Xpost crap, that's right, though I could have sworn Sanneh was writing for the times and the New Yorker at the same time for a while. Getting old, memory going.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:07 (eleven years ago)
yea i was into the snooker article
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:22 (eleven years ago)
i'm an issue (two?) behind, but the seymour hersh return to my lai was brutal/very good
― horseshoe
My favorite piece of the year. He wrung no emotion out of it: he told the story.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:23 (eleven years ago)
i think menand broke the record for most sets of parentheses in a 3-page story
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:35 (eleven years ago)
A rare Sy sighting! Heavy story but really good. NOW GET BACK TO THAT DICK CHENEY VP BOOK BRO
Weird having no back-of-the book movie review section. This is the future, I guess.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:12 (eleven years ago)
Emily Nussbaum >>>>> whoever the other The Critics are tbh
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Thursday, 2 April 2015 02:04 (eleven years ago)
The patient's head would be sawed open under local anesthetic. Fully conscious, the patient would be shown flashcards with words or pictures while the electrodes recorded which regions responded to the stimuli. ... Sometimes, a picture of a particular celebrity would cause a single neuron to become especially active. Similar observations led scientists in a later study to posit the existence in one patient of a "Halle Berry neuron."
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:39 (eleven years ago)
i was going to complain about franzen's garbage story in this week's issue but i'll just point to this instead:
http://grist.org/living/jonathan-franzen-is-confused-about-climate-change-but-then-lots-of-people-are/
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:24 (eleven years ago)
as David Roberts says, "I can’t imagine The New Yorker publishing it under any other byline."
seriously, one glance at it by elizabeth kolbert would have kept it from publication
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:28 (eleven years ago)
i'm two pages into the Franzen story, unsure if i wanna proceed
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:47 (eleven years ago)
ABANDON SHIPABANDON SHIP
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2015 23:27 (eleven years ago)
The May 4, 2015 issue of the New Yorker is available. Download now to read Ryan Lizza's piece on Elizabeth Warren's campaign.
assuming that was supposed to be champagne and was a massive typo
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 01:27 (eleven years ago)
I would drink any champagne Warren made imo.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 01:43 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_w0IannuVE
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 April 2015 02:13 (eleven years ago)
Adam Gopnik's Trollope piece is lovely and overdue.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 April 2015 02:15 (eleven years ago)
quality issue this week
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:24 (eleven years ago)
i can't stop looking at that portrait of marc andreessen
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/150518_r26512-865.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:42 (eleven years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEzv5O7WoAEeKNK.jpg
hope this helps
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:55 (eleven years ago)
much better, thanks
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:58 (eleven years ago)
i know exactly what you mean
i can't make it through the first paragraph because i keep going back to the picture
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:02 (eleven years ago)
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/Untitled_zpshn2fbyal.jpghttp://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/Blart_zpsa7rr1oht.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:03 (eleven years ago)
just the sharpest head ever
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:23 (eleven years ago)
pointy-head
― drash, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:51 (eleven years ago)
quote from his wife is just horrifying -(“I find it incredibly sexy to see the encasement of a cerebrum,” she explained.)
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 14:39 (eleven years ago)
skinne growing vpon the head of a man
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 14:41 (eleven years ago)
https://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/twitteregg.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 14:42 (eleven years ago)
his head is truly disturbingly egg-shaped
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:06 (eleven years ago)
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 9:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha yeah all the stuff about his home life was hilarious.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:07 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/KMyWMlm.png
― Plasmon, Friday, 15 May 2015 02:08 (eleven years ago)
hahaha
― k3vin k., Friday, 15 May 2015 02:52 (eleven years ago)
are we having fun yet
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 May 2015 03:11 (eleven years ago)
https://31.media.tumblr.com/533777be0a17ec310eae5a9761e338fb/tumblr_nodhiplk9N1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― kobold gin gimlet from a goblet with a dragon head on it (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 May 2015 03:54 (eleven years ago)
mesmerising, a+
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 15 May 2015 12:55 (eleven years ago)
When he agrees to fund someone's start-up, I wonder if the money just hatches right out of his head.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 May 2015 12:59 (eleven years ago)
omg pulsing cerebrum (fans self)
― drash, Friday, 15 May 2015 13:02 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexS5hBB1C0
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 15 May 2015 13:09 (eleven years ago)
disrupt to differentiate by becoming a dream-execution machine
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2015 13:48 (eleven years ago)
The personal memoir about growing up and surfing in Hawaii by William Finnegan is really good.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 17:17 (eleven years ago)
this one: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/off-diamond-head-finnegan
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 17:18 (eleven years ago)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/voice-contestant-new-yorker-isis-797957
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:14 (eleven years ago)
agree re the surfing piece im usually not that into personal history but that one was extremely good
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 May 2015 15:13 (eleven years ago)
The Ashbery piece is one of the sharper reviews he's gotten of late.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:24 (eleven years ago)
A friend and neighbor's book got reviewed! Mixed, but hey.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/frenemies-books-mallon
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 May 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)
just devastating: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-1993-2015
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 8 June 2015 02:59 (eleven years ago)
physician administered suicide in the eerie secular flemish utopia http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/22/the-death-treatment
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 04:16 (eleven years ago)
I don't care to critically examine my gut reaction that euthanasia is an abhorrent way to "treat" depression
― jennifer islam (silby), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 04:34 (eleven years ago)
It won't make you do that. But it will make you indignant.
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 07:50 (eleven years ago)
its a pretty fascinating/disturbing piece
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 21:10 (eleven years ago)
Very disturbing.
― Plasmon, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:59 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/A3rhYio.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 26 June 2015 18:22 (eleven years ago)