New Yorker magazine alert thread

I sent the dapper Dan piece to a friend as an email w/ 20 separate screenshots as attachments-- click "view all images" in gmail and they load just like a webpage m/l #lifehack

haha

what i dont get is sometimes it does download in the background sometimes no whats up w that

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its some kind of newsstand thing, i dont get it either!

that's probably to prevent ppl sharing stuff that's behind the paywall-- u can't select/quote text out of the print edition either think abt it

this is lame #sharingculture

psst new yorker its 2013 information wants to be free

hello open web #learnaboutit

#openalwayswins

well that horace mann article was absolutely riveting.

hey fao whoever was asking for recommended reads from the last year, i remembered there was that issue with the two kinda environmental articles, one about geoengineering which was really good & another about "has a guy found the answer to our energy solution" which was momentarily exciting & then a buzzkill. just fwiw.

yeah those were both good

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/sonali-deraniyagala-wave-review-teju-cole.html

yeah that whole sinkhole/torture history/trans/ballet issue was pretty great

Not sure if this cartoon should go here or the caption contest thread, but:

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/04/01/p465/130401_cn-5_p465.jpg

lol

did anyone read the CIA thing this week

no but you have my attention

i read it

i usu skip steve coll ish tbh

i have not read it but am planning to

grady did you read it?

not yet

Did not know Iron Lady piece was gonna be a William finnegan joint. I fuckin love him.

s f-j is p offtm generally in this jt piece, but 'friends w/ benefits' is not at all 'terrible' cmon bro

yeah friends w/ benefits was way worse than merely terrible

never felt more alone than when balls deserted me

movie requires you not only have a tolerance of flash mobs but find them absolutely wonderful. it was better than no strings attached, at least the leads were fun.

Requiring Kunis and JT to "make love" to serious music to signify their commitment to Something Lasting And True was gross imo.

xp def agree flash mob is worse than terrible but thats just like the last ~10 min iirc? it's a p funny movie til then

plus c'mon who doesn't remember semisonic did 'closing time'

What's wrong with Steve Coll?

he has a bit of a coll

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The story about the Horace Mann pedo was crazy.

i know!

as for Kriakou, I kept thinking of Kevin Bacon in JFK mode playing ("Oh bring ON those muthafuckas with dere college degrees. I got nuthin to HIDE").

The story about the Horace Mann pedo was crazy.

Literally crazy -- the main guy (Berman) sounds totally deranged.

yeah it was pretty nuts, i like when he ranked himself 27th all time

i read half of the cia thing and found it kinda boring, update

is y i skip those mostly

the part in the horace mann article where the author gets this response from one of berman's protegé's that is written in the exact same excruciatingly florid style as his master was amazing

i love cult shit

^^^YES

he reminded me of people i knew when i was a teenager, without the abuse, but that same way of drawing hapless teenagers in and making them feel elite and super-special and then leaving them totally bereft a little while later.

It was an incident out of an Auchincloss novel.

this weird seductive art-infused semi/pseudo-genius personality type that is all a shell around a core of pure selfishness

i liked how the author just printed eveyones assertions that the guy was a genius until then end when one of his ex students was all he was just making top ten lists and didnt really get art at all

"People don't understand," Gene told me. "People think of child abuse as a moment in a shower, like Sandusky. They don't think of it as essentially abducting and brainwashing. This was a cult of art, literature and music, a cult that was revered in some circles. And being in a cult is seen as a sign of weakness."

also his novel lmao

no surprise that Berman was a writer of laughable floridness ("especial"!).

i knowww xp