Posts tagged as new york magazine
Dick Joke
Oh dear, here we go again: “Wall Street is a meritocracy, for the most part,” an irate but of course unnamed onetime Citigroup executive confides to junior father confessor Gabriel Sherman in this week’s hallucinatory New York magazine cover story, “The Emasculation of Wall Street.” “If someone has a bonus, it’s because they’ve created value for their institution.” READ MORE
A Useful Look at the Current Wall Street Mindset
I can summarize the well-informed tripartite New York magazine cover story on Wall Street, while eliding all the details: pretty much no one learned anything, rich people really enjoying spending money, it's not unlikely there'll be a round two mortgage debacle, Wall Street is more consolidated than ever and poses a "greater systemic risk," we're off to enjoy/exploit the BRICs (and CIVETs and EAGLEs, et al), even though Goldman Sachs, among others, took a bath on them over the last few years, slightly fewer Harvard MBA graduates are going straight into Big Finance (they're all becoming consultants, which, same diff!), and lots of people on Wall Street are irritated at the negative attention and don't understand why they can't just keep on rollin'. Also you probably shouldn't trust them with your retirement money, still. Surprise!
Do You Accidentally Live in One of NYC's 20 Hot Micro-Hoods?
In this coming Monday's New York magazine: "Tomorrow’s Hot Neighborhoods Today." Pack your bags, kiddos! You can only hope to live in "Twenty under-the-radar microneighborhoods that may just be the Next Big Thing, from McGolrick Park to the Lower East FiDi. Including: Four micro-micro-neighborhoods that are blossoming on side streets, thanks to a slew of new storefronts." Okay, if you are proposing McGolrick Park—Greenpoint's stretch of Nassau and Driggs on the far side of McGuinness, then times are strange. Mmm, the screaming emanating from PS110! And the Polish weeping at Arthur's Funeral Home! How delicious, a nine-block walk to the Nassau G train stop. Great for the unemployed! At least property values will always be depressed, thanks to being directly adjacent to one of the most contaminated sites around. Easy access to cancer!
Local Magazine Editor Just Extremely, Devotedly, Obsessively Involved
New York mag editor Adam Moss finally goes on the record: he is not, contrary to the last ten years of reports, a micromanager. "I totally dispute it." God bless!
Sarah Palin Mad About Something Or Other
Sarah Palin is displeased with New York magazine. In an interview with Mary Hart of "Entertainment Tonight," the former Alaska governor complains that restaurant critic Adam Platt "lacks the sparkle and wit of [predecessor] Gael Greene, and confuses didacticism for profound culinary insight... Platt seems to think that economical prose is the mise en place of proper food criticism, when, really, you want the ambiance and flavor to sing out from each walloping word." Kidding! She's actually upset with the current cover story, which is a silly piece about how she could be elected president. But wouldn't the other thing be kind of awesome?
Who Runs New York? 'New York' Mag is the New 'New York Observer'
The "Who Runs New York?" edition of New York magazine is surprisingly free-floating and pleasantly daft, stepping as it does right into the intellectual space ceded by the New York Observer. (Don't believe me? The inclusion of the phrase "moguls and machers, pooh-bahs and potentates" in New York's introduction is a dead giveaway.) And so who does run New York? The Brooklyn pullout goes for Cobble Hill heroes Jonathan Ames, writer and troublemaker, and Rebecca Collerton, proprietor of New York City's best sandwich shop, Saltie. The photo of City Hall's open plan office is fantastic. The mini-profile of Gawker Media blog honcho Nick Denton is fine if not so revelatory, though the sentence "London, 1966: the apex of Mod, the year of Twiggy and Blow-Up" seems a bit hilarious. (1966: The year Ronnie Kray murdered George Cornell and Guyana became independent. 1966: "Star Trek" premieres and the National Organization for Women is founded!) The only thing that seems truly wrong for the moment is the tale of agent Andrew Wylie. That's all made up for by the hilarious flowchart of backscratching and odd priorities, which is what happens when you ask 13 people who the most important New Yorker is. (Unemployed former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham salutes Charlie Rose! Oh dear!)
42-Year-Old 'New York' Magazine To Be Profitable "Next Year"
The confusing end of this bit by New York Times blogger Jeremy Peters seems to indicate that New York magazine loses money: "So has all that attention translated into being profitable? [Publisher Lawrence] Burstein pauses. [Editor Adam] Moss interjects, 'We're not,' he said. 'We do expect to be profitable next year.'" Pictured: The March 10, 1975 ad for New York inside New York.
What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor
The word is douche bag. Douche space bag. People will insist that it's one closed-up word-douchebag-but they are wrong. When you cite the dictionary as proof of the division, they will tell you that the entry refers to a product women use to clean themselves and not the guy who thinks it's impressive to drop $300 on a bottle of vodka. You will calmly point out that, actually, the definition in Merriam-Webster is "an unattractive or offensive person" and not a reference to Summer's Eve. They will then choose to ignore you and write it as one word anyway. READ MORE
Childlessness Is Awesome And I Love It
Today's blockbuster on Why Parents Hate Parenting really tries to wrap up on a sunny note. After a huge stretch explaining how children became parents' bosses instead of household servants, and how everyone with a child is pretty much miserable and has no life, the article tries to put on the big spin that people are happier if they've has a "purposeful" life: "About twenty years ago, Tom Gilovich, a psychologist at Cornell, made a striking contribution to the field of psychology, showing that people are far more apt to regret things they haven't done than things they have. In one instance, he followed up on the men and women from the Terman study, the famous collection of high-IQ students from California who were singled out in 1921 for a life of greatness. Not one told him of regretting having children, but ten told him they regretted not having a family." Yeah, nice try. We childless have great purpose. We're doing stuff night and day! We're making partner at the firm and starting businesses and writing books and then, outside of our "day jobs," we're doing charitable and pro bono work, and also pursuing our tertiary interests (because we need an additional layer of hobbies when we're tired of our regular hobbies!) and traveling and learning and reading and then, late at night in bed, we have long, luxurious talks about our ideas and feelings and goals! None of these conversations involve brands of diapers! It's GREAT!
"Having Children Makes Adults Unhappy": An Investigation!
Big news! Coming in Monday's New York magazine! A plot twist in the long-established narrative of New York City rich people parenting! READ MORE
