Dear Media Watchdog [a.k.a. Lewis Lazare of the Chicago Sun-Times],
What did you think of the 8/22 New Yorker?
the most jaw-dropping collapse of the so-called sacred wall between editorial and advertising in modern magazine history.
You don’t say! What made your jaw drop?
A 90- page publication where it is almost impossible to discern any line of demarcation […]
Newsflash — according to the NYT, childhood isn’t what it used to be:
A survey of 8- to 18-year-olds by the Kaiser Family Foundation this year found that the total amount of media content young people are exposed to each day has gone up by more than one hour over the past five years, to eight […]
Looks like that hard-hitting political mag, Rolling Stone, decided to cover the Lynndie England trial in its 10/20 issue. If you don’t remember England, she’s “that little hillbilly twit […] who made the words ‘Abu Ghraib’ infamous.” According to RS she got “banged in a latrine somewhere in Iraq” and gave birth to a “demon […]
My favorite tipster is correct that Annalog readers deserve to know about Lynx and Lamb Gaede, a pair of adorable little girls who sing about white supremacy.
But I have a lot of work to do. So I leave the work of commenting on this chilling story to the Annalog community at large.
The girls also […]
I just got a nice mass e-mail from my favorite magazine. Upon close reading, however, I discovered that it was in fact a scathing insult disguised as an attractive offer. Behold:
Dear [Annalog],
As a reader of THE NEW YORKER, you enjoy being in the know, whatever the subject — from politics to poetry, science to sitcoms, […]
Black is the new black.
Failure is the new success.
I had a good long post on these issues yesterday, but then Firefox crashed. Just goes to show that you can’t trust anybody but yourself.
NYT says The Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding that Harriet Miers redo the questionnaire they sent her. Apparently they found her one-word responses “insulting.”
Also, a friend of The Annalog submits a list of the world’s ubersexuals, including steaming hot commentary by Rush Limbaugh. Not only is Rush the biggest ubersexual of them all, he says, […]
The other day, a friend of The Annalog asked me to blog on Time’s list of the top 100 novels of all time. I didn’t, because such lists were so thoroughly both drawn up and ripped apart at the end of the millennium that there’s almost nothing left to say about them. But if you’re […]
The New Yorker’s been awfully funny lately. The 10/03 Talk of the Town featured an item on the Manhattan launch party of Imperia vodka, essentially a compendium of quotations like this:
Imperia is only luxury vodka in Russia. Is now seventy per cent of premium vodka consumed in Russia. Is good for people.
Or this:
I knew my […]
In the October 17 New Yorker (sorry, item not online), Hendrik Hertzberg takes Bush to task for reaching deep into his back pocket for an inoffensive court nominee. With criticism mounting, maybe Bush needs to think outside the box. If the whole Miers thing doesn’t work out, here are some alternatives:
1. Mary Kate and Ashley […]