Martin Schneider writes:

Perhaps you remember Johnny O'Connor, Phil Hartman's showbiz character from Saturday Night Live who kept insisting that that his agent give him the straight, unvarnished bad news ("Don't mince words!"):

Harry (Jon Lovitz): You're through, do you hear me, through! You'll never work in this town again! ... I think you're the worst actor I've ever seen, and I get five hundred letters a day telling me the same!
Johnny O'Connor: What's the word on the street?

Well, the word on the "tweet" is that lots of people read The New Yorker all the time, care about it a lot, and say so on Twitter frequently. They say nice things, and some not so nice things too, but we pay less attention to those. Here are a few messages that caught our fancy.

tculkin Reading Roger Angell's story about Joe Torre in the New Yorker. Wow!

ksouth Finishing a New Yorker makes me sad.

sugarblum wants to borrow or buy your feb. 9 -16 copy of the New Yorker (with the New Yorker guy on the cover)

spants You know you have a migraine when you can read the New Yorker IN THE DARK.

emjones wondering where my New Yorker is... does my postman heart DFW as much as me?

stamos perfect night: clean carpets, a great ep of bones, new issue of the new yorker, and a delish crumb cake straight from jersey (dessert)

barbiedesoto i'm tempted to check out every robert benchley book at the salt lake library. but i won't read them all. i never do.

jonathansegura reading the new yorker on my kindle. ha. also: drinking a martini. how classy am i? answer: very.

miss_print My house is now a New Yorker Magazine free zone! It took two years but my backlog is gone (partly because my subscription lapsed but still)!

kimberlya heard @sashafrerejones talk about lily allen on the new yorker podcast today; didn't know sfj has such a low voice. lovely.

fakebook A terrible day redeemed by the arrival of the latest New Yorker.

dmellecker Convinced New Yorker cartoon caption contest rigged. My submissions are way better

That's all for now! Maybe we'll try this again sometime.