New Yorker magazine alert thread

I thought the CoS actually published an entire parody issue of The New Yorker in response/revenge? Max that's what yr talking about no?

the scientology response with the fake cartoon captions i posted upthread!! its hilarious!!!!

yes god i posted it on this thread until all you bozos wanted to talk about "the supreme court" which btw we have a thread for

sorry max

thank you, apology accepted

no bozos
(that's my soul up there)

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_wont_apologize_for_being_american_skull_gear_tshirt-p235838770202405518u2o7_400.jpg

"the scientology response with the fake cartoon captions i posted upthread!! its hilarious!!!!"

But it's just hard to read scans!

last genuine american animal star was maybe spuds mackenzie? Or Benji if you mean non-ad based?

Free Willy

Socks the Cat

For that matter, when was the last time Orlean popped up in the New Yorker?

From what I recall from Max's classic "you guys new yorker writers are fighting on twitter" thread, she's basically been working on this Rin Tin Tin book for the last few years and has some sort of cozy deal with the magazine where she only has to write like one article a year and they still keep her on staff.

last genuine american animal star was maybe spuds mackenzie? Or Benji if you mean non-ad based?

― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, September 1, 2011 4:30 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

Fuckin' Winston, yo.

I won't apologize for being American, either (had nothing to do with that), only for shit that's worthy of an apology ffs. Man, the whiny, puerile, CO2 emitting annoyances that call themselves humans sometimes...

Nice crop, tho

last genuine american animal star was maybe spuds mackenzie? Or Benji if you mean non-ad based?

what about Eddie from Frasier?

last genuine american animal star was maybe spuds mackenzie? Or Benji if you mean non-ad based?

― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, September 1, 2011 4:30 PM (28 minutes ago)

AIR BUD

i think the question is like, an animal who could carry a movie or a tv show as the lead? and not just as a one off novelty, but an animal that people paid to see the same way they go to see clooney in movies

So i'm going with benji.

there were like 5 air buds! i watched at least 2 of them!

channing tatum

Pretty sure people are paying their monthly broadband bills almost solely to watch Winston on YouTube.

Well, Toobin, like lots of practicing lawyers, is bound by their honor code; he can't get as critical as we'd like. I accept his toothless prose cuz he's the only one offering these insights.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Didn't stop him from airing thos eunsourced comments about how Sotomayor was supposed to be stupid.

In fact, wasn't there an implication that she only reached her pre-SCOTUS status because of affirmative action? Maybe the source was Clarence Thomas?

Didn't stop him from airing thos eunsourced comments about how Sotomayor was supposed to be stupid.

You're thinking of Jeffrey Rosen.

Here: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-case-against-sotomayor

Snap, I've been beefing on the wrong law-talking guy named Jeff all this time.

The Parfait profile is great!

Enjoyed the Louis Menand piece on Dwight MacDonald and middlebrow. He's such a sleek, wry writer - he doesn't bulldoze MacDonald with his own opinions.

Especially love his Thornton Wilder review: "I agree with everything Mr. Wilder says, but I will fight to the death his right to say it this way."

The Parfait profile is great!

― Mordy, Saturday, September 3, 2011 5:26 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

^^

(is "parfait" some kind of nickname for the dude, i am not that into philosophy)

lol it was just a typo when i wrote that

(an auto-correct typo)

Good news for Nancy Franklin haters (I think she's OK but I seem to be in the minority)

http://www.observer.com/2011/09/new-yorker-television-critic-nancy-franklin-taking-a-break-from-writing/

lol i was about to post that

PEACE OUT NANCE

max! didn't he want that job????

xpost

gonna email remnick right now, would really appreciate a letter of recommendation que

on it

all joking aside though dude, you should do it. get a pitch together.

i nominate the ilx tv krew to collaboratively write the new tv column for the new yorker

last couple of issues have been snoozy. did not really need 20 columns from different authors/columnists/whoever about how 9/11 impacted them. the long piece in the newest issue about the murdered pakistani journalist was pretty good but the rest was boring.

every time this thread gets bumped i hope it's for a new david grann article

i would welcome anyone over her
for real, i can think of at least six people on ilx that could do better

i havent gotten an issue since the friday the 2nd :(

i feel bad but i didnt even crack the cover of the 9/11 issue

i feel a lot less bad about nancy franklin not having a job as a tv critic

i skipped all the 9/11 pieces, felt ok about it

ha i liked a lot of the 9/11 pieces (zadie's, remnick's, mccann's), & that's where i'm up to in that issue, having fallen behind, etc. idk, i read those from the issue after 9/11, not so long ago (mainly for the poem on the back) & thought they were v memorable & insightful, even/particularly franzen's, someone probably people don't give so much of a shit about the political insight of, but who talked p presciently about the change in tone between the boom of the 90s & the different mood of the next decade, which, i don't know, might or might not have been excellent foresight on his part but which proved correct, iirc.

it's not so long since i re-subscribed, so i am maybe in my own ny-er golden age, but i've thought the last few issues good, the one with the neanderthal piece a pick-up from a quieter spell (the ones with dogs &c). there's always some small nick paumgarten/staffer piece i like, of the thing about the bus driver in the 9/11 one that's enough to chew on for awhile.