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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Slack is a team communications app, and sick burns, I'm guessing, are witty put-downs.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 07, 2025, 03:41:18 pm ---Slack is a team communications app, and sick burns, I'm guessing, are witty put-downs.
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Thanks.
Front-Ranger:
I read the article on the dire wolf unextinction in the latest issue. Aside from the last page, there is very little about the dire wolf. I recca-mend skipping over the first few pages.
Jeff Wrangler:
I read an article online about the dire wolf.
Anyway, by cover date I'm now a month behind in my magazines, and I guess I will just keep falling farther and farther behind. I can't read an issue fast enough, plus lately there are many articles that caught my interest and insisted to me on being read. Nevertheless, when a new issue arrives in my mailbox, I still check the TOC, even if it may be weeks until I get to that particular issue. I check out the contributors page, too.
I was scanning the contributors page of the April 14 issue, which arrived yesterday. I don't know why, but my eye was caught by the paragraph about Nikil Saval, who is described as having written for the magazine since 2016 "on topics including cities, architecture, and design." He's also described as "a Pennsylvania state senator."
I'll say. He's my Pennsylvania state senator--I mean, he represents my district in the state senate.
I wonder if I've seen his bylines and/or read any of his articles over the years, and just never made the connection? ???
Front-Ranger:
Your elected officials have been much in the news lately! It was terrible about the violence against the governor.
I started reading the April 21 issue. (I like to read the latest issue when it arrives so I'll have something timely to talk about with my friends.) Don't read if you are a David Byrne fan, but it struck me how often he says, "I thought..." The magazine seems to cover his every move.
Not a whole lot of relevant content in this issue. I get the impression that the press is overwhelmed. Plus, there is so much whipsawing in the economy, it's not worth getting all riled up when you know tomorrow will bring a whole different situation. That's probably the strategy. I loved the "Adult Roller Coaster" cartoon on page 49.
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