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point/counterpoint
Obama Not Being Trotsky in Disguise: Good or Bad?
The Times Magazine had a good story by Matt Bai (who's always annoyed us and we don't even really know why) about how Obama's philosophy of government is all about, in Rahm Emanuel's phrase, "the art of the possible." More »
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By PareeneComment by momof3wildkids: I think you have your stealth socialist. US now has significant ownership in banks, auto industry, insurance, etc.. ... 27 Responses | Other threads
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profiles
'Mellow' Bill Clinton Now BFF With Ex-Smearer, Still Pissed at Ted Kennedy
Sunday's NY Times Magazine featured a cover piece on Bill Clinton titled "The Mellowing of Bill Clinton," but the thing that stood out most was how Clinton is now buddies with one his main defamers from the 90s, while still holding grudges against just about every Democrat who supported Obama. More »
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Comment by ellagood: ok, yeah, yeah, yeah there are deeper matters here but when have you seen a President with that much "I... 8 Responses | Other threads
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always forget
The Amnesiac Newt Comeback Tour Begins
Did you know that shameful loser ex-congressman Newt Gingrich is the future of the GOP? It's true! We read it in a Matt Bai piece, so surely Newt will be as successful as Mark Warner. More »
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By PareeneComment by Private Hangnail: Newt Gingrich is to politics as L. Ron Hubbard is to religion. 4 Responses | Other threads
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media handling
Obama's Winning Strategy: Ignore 'Politico'
Our new press secretary and our president-elect's campaign media strategy get the Times Magazine treatment this Sunday. There is, frankly, nothing all that revealing. But there are amusing anecdotes! More »
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By PareeneComment by notsofresh: The story says Gibbs is 37 years old. If that's how hard work and ambition age a man, I'll keep... 5 Responses | Other threads
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family matters
Alex Kuczynski's Real-Life 'Baby Mama'
New York Times official rich person-in-residence, plastic surgery addict, and orgy enthusiast Alex Kuczynski has a long, long, torturous story in the Sunday Magazine about her recent experience with a surrogate mother. Would you like to know how stressful and terrible it is to pay another woman to bring your child to term? No, probably not, but here you go. More »
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By PareeneComment by LucilleMcGillicuddy: OK, this is not going to be popular, but I don't think it is right to start kicking the shit... 22 Responses | Other threads
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war of ideas
Jihad You Can Believe In
The Times is always willing to expand the breadth of its readership. We can only assume the troubling economy is the reason for Katherine Zoepf's piece in today's New York Times Magazine about militants who are rehabilitated by the friendly Saudi government and by Penn State's International Center for the Study of Terrorism. Her considered and sympathetic portrayal of those caught up in the jihad rat race might sell some newspaper subscriptions, assuming the rehabilitation plan includes a new car to go buy the paper in. Apparently, it usually does: More »
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Comment by jbwan: "candy bars, wives, Toyotas, employment." In that order? 2 Responses | Other threads
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horse race
'Times' Finally Reveals Who's Destroying McCain Campaign
The explosive New York Times Magazine story on the complete disarray of the McCain campaign is live online! It's full of revealing exclusive info that one was previously forced to just infer based on the available evidence! Like: the tone, strategy, and narrative of McCain's campaign has been inconsistent because the candidate himself is terrible with organization and consistency, and has relied on metanarrative crafter/biographer Mark Salter, Rovian media guru Steve Schmidt, and close friend and day-to-day campaign head Rick Davis to work it all out between the three of them. And there is infighting, of course, and everyone will soon blame everyone else, but honestly the ultimate responsibility for the failure of the campaign (should it fail in two weeks, obv) comes down to Senator McCain.
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By PareeneComment by Richard Lawson: Hawks. Hah. "Senator McCain likes to take his coffee by an old tree where hawks nest. He also prefers... 4 Responses | Other threads
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herogram
Rachel Maddow, Normal Person
Hey, this Sunday's Times Magazine features an awesome "Domains" interview with everyone in the world's favorite tee vee pundit Rachel Maddow! We read an advance copy and can officially break the news that Rachel Maddow is totally cool. She lives way out in western Massachussetts with her partner Susan (pictured). She is seemingly the most normal and charming and totally well-adjusted cable news host in America. Seriously! Totally without the crippling ego of everyone else on every other cable network! She still has no television of her own, she is annoyed at having to dress like "an assistant principal" in order to be allowed on tv, she identifies with Wally Cleaver, and after learning her favorite hobby we decided conclusively that we want to be her friend:
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By PareeneComment by Spaceman Bill Leah: I am guessing by Western Mass. this means Northampton possibly? I am totally stalking her next time I go home... 26 Responses | Other threads
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hackers
Hacker From That Times Story On Palin Emails: "i wish they'd done it properly"
Perhaps yesterday's Sarah Palin email hack reminded you of that brilliant engrossing story the New York Times ran back in July about 4chan, the juvenile message board community of hackers, trolls and sundry internet misanthropes that pulled it off? The writer hung out with that molestation victim who wrote the nasty fake blog about that thirteen-year-old MySpace hoax suicide case and got his identity stolen by a hacker with a Rolls Royce named Weev. Well, we found the writer, Matt Schwartz*, on the internet to engage in a brief exchange on hackers, trolls, and why the Lulz Generation hates Sarah Palin. He even gets Weev to weigh in on how he might have done it better! A full interview after the jump. More »
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By MoeComment by Hockeymom: MOE: Her absurdity lends itself naturally to Lulz. Her averageness. Her momness. To the kid who doesn't remember Ollie North... 7 Responses | Other threads
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david foster wallace
David Foster Wallace's Online Legacy
Harper's has made available online eleven essays by David Foster Wallace following the postmodern writer's suicide last week. Bloggers have rounded up other DFW work available online, including his Times profile of Roger Federer and 2000 Rolling Stone profile of John McCain. There are also videos, including the writer's appearances on Charlie Rose (other) and these moments collected by the LA Times. All told, the world is left with a reasonably extensive sampling of the writer's work available at the click of a mouse — at least enough to draw in new readers and perhaps even convince them to attempt his daunting masterpiece, Infinite Jest. [via Daring Fireball, Wonkette, LA Times]
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Sad that it took his death for me to discover him. Infinite Jest is on the way, and thanks... 5 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
How WSJ Could Make An Appetizing Version Of T (But They Won't)
The Wall Street Journal's glossy "Modern Wealth"-themed magazine WSJ is debuting September 6. Just in time for your curiosity to have been thoroughly piqued by the smartified explorations into fashion and luxury commissioned to fill up the heaving style issues of the New Yorker and New York, T Magazine and Vanity Fair! Here's what we know: there are 51 advertisers, 19 of which are new to Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal. And here's what we hear: Buzz in the newsroom is that the content, penned by a mix of staff reporters and freelancers, is "very disappointing"* — save for an apparently hilarious piece by veteran retail reporter Ellen Byron. Hey, suggestion! More » -
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Top 5 Best Contradictory Statements About Barack Obama's Economic Ideas (Of All Time)
The most telling economic indicator about Sunday's New York Times Magazine investigation into Advanced Obamanomics is how it is not very economical with the words! There are 58 incidences of the word "but" alone. (Plus 10 "yet"s, 6 "however"s and 2 "on the other hand"s.) See, he is at heart a radical Marxist, but also a Clintonian sellout! A lover of markets, but also regulation! Etc. etc…
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By MoeComment by cheeseburgersandwitch: Explain to me what is wrong about learning from those that have come before and choosing what seems to work... 1 Responses | Other threads
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campaigns
Obama: Bad for Black People
Are you one of the 48% of Americans who is "hearing too much about Barack Obama"? Then you certainly won't like this Sunday's Times Magazine story by professional Democratic Party Underminer Matt Bai. It's about how Barack Obama represents the End of Black Politics, because he's a black person who white people don't feel threatened by. In the story, Bai harangues Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter about why he didn't endorse the black guy and then feels guilty about it, interviews Newark mayor Cory Booker about childhood experiences with racism and then feels guilty about that, and finally says that President Obama will actually be a secret step BACK for black people because he won't be able to get away with helping black people as much as a white candidate might. Get it? [NYT]
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By PareeneComment by oneinsixbillion: Its not about identity politics. Barack Obama is a way for the white establishment to co-opt African-Americans' political voice. After... more » | Other threads
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the internets
A Troll Responds To The Times Magazine
"The more I study mathematics, physics, history and the natural world, the more I know that this reality is a construct created to test us." So you'll find in the LiveJournal lament of "weev," one of the top trolls Mattathias Schwartz investigated in this Sunday's NYTM (see previous post). Weev says his quotes on "philosophy" were taken out of context in the piece and that he only agreed to be interviewed to discuss his deep thoughts on chivvying people on the Internet; his personal life was out of bounds. Sigh. Even the trolls can't trust journalists any more. Something about the Seven Ages of Man, the mass murder of Egyptians and fishing nets follows. Decide for yourself whether Schwartz was unfair to weev or all too kind: More » -
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Beware The Cyber Trolls
Now here's an instructive feature in the New York Times Magazine about the cultural and mass psychological ruin being wrought by the Internet. Mattathias Schwartz becomes a Jane Goodall among the "trolls," those anarchic misfits of the binary world who live to toy with other people's emotions (sorry, they elicit "lulz") by making bedlam of comment threads, and tossing up fake MySpace pages of their enemies. The more pretentious fancy themselves philosopher-revolutionaries; they believe they're actually improving society by committing identity fraud and issuing violent threats because these and other mean acts force the easily duped to wise up. Posting animated color fields designed to cause seizures in an epilepsy forum? “Demonstrating these kinds of exploits is usually the only way to get them fixed,” says "Fortuny." More »
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Comment by XerxesQados: The reporter says that trolls will stop it when people stop taking them seriously. How about we start right now and... more » | Other threads
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journalismism
New York Times Magazine's Sleepy Limbaugh Cover Story
Right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is signing a contract with Clear Channel and Premiere Radio worth more than $400 million, the New York Times Magazine will report this Sunday. In addition to finagling a nine-figure signing bonus, Limbaugh has also taken to purchasing a new G550 jet and a pyramid of gilded skulls belonging to the financiers of Air America. The profile already seems like a softball (it'd have to be if Limbaugh agreed to it). The author is Zev Chafets, NYTM's house conservative and a former press officer for Menachem Begin (!), who previously wrote about Mike Huckabee's forgettable down-home charisma ("Lunch with Mike Huckabee is a study in faith-based dieting," "If there was magic there, it was working."). So far, the only advance Limbaugh quotes are the following: More »
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Maybe You Don’t Need To Chill Out
In the New York Times Magazine, Peggy Orenstein argues that stress has less to do with physical ailments than we think. She says it’s just another way of blaming people, primarily women, for their illnesses. This seems like a perfectly good reason to avoid going to yoga.[NYT Magazine]
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By mr.guyballComment by ginger rant: All I can say is that nothing makes me more stressed out than someone telling me to relax. What's bugging me... more » | Other threads
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request for information
The Memoirs Of Emily Gould, 26
Yep, the inevitable: agency Trident is hawking a book proposal by the self-revealing former Gawker writer and controversial New York Times Magazine covergirl. The working title is And The Heart Says... Whatever; "I assume it's 400 pages of the word me in different fonts," says one publishing industry spy. Dewy Gould's latest career move isn't that surprising: Ana Marie Cox went out to publishers the week after the Wonkette editor appeared on the front cover of the same Sunday supplement. Gould's outline is being messengered rather than emailed to prevent a leak to a certain website. But I'm sure someone can sneak at least a few pages to the scanner. Email us.
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By Nick DentonComment by unutterable: I know I'm coming into this discussion a day late (I took the week off from work, so my motivation... more » | Other threads
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television
How to Satirize the 60's Ad World
Here's the best entertainment piece you'll read all weekend: Alex Witchel's New York Times Magazine profile of Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, a brilliant drama on AMC entering its second season that does to the 60's advertising industry what Boeing Boeing tried to do to the 60's airline industry. Lots of sex, booze, smoking, shellacked hair, and modular furniture, but also some of the smartest scriptwriting on television. Whether or not Weiner stays true to the nature of jingle-and-tagline executives as they formerly existed (the secretaries' breasts are right out of the John Currin catalog) is almost besides the point once you hear him describe a plot motive: More »
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Comment by Rooo sez BISH PLZ: @yourfriendandneighbor: Absolutely. Aren't women copywriters and art directors still having a hard time getting noticed? Wasn't there some... more » | Other threads
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media
The Art Of The Tasteful Sell Out
There was much consternation in the media world earlier this week when it emerged that Tribune's Los Angeles Times would take its Sunday magazine out of the hands of trained journalists and hand control over to the newspaper's sales staff. Editor Russ Stanton even insisted that the magazine's name be changed so readers didn't get the idea that it still had, you know, integrity. But journalists are as much to blame as the business side for the fact that their work increasingly sounds like catalog copy. Here's ink-stained wretch Rob Walker in his most recent "Consumed" column for New York Times Magazine: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by strikethrough: I don't know what you are talking about since I don't read that trash. I get my news from SkyMall. more » | Other threads
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you wanna be on top
Tyra Banks Wants Us To Feel Better About Ourselves So She Can Feel Better About Cashing In On It
"I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls," Tyra Banks tells Lynn Hirschberg, who wrote this Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story on the model turned mogul. And that's what she's been telling the rest of us for the past five years since ANTM debuted. Throughout the lengthy article, Tyra — who named her company Bankable Productions — seems to be justifying her crossover success and subsequent mega-wealth. ("Banks makes an estimated $18 million a year, and her net worth is around $75 million.") She'd have you believe that, ultimately, she's in this media game to help out 18 - 34-year-old women. How fitting then, that that happens to be the exact demographic coveted by advertisers! It's not so weird that we question whether someone is only interested in"instilling self-esteem in young women" when that someone built her empire on a competition-based reality show about modeling. What is weird is that Tyra feels the need to couch her seemingly endless career goals in humanitarianism, as though her ambition needs to have a heart as big as her weave. The answer is that she knows if she doesn't say that shit, she'll look like a money-grubbing asshole. The question, however, is: Why aren't women allowed to be as shamelessly mercenary as men? [Jezebel] -
crossovers
The Personal Narrative, Photographed
For former Gawker blogger Emily Gould's raw "Blog-Post Confidential" essay in the upcoming New York Times Magazine, she was photographed by Elinor Carucci, who specializes in "portraits of everyday female vulnerability." The photo on the left is Emily Gould by Carucci, the one on the right is Carucci, from her Closer series. Shoot the Blog remarks that Carucci, admirably, is able to "delivers editorial imagery that is barely distinguishable from her own [fine art] work." That's the photographer equivalent of making it big writing personal narratives! (Click to enlarge.)
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By SheilaComment by MadamButterfloozy: Emily You should've listened to Jessica's wise advice about not reading the comments. For me, your mistake was not 'oversharing', it... more » | Other threads
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the way we live now
Emily Gould on Julia Allison (on Julia Allison): "Attention Is My Drug"
Hey, bloggers! The countdown to the three-day weekend clusterfuck of examining and reexamining former Gawker editor Emily Gould's forthcoming New York Times Magazine piece may be cut short! Because The Observer has a copy, and it'll probably be online tomorrow. You are forewarned: there is a photo of a blogger at a laptop, blogging. It's just Emily's hands, though. According to Matt Haber, the piece is "heavily diaristic." Do you want to read about Julia Allison? Sure you do. More »
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By PareeneComment by windowface: julia allison rides in private jets with demetri martin, then takes pictures and blogs about it. and she reveals demetri... more » | Other threads
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irony
'NYT Magazine' Green Issue Not Actually Green
It was self-righteous and catered to the rich. But was the New York Times Magazine "Green Issue" green enough? Not according to anyone who actually cares about the future of this precious island we call Planet Earth. The magazine was printed on non-recycled paper. Egad! That means all those eco-friendly car ads were actually leaving a gigantic carbon footprint. Vanity Fair's annual green issues are also printed on non-recylced paper. It's like these magazines really just care about the advertising market for environmentalism instead of the actual environment. Let the Times Magazine Green Issue be a lesson: Never care about anything unless you're prepared to be called out as total a hypocrite. [Folio]
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By rebeccaComment by famousauthor: You can talk about recycled paper all you want. I still prefer the recycled coffee at Starbucks. more » | Other threads
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you wouldn't understand
Friday Night Lights and the Stupid People Who Don't Like It
Virginia Heffernan (and supposedly other people) lives in constant dread that her beloved Friday Night Lights will be canceled. It's her favorite show but draws only half the viewers of many other, dumber shows. Heffernan, the our favorite breathless TV critic, mournfully parses the situation in the Times Magazine, and it's sort of like when your articulate but totally misguided friend explains why nobody's into her fiance. She chalks up the show's flop to the unwavering artistic integrity of its creators and a lack of sophistication that leads laypeople to reject high art, just like when Shakespeare wrote the totally under-appreciated first season and a half of Hamlet. Hey, remember the time Heffernan compared lonelygirl15 to Jane Austen? We sure do. [New York Times]
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By interngregComment by picardia: I watched the first episode and thought it was brilliant. Unfortunately, I grew up in a small Texas town crazy... more » | Other threads
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service with a smile
Service With A Screech
We do so hope that comedian Paul Mecurio's essay in the New York Times magazine this weekend wasn't just a bit, because if he actually dropped trou in broad Midtown daylight just to teach a surly newsstand guy a lesson in customer service, then we basically worship his batshit crazy self. Could we please borrow him the next time we find ourselves in the godforsaken blackhole of courtesy and common sense that is every single Duane Reade store? [NYTM] -
house of glass
In the mini-dust-up regarding New York Times Grand Inquisitor Deborah Solomon's whimsical approach to journalism and possibly acrobatic use of time and space in an interview with "This American Life" fella Ira Glass, we'd like to note—as the original presenter of these charges in the New York Press did not—that Glass' wife Anaheed Alani is a part-time fact-checker at thePressTimes magazine.
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By Joshua SteinComment by artynimue1: @artynimue1: Wait a while. Glass's wife will turn out to be Gerald Marzorati's secretary. more » | Other threads
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questions and answers
Ira Glass Attacks 'Times' Q&A Queen Deborah Solomon
The New York Press is carrying a breathless 3,000-word piece today alleging that Deborah Solomon, the awesomely tactless New York Times Magazine Q&A queen, redistributed and flat-out invented questions she hadn't actually asked in final versions of interviews that she conducted with "This American Life" host Ira Glass and advice columnist Amy Dickinson. The subjects cried foul to Press reporter Matt Elzweig, who was until about a year and a half ago a security guard at the Met. The Times was not particularly responsive to his inquiries. Elzweig's piece reads as though he's just discovered White House plumbers in Times executive editor Bill Keller's basement. Instead, the Press has, for the most part, stumbled upon a fairly common editing practice.
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By MaggieComment by chuchobaby: i dunno -- i kinda like the whole train-wreck aspect of the QA. and, i always assumed deb was... more » | Other threads
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memos
No More First Class Flights At The 'Times' Magazine
This afternoon, a memo went out from New York Times Magazine head Gerald Marzorati. It seems that staffers and freelancers have been flying business and first class while on assignment. Clearly this cannot stand! Although, why not? The magazine and those money-minters T, Play, and Key are raking it in for the business. (Seriously. The issue of T: Women coming out this Sunday is the biggest issue of a Times magazine since 1984. 183.3 pages of ads! Surely that can pay for a flight or two to Milan!) No matter! They have to find some way to pay those juicy word count rates. Approval to fly business class will only be granted after being run past Times Managing Editor John Geddes or Assistant Managing Editor Bill Schmidt. Got that? The full memo follows. More »
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recommended reading
"Another Williams encounter: The mother of twin Williams boys in their late teens opened her door to find on her stoop a leather-clad biker, motorcycle parked at the curb, asking for her sons. The boys had made the biker's acquaintance via C.B. radio and invited him to come by, but they forgot to tell Mom. The biker visited for a spell. Fascinated with how the twins talked about their condition, the biker asked them to speak at his motorcycle club's next meeting. They did. They told the group of the genetic accident underlying Williams, the heart and vascular problems that eventually kill many who have it, their intense enjoyment of talk, music and story, their frustration in trying to make friends, the slights and cruelties they suffered growing up, their difficulty understanding the world. When they finished, most of the bikers were in tears." Us too. This piece on Williams syndrome from the weekend's Magazine is totally worth your time. [NYT]
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watching from home
It's All Happening at 'Sunday With the Magazine'
If you're anything like Gawker Weekend, you were not able to procure tickets for today's "Sunday With the Magazine" festival at the CUNY Graduate Center. The now-annual event—all about the Way We Live Now, starring today's leaders and innovators —is about to get underway, and lucky for those of sitting at home, we can watch some of the action on the Internet. Log on right now to hear Times Magazine humor editor John Hodgman—presumably this person edits the Funny Pages?—interview Ricky Gervais. Like almost everything associated with the Times Magazine, it will probably be really adequate. If you go right now, you can see people in the audience looking at their programs! Later they'll show one with designers Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell and after that, John Edwards with Matt Bai. More » -
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Your Sunday 'Times' Timesaver Guide
It's going to be a warm and sunny weekend, which is a good thing considering that you're not going to be indoors reading the Sunday New York Times. If the Big Three sections (Arts, Books, Mag) are any indication, you'll quickly scan the sports scores and then head out to the park for some ultimate frisbee or whatever. So now we will helpfully describe to you, rapid-fire, what you'll be skipping over so you can sound all smart next week. You're welcome! More » -
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"Hey, look what just dropped out of my vagina!" Oh, Baby [NYM]
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how hard could it be
How Hard Could It Be?: True-Life Tales
Occasionally we'll read a story or feature so predictable or flaccid that we'll wonder how hard it could be to write one ourselves. In that spirit, we now debut How Hard Could It Be?, an occasional series in which we actually do write one ourselves. The inaugural topic is the Times Magazine's much-loved True-Life Tales from The Funny Pages. More » -
this thing looks like that thing
Teens Go Online, Emily Nussbaum Reports. Again.
I'm crouched awkwardly on the floor of Xiyin Tang's Columbia dorm room, peering up at her laptop as she shows me her first blog entries, a 13-year-old Xiyin's musings on Good Charlotte and the perfidy of her friends. A Warhol Marilyn print gazes over our shoulders. "I always find myself more motivated to write things," Xiyin, now 19, explains, "when I know that somebody, somewhere, might be reading it."
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Fine, we're immature. But come on, "a taste of forbidden sashimi?" Moby-Dinner [NYT]
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new york times magazine
What's Wrong With Peggy Orenstein's Editor?
Now that Balk's gone and that Bouncer guy is busy reading the local papers of every single sad borough, we can indulge our ardent ladyist side without fear of having menstrual/Kate Bush jokes thrown our way every five seconds. Anyway, we soo loved that NYT Mag article about the scary onslaught of Princess product aimed at little girls. (Fave quote: "Maybe it was the dentist's Betty Boop inflection that got to me, but when she pointed to the exam chair and said, "Would you like to sit in my special princess throne so I can sparkle your teeth?" I lost it.") But the writer, Peggy Orenstein, lost us a little bit in her bio — specifically, when we got to the part about the title of her forthcoming memoir: 'Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother.' More »
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By Emily GouldComment by ahouck: Her husband's short film "Days of Waiting" won the Oscar for Best Short Subjects Documentary in 1991. That's probably... more » | Other threads
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'Times' Mag: Highest Accuracy at Lowest Depths
The one and only correction from yesterday's Times magazine: More »
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new york times magazine
Now The World Don't Move To The Beat Of Just One Drum
Were we the only ones to read Michael Lewis' "The Ballad of Big Mike" in this week's Magazine and feel a little creepy? A little weirded out by the shocking paternalism of the entire thing? The piece centers around Michael Oher, a poor, black Memphian rescued by a rich white family so that he could play football for Ole Miss. (The story actually contains the section head, "A Rich White Family Takes an Interest.") More » -
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'Times Magazine' Validates Your Sartorial Irony
In case you missed it, there was a fascinating piece in this week's Times Magazine concerning consumption and identity. Rob Walker, the paper's resident expert on consumer behavior, examined three "underground" t-shirt companies in an attempt to explore the significance of branding to hipster youth. This article is well worth your time, providing a perspective on how a new generation negotiates with consumerism. The most important questions raised are these: Can a hipster t-shirt be as incendiary as a rock anthem? Is a cool logo some kind of manifesto? Does shopping for weird new stuff make you subversive? More »
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