MetaFilter posts tagged with nymag

Desperately Seeking Deck Hands

The Whelk — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:16:16 -0800

"For the vast majority of people who have done this work, it has been the hardest job they have ever done, and also the best job they have ever had. but if this work is not for you — if you consider it dull or drudgery or just too hard cuz you would rather watch TV or text someone, then please don't reply because you will have a miserable summer." - A Kennedy Seeks A Deck Hand ....on Cragslist.

The Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg on How to Report From Guantanamo Bay

Elementary Penguin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:38:35 -0800

The Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg has reported from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay since the first detainee arrived in 2002. Last month, President Obama scuttled the office responsible for closing the center, which means Gitmo’s “media tent city” will be a permanent press encampment for the foreseeable future. Petra Bartosiewicz spoke with the veteran correspondent by phone from Gitmo’s Camp Justice, where Rosenberg has been covering pretrial hearings this month of the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

"The purpose is not to substantiate but to enchant."

facehugger — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:50:20 -0800

We only wanted one thing from Jonah Lehrer: a story. He told it so well that we forgave him almost everything.

“PHILOSOPSHY”

The Whelk — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:49:02 -0800

Kevin Roose of Nymag.com posted about a brand new North Carolinian hedge fund that seemed less than impressive. The fund then started to use a sarcastic quote from Kevin's post as a kind of ringing endorsement on their website. Uh oh.

How To Act Human

gman — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:36:08 -0800

Inside the Actors Studio's James Lipton offers advice to Mitt Romney.

I cant promise you that I won’t be a dick.

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:17:46 -0800

Patrice O’Neal (RIP previously) didn’t just want to be famous, he wanted to be as good as Richard Pryor. To hear his fellow comics tell it, he was—a brutal truth-teller who spared no one, starting with those closest to him. (Print friendly version)

Let's take for granted that they had it to begin with

garlic — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:30:48 -0800

David Frum asks When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?

Now THAT'S winning!

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:23:26 -0800

"I will win this battle if I have to kill every last white bitch in high heels around here.” Roseanne Barr discusses, among other things, Charlie Sheen, working on TV, addiction and fame.

Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past?

Afroblanco — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:14:44 -0800

"The first time I entered ChatRoulette — a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world — I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind. [...] The first eighteen people who saw me disconnected immediately." via

The Hunted

hermitosis — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:38:58 -0800

Mazen had had his pectoral muscles cut off. There were two drill holes in Namir’s left leg, below the knee. Both had been shot in the head, apparently from close range. “Two young men were killed on Thursday,” an unnamed Sadr City official told the Reuters news agency in a story published that same day. “They were sexual deviants. Their tribes killed them to restore their family honor.” How a few New Yorkers are trying to save the hunted gay men of Iraq.

Asserting Your Social Status With Your Facebook Status

geoff. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:37:06 -0800

There are five key rules to using your status update to maximum status-signifying effect. Learn from the masters: "(to the dude on the A train who said he was NYLON's digital director, attempting to impress some girl 1. Nice try but that's my job 2. And I'm flattered but that's some wishful thinking, babe, because it's an amazing job but it's sadly never gotten me laid!)" By placing her bragging in the lying mouth of a subway stranger, this updater covertly asserts the prestige of her position and at the same time insulates herself against similar claims. Particularly masterful is the covert assumption here that her position is one sufficiently grand to be the ethereal stuff of A train boasting.

In Defense of Distraction

jcruelty — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:19:17 -0800

Thought-provoking NY Mag essay on the consequences of living in an age of perpetual distraction. Been thinking about this one a lot, in the context of MeFi and other addictions.

All the spoils of wasted lives

cashman — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:25:45 -0800

"What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms. "

Branding TV and movies

kyleg — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:58:59 -0800

Remember the days of ACME products and cans that simply said BEER? Product placement in television and film is so commonplace that "product integration" is where the money is now. Some writers are getting very good at it while others wonder if it will be possible to survive without it.

Oh, damn.

miss lynnster — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:11:23 -0800

Why most of us believe that exercise makes us thinner—and why we're wrong.

East Villagers are Easy

geoff. — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:22:38 -0800

NY Mag instructs six New Yorkers to chronicle their sex lives for a week. Results? Men under report masturbation. Married people don't have sex. Thirty-something female theater directors are where it's at ... and this gem, "If I had a boyfriend, I wouldn’t have blacked out and lost my wallet!"

Ikea comes to Red Hook

Armitage Shanks — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:21:51 -0800

Red Hook is New York's perennial next-year neighborhood, perenially held back by huge housing projects and bad transportation, despite some ambitious proposals. Ikea's proposed store has been the subject of a long battle between "it'll bring jobs" and "it'll destroy the neighborhood". It's finally going to happen, and soon these buildings will be a parking lot.