*** SPOILER ABOUT THAT ONE ***
that lede is so great, the way it changes meaning once you read the whole story is so good]
*** SPOILERS ALERTS *****
― zero dark (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 March 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
ha yeah
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
is that 1 in the book?
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Horrible Aussie mining billionaire story is awesome. Worst non war criminal person ever?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/skip2.jpg
― balls, Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
balls otm. xp
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol yes otm
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 March 2013 07:06 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
she's fairly awful. her transparent efforts to control the press for her own were (and still are) just vile.
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
for her own *interests
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
the whole grann book is legit
― I only get 7 per cent of display names (cozen), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
xp this is the 'poem' she wrote last year
Our FutureThe globe is sadly groaning with debt, poverty and strifeAnd billions now are pleading to enjoy a better lifeTheir hope lies with resources buried deep within the earthAnd the enterprise and capital which give each project worthIs our future threatened with massive debts run up by political hacksWho dig themselves out by unleashing rampant taxThe end result is sending Australian investment, growth and jobs offshoreThis type of direction is harmful to our coreSome envious unthinking people have been connedTo think prosperity is created by waving a magic wandThrough such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurledAgainst miners, workers and related industries who strive to build the worldDevelop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shoresTo benefit from the export of our minerals and oresThe world's poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fateOur nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late.
The globe is sadly groaning with debt, poverty and strifeAnd billions now are pleading to enjoy a better lifeTheir hope lies with resources buried deep within the earthAnd the enterprise and capital which give each project worthIs our future threatened with massive debts run up by political hacksWho dig themselves out by unleashing rampant taxThe end result is sending Australian investment, growth and jobs offshoreThis type of direction is harmful to our coreSome envious unthinking people have been connedTo think prosperity is created by waving a magic wandThrough such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurledAgainst miners, workers and related industries who strive to build the worldDevelop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shoresTo benefit from the export of our minerals and oresThe world's poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fateOur nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late.
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
The Rose Porteous story (identified as Rose Lacson in the Gina Rinheart article) is just as interesting and possibly more lurid
― badg, Sunday, 24 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
squid update http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/25/3912930/giant-squid-bait-patience-lots-cash-catch-a-monster
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
OK I'm like the most stupid NYer subscriber I think? Soooooo like some articles are available at nyer.com for free? 'Cause I like reading that format sooooooo much better than the tiny-magazine-digitized-from-print format. Can I get full issues in that free-on-nyerdotcom somehow?
Why am I having so much trouble with these, geez.
― quincie, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah only some articles are free and in the good format
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
the rest are pay and in the bad format
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
FML
― quincie, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
youd think they could just suck all the text out and dump it in the good format im not sure what the problem is
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
actually I think I deal with the Kindle but I am not gonna go back and pay to get articles from issues past (for which I would have to pay for Kindle, and I have this dumb online archive subscription for the moment).
So before I cancel dumb online archive subscription and stick to Kindle-only going forward, pleasepleaseplease can ya'll help me with of must-reads from like the past 12 months? Just whatever you remember being awesome in addition to trans teens and giant squids.
― quincie, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
there is a not very useful thread fwiw This is the thread where we point out goodies we find in *The Complete New Yorker*
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
the other David grann piece about the American spy for Cuba is the first thing that comes to mind
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
And yeah this one: btw the one from december about the DMV middle manager who invented his own language and then discovered it had been adopted by a crazy russian far-right psy-ops militant movement was so so good
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ice craem man help me out here with the more recent stuff. In no particular order, I have something like:
1) trans teens (aren't there two articles on this? 2)giant squid 3) language inventor 4) Cuban spy (thanks N/A)
5-20 = ?
― quincie, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
heres yr grann archives http://www.newyorker.com/search?rows=10&contributorName=david+grann&sort=publishdate+desc%2C+score+desc&page=1
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
second this
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
squid piece is old btw
btw that squid guy REALLY loves neil diamond huh
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
other awesome pieces that come to mind
- libertarian billionaire by george packer- all louis menand, partic his pieces on dwight macdonald and ts eliot- "dr don" pharmacist in rural colorado or whatever - bitcoins- james suroweicki's recent column on the soda tax- atul gawande on "hot spotting" (this may not be within a year but as a health care person you should read it)- piece on dakotah eliason and the juvenile justice system- tyler clementi :(- caro on LBJ- raw milk crazies- genetically modified mosquitos- violinist- confidential informants- sark- soldier who tries to track down the family he massacred in iraq- rachel aviv on sex offenders
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 March 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
how did you remember all that
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
did you just look itt
dope list kev, +1ing Dr Don & addingwhoever wrote about Neanderthalsall Batuman, particularly Gobekli Tepe & the bird sanctuary& the Derek Parfit profe
― schlump, Monday, 25 March 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
anyway i read most of those and they were good, except caro, that guy cant be serious
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:32 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha m/l
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 March 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
OK I have read some of those but mostly not, gonna hijack my in-law's printer and PRINT those I have not yet read, then cancel dumb online archive subscription and stick to Kindle edition. Thank you v much for recs! Everyone please post more before I cut the archive cord!
FWIW so so many of these were dog-eared in my print editions that were piled liberally around the house; when I had to move out of said house, I tossed them secure in the belief that I could read them on my laptop to my heart's content. Little did I know how sucky that reading experience would be.
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
that psychonetics one is nuts and also available online free: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer
also the hezbollah reacting to syria one i thought was really nicely written: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/02/25/130225fa_fact_filkins (not freely available)
― Mordy, Monday, 25 March 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Love Batuman, but I'd go for the women's theater over the bird sanctuary. Neolithic article is money all the way through, though.
I'd add a couple energy/environment articles, first the one on the artificial leaf (Magritte cover), and then the one about reforesting desert areas.
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Cosign on rural pharmacist, that shit was all-time.
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Monday, 25 March 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
the aussie mining lady truly seems horrible, but it is mitigated by how incredibly miserable she seems. like kane x100000
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 25 March 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
(carol kane)
ya she seems like theres something really wrong w her
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 March 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
she's got a sort of childlike mind in some respects (e.g. self-awareness), so not dissimilar to your michael jackson, say
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
Which issue is this?
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
style issue (unbelievably)
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
Still haven't gotten out. T︵T
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
It, not out.
quincie you know you can use something like readability to get long web articles onto your kindle
― caek, Monday, 25 March 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
the problemo is that the online archive isn't in standard Web format, it is in a stupid format that I can't flow into another format.
N/A, is it really the case that with the Kindle edition, the old issue is DELETED when the week's new edition is delivered? Like, I don't have access to last week's issue anymore? WTfuckingF?
― quincie, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
no it should be in your archives somewhere
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 25 March 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
that is not the case, back issues stay til you delete them (and even then you can redownload them if you wanted).
― balls, Monday, 25 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link