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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 03, 2024, 07:53:06 pm ---I am even more behind than usual. I had two issues with me up at the house, and I just didn't feel like reading either of them.
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Understandable. Hope you're doing all right, Jeff. :-*
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 03, 2024, 08:55:59 pm ---Understandable. Hope you're doing all right, Jeff. :-*
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Thanks. I'm doing OK.
Front-Ranger:
I'm reposting this comment that I made in the Armistad Maupin thread:
This inspired me to go back and read the clever and fairly short bio of RuPaul in the March 8 issue of The New Yorker. It's interesting that his husband Georges has a 60,000-acred ranch in Wyoming. I wonder if we could have our next rendezvous or BBQ there.
I didn't see anything about Cece Real or Ecce Rale there, but it does mention the Tennessee Williams play "Camino Real." That was the first performance RuPaul appeared in in drag, as a 15-year-old. The bio is by Ronan Farrow who seems entirely at home in RuPaul's world.
Jeff Wrangler:
So I guess I'm a month behind, now, but if you didn't read the Feb. 26 article about the efforts to sell weed legally in New York City, I can recommend going back and reading it simply for its entertainment value. I found it entertaining that the author, Jia Tolentino, self-identifies as "a devoted stoner" and then writes, "[N]o one has ever actually died from too much weed."
(Did you notice what I did there? I don't know Jia Tolentino's insisted-upon pronouns, so I wrote the sentence to avoid using a pronoun.
I wonder when TNY will start including insisted-upon pronouns in the contributor list?)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 22, 2024, 02:13:53 pm ---(Did you notice what I did there? I don't know Jia Tolentino's insisted-upon pronouns, so I wrote the sentence to avoid using a pronoun.
I wonder when TNY will start including insisted-upon pronouns in the contributor list?)
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I guess you can never be sure of anybody's pronouns these days, but I have sat in a meeting where fellow reporters talked to Jia Tolentino remotely and she appears to be a woman. She also used to write for Jezebel, a woman's website. So I'm going to boldly go with she/her.
(As to why we met with Jia, I'm in a group at work that picks out articles people think were well written and researched, then talks to the authors. Some members liked an article she wrote about people's emotions about climate change. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-to-do-with-climate-emotions)
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