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March062009

More Twitter on The New Yorker, Memorable and Otherwise

Filed under: Looked Into

Martin Schneider writes:

Without any ado, some painstakingly selected comments about our favorite magazine:

teamziller Forget DiMaggio: 64 straight days of understanding the joke on my New Yorker cartoon daily calendar.

alitvinov Loved the New Yorker article on fact checking. Feb 9th issue. Yes, I'm three issues behind.

cartgis is there any way to mention The New Yorker without sounding like a jerk? It's a great magazine. no apologies.

johndunne This week's New Yorker has two articles which were published posthumously. Weird.

keithcmartin Sitting here wondering how I've spent almost 3 decades of my life NOT reading The New Yorker..

stevenblum "I think people just like the font"- one of Eli Sander's friends, on "The New Yorker."

gizmo0718 @heymerrididdle I want a dramatic reencatment of that! I also wish i could umlaut the second 'e' a la The New Yorker. Listening Twitter God?

msgier Trying to think of a name for an alien magazine based on The New Yorker. Maybe something based on star names?


I think I might have sounded like a jerk just then. And in my last 400 posts. Have a good weekend, all!

Comments

I fondly remember my Aunt Rhoda rolling up a New Yorker to swat my Uncle Ernest when he belched on the ride up to Pudding Lake in Maine all those long lonely years ago.

erik hilgerdtMarch 07, 2009

Only 28 characters over, Erik! Tweet it to the multitudes!

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