A young producer pulled up a file with clips for the HBO show, labelled “iraq-cock-ass.” “Iraq” referred to a segment about the aftermath of the Iraq war, in which Smith investigates whether the use of toxic weaponry caused birth defects in the local population. “Cock” meant “Cockblock”—a segment in which a scrawny Vice staffer named Thomas Morton attempts to navigate China’s dating scene.“What is ‘Ass’?” Rosenstein asked.“Assassination,” Smith said. It was the piece about political violence in the Philippines.
“What is ‘Ass’?” Rosenstein asked.
“Assassination,” Smith said. It was the piece about political violence in the Philippines.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
"a scrawny Vice staffer named Thomas Morton attempts to navigate China’s dating scene."
What is this person's ilx name?
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
so i managed to go almost an entire year after my print subscription expired while still using the same account to access the ipad version, but it looks like that stopped this week
weirdly, i can still log in to the shitty website reader version
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
dude, I've *met* that Berman guy before! when my dad did deliveries for a cleaners, he sent that guy's clothes plenty of times, i was there when i was about 16-17. had an irish kid at his house, which even then struck me as a little weird.
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
woah
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
man, I forgot all about that guy. reading this story now is wiiiiiiiild.
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
when folding laundry, your dad discovered that rolled up in Berman's pants was a 17-year-old boy clutching a volume of Melville poems.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
thats insane
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Re-read world's strongest man piece from last year. That piece is soooooo great.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
irl lols at that. he was a real up his own ass kinda dude, kept pointing out busts of albert camus and saying things like "at your age, you are not ready to read camus. you are not ready to read shakespeare." the cult of personality shit around him does not surprise me at all, seemed like a real prey-on-the-weak type.
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
This is the Chris Berman article?
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
David Berman obv
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
not that this is the right handle by which to pick up something so serious, but . . . I have to say that the role of Miltonic "greatness" in Berman's predatory schtick was really particularly enraging to me- as an early modern academic, I have to say that the kind of parental superego of Miltonic authority is the most irritating part of Milton studies, the way that the rhetorical construction of Milton's lone visionary genius as the yardstick of all human achievement is just rife in the field as a disavowed-yet-obvious means by which Milton critics in turn pump up their own greatness as scholars/humans (and by extension flatter their readers as a "fit but few" exception to the herd who don't bask in the greatness), and to see this kind of debased variant of that cultish critical apparatus used as a tool to scare and intimidate (let alone molest) high school kids is just stomach-turning. Ugh ugh ugh x infinity.
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92JCleCaCj4
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
^^^wish she touched on that in the article
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
gr8080 i have a current print subscription and couldn't get in on the ipad last night -- it only showed 2012 articles in my library, wanted me to pay for anything in 2013. i think they're having some problems
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
just got a response:
Our records indicate you have purchased a print only subscription, which does not include digital access.
We would like to offer you the opportunity to upgrade your printsubscription to digital access for an additional $10.00.
is this a new thing? (i suppose it's worth it, i just don't remember this being the case)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's an old thing that the subs system is screwed up -- in my 14 months "between subscriptions" I still had full access to the desktop digital archive.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
weird....
also i feel like i clicked on a dozen diff pages last nite and couldnt ever see what the cost for a "digital only" subscription was?
sorry i know this has probably already been discussed upthread
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WOfPVNt.jpg
― markers, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/y1QsBGx.jpg
― markers, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
that's just for the didge???
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
i think so
― markers, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
apparently
dear new yorker: giving me free digital access will prevent me from bitching at you when my print issues fail to arrive, like the one with the professor who went on a shooting spree
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah and thats basically the same price for print + digital tho right?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
ok so its $60/year for print OR digital, $70/year for BOTH
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
there's some nefarious pricing mind control at work:http://conversionxl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/economistpricing.pnghttp://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from/
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
One of Berman’s lists tracked the thousand greatest people who had ever lived, and, Berman confided, he himself had recently reached No. 27, surpassing Herman Melville.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
― the tune was space, Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:12 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
curious why these psychos are drawn to milton
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/sonali-deraniyagala-wave-review-teju-cole.html― s.clover, Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:54 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
reading this book rn; awful story
― cozen, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:06 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
i like the "recently," like what happened that in his head he was like "nailed it"
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
that was amazing. like he thinks he's being humble not putting himself at the top
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
i love david carr so much in that clip
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
I immediately searched on line for a downloadable version of Berman's novel. No luck.
― Jopy's on a vacation far away (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/azKsgZf.jpg
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
lunatic in repose. gonna pull out all the stops to find a copy of his novel.
(btw it still being 60/yr for a subscrip is killing me, is it really worth that price rn?)
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
He looks like a Godard character.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
hey I got an idea for that pointer
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder who berman roots for in milton. you've got your lovable scoundrel satan and evil manipulative stalin-like god, i could see it going either way.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, April 2, 2013 5:30 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
it's 48 issues. gd is it worth it
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
what ugly hands!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
word @ s1ocki, nyer subscription is easily the best thing i spend money on. & i just bought a really nice loaf of onion bread.
― cozen, Tuesday, April 2, 2013 5:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sorta wanna read this, though contending w/feelings of self-disgust at it being like evocatively rendered grief writing. how is it?
― schlump, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
lol veg
― Jopy's on a vacation far away (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
boy's school teacher cult thing as old as the hills. ancient greece to thread. not that abuse is good obviously. but its typical. especially in previous eras.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
"the didge" !
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder if Stanley Fish made the list.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, April 2, 2013 6:53 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TRoMSG-5I
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
Won't download in the background my ass, I just cleared 2 gigs of these things offa my iPad.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link