Well, here's a convincing argument to get you to subscribe to the New Yorker, if somehow you don't: Anthony Lane, on Eurovision, behind the paywall. Can you stand not to pay to read it? Really? Here's two little bits that can't fail to get your e-wallet open (if you are anything like me, which of course you are).
Here is when he discovers Eurovision's magical voting system, which largely entails countries being both abject and hostile, often at the same time.
I'm moving to Bulgaria.
As a resident of Park Slope and subscriber to the print edition, I eagerly await reading this when it drops into my mailbox sometime in early July.
I thought I was the official Last New Yorker Subscriber in North America to receive each week's issue! Welcome, comrade.
@areaderwrites:
Do you not live in NYC, or if you do, do you never ride the train?
After the latest New Yorker arrives in the mail, there is a copy clutched in the fist of every other subway rider. Since magazines are the only "real" mail I get regularly, this sight reminds me to check my mailbox.
I, too, receive the print version. And it has to come all the way out to Real America, so it arrives about a week after the Park Slope version.
If you get the print version the e-version comes with!! You just register and get a password.
When I lived in New York City I often got it well after my parents in Greater Wasilla, New York, did.
Don't residents of Park Slope get a free subscription to the New Yorker with purchase of property?
Well excuuuuse me, Mr. Landed Gentry, from those of us here in the rental bin.
Well, they did give us Abba, so I can't hate on them too much.
Bulgarian Idol is better tho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo
Giving us Abba is precisely why I hate Eurovision.
So basically he's saying it's just like the world cup?
But seriously as a big Eurovision fan I have to say this year's voting was considerably less corrupt than usual. Germany won, for chrissakes. And with a relatively bearable song.