they might if they recall the lyrics to "pride (in the name of love)" still, basic point taken.
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― Smells like meat. Rotten meat. (Eisbaer), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
the Neil Armstrong is just there--i'm not aware of a U2 song about him
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Man why didn't U2 make a song about all the important events & their dates, 1967-199?
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, I can be pretty catty about having to make reprint cx to a book in which someone MISTAKENLY CORRECTED Michel Legrand's name to "Michael" and now I have to fix it, when I could have proof-read the goddamn thing for them in the first place. But dates...apart from 1492 and 9/11? No.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
NEVER FORGET
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"we didn't start the unforgettable fire"?!?
― Smells like meat. Rotten meat. (Eisbaer), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
but laurel, can you a copy a date from one place to another and not fuck it up??
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl who make mistakes should be shot imo
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really think it's necessary to have all these historic dates archived in yr brane but at least know a reliable place to look them up & know how to copy & paste them into your word processing computer machine???
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i bet whoever did it can't even tie their own shoes
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
making these shoes the NYT footwear of choice:
http://img.hottopic.com/is/image/HotTopic/372413_hi
no laces!
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
That gives me a much different vision of their editorial meetings.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
They play a lot of Razed in Black and forget important dates together.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that's the confusing part: I don't know how you check a date and then copy it wrong. dates are pretty short.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
british to american date formatting confusion? maybe?
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
On 11/9/2001 absolutely nothing of importance happened
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe I just have a mind for dates and other numbers. (I also have nearly all of my credit card and bank account numbers memorized.) Plus, July 20 -- the moon landing date -- is also my wedding anniversary.
― I am moving on baby, I am moving on (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
did anyone finish that michael pollan article on julia child and how no one cooks anymore? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude's kind of one note, isn't he.
― a muttering inbred (called) (not named) (Abbott), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The New Antiquarian abodes look like my brother's house, except his is all comic book shit and Nightmare Before Christmas memorabilia.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, unfortunately, since i feel he's right abt a lot of food issues but he always ends up preaching the same homily over & over
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
would still prefer to see pollan movie adaptation than that julia child blogger thing no matter how awesome meryl streep's impression is.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
unless she dry-humps philip seymour hoffman as capote or something spectacular like that happens
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 August 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
her and ed harris' pollock go on a crime spree
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
there is a commercial for that film that makes me worry they have tried to make Julia Child into the kind of plucky know-nothing heroine who goes "whee" and claps for herself after successfully making a dish in cooking school. I hope I've just misinterpreted it or seen something out of context, because my sense is that Julia Child was sort of a badass?
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i read somewhere over the weekend that she uses a machine gun to make coq au vin at some point in the movie--i'll try to find it
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
she was a college baller and tried to join the Navy
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
smart, well-educated, sophisticated, tall, and according to Wikipedia helped develop a shark repellent to keep sharks from setting off mines
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i think thats from the early part of her life, when she first moved to france and fell in love with food but didnt really know what she was doing
― max, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont know if the "whee" part is true-to-life
it seems wrong to give someone space in the back of the times magazine to talk about his important experience, as a presumably non-autistic grown man, of how not to get along with neighbors.
haha thats how that thing always seems to work ~ like the one before this one was a dude thats like 50 coming to the groundbreaking realization that while its foolish and limiting to be overcautious lyfe is still dangerous and bad things can happen, even if they usually dont. also that he doesnt no how to work his kids car seat
― she looked like blanka from sfII but chubbier (Lamp), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasnt she a spy?
― mayor jingleberries, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
she comes across as totally confident and awesome and someone i'd wish i'd known in this movie
― SBed à part (s1ocki), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly it's like two seconds of a TV commercial, what do I know, but it seemed to be going for empathy between the modern light-film viewer and Julia Child in that kind of romantic-comedy way that often makes women relatably inept -- which is fine, male and female characters both get the "relatably inept" thing, but Julia Child going "whee I cooked something" and clapping (possibly while surrounded by dismissive-looking male students) seemed a tad much.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yay, s1ocki, glad to know it's just the ad!
tell you what, when i cook a Beef Bourguignon the first time, i'm clapping and saying whee, too. and i'm a badass.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
In her haste, she said, she looked up the dates for two big stories that Cronkite covered — the assassination of Martin Luther King and the moment Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon — and copied them incorrectly.
I hate to be that guy, but not knowing these two dates off the top of one's head kinda boggles my mind.
― I am moving on baby, I am moving on (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, August 3, 2009 11:02 AM
It's good that you're rainman and all but you need a bit of a reality check on this.
― musically, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i think those dates are supposed to be seared into old people memory, like 9/11/2001 or 11/12/1955.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
When a "great" newspaper hemorrhages money, pity the poor editorial skeleton crew.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
On the "Ralph Kramden":
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fashion/13POTBELLY.html?_r=1&ref=fashion
― it's like i have a couple worked up orc dicks under my arms (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the “coolios” of now
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Even for hipster jerks it's all about the president.
― it's like i have a couple worked up orc dicks under my arms (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
coolsters
― mark cl, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The risible Joe Nocera writes an all-too-believably idiotic column about the Post Office. His take? Its pesky obligations to its employees are absurd, with no grounding or justification, and universal service is unnecessary anyway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/business/08nocera.html
But this is the real kicker. According to Nocera, the real reason the USPS is suffering is the Internet. Why would that be, you ask? Can one send a halogen bulb or hardback via email now?
Well, no. He says that email means no one sends personal letters any more. It's all just junk mail! Aunt Fannie doesn't pen personal thank-you notes any more, so the USPS has a multimillion dollar deficit!
Question - did Nocera ever stop - just for a second - to think that Internet shopping might INCREASE Post Office revenue?
He even mentions that 2006 was when the USPS handled its highest volume of mail ever! I guess 2007 was the year Aunt Fannie stopped writing. I don't know.
Oh, and he bigs up his own column in this piece of advertising, disguised as his "blog":
http://executivesuite.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/lets-outsource-the-post-office/
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
the post should get in on the actionhttp://www.nypost.com/seven/08132009/news/regionalnews/pedro_kin_no_show_no_no_184356.htm
― kamerad, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
1 - that's in the Post2 - that's actually exposing the ruling class as a bunch of looting layabouts
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
man ive been rocking the beer belly since high school
― max, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
So hip.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
middle-aged dads finally have their moment in the sun
― velko, Thursday, 13 August 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
omg, this is terrific: ever since I moved and gained like 10 pounds I've been all bummed that all my old shirts look a little, umm, pronounced around the center -- little did I know that I was just CUTTING FUCKING EDGE
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link