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I really like reading the New Yorker and have done so for about a decade. I no longer live in New York but I still read the Tables For Two section excitedly first thing every week and try to get through the majority of the articles. However, there are sooooo many more in the backlogs and the iPhone app is actually quite optimized with previous published pieces so I like to sift through the internet to see what people recommend from the past, and also use their Sunday Archive emails to delve into old writings. It's cool to see people like J.D. Salinger or Truman Capote writing articles for them back in the day. One I recently loved was the original publishing of the Brokeback Mountain short story in the fiction section. As a Wyoming native I found the descriptions of the landscape and energy to be so richly written.
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My friend Jay recently mentioned in passing a 2010 story in The New Yorker, "Sleeping With Weapons" by Tad Friend, about the totally batshit feud between the actor and musician John Lurie and his protege John Perry. It's like 8,000+ words of mayhem and mental illness and I can't believe the magazine ran it or that I'd never read it, especially since there was a whole controversy afterward, including a hunger strike. It reminded me that there's just an endless array of weird old stores from 10 years ago, from 50 years ago, from last year, and you can just mainline them in one subway ride for no money. I always go back to stuff like Nancy Jo Sales on the Pussy Posse or the Golden Suicides, or Chris Heath's Fiona Apple cover story for Rolling Stone from 1998, or Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!" or Ta-Nehisi Coates on MF DOOM. (Use Pocket to get around paywalls.)
Nov 9, 2022
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When I was a kid I was obsessed with making funny captions for the images on the back of The New Yorker. There was a competition where you would send in your funny caption and there was a chance it would appear in the next issue. I never won.
My love for this magazine was reignited recently when I read an excellent profile piece on Fiona Apple. It was published just prior to the release of Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020) and written by one of my favorite TV critics, Emily Nussbaum. Piece can be found in the attached link.
More recently I've been going through the lists what the magazine considers the best media of the year. Movies, books, records, most of them are good. It's great to get out of an internet bubble where all people do is listen to shit posted on /mu/, and bolded on rym; to listen the experts as it were.
Dec 15, 2023
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Always such a pleasure picking up a print version and sitting down and getting lost in the stories and writing there, and then you have a crossword puzzle at the end too! I just love print magazines in general, always have. I looove finding new things and ones to read obviously, but sometimes it can just get overwhelming when you find so much you want to read and only have so much time- so then you just fall back on your old reliable go-tos.
Nov 27, 2024
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it's really easy to be lazy and let something like a parsley leaf fall on the kitchen floor when I'm cooking and just ignore it. same goes for a tiny piece of foil if i'm opening some annoying package. but if you just take that spare millisecond to fucking crouch down and pick the damn thing up, you are just that much better for it. don't have to deal with it later, don't have to annoy your housemates or partner, and you're just being proactive about something even if very tiny. the cumulative effect has a really positive outcome and it gets easier as you go.
Sep 24, 2024
As a lover of PI.FYI/getting/giving unsolicited recommendations for all things, I recently started sending my google maps pins to people I see traveling to places I've marked a few things. What's better than getting a recco from somebody real and not some dumb watered down sponsored Time Out article about 'Top 5 most instagrammable places in Seoul' etc etc etc. Ew. Here's a list I made while working in London for a month. There is what I like to think a good range from obvious trendy wine bars down to things I stumbled past while ambling around. Plus I think that giving good travel recs gives good travel karma!
Sep 24, 2024
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Inner Totality is one of the best DJs, so pro at cross genre spanning mixes that suit meditation and chilling to home dinners up to dancefloor boppin, but this country mix is so fresh. Dude has selector skills in all genres its wild. His new band ddwy is also really cool and fun
Sep 30, 2024