New York Magazine: C/D

darn, i can't find that classic New York cover from the 80s "Are You A Yuppie?"

has this magazine EVER had even decent music coverage?

oh and I like jim cramer's column too. The food writing is lovely but since I never get to eat in new york it's kind of self-torture. I also like the ridiculousness of the cover stories, it's like eating a whole pie.

I still think The New Yorker is the best New York mag. It isn't nearly as good as it used to be, but it is still a hell of a mag and the only one that'll give a writer 40,000 words.

The latter is what seems really interesting though - maybe because the magazine is usually so blinded by the bling that it's refreshing to see something about bling's dark underbelly.

http://nymag.com/news/features/42595/

I stayed in his dorm room when I visited Princeton (confirming that it was decidedly not for me even if I somehow got in). He is a v nice dude, but you could always tell that his head was somewhere beyond the hs world.

how many weeks since the Dalton kid who hangs out with models?

Jonathan Chait is a dickface

(nothing to do w. politics, obv)

Cover stories on Brooklyn Artisinal products and the "new" art market or w/e = kind of making shit worse by explaining it.

kehinde wiley piece is very, very good.

i love this magazine, look forward to getting it in the mail every week.

they are doing this thing of keeping their twitter feed active during evening hours by periodically linking to stories that were on the site in the morning & during the day & the intensity with which I'm finding this frustrating is surprising to me

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html

Also good:
http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/02/why-abercrombie-is-losing-its-shirt.html

https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html

this is an incredible essay (and stirs very complicated feelings!)

Thought this bump would be about the Huberman article.

that’s on my list to read but I had never heard of the guy before and it doesn’t sound very interesting. macho guy treats women badly

I thought it was interesting given his popularity and the content its based on (which is essentially all about control). My wife got really into his podcast.

(no offense but I did not think that age gap essay was very good at all)

for what it’s worth, I didn’t mean incredible as in “righteous”, let alone learned — but I found it disarmingly perspicacious in a sort of twisted way. it’s an essay written by a woman who met her older husband when she was 19 and really into “Lolita”, after all. there’s a naive blissfulness to it and to her that toes the line between beauty and almost evil in a riveting way.

the editing of the essay I found a bit strange, the prose of the first several paragraphs is pretty excruciating and I almost closed the tab a couple of times. that does get significantly better as it goes on I think

There are days (today for example) when the idea of multitudes of thinkpieces in the media, all of them dissecting every aspect of life as a dire social problem that must be solved, makes me feel very sad for the world. The more we struggle, the more tangled up we get.

I couldn’t get past the first paragraphs. I was interested in the subject cause my wife is 14 years younger than me but we met as peers at work when she was 32. This 19 year old going to the business school library to snag a rich boyfriend is not equivalent to my experience. Also 29 is not that old, at that age cis het men are practically still teenagers, emotionally and mentally.

Ok I see that, there was a vulnerability to it that felt unintentional.

xp the 'rich' was probably the most important element in that essay, seemed like she was implying all men over 30 have money to go to Europe, have multiple domiciles, lol.

When I was 20 and a junior at Harvard College, a series of great ironies began to mock me. I could study all I wanted, prove myself as exceptional as I liked, and still my fiercest advantage remained so universal it deflated my other plans. My youth. The newness of my face and body. Compellingly effortless; cruelly fleeting. I shared it with the average, idle young woman shrugging down the street.

lmao at that last sentence, I didn't know the poor could travel via shrug

This is garden-variety classism disguised as bracing truth about gender. Absolute trash

I purchase scratch-offs, jackpot tickets, scraping the former with euro coins in restaurants too fine for that. I never cash them in, nor do I check the winning numbers. For I already won something like the lotto, with its gifts and its curses, when he married me.

This is the worst paragraph I’ve ever read.

there’s some great bits. “high breasts” will probably be burned into my mind forever now

rob otm

Wow.

k3v did you read this

https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-couples.html

"Let Ivy League grads be publicly unstable in excruciating detail" is - I guess - the only viable strategy to save online media?

— Jack Wickham (@jawickham) March 27, 2024

i clicked the cut article but had to stop here

Moss moped through her first trip to Paris that Christmas.

seriously, fuck all of these people

k3v did you read this

https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-couples.html

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 27, 2024 4:04 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no I think I meant to but forgot, will check it out

oh I had read that actually. just reread it again, really good (I mean that genuinely this time!)

that said I do think the age gap is really a red herring in the story I posted: as rob points out, there are some pretty messed up class implications, not to mention her very regressive gender politics. as I said, what one might expect from someone who met their older when they were 19 and were really into lolita

the prose in that age gap piece is on the same level as this I wonder sometimes if I am the victim of a malicious rumour

yeah k3vin, my post was a little too reductive; the depressingly binary gender politics are also super bleak, such a grim view of human intimacy.

It also reminded me of something I read the other day about the "stay-at-home girlfriend" social media trend getting an update as some of these women are ending up broke and CV-less when the relationship ends

yeah, I thought of the tradwife trend too

The tradwife thing is such bullshit. I want Men's Health or GQ or somebody to do a deep dive, or a roundtable Q&A, or something, with the men who are married to the most famous tradwife women. What do they think? Are they allowed to? Because I feel like for all the submissiveness cosplay, these are some iron-willed women who have manifested powerful media brands. The men are as vestigial as male praying mantises. They're there to supply a paycheck: food, clothing, a giant pickup truck or two, but also ring lights and makeup and hair dye. And they're there to help create another kid every once in a while. But are they voting stockholders? I don't really think so. And as a man, I want to know what it's really like to be married to a person like this. Because I don't think I'd last a week.

read the huberman thing. more or less what I expected

Not gonna read that but based on Twitter replies to anything about it he inherited the Jordan Peterson incel army.

it was a pretty good gossip read honestly. a sentence or two about how he’s a scientist with a lab that might or might not actually exist. then back to the main event: how six of his simultaneous ex girlfriends are best friends now

i was seriously waiting for a paragraph about them all organizing to surprise him in the same place at the same time

Ha, I had to stop reading the Huberman piece just because I found him so annoying as a character that I didn't want to hear about him anymore. I've listened to a few of his podcasts and thought they were pretty interesting but I can also totally see him in this science bro douchebag role. I think I'll go back to ignoring him.

I could not read the other one at all. I feel like she's going for a tone but isn't sure what it is. Sub-Emily Gould.