The New Yorker

[Sneakeater]

You can have Man à la Monstre or Monstre à la Man.

[hollywood]

42 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:

Amanda thinks Of Monsters and Men sounds like the name of a gastropub. She also seems to think Noel Kahan is well served by a comparison between his lyrics and Wallace Stevens' poetry.

Are there Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird?

[MitchW]

I was interested in the piece, only because I hadn’t heard of Noel. 

[Wilfrid]

Certainly. Me too.

[Wilfrid]

“Yet Zendaya, an actor of tremulous, often wordless nuance…” 

That’s some good writing with no dumb stuff about her having a big head.

[Wilfrid]

I think everyone who finished high school knows what a Möbius strip is. Maybe those who never went to high school picked up on it too.

At Okiburo, says Jiayang Fan, "the noodles are beguilingly wide Möbius strips of silk."

No they're not. It would be remarkable if they were, but they're not. Just look at the pictures. 

Yes, they are very wide noodles. I understand the Katy Freeway in Texas is a notably wide highway. It is not a Möbius strip.

As usual, I don't mean so much to beat up on the writer, who is trying to inject some fun. But do they still employ editors?

[relbbaddoof]

When are the Klein Bottle ravioli coming?

[mongo]

maybe the place is "all you can eat"?

[mongo]

i'm also a bit confused because the article seems premised on the novelty of the place and its food, but after reading it i have no idea what that novelty comprises.

[Orik]

The noodles are so wide that even if they are orientable, trying to eat them will leave you disorientated. 

I recommend the author's wikipedia page. 

[backyardchef]

Moby....do they mean this guy??

[Sneakeater]

Isn't the inapplicable word she's searching for "ouroburos"?

(Seriously, maybe that's what set her off.)

[backyardchef]

56 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

Isn't the inapplicable word she's searching for "ouroburos"?

(Seriously, maybe that's what set her off.)

You mean this? 

[MitchW]

The food issue is fully digital - is this the first year for that?

Anyway, the Shteyngart piece about Martinis, is a fun read. And he only mentions his botched childhood circumcision once, though the word circumcision does make another appearance later in the piece.

And from the piece, I found out where one of my favorite old-school bartenders is now tending bar.

[Wilfrid]

It is a first. But it's quite confusing. I found it by searching. Once I found it I discovered I could open it in the app. But if you go direct to the app, it's not on the scroll of digital issues. The top one there is still the wonderful cat cover on the Technology issue. Also, does this mean there won't be a new print issue Monday?

[splinky]

2 hours ago, MitchW said:

The food issue is fully digital - is this the first year for that?

Anyway, the Shteyngart piece about Martinis, is a fun read. And he only mentions his botched childhood circumcision once, though the word circumcision does make another appearance later in the piece.

And from the piece, I found out where one of my favorite old-school bartenders is now tending bar.

i feel like he's oversharing in the schmeckle department

[bloviatrix]

4 minutes ago, splinky said:

i feel like he's oversharing in the schmeckle department

He's one in a long line of male writers to do so. Tradition!

[backyardchef]

14 minutes ago, bloviatrix said:

He's one in a long line of male writers to do so. Tradition!

Write about what you know best, I guess....

[splinky]

5 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

He's one in a long line of male writers to do so. Tradition!

one trick ponies

[MitchW]

6 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Also, does this mean there won't be a new print issue Monday?

I think the last print issue was a double, so probably no issue on Monday.

[StephanieL]

10 minutes ago, MitchW said:

I think the last print issue was a double, so probably no issue on Monday.

No print issue this week.  New print issue next week, with a May 6 cover date.

[Wilfrid]

The last print issue was a double, but it is two weeks old, so as Stephanie says there should be a new May 6 print issue. I just wondered if the digital food issue affects that. It shouldn't.

[bloviatrix]

1 hour ago, splinky said:

one trick ponies

Originality is hard.

[splinky]

2 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

Originality is hard.

probably the only thing that is hard

[AaronS]

absurdistan is great