from nicointhebus, via the Bridlepath
Sort of like the Readers Digest version, but way more eruditer.
NYer Haiku via Gawker.
New Yorker Haiku
September 18, 2006
Annals of Economics: Mind Games
By John CassidyEconomists want
To scan your brain, find why you
Aren’t more rational.Reflections: In the Waiting Room
By David SedarisForget learning French:
In Paris, “d’accord” means
Random fun (sans clothes)!Profiles: The Wanderer
By David RemnickNow ex-Prez, Clinton
Working to save Africa
As Friend of Bill (Gates).Fiction: Something That Needs Nothing
By Miranda JulyGirl, not one she wants?
A wig and a peep-show gig
Might work for a spell.On Television: Her Debut
By Tad FriendCouric as anchor:
So much likability,
No time left for news.A Critic At Large: War and Remembrance
By Ian BurumaGrass’s great memoir:
Boy lost in heroic myths.
(Is the man as well?)Books: Hugger-Mugger
By John UpdikeCongo schemes, despair
From le Carre. No closure
In Ward Just’s dark tale.The Current Cinema: Inescapable Pasts
By David Denby“The Black Dahlia”
Is choked of life. “The Ground Truth”:
Feel Iraq vets’ shock.
Let’s see how Darth‘s younger brother Chad is getting on, now that he’s been demoted to Night Shift Manager.
80’s style straight up and unadulterated. Can you take it? I think you can.
What worries me is that I already DID take it, from everybody I knew in high school. They didn’t believe me that some day we’d mock their hair.
Betcha thought it would be that Far Side cartoon, eh? Naw, this is a photoessay from Momentary Lapses of Insanity. Click here for the whole, moving saga. That poor stegosaurus never saw it coming…sniff. This is truly the most tragic, wrenching photo essay on penguins vs dinosaurs it has ever been my sad duty to screen for you.
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