New Yorker magazine alert thread

i read the coffee article

Is the coffee article good? I am waiting for this ish to hit InfoTrac to read it.

it was alright

Just started the PP article, but re: wishing that it tracked the politicization of abortion, isn't Jill Lepore writing a book on that atm?

rare shouts & murmurs appearance in the nyer alert thread, i liked this

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/01/09/120109sh_shouts_rich?currentPage=all

i liked the article abt the kid in michigan who killed his grandfather & life sentences for youths &c
read it over lunch and have kinda thought abt it all day since
hm prob shouldnt have thrown that issue away!

nice tidbit from that article:

"Life imprisonment for juveniles is forbidden by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty ratified by every country in the world except the United States and Somalia."

which ish, i'm all disorganised
(i just read half of the packer article on the libertarian online, will finish it soon)

jan 2nd issue

being away from school sucks, i have to read all these online. glad to hear you liked the juvenile justice one, gotta finish that

I have to start that one, reading the one about the Indian businesswoman from that issue right now though.

Also, don't know if this should go here or the cartoon caption thread but this...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9bpoSRfQ1qbypg1o1_500.jpg

makes me unbelievably sad.

ha ha, yeah that was a good one

jan 2nd issue

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 02:24 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ty

new issue has a really good article on the chevron lawsuit in ecuador over environmental remnants from oil pipelines (more intrigue than you'd expect) and a pretty good one on a weird american reporter who covered the yakuza for a japanese newspaper

The article about Gobekli Tepe blew my mind and made me want to go back to high school and follow my dreams of being an archeologist rather then all the useless stuff I do now.

(i just read half of the packer article on the libertarian online, will finish it soon)

^ yes this was pretty great

the article on don bosco high school football was . . . quite something

something == despairing imo.

I quite liked last week's Carrie Brownstein piece.

xpost Are you talking about the Paypal guy, that libertarian?

The high school football story was great, as was the (sad) piece about the kid in Michigan.

yeah the paypal guy. a few ppl on this thread (or the sandbox or w/e) were v complimentary of it, partic packer's denouement. he did seem to v subtly give the guy enough rope & be fairly unobtrusive until the very end.

really bummed my postman is kicking back with my nite jewel 7" & the last couple of issues of this, i want my elif batuman piece

The Chevron lawsuit piece was really great, I thought. A little light on legal specificity/detail, but that's to be expected.

have liked every Saïd Sayrafiezadeh story, including the 1 this wk

chevron piece was fantastic, h8 chevron so much

the documentary "Crude" that is referenced in there is p good if u can find it

What are you, the teen-ager, to do? You want your hip-hop, your punk rock, a sound that will build a wall between you and the hideous adults who micromanage your life. Ideally, the wall is topped with cultural barbs charged with a thousand volts of fuck-off. But here they come: grownups, with their war stories of watching Jay-Z buy a jar of pickles, of Arcade Fire playing a transcendent show in a tiny church. Your mom gives you seven-inch punk records for Christmas and takes you to an Odd Future show on your birthday. But concerts with your parents don't help to establish a cohort and choose an anthem. How do you bond with your friends, stay out late, and not get an earful about how it was so much better the first time around? Increasingly, youths choose to go dancing, with the aid of glow sticks and a few thousand friends, until 5 A.M.

uuuuurrrrrgghhhhhhh

oh sashapaws

Odd Future Mom

http://vglounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/parents+just+dont+understand.jpg

Is that Nicki Minaj?

r raves srsly still a thing

dubstep baby

I liked the yakuza article

I hav the nyer on my ipad now, im kinda a big deal

lol @it not being able to download in the background lol @ 100mb files

I hav the nyer on my ipad now, im kinda a big deal

This is great, particularly the not-waiting-for-the-post bit.

here's the chevron piece

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/09/120109fa_fact_keefe?currentPage=all

Man I've signed up twice now to access the digital edition and archives with my subscription, but every time I try to log in it claims my email address is not recognized. Super annoying.

If you sign up to the ipad edition, you have to sign up ~again~ to get archive access. If you are not talking about the ipad edition plz ignore.

archive interface is so awful its basically not worth it anyway

i think there's one login/pw for the nyer site, then another for the archives? also, the archives only work for me on ie.

Not sure tbh.

archive interface is so awful its basically not worth it anyway

― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:42 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

On the ipad I find an article, take screenshots and read those from the camera roll.

Man, Yakuza obsessive and oil company lawsuit would both make great movies.

I can't remember the last NYer issue in which I read four feature articles (those two, plus the Gingrich and Rubio profiles).

Man, I read every issue from cover to cover. Ok, well I skip Shouts and Murmurs sometimes. And the poems.

xpost I was thinking the very same thing with this issue! I mean, I want to read everything, generally, but this may be the first in a while where I actually read four articles before the next issue arrived: Gingrich, Yakuza, Chevron and Rubio. The quadfecta!

(I always skip the fiction)

I feel like if I read every issue cover-to-cover, I'd never read anything else.

^^^ that's what i was doing for awhile and finally gave up. like why am i reading this joan acoella dance review rather than one of the 20 books i've bought in the past year and never read.

Lately it's rare for there to be more than one thing I really want to read.

i read every issue cover to cover BUT: only in the bathroom or on iPad
and I'm always about three months behind
not in the bathroom
on the magazine