attacked the New Yorker piece primarily for its overuse of exclamation points in quotes attributed to him.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
via alfred
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/07/02/120702crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all
thought it makes a valid point but geez I wish people would stop it w/ noble savages and all that
― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
excited to read the menand essay
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Hated that Kolbert piece. Wish someone would write a story about all the machete-wielding jungle kids who don't make it. Reason I don't let my kids clean the house is because I'd rather clean the house than clean the house and clean up the mess they make cleaning the house.
I started that Ben Stiller piece, which I thought would be an OK state-of-Hollywood profile, but then it keeps going, and going, and the movie they keep describing him trying to make sounds sooooo bad, like "Bruce Almighty 2" or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 June 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
The big prob with that preacher is he's so influential. And as a follow-up to Romney's gay spokesman getting the message to resign, Jane Mayer recently quoted the preacher's on-air amazement, re if Romney would cave in to "some little hick like me," what would he do when dealing with evil foreigners etc?
― dow, Friday, 29 June 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
The Mexico article this week covers much the same ground as the NY Times magazine a few weeks back, but is still a great read.
A good friend of mine shot this week's preacher photo.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Friday, 29 June 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
The Menand essay is just ok: his usual smooth job of introducing a subject to a general audience who this time probably knows a litle about Joyce.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 June 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:54 (Yesterday) Permalink
This is everywhere in parenting right now, unfortunately. "Traditional societies" is the buzzword. Unless you're conservative, in which case it's "the french." But no matter how you slice it, americans are doing in wrong.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
love how the two model parenting methods are remote jungle tribe and...the french.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know why that seemed so funny to me.
i definitely agree with a stuff in that article. big time. i made my kids clean stuff for, like, 15 minutes after i read that.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's a great dichotomy. We're either too out of touch with our primal natures or not civilized enough, depending on who you ask.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
i made my kids clean stuff for, like, 15 minutes after i read that.
My two-year-old niece's knuckles are still bleeding from scrubbing the bathroom tile.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
there's a lot i could say about that article but maybe not here. boring state of parenthood stuff.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
It does not make a valid point and it's a horrible article and I can't believe any of you were swayed by it. This was a terrible issue btw.
― bamcquern, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
*goes to his room and bawls hysterically until x-box connected*
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
We're either too out of touch with our primal natures or not civilized enough, depending on who you ask.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, June 29, 2012 10:16 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
both!
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
My kids go or went to Montessori school, which makes self-suffience a priority. That is, pour your own milk, use real glasses, that sort of thing. But I still know better than to expect any standard of cleanliness from my kids. Which or course isn't really an issue in the jungle, or (ha) in France, either.
Also, article is misleading, because afaict, the French *hate* kids. They exist almost separate from the rest of society there, so I don't know what that person is talking about seeing kids out to dinner all the time. I highly doubt it. I can also almost guarantee that the French parent their kids in a way that would seem antiquated to Americans. I bet the dads do jack shit and don't even know how to do the laundry. I have a hunch the French would look at our rise in stay at home dads and scoff, since it's a woman's job to take care of children, etc. Anyway, fuck the French and their bad example. My kids are better.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
well, there was that line about French parents letting their kids bawl for ten minutes before doing anything.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
josh, france expert
― max, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
The French hate their kids. That's why they all turn out so French.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Did you know there's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants?
Oui, it's true!
do u have visual confirmation of this and if so how
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
There's a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all. A kid told me.
Actually, not that I can vouch 100% for its accuracy, but I like to tell other parents about a Times article I read once about doing Paris with kids. I recall thinking, really, Paris, with kids? So I read this article, and one after the other it's like "there's this great museum, but it's not good for kids, but there is a park across the street ..." or "this restaurant is awesome, though not really kid friendly, but if you go for a snack right at 5pm ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
Parenting is rife with these grass-is-greener scenarios. For example, they toilet train much fast in China. Why? Well, mainly because diapers are so expensive and, given the population, particularly wasteful there, so kids go without. Fine, except that means that little kids are literally shitting all over the place there. When a toddler has to go in China, they just drop le trou.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link