November 2012 New Yorker
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7sibylline
Yeah - I actually 'read' a NYer yesterday while flying to Florida - I only was interested in two articles, one about a woman who used to diss public education and now is in support of it and in support of canning those stupid across-the-board tests. Well thank you honey. I also read a pretty decent short story by Maille Meloy, but then I scraped off my name and address and left it on my seat at JFK in the lounge. I even saw someone pick it up happily. That's good. But I don't have any idea now what issue it was....... October or November anyway.
Now I'm randomly on Nov 26 - mainly reading the article about the Grateful Dead. I never followed them but I went to many concerts between 1969-76 - their best years, without a doubt. They weren't my favorite band but they were always everywhere and the concerts were fun, never went to one that wasn't laid back and full of good feeling. Anyhow I'm still reading it.
Now I'm randomly on Nov 26 - mainly reading the article about the Grateful Dead. I never followed them but I went to many concerts between 1969-76 - their best years, without a doubt. They weren't my favorite band but they were always everywhere and the concerts were fun, never went to one that wasn't laid back and full of good feeling. Anyhow I'm still reading it.
8sibylline
I 'did in' another one! November 12 Once again I can't say I read it intently, but I did absorb the story of the young woman in Egypt - meant to show how dicey the upheavals are for women - things could get worse easily, and only by dint of great effort can they stay the same or improve was my takeaway.
I read about a 'dresser' from Bergdorf Goodman - I might as well be reading about a head-hunter in Borneo for all it has to do with my life. I try to draw that line at clothes with stains down the front..... no seriously..... I want to care a little about what I wear but it is too much trouble and money!
Quick scan of the gay rights 'journey' - kind of a history of how things have gone, not sure what I thought of this piece, it seemed a bit unfocussed.
I liked the Suitcase poem quite a bit
The story, "Member/Guest" about a 14 yr old girl spending an afternoon at what is either the East or Southhampton Beach Club was..... uh...... not a bad story exactly...... not bad writing...... but sort of wtf? My takeaway was that the protagonist was going to do just fine, her predator instincts emerging front and center.
I read about a 'dresser' from Bergdorf Goodman - I might as well be reading about a head-hunter in Borneo for all it has to do with my life. I try to draw that line at clothes with stains down the front..... no seriously..... I want to care a little about what I wear but it is too much trouble and money!
Quick scan of the gay rights 'journey' - kind of a history of how things have gone, not sure what I thought of this piece, it seemed a bit unfocussed.
I liked the Suitcase poem quite a bit
The story, "Member/Guest" about a 14 yr old girl spending an afternoon at what is either the East or Southhampton Beach Club was..... uh...... not a bad story exactly...... not bad writing...... but sort of wtf? My takeaway was that the protagonist was going to do just fine, her predator instincts emerging front and center.
9sibylline
Sorry to be out of order, but can't be helped! I keep trying to organize the pile chronologically and failing: Oct 29-Nov 5
-skimmed the ballot crusade story. There are always stories like this around. Overall both 'sides' keeping suspicious eyes on one another is just how it is.
-Sark Island. Well learn something new every day. Instead of a person I never heard of a place a never heard of. And what a mess. Those bad Barclay boys. Bullies and members of the Anti-Fun League if you ask me.
-skimmed the ground game - I never was going to vote for anyone else so it is lost on me.
-the lobbyist - I couldn't read this, died a thousand deaths of boredom. Sorry.
- atonement - about the poor soldier meeting the family whose members he harmed in Iraq. - paraphrase - soldiering requires, sometimes doing things that violate your personal ethical code and that creates a conflict that won't go away. This young man is doing all he can to counteract that. And the family stepped toward him.
-story - this is a hoot! There's an irish jig called 'The Fair Little Canavans' and I'll never think of that tune the same way ever again.
And that's a wrap.
-skimmed the ballot crusade story. There are always stories like this around. Overall both 'sides' keeping suspicious eyes on one another is just how it is.
-Sark Island. Well learn something new every day. Instead of a person I never heard of a place a never heard of. And what a mess. Those bad Barclay boys. Bullies and members of the Anti-Fun League if you ask me.
-skimmed the ground game - I never was going to vote for anyone else so it is lost on me.
-the lobbyist - I couldn't read this, died a thousand deaths of boredom. Sorry.
- atonement - about the poor soldier meeting the family whose members he harmed in Iraq. - paraphrase - soldiering requires, sometimes doing things that violate your personal ethical code and that creates a conflict that won't go away. This young man is doing all he can to counteract that. And the family stepped toward him.
-story - this is a hoot! There's an irish jig called 'The Fair Little Canavans' and I'll never think of that tune the same way ever again.
And that's a wrap.
10qebo
I guess I should've documented as I read to help me remember... Now I'm registering a vague "I think I read that", and the magazines have since been passed on to someone who actively wanted them.
11sibylline
Yeah - that's the main reason I write a little something - otherwise it just goes zip right out of my head.
12sibylline
Nov 26
-among the many articles the only one I actually read was about the Grateful Dead - all the rest, including the story - didn't interest me. The Dead piece was about the legacy - the interface with the band's archive, the tapes that others have made, the writer's personal relationship to the Dead and various tapes - a sort of 'where are they now' - It mainly made me want to go out and listen some more! I've always loved their sound, in all its many incarnations.
-among the many articles the only one I actually read was about the Grateful Dead - all the rest, including the story - didn't interest me. The Dead piece was about the legacy - the interface with the band's archive, the tapes that others have made, the writer's personal relationship to the Dead and various tapes - a sort of 'where are they now' - It mainly made me want to go out and listen some more! I've always loved their sound, in all its many incarnations.
