New Yorker magazine alert thread

it prob only happened cause it's a catholic school tho.

"common fast food prank"?

I'm guessing the one where they throw a milkshake or drink back at the worker at the drive-thru window. Which, tbh, is completely indefensible no matter who does it. Like a minimum wage slave at McDonalds needs that shit to deal with on top of already having a horrible job.

hurling food @ the ppl giving food 2 u is unchill

just EAT IT

open up your mouth and feed it

disgusting savages, completely unironically

people who deliberately make life harder for people in shit jobs are worse than Hitler

yeah I wonder how much of it is 'we're pulling a lol prank on a stranger' and how much of it is some micro-level power trip / status thing, 'at least I don't work in fast food'

markers angriest about good snacks being wasted

idk -- i just think food should be EATEN

teenagers are the worst kind of ppl

that "prank" is called fire in the hole and people have been doing it forever and it is grounds for a beating imo
yeah, that dude's tweets are just dumbass kid stuff. but u r a PRO ATHLETE at that level so he gotta figure it out.

teenagers are the worst kind of ppl

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so otm

that rutgers article was really good

Wouldn't feel TOO bad about the kid who got kicked out of Bosco, he got a scholarship from Colorado (lol pac12?).

yah srsly he missed one hs football game is what happened

not loving this week's cover

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/02/13/p154/120213_2012_p154.jpg

the picture is not loading, that is the actual cover

the article about suicide is really, really good, though. so strange, now, how our lives can be reconstructed through our online breadcrumbs.

Lol I like that cover

the face transplant article is amazing

I think the cover is really nicely done

it looks terrible on a tablet i can tell you that

never loads completely

haa

lol

so strange, now, how our lives can be reconstructed through our online breadcrumbs.

Yes, it reminded me of a book a professor of mine wrote recently about a murder-suicide that occurred on our college campus when I was a senior. Lots of details pieced together -- and psychological insights gleaned -- through e-mails and instant-message transcripts.

psychological insights, or pontificating?

In both the New Yorker article and the book I read, there does tend to be a lot of extrapolation, but at least by reproducing the original sources, it's somewhat transparent about it.

tijuana food article from a couple weeks ago was interesting! definitely made me want to head down there the next time I'm in san diego...

the plagiarism article was crazy

the plagiarism article was crazy

the plagiarism piece was cray

Haven't read it yet. But I went to college with him and used to talk about spy novels and cold war paranoia movies when I saw him at the store he worked for. Crazy story.

yeah plagiarism story was like high-level n/a-bait NYer story, wish it had been longer

I wish I had more access to my wife's iPad, because I get all jealous when you guys are talking about the new issue and I'm still waiting for the print edition to show up (yes I know I could read them online, but I refer reading either print or iPad on the train).

P psyched to have discovered that I can get it on my Nook every Monday for free, as a print subscriber. Looks great in this format (except the cartoons).

Agreed that last week's was fucking solid.

You can get this on the Nook now? I didn't know that.

plagiarism piece is p lol, some of the quotes from the guy are classic

i did end up feeling somewhat sympathetic to the guy but i did lol that the last paragraph or two was basically like "oh and now he's writing a book about his struggles being a plagiarist," def. made me feel not as sympathetic b/c it made it all seem like grist for his fancy memoir

finally read the rutgers suicide story

roommate sounds like an asshole, but not really a manslaughterer or purveyor of hate crimes

kind of amazed that the two roommates appear to have communicated almost exclusively electronically, but then here we are

yah roommate came off as a super-gossipy & entitled kid but im thinking that is par for the course among 18 yr olds

I spent almost an entire semester communicating with my roommate solely through post-it notes and whiteboard.

dharun's friends seemed like total assholes.

whys the ipad always always telling me there are updates to issues, anyone know what these updates consist of

ugh facial transplant article is very intense and difficult to read (esp during lunch)

yeah I stopped somewhere on the first page, wasnt quite ready

Haven't read it yet. But I went to college with him and used to talk about spy novels and cold war paranoia movies when I saw him at the store he worked for. Crazy story.

Was he really like an adult version of McLovin from Superbad?