Catching up after being on vacation. Confidential informants article is seriously making my blood boil with fury. This is basically the death penalty for possession of weed.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it took me several days to actually finish the youth ci piece. i'd read a page and have to put it down, so disturbing and enraging.
― balls, Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
It is damning, yes
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 September 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
jets article has some solid LOLs, rushdie article is half fascinating and half weird (lots of self-aggrandizing and written in second person for some reason)
I glanced at the Rushdie piece, and isn't it in third person?
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, looking forward to that and the Elizabeth Warren profile once I finish the interminable article on the Danish architect.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, third person, you're right. mixed up my terminology.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Second person would be weird - like a choose your own adventure book but with a fatwa.
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
you are not the kind of guy who would be the target of a fatwa at a place like this at this time of the morning
― johnny crunch, Monday, 17 September 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
Your wife, who is falling out of love with you, calls you to say that 200 journalists are outside of your home. Do you:
a) Go home and fight through the mob of journalists to your home.b) Ask your wife to meet you at your agent's office.c) Say, "200? Exactly 200? It's very easy to make inaccurate estimates with a crowd that large, are you sure? I bet it's only 100."
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
You have written Haroun and The Sea of Stories.
Do you want to be a children's author? Go to page 43.Do you want to divorce your model wife? Go to page 230.
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
My English degree finally proves useful.
Also, GO TO PAGE 43 TO THE MAX.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol lol lol
― running like a young deer (symsymsym), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Thought the Rushdie piece was excellent, and I understand the impulse to write it in the 3rd person: both as a process, in order to step out from under that kind of shadow and describe it with any kind of objectivity; and as a kind of compensatory measure — he justifiably wants to sever the "I" from this story, to be regarded more for his work than his face/notoriety.
Also thought it was a good narrative strategy that dovetailed neatly w/ the historical sections....
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
ugh i couldn't read the gladwell thing about pedophiles, not even because of ugh gladwell, but it was just too disturbing and gross, it basically read like "how to be a pedophile"
good pieces this week: surprisingly touching profile of joe girardi, interesting piece about the first political consulting firm
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
really wish the contents flap on the front of the magazine read MALCOLM GLADWELL how to be a paedophile
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that article was really disturbing. could possibly do some good, though (or lead to more witchhunts).
― toby, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
My first fear was that Gladwell would have some sort of gimmick insight to offer on the subject. Which he didn't. But there were paragraphs in there that made my whole body cringe (b/c of the details).
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
i look forward to him including that article in his next book of mind-blowing essays for business-types
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
mind-blowing essays for child-molesters
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
mindful essays for child-blo[REDACTED]
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
from the author of BLINK and OUTLIERS: CREEPY GIGGLE
― goole, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/5944033/malcolm-gladwell-turns-jerry-sandusky-into-a-parable-by-leaving-out-some-facts?post=52780804
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
confidential informants article, so sad. the details about the parents' new routines.
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Thursday, 20 September 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Just getting around to Kolbert's article on Neanderthals, really good. This was a startling detail, though:
While I was in Leipzig, I watched a graduate student cut the heads off some of the altered mice and then slice up their brains, like radishes.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Thursday, 20 September 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i love that article. the part about the desire to raft into uncharted territory separating neanderthal from man.
you are v far behind w/your stack of nyers, though.
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
this is now my favorite new yorker cartoon of all time:
http://i45.tinypic.com/1q4jdu.jpg
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 21 September 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the one with the political candidate kissing a baby while it was breastfeeding. i chortled a little at that one.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 21 September 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
it was good anyway (i love that he's brought his stick into the room. it adds another layer to the whole ridiculous situation, which is that he's still playing childish games while his wife is moving on to having sex with...uh...humans), but the fact that the man's arm resembles a deer leg takes it to a new level.
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 21 September 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
the stick is such a nice touch
― balls, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
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omg
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
What issue was the Kolbert neanderthal thing in? I feel like I missed that.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
it was approx one zillion new yorker years ago
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_kolbert
i also like that neither the poodle or the deer-man look ashamed or startled at all. they're just like "fuck yeah we're having sex now, go play with your stick and get lost!"
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
prelude to a threesome
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
damn, this gonorrhea article is really dispiriting. I hate to think we are approaching a time where condoms for oral sex are gonna need to be the way of the world.
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
compelling reasons to skip articles
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
(not really)
(i am sexually responsible)
I totally laughed at the snake/cell phone gag.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/65/6561/WLD2100Z/posters/ariel-molvig-o-k-now-do-you-see-a-giant-snake-i-m-inside-the-snake-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg
haha
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
biden-as-server is good
roz chast is awful
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 September 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
I like the "My wife! My best friend!" cartoon very much, but I think of it as an extremely funny twist (the stick! Poor doggie!) on a fairly common joke among couples where the pets are allowed in the bedroom. I know I've yelled it at napping wife and cat enough times that they both hate me.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 27 September 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
i will admit that i laughed at the biden-as-waiter shouts and murmurs.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
it was a really good shouts and murmurs!
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't read it yet, but imo Biden is always comedy gold.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
wait, in the new one? my subscription just lapsed, and i'm waiting for my resubscription issues to arrive. are you telling me that in the ONE issue of the new yorker that i've missed in the last 6-7 years, there's FINALLY a shouts and murmurs??!!?
WTF
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Thursday, 27 September 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, finally a FUNNY shouts and murmurs??!?!
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/10/01/121001sh_shouts_barol
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 27 September 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link