In the New Yorker...

[Front-Ranger]

It's okay with me to stray away from discussing the NY for a bit. . .I was very disappointed with their comic issue. Didn't laugh once.

[Jeff Wrangler]

It's okay with me to stray away from discussing the NY for a bit. . .I was very disappointed with their comic issue. Didn't laugh once.

Over dinner I read the article about early animation.  I had no idea animation existed so early in the history of  movies.

[serious crayons]

It's okay with me to stray away from discussing the NY for a bit. . .I was very disappointed with their comic issue. Didn't laugh once.

I haven't even flipped through it. At first I was eager to see it, then I remembered I don't like most of the cartoons in the regular magazine. I thought maybe I would jump right to a Roz Chast section, if there is one, and go through that.

Over dinner I read the article about early animation.  I had no idea animation existed so early in the history of  movies.

That sounds interesting.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I haven't even flipped through it. At first I was eager to see it, then I remembered I don't like most of the cartoons in the regular magazine. I thought maybe I would jump right to a Roz Chast section, if there is one, and go through that.

Adam Gopnik's profile of her was very funny to me. I read it over lunch, and I couldn't stop laughing (I'm still laughing). People looked at me funny.

[serious crayons]

Adam Gopnik's profile of her was very funny to me. I read it over lunch, and I couldn't stop laughing (I'm still laughing). People looked at me funny.

Adam Gopnik profiled Roz Chast? In my reference above, I just meant I figured there'd be a section of her stuff amid all the lesser cartoons. I've definitely got to open that issue! 

When I was in San Francisco a couple of years ago, a gallery near my hotel had a Roz Chast show going on. It was kind of a hectic trip and I didn't make it there, but I always kind of wish I had.

Hers aren't the only funny NYer cartoons, but she's by far the most reliably funny/interesting cartoonist among a lot of kind of mediocre ones.

Given how high the bar is for publishing articles, stories, reviews and essays in the New Yorker (and poetry, I assume, though in that case I don't know) it's kind of amazing how the cartoons are pretty meh and many of the Shouts & Murmurs aren't funny (though some are).

[serious crayons]

Lee, have you read the Ariel Gore story about pain (and mostly lack thereof) in, I think, the second to last one? (I'm confused because I received two at once the other day; they were a week apart so the first one was late).

Anyway, it focuses on a couple in Scotland with character attributes I'm sure you'll appreciate.

[Jeff Wrangler]

And Robert Louis Stevenson's characterization of the climate of Scotland. 

[Front-Ranger]

Lee, have you read the Ariel Gore story about pain (and mostly lack thereof) in, I think, the second to last one? (I'm confused because I received two at once the other day; they were a week apart so the first one was late).

Anyway, it focuses on a couple in Scotland with character attributes I'm sure you'll appreciate.

Yes, that was an amazing article on so many levels. And, yes, I caught the RLS quote. I have his book on Edinburgh.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Ordinarily I like reading John McPhee, but I think his Jan. 13 piece is kind of lame.

I had no idea he was that old.

[serious crayons]

Ordinarily I like reading John McPhee, but I think his Jan. 13 piece is kind of lame.

I had no idea he was that old.

[*googles*] Oh yeah, he is pretty old.

Sorry to hear about that piece. It's about writing, right? I've liked his previous pieces about writing.