Is SPIN really circling the drain?

yow, that twin peaks/reverb culture/LDR piece is amazing, whiney. and kind of intimidating, but in a good way. useful, i guess, and the closing summary is perfect. not sure why i'd turn kelpo off on lynch though...

i mean, usually I would agree with you! I think if P4ste or someone tried to do a writearound about something about Bowerbirds it would bring megalols for days, but I think someone like a Julianne Shephard can really bring something like that to life. The piece wasn't about Frank Ocean it's about Julianne's writing, which is powerhouse.

ehhhhh imo if you're gonna do a thinkpiece, do a thinkpiece -- i didn't miss the lack of Lana Del Rey quotes in the Reynolds piece because he's just weaving her into a larger narrative. making the lack of an interview a huge part of the FO article and trying to compensate for it by quoting his tweets and his managers/handlers and trying to make them seem more profound and illuminating than they really were was the main problem with it.

There was quotes from Lana in the Del Rey piece

and thanks, contenderizer! I'm really proud of the way that one came out!

did SR interview her or just pepper in quotes from other sources? i thought it was the latter but it's been a week or so since i read it so maybe i'm misremembering

Simon interviewed her.

oh ok, my bad

btw not trying to put you in a shitty position of diplomatically defending or deflecting criticism of colleagues on a public forum, i just figured right now would be the time when you're pretty eager to hear any honest feedback

I'll mean, I'll always defend stuff that needs defending, whether I work there or not: Simon interviewed Lana, Julianne's piece is great and I liked reading Sutton's comic that way.

i've read that sutton comic before on the page in book format; that's always going to be preferable. as a comic nerd i'm quick to say that panel by panel click forward reading is like watching a film where you have to push a button every three seconds to keep it going.

oh i'm not saying you're saying anything just to be nice or a team player, but y'know (xpost)

also speaking of comics, the webcomic article could've used a little dose of whiney vitriol about how many completely awful unfunny webcomics there are

whiney i just wanted to say i'm really proud of u

aw, thx....

also speaking of comics, the webcomic article could've used a little dose of whiney vitriol about how many completely awful unfunny webcomics there are

― some dude, Friday, March 2, 2012 12:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just because something is on the web doesn';t make it a web comic in my head. I think of things that look like photoshop drew them and are for worthless internet WoW-playing life-failures (Questionable Content, Penny Arcade, xkcd, Achewood) as "web comics" and stuff that looks like a human drew them (Ward Sutton, PBF, that one where like Jane Eyre says like droll anachronistic thing whatever the fuck its called) as "COMICS"

Whatever that last one is called, I always like it when i see it!

Wondermark?

worthless internet WoW-playing life-failures

you should incorporate this phrase into the magazine. require at least one writer per issue to use it, kinda like how writers for The Wire have to incorporate the phrase "hypnagogic pop" (or at least that's what it seems like)

xpost

Ugggghhhh fuck no. Wondermark is like "worthless internet WoW-playing life-failures" but then add "They Might be Giants superfan"

can you do a feature on uncle acid?

Hark, A Vagrant

^ that's it!

i don't think whiney should work too hard at making any catchphrases happen until "billyburg beardos" or "tumblr whites" has reached a tipping point

Ugggghhhh fuck no. Wondermark is like "worthless internet WoW-playing life-failures" but then add "They Might be Giants Community superfan"

― what's a goon to garbus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 2, 2012 3:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aww he could abbreviate it WIWLF - and it could be pronounced as "wih-wolf"

well that pretty succinctly describes why I like Wondermark so much, although I haven't played WoW in like 8-9 months

see u on 9gag

seriously, it could be like how Sassy used to have Cute Band Alerts, you could have the WIWLF Alert -- things that are new and trendy in that demographic -- and it would involve a drawing of a chubby bearded guy in a wolf shirt

WIWLF doesn't have the frisson of self-indictment of the other whiney insults that force him to come up with insane technicalities like 'i live in a DIFFERENT part of brooklyn' or 'i use TWITTER not tumblr'

haha

'i watch PARKS AND REC, not the drew glover meta aspie hour'

offended on behalf of a cat named roast beef

aww he could abbreviate it WIWLF - and it could be pronounced as "wih-wolf" "wu lyf"

seriously, it could be like how Sassy used to have Cute Band Alerts, you could have the WIWLF Alert -- things that are new and trendy in that demographic -- and it would involve a drawing of a chubby bearded guy in a wolf shirt

― sarahell, Friday, March 2, 2012 3:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How about the some dude butthurt hour

'tumblr whites' has got to go places

xp but it might do that for some of Spin's readers?

why would my ridicule come from a place of butthurt if the closest any of those comes to describing me more than you is 'watches the wrong network television show'?

force him to come up with insane technicalities like 'i live in a DIFFERENT part of brooklyn'

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YclQxUm3oNo/TPZ7eSBXcHI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/09PYYZjT6QQ/s200/ChFa-Matt%2BFoley.jpg

Hey, Dad, I can't see real good... is that Fred Armisen over there?

tumblr whites just makes me think of laundry

I would read a bi-monthly "Whiney builds a strawman" column

it's called ilx

we could call it bill or we could call it billyburg beardo!

lol Whiney got there before I could

i honestly don't remember which part of ny you live in or lived in when i visited you last year haha, was it williamsburg? green point?

we'd have to design a new system of shorter temp ban periods in order to make it only bi-monthly

remember when whiney said that the beatles were as omnipresent as pizza?

remember when sarahel posted something on ILX that wasn;t about me or the Admin Log?

you're still the only person in the world who thinks the ubiquity of the beatles is a controversial topic, sars (xpost)

SARS

true, everyone i know agreed with me that the beatles being as omnipresent as pizza was stupid and ridiculous