It's mostly old issues of "The New Yorker."
2009-04-06 22:44:00 These days, at our house, it's all about the HD-- high definition -- TV. The Boy and Sweetie and probably the Babies!, too, swear by it.Me? I've got bad eyesight and never get to choose the shows we watch. I read a lot.But the kids and Sweetie love HD TV and think that there's really something to it, and that it's going to stick around. Which means that I can maybe score points with the family by taking advantage of the niceness being displayed by Charter these days.Charter is concerned that cable companies are getting a bad rap and to combat that, they're trying to prove that they deserve, well, a better rap. To earn that better rap, Charter is giving away a 22" flat screen HDTV every day in April, in a contest open to any existing customers who upgrade, or to new customers.All you, or I, have to do is go to their website at www.charter.com -- it's among the easiest to use, and lets the customer build a "service bundle" that exactly meets their needs. HD? Internet? Phone? Bun...
Freebie Offer: The New Yorker Bookmark
2009-03-23 21:10:00 You can take advantage of free offers, you just need to know where to find them. We always try to provide great freebie offers ranging from food samples to cleaning products and shampoo and lotion. Today’s freebie offer is a free bookmark from The New Yorker. Both e-mail and postal address are required to receive your ...
Controversy Of The Day: The New Yorker Magazine Goes GTLâ„¢ On Barack And M
2008-07-14 08:57:00 “Tasteless, Rude And Offensive”? Surely, But Then Again, Who Am I To Criticize? The HORROR — The New Yorker’s cover shows the Obama’s… well… here is the... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed.
A reply to the Packer's fall of conservatism in the New Yorker
2008-05-31 06:11:00 My friends at Magnasquids posted this and, since I think it's typical of a certain mind-set, I thought I'd reply. George Packer's a delusional idiot (I don't know if he's an idiot, but I thought I'd ape his argument style.). Let me elaborate: Democrats think that a general discontent caused mainly by the Iraq war (or arguing the Iraq war) and things unrelated to ideology like responses to disasters (Did Ray Nagin's or Kathleen Blanco's pro-government policies help?) gas prices- unrelated except that leftist solutions would make them much worse by not drilling more oil- that has given Democrats a slight advantage this election year means the downfall of conservatism. Let's see. What liberal solutions are people dying to try? 1. Health care. People want to spend more money for less care so that everybody has the same plan? The public may be unhappy with the cost of health care, but that doesn't mean they're willing to try a completely ideological solution (I say "comp...
By: Asymmetric
Sock It To Him
2008-05-25 17:27:00 The new issue of stuffy New Yorker magazine gets the Spitzer "blow-by-blow" from Republican Sultan Of Sleaze Roger Stone on how he blew the whistle on Eliot. NYP The burning question still unanswered: why Spitzer keeps his socks on while getting his rocks off...
By: Chickaboomer
CBS: If It Bleeds, It Leads
2008-05-19 14:48:00 "How puzzling must it have been for CBS when Bob Schieffer, a bona-fide old guy, with white hair and a gravelly voice, got ratings that were better than both Rather?s and Couric?s?Nancy Franklin in a New Yorker piece with an illustration that makes Katie Couric look like a predatory rodent. Not so puzzling considering liberal Rather turned off the old fart "CBS Evening News" La-Z-Boy viewers nodding off behind TV dinner tray tables. But wait! There's more! "She often comes across as hollow and robotic. I?m never as aware that anybody is reading from a teleprompter as I am when I?m watching Couric. She is essentially wasted in this job, as it has been defined by her and by Moonves, but the fact is that anyone with more of a reporting background would probably have been even unhappier in the job than Couric has evidently been, because CBS doesn?t appear to be all that interested in maintaining its news division; earlier this year, it was reported that the network was looking into usi...
By: Chickaboomer
The New Yorker on Simultaneous Invention and the Intellectual Ventures Labo
2008-05-07 07:15:00 Malcolm Gladwell (smart guy, puffy hair) has a feature in this week's The New Yorker about the history of simultaneous invention, the best example being Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both patenting the telephone on the same day. There are many other examples, leading to the conclusion that "scientific discoveries must, in some sense, be inevitable. They must be in the air, products of the intellectual climate of a specific time and place." The story is put into modern perspective by including scenes drawn from meetings of members of the company called Intellectual Ventures. The founding member, Nathan Myhrvold, also founded Microsoft's R&D labs. His idea for IV was to see if "the kind of insight that leads to invention could be engineered." The whole point being the creation of powerful ideas. Bill Gates, who works with them on H.I.V prevention, is quoted: Bill Gates, whose company, Microsoft, is one of the major investors in Intellectual Ventures, says, "I can give ...
By: Fat Matrix
Deep Thoughts On The Playoffs
2008-04-29 20:28:00 It's time for another edition of "Deep Thoughts." In this installment, I take enjoyment in the struggles of Carey Price, wonder how moronic Darian Hatcher actually is, marvel at the scouting prowess of the Detroit Red Wings, show the Dallas Stars some respect, and pass along some links and video. Enjoy.
By: Rumor Me This
The New Yorker Hard Drive From Pexagon
2008-04-15 19:35:00 I’m on the left coast, so not exactly sure on why Pexagon had the motivation to create a New Yorker USB Hard Drive [customer request], but none-the-less, it’s here and available. The Pexagon New Yorker hard drive has over 4,000 issues of the East Coast’s favorite magazine. The Complete New Yorker gives you instant access to ...
Racist Slander From The New Yorker
2008-03-10 18:33:00 Found via Free Republic Probably one of the most slanderous, incendiary statements I’ve read from a history-ignorant liberal in a long time. This from Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker, speculating on John McCain selecting Condoleezza Rice as his vice presidential running mate… To deal first with the obvious: Rice may be “only†the second woman ...
Intellectual Property
2008-03-08 12:57:00 Hollywood's version of a congressional legislative assistant: "Cultural Attache" - an in-house brain trust to make a sockless Gucci guy with electric hair appear smart. Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer, producer of "A Beautiful Mind", has a short list of four finalists eager to play the $150,000 a year role of Brian's brain butt boy."This person would be responsible for keeping Brian abreast of everything that's going on in the world; politically, culturally, musically... They?re also responsible for finding an interesting person for Brian to meet with every week... an astronaut, a journalist, a philosopher, a buddhist monk... There is LOTS of reading for this position! Grazer may ask you to read any book he?s interested in. You?ll probably get to read about 4 or 5 books a week and you may be required to travel with him on his private plane to Hawaii, New York, Europe?teaching him anything he asks you about along the way... You will also be provided with a...
By: Chickaboomer
Freaky Friday
2007-10-29 20:46:00 Frank Lucas is coming to the silver screen. His 1970s NY drug fiefdom glorified in Denzel Washington's new movie, "American Gangster." Denzel plays Frank. New York mag sat down with Lucas and his then-partner in crime, Nicky Barnes, "Mr. Untouchable." Both Frank and Nicky deny they ratted anyone out, but there is a good reason Nicky's in Witness Protection Program Land - where I live. I think I saw him at the drycleaners on Saturday. The New Yorker's David Denby reviews Denzel and Russell Crowe's collaboration with director Ridley Scott. The movie is out November 2. Watch the two-minute trailer. YouTubeThere's Ridley with Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment partner, the freaky Brian Grazer who bears an uncanny thinner-faced resemblance to someone I married. Except Brian's got more hair, spiky hair, and it's not gray.
By: Chickaboomer
New Exhibitions From The New Yorker To Shrek: The Art Of William Steig
2007-10-12 00:33:00 NEW EXHIBITIONS FROM THE NEW YORKER TO SHREK: THE ART OF WILLIAM STEIG November 4, 2007 through March 16, 2008 Known for his brilliant cartoons for The New Yorker and his award-winning children’s books, William Steig (1907–2003) was an American original whose achievements remain unparalleled. He first gained fame through his artwork for The New Yorker where ...
The New Yorker: The Sporting Scene: No Obstacles
2007-10-09 02:43:00 was reading about parkour over at kottke.org and he refered to this old but new to me article about it in the new yorker. pretty good read, and i've seen this stuff being done on ads and in movies and on youtube and around but never knew there was a term for it. thanks for teaching me something today jason (again).
By: webtourz
Smart cartoons from the New Yorker
2007-10-06 12:10:00 Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker magazine. Over the years he has also been doing some great cartoons. I think that the one above is the best of them all. Try to use the phrase next time an unpleasant sales person calls you! You will find this and a lot of other ...
By: David Report
The New Yorker smallholder
2007-09-18 17:00:00 New York City does not strike you as being the sort of place where a person no matter how committed could actually build a small holding in his yard which he believes should be able to enable him to live a sustainable life, well food wise! Manny Howard has built a small city farm in his ...
Sigur Rós At The New Yorker Festival
2007-09-14 06:03:00 the american premiere of ?heima? will be held as part of the new yorker festival in new york on friday the 5th of october. ?an evening with sigur rós? will include a screening of ?heima?, a questions and answers session and an acoustic set performed by the band. tickets for the event go on sale at 10am eastern time on the 15th of september on tickemaster.com and also at the festivals headquarters.*§ource: Sigur Rós' website*
Scent Of A Woman
2007-08-20 17:29:00 Guys don't need mirrors under the skirts of Cosmo gals at the Hearst Tower in NYC. The all-glass escalators make it easy for voyeurs. [NY Mag]Architectural flaw in an otherwise magnificent building. [New Yorker] The scent emanating from the NY Times perfume critic (yeah, they've got a nose for "news"), is as rancid as Rudy Guiliani's fumes when hammered about his dysfunctional personal life and his social climber wife. Chandler Burr wrote a great review for a French fragrance and then gave out the perfume he got free in "swag" bags at a six-course "Scent Dinner" he threw. [NY Post Page Six]National Lampoon's dogs found the women after smelling the crotches of Hanky Panky thongs. [Mediaweek]
By: Chickaboomer
The New Porker
2007-08-13 23:56:00 Memo to Peter Boyer, New Yorker Magazine.Re: Your piece on Rudy Guiliani. "Mayberry Man." Peter, I LIVE in Mayberry Land. Near Mount Airy, North Carolina. Home of Andy Griffith. This transplanted urbanite (DC) has peacefully coexisted five years with the cows, horses, and geese. I took a gander at your 20,000 word "Mayberry Man." You've got Rudy at Magnolia's, a tony restaurant in Charleston, SC. Hardly Mayberry, my man. My daughter went to college in Charleston. I hung out in Charleston. I know Charleston. And Charleston's no Mayberry. [Visit Mayberry.com]Peter, I invite you to Mayberry's Snappy Lunch where I can arrange for you to choke on a pork sandwich. Shut your snappy yap. There are a lot of savvy millionaire businessmen and women in Mount Airy cashing in on clueless city slickers like you. Their wives don't wear tiaras like Queen Judi but they have more in common with Rudy than the pickin' and grinnin' heehaws you erroneously stereotype as "Mayberry." If Rudy's "Mayb...
By: Chickaboomer
The New Yorker Digs Lil Wayne
2007-08-06 17:26:00 The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Lil Wayne with the same ardor of internet writers everywhere. Coupled with the New York Times article about The Dedication a short while back, this adds some of the mainstream validity that will prolong DWayne’s reign. Props to Cam for the link.
Chris Napolitano, "Playboy Magazine" editor: Mr. Media Interview, Pt. 2
2007-07-23 14:22:00 (RETURN TO PART 1!!!)ANDELMAN: One of the main things that?s different about Playboy today than it was in 1988 when you joined is the competition. For a long time, it was basically Playboy and Penthouse. It was Hefner and Guccione. Today, Penthouse is basically on the scrap heap of adult magazine history, and your biggest competitor, I think, in print at least, would seem to be Maxim. There was an effort the last couple years to sort of ?Maxim-ize? I hate to use the term, but Maxim-ize Playboy a bit. My sense is that you guys did that, but gradually you?ve kind of even pulled away from that and gone back to more of the older Playboy style.NAPOLITANO: Yeah, that was a very conscious decision based on what feedback we were getting from our audience and from young men. It?s very true that when it comes to female personalities and stuff like that, Maxim, in their cover choices, is a very close competitor to ours. They are a starter magazine for a lot of young men.ANDELMAN: Oh boy. They?...
By: Mr. Media
THE NEW YORKER OUT LOUD | HAITI MEETS THE D.R.
2007-06-15 15:25:00 This month?s New Yorker Out Loud pod cast series, which consists of a New Yorker fiction writer discussing a story from the magazine?s voluminous archives, features the gifted Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat conversing with The New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about talented Dominican writer Junot Díaz?s 1995 short story "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)."
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By: Gambler's Story
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
2007-05-29 10:23:00 The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker By Robert Mankoff, David Remnick The New Yorker’s cartoons have a reputation for being slightly surreal and often inscrutable. One popular stereotype is that the cartoons have punchlines so non sequitur that they are impossible to understand. However, the cartoons remain popular, indicating that a substantial constituency of readers finds them funny. In addition, certain contemporary New Yorker cartoonists such as Roz Chast break this mold, using humor that almost any reader would find accessible. The New Yorker’s stable of current and former cartoonists includes many important names in American humour, including Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, James Thurber, Charles Barsotti, Lee Lorenz, the aforementioned Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Robert Mankoff, P. S. Mueller, and George Booth, among many others. From Booklist Issued as part of the New Yorker’s eightieth anniversary celebration, this greatly oversize, undeniably heavy, bu...
The New Yorker Profiles Banksy, Prints Exclusive Image
2007-05-15 18:00:00 IntroThe New Yorker has recently published a lengthy profile of British graffiti artist Banksy, along with a limited online gallery of his work. Weighing in at over 6000 words, this feature by Lauren Collins includes an exclusive image that this "invisible man of graffiti art" emailed to the author. An excerpt: Whoever he is, Banksy revels in the incongruities of his persona. ?The art world is the biggest joke going,? he has said. ?It?s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.? Although he once declared that ?every other type of art compared to graffiti is a step down,? in recent years he has produced his share of traditional works on canvas and on paper, suitable for hanging indoors, above a couch. His gallerist in London, Steve Lazarides, maintains a warm relationship with Sotheby?s, authenticating Banksy pieces that the house offers for auction, and thereby giving Banksy?s tacit endorsement of their sale on the secondary market. In February, Sotheby?s p...
MoMA: Cartoons from The New Yorker
2007-04-26 20:00:00 The New Yorker has some of the best cartoons and this book is shows all of the best cartoons related to the MoMA museum and modern art. It features over 80 cartoons and has lots of lively debate about some of them. A must for anyone who enjoys modern art. Available only from the MoMA store for $24.95.
By: Baller Goods
Great essay on Manny Ramirez in the "New Yorker"
2007-04-25 18:33:00 It's not often that a piece on a baseball player graces the staid and august pages of a publication like the "New Yorker". In the latest issue, there is a great article on Manny Ramirez. Here's a money quote: "In 2003, James identified fifty-three instances in which Red Sox players had
By: A Wikia Wiki
Great essay on Manny Ramirez in the "New Yorker"
2007-04-25 18:33:00 It's not often that a piece on a baseball player graces the staid and august pages of a publication like the "New Yorker". In the latest issue, there is a great article on Manny Ramirez. Here's a money quote: "In 2003, James identified fifty-three instances in which Red Sox players had
By: A Wikia Wiki
Great essay on Manny Ramirez in the "New Yorker"
2007-04-25 18:33:00 It's not often that a piece on a baseball player graces the staid and august pages of a publication like the "New Yorker". In the latest issue, there is a great article on Manny Ramirez. Here's a money quote: "In 2003, James identified fifty-three instances in which Red Sox players had
By: A Wikia Wiki
The New Yorker Cartoon - A Widget Here
2006-12-02 15:59:08 Another cool widget I found is one of the famous New Yorker cartoons. This one, which is at the top of this blog, changes each day -- or at least it's supposed to. We'll see. But I've got it here.
The New Yorker that sells garbage
2006-11-11 10:54:02 We always say United States is the land of opportunity. There are success stories in each and every corner in the city. Today, I would like to introduce you a guy called Justin Gignac, who sells garbage of New York City. Yes, he sells GARBAGE to all people around the world! Putting New York City trash into clear plastic cases, signed and dated, he is selling each finest select pieces of “garbage” for US Dollar $50. You may think that he is ridiculous, but he has sold more than 700 boxes of those “garbage”. And frankly, I would like to have one also. If you really can’t stand this kind of crap, at least his business is really doing the city a favor, he is cleaning up the streets of New York City. In United States, we have witness so many business miracles and have heard so many inspirational true stories about how those determined people have turned “Impossible” into “IR...
By: Jason's Blog
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