ha, no? like he wasn't on my radar until ray, he wasn't any part of the fabric of me growing up or watching tv or anything. jamie foxx as a person always kinda weirds me out & i'm still soaking up what this new layer of the onion means about him. if there are crucial jamie foxx '90s youtubes i should be watching let me know.
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Sunday, 25 November 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
haha i guess the jamie foxx show wasnt as ubiquitous as had imagined at the time
― max, Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
i was in the uk, we were watching gritty dramas about the marital tensions of coalminers & their wives, there was no room for this humour about hollywood & crushing on prince
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Guy who wrote the Brautigan book also wrote the book Angel Heart is based on, Fallen Angel, I think, and some kind of historical whodunit featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Kit Carson, maybe. Counterpoint is a pretty classy imprint, think I may have started a go-nowhere thread about it.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Falling Angel. Conan Doyle and Houdini.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
decent piece from the publisher: http://harpers.org/blog/2013/03/obamas-real-political-program/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
i really loved the ehrenreich excerpt
― mustread guy (schlump), Saturday, 8 March 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
Doug Henwood's Hillary takedown is very good and fair-minded, although I'm not sure what it accomplishes since I feel like a lot of people already don't love her and will vote for her anyway in the seeming absence of other options.
The ISIS article is great, maybe best thing I've read on the topic so far.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
technological workplace monitoring article freaking me out
i just subscribed to thisthere is this kind of shimmering vein of newness, presentness, running through some of the best harper's things, something i can't find elsewherethe list of asmr requests last issue, the piece on tech libertarians, just fragmentsreally a nice part of my month
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 22 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
&
did anyone read the Values-of-a-Solitary-Life article
i kinda found it simultaneously unbearable, for its outlook, & valuable, for its frame of reference
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
Solitude is overrated
Believe me
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
really feel youkind of a hard piece to read occuyping some of the same spaces as the author without having made lemonade from them
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
i wonder just how many pieces lewis lapham has written decrying american politics/society with comparisons to the fall of rome (republic or empire, take your pick)
not that he's *wrong*, but it's a very specific and tiresome hammer he wields. mixed it up by going with the greeks this last time, at least
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
i couldn't even bear to start that article.
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
lol, I haven't read him in years but I feel like that was every "Easy Chair" (or whatever they called the editor's column at the time) he ever wrote. He seemed completely useless to me as a writer and thinker.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:43 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSlAnIbWoAAGoVF.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 October 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
smdh
"When journalists themselves wage campaigns to suppress the writing of other journalists, and intend to destroy a magazine for not toeing their ideological line, you can see how free speech truly is on the line." https://t.co/BjFbmBgqHJ— Harper's Magazine (@Harpers) January 12, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
🙄
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Friday, 12 January 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
There are some judgments in that piece that bypass "right-wing columnist" and go straight to "failed human"
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 12 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
dud
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
the motives of these signatories aside, there's no attempt (by some) to establish thoughtcrime in the name of progressivism right now, huh? Check.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
the motives of these signatories aside
sorry can't extricate letter from motives of signatories
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
which likely vary except in Wokeland
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
that's where i live
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
On the positive side, my homie wrote this one:https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/this-is-not-a-test-disaster-city-texas/
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link