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Somebody Swiped My Sunday Times!
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Your Unofficial Guide to the Sunday Paper of Record
28 minutes 44 seconds
Episode 86
White shoes
Stumpy shoes
Stinky shoes
Not discussing Sotomayor
Mavericks
Obama
Blogs
8 June 2009, 3:47 am
38 minutes 4 seconds
Episode 85
Obligatory Justice Sotomayor discussion
In which the new “Metropolitan” section is discussed
Not a three-quotes-and-its-a-story trend piece but rather
the studiously distanced anthropological-in-tone increasingly-we-as-a-society-are-obsessed-about-[insert "trivial" gossipy story here that the writer is actually obsessed about but can't bring him or herself to say it] piece
Quebec has been providing emotions since 1534 (
.pdf
if you don’t believe me)
In the era of Obama, we’ve reached “first [blank]” fatigue when it comes to
Tiana
An
anecdote about Annie Oakley
, the famous wrap-around sunglasses designer
I call bullshit
31 May 2009, 9:49 pm
31 minutes 50 seconds
Episode 84
Obama
,
Obama
,
Obama
,
Obama
!
The great suckup
Swine flu
Give a little
4 May 2009, 3:11 am
41 minutes 13 seconds
Episode 83
Cheap-ass bodega coffee or
cheap-ass bodega coffee with an “aura of both urban exotica and blue-collar utility”
?
The greatest intellectuals of our era are using WordStar word processing
An economic argument for trolls
Maria Shriver
I’d be able to hear you if I didn’t have this banana in my ear
The City Section just keeps on keepin’ on
In an age when books are like T-shirts,
the Kindle helps you keep your Stephenie Meyer on the DL
The Styles section takes another stab at the perennial question of whether size matters
Leaving New York
26 April 2009, 4:52 pm
45 minutes 6 seconds
Episode 82
Alice Waters meets Maria Full of Grace
Ye olde economy article
Sir,
your $250,000 sixth-floor walkup third of a bowling alley lane
Cheap and easy, but so much fun
Hrm
. . . I’m not sure I buy it
If you can’t join ‘em, soak ‘em
Who does the television listings anyway? (
Slate’s Jack Shafer found out
.)
Anal Fissures!
If you need to cover up something, use a Merkin
13 April 2009, 4:26 am
36 minutes 25 seconds
Episode 81
Grab the pitchforks!
We’re getting closer to that big Week in Review piece on how the recession is saving public education
It’s opening day:
Kevin Costner
,
Tyler Kepner’s 2009 predictions
and
the Mets stiff the Little Leagues
Reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic and
empathy
A.A. Gill makes a funny
Berets, burgundy and
setting shit on fire
Three
separate
stories
about the iPhone
When was the last time you saw an acrostic poem on the cover of the Sunday Magazine?
6 April 2009, 4:35 am
40 minutes 46 seconds
Episode 80
Health care
Soaking the rich
Your future,
Ouroussoffed
Contrarians seen as strengthened even in the Era of Obama
Here’s why theater sucks
These people all farted on camera
IQ
Stuff White People Like:
Ironically rereading the Bible
Last week,
the Business Section questioned Harley Davidson’s viability
; this week, Harley Davidson runs a two-page full-color ad
How puff pieces are like social networking sites
, or was it
a puff piece about a social networking site
?
29 March 2009, 6:26 pm
35 minutes 38 seconds
Episode 79
There is nothing the Obama Administration can’t do!
Including
an organic revolution
!
Another insightful Styles article featuring Diablo Cody and three other women who all have the same agent, but
who put Diablo Cody in front of the phallic topiary?
If you can’t beat ‘em,
piss them off by opening a sex shop
Merlot is finally rehabilitated
John Kerry is still around
, and not just on leftover 2004 bumper stickers still attached to cars in Berkeley
Nyet, come home
OK, OK, they use anonymous sources . . .
we get it
Who killed Coco the Cat?
22 March 2009, 8:37 pm
40 minutes 58 seconds
Episode 78
The Snuggie
Fine, but you missed the real story of how
cutting private school from your budget will save the economy
No salami tactics
Man robs bank
Religion in the military
Why is her paycheck smaller?
Workweek
2 March 2009, 2:42 am
38 minutes 6 seconds
Episode 77
Oh yeah, that whole
economy thing
is still going on
A real estate sign of the times
Never trust a bird that can’t recognize itself
Apparently
Annie Proulx fibbed a little
Soccer
. . . really?
From philandering US Congressman/murder suspect to Baskin-Robbins franchisee
Let’s loosen up that upper lip with a little neatsfoot oil, why don’t we?
22 February 2009, 11:46 pm
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