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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Lots of good stuff in the March 12 issue! :D
Adam Gopnik on Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Alex Ross on current operas at the Met.
Peter Schjeldahl on Grant Wood at the Whitney.
Emily Nussbaum on the TV show Jane the Virgin (makes me wish I watched the show, but also sort of makes it sound like one of those shows where, if you haven't watched from the beginning, you'd be hopelessly lost).
Lots more to go: Hilton Als, Anthony Lane, and Jane Mayer.
(I've already read Kathryn Schulz on stinkbugs, and I found it truly scary. :( )
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 13, 2018, 01:11:33 pm ---Lots of good stuff in the March 12 issue! :D
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Agreed!
--- Quote ---Emily Nussbaum on the TV show Jane the Virgin (makes me wish I watched the show, but also sort of makes it sound like one of those shows where, if you haven't watched from the beginning, you'd be hopelessly lost).
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Not to bring up the touchy subject of DVR again (sorry), but I have been recording Jane the Virgin almost since the series first started and I was seeing rave reviews. I've never watched more than about 5 minutes of it, but from what I've seen I agree, you'd have to start from the beginning. So that's like, what, six years now? Is she even still a virgin anymore? :laugh:
--- Quote ---(I've already read Kathryn Schulz on stinkbugs, and I found it truly scary. :( )
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I read it, too, and before I'd even finished -- in fact, I still haven't finished it, come to think of it -- was frantically googling stinkbugs and Minnesota. Yes, Minnesota is one of the 45 states they've invaded.
Bright side: Maybe we don't even have to worry about global warming! Not to add more scariness, but I read an article the other day from a reliable source (an environmental biologist writing on Slate) that, according to some estimates, the chances of human life surviving to the 22nd century are 50/50.
But maybe stinkbugs will have taken over by then. And it's probably only a matter of time before they become carnivorous.
Kathryn Schulz seems to be making a specialty of stories that are scary beyond belief. She wrote the one about how Seattle is overdue for a gigantic earthquake/tsunami that will instantly deluge a huge swath on the coastal side of the city with 30 feet of water.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 14, 2018, 09:48:04 am ---Not to bring up the touchy subject of DVR again (sorry), but I have been recording Jane the Virgin almost since the series first started and I was seeing rave reviews. I've never watched more than about 5 minutes of it.
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Never more than five minutes (per episode?) since almost the beginning of the series (Nussbaum says it debuted in 2014)? Um, I think you just made my point about recording/not recording, regardless of the device used.
--- Quote ---Is she even still a virgin anymore? :laugh:
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I'd answer that question, but it would spoil Nussbaum's review. ;D
--- Quote ---Kathryn Schulz seems to be making a specialty of stories that are scary beyond belief. She wrote the one about how Seattle is overdue for a gigantic earthquake/tsunami that will instantly deluge a huge swath on the coastal side of the city with 30 feet of water.
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I remember that article; I didn't remember that Schulz wrote it.
Front-Ranger:
The only article I was able to read so far in last week's NY was the longish one on Christopher Steele: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier
The latest issue arrived today and I have read half of it already, online. Watch out for the Reddit story. Be prepared for a look into the obscene world of online trolling:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet?mbid=&mbid=nl_Magazine%20Weekly%20031218%20without%20Web&CNDID=18632875&spMailingID=13105294&spUserID=MjI2MjM0MTY1NjYyS0&spJobID=1361154261&spReportId=MTM2MTE1NDI2MQS2
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 14, 2018, 11:21:08 am ---Never more than five minutes (per episode?) since almost the beginning of the series (Nussbaum says it debuted in 2014)? Um, I think you just made my point about recording/not recording, regardless of the device used.
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Oh, it's totally true of Jane the Virgin but ask me about a million other shows, including (not to be redundant, but ...) Vietnam and The Roosevelts. But really, pretty much all the shows I watch these days, even the current ones that are broadcast once a week or whatever -- I watch them when I want to watch them as opposed to when they're actually "on." If they're on Friday night but I'm out, for example, I watch them on a different night. Sometimes I'm even more or less ready to watch when they're on, but still wait 15 minutes doing other stuff so I can FF through the commercials. Downside: I'm not up on the latest commercials, but I can live with that.
(No, I meant I've seen about 15 minutes total of the entire JtV series. It comes on right after something else I record, so the recording of the first show picks up the first few minutes of JtV. So I know that it's modeled after a Latinx telanova -- or whatever it's called; I defer to Emily Nussbaum -- a medium I'm not familiar with, but OK, I don't mind broadening my cultural horizons. But it starts out with a Hispanic-accented narrator going, "When last we saw Jane, she was blah blah blah" and so on for a lot of other characters I'd have to watch from the beginning to know, so it's kind of overwhelming.)
--- Quote ---I remember that article; I didn't remember that Schulz wrote it.
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I remember because I knew of her work when she was a book reviewer for New York magazine/Vulture.com. Since then, I remember her byline.
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