Wilfrid Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Thinking back, maybe not quite. Viv Albertine is 60. (But her book seems to be doing well.) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
memesuze Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I'm not visiting the Pacific Northwest any time soon: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one?mbid=social_twitter [sorry for link - - no link sub available] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 You also might want to stay away from Angola. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mongo_jones Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 I'm not visiting the Pacific Northwest any time soon: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one?mbid=social_twitter [sorry for link - - no link sub available] minnesota looks better every year (especially since our climate will be tropical by the time i retire). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hollywood Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Will this week's cover have Serena with a tear on her cheek? Or a bunch of fans with Serena tears? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Had a very hard time with the New Yorker food issue, which I'd saved up for a trip this week. Started bad with Nicola Twilley thinking olfaction, like touch or hearing, is something other than the sense of taste. Worse, though, Michael Specter's article on fast food which it's hard to believe was read and edited. Almost every paragraph has something quesionable. Example: because it is introducing supposedly more nutritious dishes to its menus, McDonald’s risks losing not only younger customers but also its core clients. Why? I mean...just why? If there was a hint that the traditional menu was being eliminated, cut, or more highly priced...but no. So why? And then there's a passage on evolution which is just deeply puzzling. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bloviatrix Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 The New Yorker is a obsessed about bar stools as we are! these are the most comfortable stools you’ll ever sit in—upholstered and generously wide for the chic, slim patrons, many of them longtime vegans with the youthful glow of abstemiousness. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I don't get it. Why do slim vegans need "generously wide" stools? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Of course, if Silvia Killingsworth wants to come over and chat about stools, we welcome her. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 (To bad for the New Yorker that Avant Garden's chef just left.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Here's a sentence from Alexandra Schwartz's piece on the night of the shootings in Paris that left me open-mouthed: Taïa is at once an outsider and an insider. He finds the prospect of living in Morocco inconceivable—he is gay... Perhaps he's crossed San Francisco and Sydney off his list too. ETA: From a quick look around, there seems to be more repression than in the past. Okay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 "Our friend Janet" has died. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taion Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 I don't understand how someone writes close to 2,000 words on whether Go players have a future post-AlphaGo: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/in-the-age-of-google-deepmind-do-the-young-go-prodigies-of-asia-have-a-future This is actually a failure of Betteridge's law, to boot. Okay, so yes, chess eventually gets mentioned, but one could get the entirety of the actual point across in four words: "Yes – look at chess." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taion Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 And nobody really gives a shit about computer chess any more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neocon maudit Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/716123189030625280 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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