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the secret life of walter ‘i [heart] mean girls’ mitty
I just got an e-mail from The New Yorker offering me a free poster of Lindsay Lohan (along with trying to get me to subscribe to GQ magazine). This, from the magazine that long thought color covers were too tacky for its image, and that still insists on sticking in an umlaut in words like “coördination.” William Shawn, I imagine, is spinning like a high-end centrifuge in his grave. James Thurber, meanwhile, I suspect is probably laying in his grave quite titillated by the idea, wishing someone would smuggle a DVD player into his coffin so he could watch Herbie: Fully Reloaded.
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.
Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Reviews: theater writing (for Time Out Chicago)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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Who listens to what music?
I Love songs Justin Timberlake and Paris Hilton
Although this is spam, I’m keeping it because it contains a genuinely interesting question: Who listens to what music? At work, I’ve been listening to a lot more classical music than usual; NPR has a nice classical-music stream, though it skips (glitches? re-buffers?) sometimes, which is jarring. Also Francoise Hardy, Gloria Deluxe, and the collected work of the Nat King Cole Trio. Some excellent New Zealand bands a colleague introduced me to. Some live Decemberists recordings. “I Want It That Way.” A gigantic boxed set of pop music of the ’90s, which is unfortunately pretty unlistenable. And, of course, all of my colleagues’ iTunes playlists. What I’m trying to say is, I need some new music for work. Note to self: Bring in more CDs.
Looky, in the comments I get to pretend I have a normal blog about myself and my music taste, instead of one dedicated to The New Yorker. How post-postmodern!