- 28 minutes 44 secondsEpisode 868 June 2009, 3:47 am
- 38 minutes 4 secondsEpisode 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 secondsEpisode 844 May 2009, 3:11 am
- 41 minutes 13 secondsEpisode 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 secondsEpisode 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 secondsEpisode 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 secondsEpisode 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 secondsEpisode 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 secondsEpisode 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 secondsEpisode 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?
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