The Shadow Editors SMS Edition: Less Talkin', More Townin'
This week's Talk of the Town in the New Yorker: was there not something odd about it? Tom Scocca sent a barrage of text messages on the topic. However, my iPhone is broken and unable to take screenshots, so, to share them, I risked opening a portal by actually taking pictures of my cellphone so that they might be spread.
I like it like this!
WHO'S THE QUEEN OF ALL MEDIA NOW?
Needs moar jism dribbles!
Oprah.
I'd take advantage fast. It's only a matter of time before someone does this in a novel.
It must be some kind of first in publishing.
The "silken espresso curtain" needs to become a "Block That Metaphor!" item. (And yeah, I know it's a simile, bite me.) Those items are always in such small type tucked away at the bottom of the page that Remnick probably wouldn't even notice.
"I risked opening a portal by actually taking pictures of my cellphone"
Don't cross the streams!
I am going to Carrie Fisher's show. The article made her sound certifiable. I can't believe she STILL gets shock therapy.
That ia really pathetic. Although Talk of the Town has been heading that direction for quite awhile. Honestly, this is just a little more of the same from the New Yorker. But if it subsidizes what's left of long journalism, and that is the only way to subsidize it, I guess I care less? Assuming it's disclosed.
There is an even sadder, and I believe accurate, point about the 'espresso' phrase: espresso being used not as a descriptor by direct reference to the thing espresso, but is here being used, as if it were no big deal, as the name of a color.
Ralph Lauren Colors Department at Home Depot FTW
1. This is like the Nixon tapes, we are missing part of Choire's dialogue. MUST KNOW.
2. It is so quaint and Awl-like that you used an old-fashioned camera thingie to take pictures of your screen. Do you know how to take screenshots of your iPhone thingie? Press the poser and the home buttons at the same time…
I know, right?? you'd almost think that his iPhone was broken and unable to take screenshots!
It's so awl-like that I have nothing that works ANYWHERE.
I include Balk and Cat in that. Though not DR, Mary HK or Bry; they all work marvelously.
Just like a NYer to use the word "ANYWHERE" and have it ignore, like, the entire Midwest.
This is dangerously close to Steampunk.
Balk is Dane?
Needs more Dane?
Dane!!
So that's what you were doing with that oldfangled shadowbox image makin' machine. ALSO, WHO TEXTS WITHOUT TYPOS? You people are scary. SCARY.
I would just like to request more articles consisting of pictures of an iphone displaying impeccably spelled text messages.
If it would be possible to maybe fax those pictures to the blog somehow, that would be even better.
Seriously! I always assumed that OF COURSE Choire edited their chats for spelling, etc. WTF
the New Yorker has also gone all Vanity Fair by putting several of pages of ads BEFORE the issue glossary. That never used to happen.
I noticed that. Was it just the fashion issue? or is this a terrible trend that is going to make my lazy ass thumb through more pages to get to my list of bedtime readings?
Trend.