What was that blog that was like Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, except it reviewed all sorts of webzine reviews (Stylus, Cokemachineglow, PopMatters, etc.) and its whole raison d'etre was to just be really snide and snarky in this hacky way, where you suspected the guy was just really bitter and resentful that his P4k application was rejected?
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
I Love Music?
― some dude, Friday, 11 October 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
ripfork iirc
― katherine, Friday, 11 October 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Yes, that's it -- thanks! (Wow, he kept that up until early 2012.)
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/supreme-skateboarding-clothing-underground-fashion-store-chinatown.html
― buzza, Thursday, 7 November 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I spend a lot of time thinking about what Supreme-related stories I can pitch. Sometimes, when I’m walking from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I walk out of my way past Supreme just to look through the windows and see what’s sold out. I try not to go into the store more than once a week because I know the people who work there will think, “This weird kid is coming in twice a week now and not buying anything…” I know the original retail prices of every item they’ve made since 2008 (and some from before that), probably like 400 or 500 items.
― buzza, Sunday, 10 November 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
enrages me to no end that this guy's cashing new yorker cheqes for blogging this crap
― flopson, Sunday, 10 November 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
The New Yorker employs a lot of hacks. It's no big deal.
― bamcquern, Monday, 11 November 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
alright, cool
― flopson, Monday, 11 November 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
i thought the supreme nyer post was pretty good tbh
― max, Monday, 11 November 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
and i mean between shapiro getting paid a couple hundred bucks for 800 words on supreme counterfeiters and denby getting a salary for his diarrhea
― max, Monday, 11 November 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
lol i was debating between posting a pic of denby or gopnik after bamcquern's post.
― balls, Monday, 11 November 2013 04:49 (ten years ago) link
i think this is what wigs me out about this whole thing: Unlike other "music related viral ha-has" (like @Discographies or Hipster Runoff) whose profile got them paid freelance work at "legit" venues (Grantland, RS, NYer, etc) — I don't think I've heard a peep about this kid on any place but this markers thread.
So either a) he's being discussed on some social networking platform that I don't use (Facebook? LinkedIn?) or b) He sent a New Yorker editor a link to his Tumblr and he/she went "YES, I want THAT."
― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 November 2013 04:52 (ten years ago) link
what legit venue does hipster runoff write for now?
― flopson, Monday, 11 November 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
doesn't he write for grantland, that's internet legit i guess
― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Monday, 11 November 2013 05:27 (ten years ago) link
never gave a shit about this dude one way or another but it's kind of funny how different (and more readable) his voice is in that NYer post compared to that tumblr post. the NYer post was pretty good and interesting tbh i wish it had been way longer
― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Monday, 11 November 2013 05:31 (ten years ago) link
Grantland:
http://www.grantland.com/contributor/_/name/carles
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 11 November 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link
he wrote for thought catalog
― buzza, Monday, 11 November 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link
If he went through the sending-stuff route surely he would have compiled clips from the more legit pubs he's worked for? Interview, the Awl, Fuse, etc.
― Position Position, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
do you guys read the new yorker website? they publish posts like this one by writers way less known than shapiro almost every day. its not like eustace tilley and wallace shawn hanging out in there.
― max, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
also the dude has a lot of good friends "in media" so to speak so maybe the "social networking platform" whiney is missing is IRL
also afaik he is in grad or law school, i don't think he's trying to be a writer
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 November 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
also that supreme story was a good read
Yeah, the guy made that zine that had contributions from tons of hipster-famous people:
http://pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/11870400613/im-putting-out-a-zine-its-called-the-worlds
He also sold a book and wrote a screenplay is being produced into a movie. However he accomplished it, this guy has a lot of connections IRL that go beyond what you'd expect from some random with a tumblr.
― intheblanks, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
"a screenplay that is being produced into a movie" I mean.
― intheblanks, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
"also afaik he is in grad or law school, i don't think he's trying to be a writer"
I think what he said was that when he started law school some sort of non-compete precluded him from writing non-law school stuff, then that disappeared somehow.
― katherine, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
he was working at fuse.
― maura, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
still like his writing, the style, tone & sensibility as much as whatever subject he happens to choose
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Spy Magazine ran a feature entitled "Logrolling in Our Time" that cited suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors. Private Eye magazine regularly draws attention to alleged logrolling by authors in "books of the year" features published by British newspapers and magazines.
― buzza, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 07:59 (ten years ago) link
White Middle-Class Male Has Extremely "Relatable" Sensibility
― maura, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
If he's in law school and friends with the young literary elite, good chance he's not middle class imho
― imago-er not a show-er (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
xp, well yeah [shrug]
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
There's a David Shapiro at my law school, but I from the blurry pictures of PRR David Shapiro I don't think they're the same guy. I should ask him.
― mac2359, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
it's a pseudonym
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Then it probably won't do much to ask.
― mac2359, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
hi
― buzza, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/A2IZewR.jpg
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
http://imagestore.brillianceaudio.com/CoverArt/978-1-4805-8521-8.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 18 November 2013 07:14 (ten years ago) link
well upper middle class but still
― maura, Monday, 18 November 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.
This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our time. In A Sense of Direction author Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s words, “If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart’s parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”
Editorial ReviewsReview“Underneath Shapiro’s seemingly affectless tone is a great deal of real—and urbane—wit as well as an incisive eye for the details that drive relationships. You're Not Much Use to Anyone deliciously captures the plight of the early twentysomething liberal arts major set adrift in a world not especially congenial to his or her particular skill set. It's a very fun and surprisingly poignant read.” —Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. “I read David Shapiro's very funny and deeply moving first novel beginning to end without stopping, delighted and stimulated by its interesting range of endearing characters and the unpretentious, compassionate voice of the narrator, who I found irresistibly and singularly real: at once playful and vulnerable and charming and harsh, yearning and impulsive, mysterious and relatable. I highly recommend You’re Not Much Use to Anyone.” —Tao Lin, author of Taipei “David Shapiro is the best critic of the made-up status-obsessed horror-show world his generation inherited. His dryly hilarious book would have been nonsensical twenty years ago. He's the obsessive voice of a generation that can see every little crazy thing—except themselves—more clearly than ever.” —Choire Sicha, author of Very Recent History “David Shapiro's You're Not Much Use to Anyone seems to me the first example we've seen of the successful transformation of blog into novel: where other such projects have lazily slapped the hash of old online content between hard covers, Shapiro has invented a way to use a set of formal tensions – between the raw and the cooked, the fast and the slow, the urgent and the considered – to say something provocative, new, and very funny about performance, ambition, jealousy, and fear. If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction
About the AuthorDavid Shapiro is the creator of the hit blog Pitchfork Reviews Reviews and The World’s First Perfect Zine. He has written for The New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, Interview, and other places. He is currently a law student.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 25 April 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
why do you care
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
he kinda looks like hoos
― markers, Friday, 25 April 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
at least in the picture on the front of the book
he doesn't really look like hoos
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
xpost i think he does and fuck your opinion
― markers, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
is that last line meant to sound like sadtrombone or is that just me
― goole, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
― markers, Friday, April 25, 2014 2:25 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
:-O
i've seen him in person, is all i'm saying
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
he looks like a young harold ramis more than a hoos doppelganger.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
^^
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link