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28 August 2007

Anybody got this week's New Yorker? Can you look at page 52, and tell me if anything relates in any way to this comment?→[More:]
Someone pulled a driveby in #tapes earlier today, re: the above. I have no idea what they're going on about, but I'm pretty dang curious now.

I am prepared to be really let down when I find out what's up.

post by: cortex at: 14:35 | 26 comments

This week's New Yorker is at home. What's on page 52?

posted by dersins 28 August | 14:40

I DO NOT KNOW, HENCE THE INQUIRY.

—Wailin' Walla Walla Washington

posted by cortex 28 August | 14:43

To whet your appetite while you wait for someone to investigate the paper copy, you might be interested to know that searching for "feeder" returns an abstract for "Three Chopsticks" by Calvin Trillin, an article starting on page 48 of this week's issue. Tension mounts!

posted by matthewr 28 August | 14:43

I can get ouy a pdf of last week's but I guess that's not much help, huh? I'm gonna see if the lazylibrarianweb can help me...

posted by jessamyn 28 August | 14:56

It's all words - a poem, and part of the article about Ian McKellen. I only look at the pictures.

posted by chewatadistance 28 August | 15:06

You work like two block away from Borders, just go look on a break. Damn lazy layabouts!

posted by cmonkey 28 August | 15:15

I assume you're talking about the Sept. 3 issue, which hasn't hit my library yet, and hopefully my copy is in my mailbox at home.

posted by initapplette 28 August | 15:15

I work hard for the money.
So hard for it, cmonkey.

posted by cortex 28 August | 15:18

cortex has a real job?

posted by desjardins 28 August | 15:19

init, I assume so too, but I don't really know. To be clear, this is how it went down:

14:57 -!- arialblack [***@ieattapes-73FB43E9.cs.nyu.edu] has joined #tapes
14:57 < arialblack> cortex?
14:57 < arialblack> if you have a copy of this week's New Yorker
14:57 < arialblack> check out page 52
14:58 < arialblack> http://www.metafilter.com/63322/Foodies-in-Film-and-Media#1779585
14:59 -!- arialblack [***@ieattapes-73FB43E9.cs.nyu.edu] has quit
15:01 < cortex> that was something
15:01 < cortex> now I need a New Yorker

posted by cortex 28 August | 15:20

"I commiserated with a number of them this spring, when a Prime Minister's office organized a Singapore Day in Central Park. Singapore Day was supposed to be for expatriate Singaporeans and their guests, but I was among some New York feeders who wormed our way in when we heard the festivities would include Singaporean dishes prepared by a dozen hawkers flow in for the occasion."

posted by These Premises Are Alarmed 28 August | 15:29

LOL

posted by cmonkey 28 August | 15:31

There we go! Thanks for the follow through, TPAA. I must consider a letter to the editor.

posted by cortex 28 August | 15:37

Ha! Amazingly embarassing for the reporter on that article.

posted by muddgirl 28 August | 15:46

I don't get it.

posted by mudpuppie 28 August | 16:34

Mudpuppie:

Foodie = gourmet wannabe
Feeder = someone who has a sexual fetish of force-feeding someone else (or being force-fed, I can't really remember).

posted by SassHat 28 August | 16:39

Ah, thanks Sass!

I've only known of "feeder goldfish," and that's not the same thing. I'm pretty sure.

posted by mudpuppie 28 August | 16:44

I don't think the awesome Calvin Trillin embarrasses that easy.

posted by These Premises Are Alarmed 28 August | 17:06

Is arialblack a regular in #tapes or someone who just randomly appeared specifically to tell you that?

Oh, and do you ever sleep?

posted by iconomy 28 August | 17:27

hmmm. must be last week's issue.

posted by chewatadistance 28 August | 18:02

I think arialblack = TPAA.

And I sleep a reasonable amount every evening. I just constantly vibrate during my waking hours.

posted by cortex 28 August | 18:03

I was going to say "no way, I'm not arialblack" but then I looked at arialblack's metafilter profile and saw he or she is also in the Bronx. So it makes since. But I'm not arialblack.

Another mefite lives in the Bronx?

posted by These Premises Are Alarmed 28 August | 18:19

It also makes sense.

posted by These Premises Are Alarmed 28 August | 18:22

there are 4 or 5 of us i think

posted by arialblack 28 August | 18:26

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Dr. Sam lives in my building.

posted by These Premises Are Alarmed 28 August | 18:35

I stand correctly!

posted by cortex 28 August | 20:05

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