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Reading the article, looking at pictures from the Beverly Hills Hotel in the 70ies and 80ies, and considering the fact that Irving V. Link acted in a movie once, I get the strong feeling that an episode of Columbo in which Link played himself as a wrongfully accused prime suspect (saved by Columbo in the end) would've been excellent . Just imagine Peter Falk and Link conversing next to that pool: https://www.american…
I was thinking: "an entire article about a guy who used to tan at a hotel pool... when we start focusing on such trifles, it's usually a foreshadowing of some major upheaval coming." Then I saw the year of publication: 1993.
I wonder how much of the HN readership was not even born then....?
I don't know why I found this so interesting to read. After the first few paragraphs I wondered why this was in The New Yorker, afterall, this is about a place in CA. The answer did appear, eventually... “My story begins on the Lower East Side of New York,” he said...
It's not a magazine about a city. The first few pages DO remain "Goings On About Town," but that's a fraction of the page count.
I have the February 10th issue on my desk right now, actually. The long articles in this one are:
- A discussion of an unusual development in a high-rise condo
- A long article by MacArthur winning music critic Alex Ross (ie, not the comics artist of the same name) on Alma Mahler-Werfel
- A piece on the struggle of the US Military to keep recruiting up ahead of ordinary depletion
- An article on the pursuit of an artificial blood substitute
Incidentally, if you're interested in modern classical music at all, Ross' book THE REST IS NOISE is pretty great.
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The NY specificity implied by the publication name is archaic. Apart from the event listings or performance/exhibit reviews, The New Yorker's long form coverage has been nationally (sometimes globally) focused for decades, albeit through the lens of what America's coastal elites find interesting.
There’s a great scene in the movie World’s Greatest Dad where Robin Williams plays a frustrated writer. Another teacher at the school where he teaches gets a story in The New Yorker ¹ and Robin Williams’s character tells him something along the lines of “how nice, I hope your next one gets published somewhere that isn’t regional.”² ⸻ 1. This is generally considered the pinnacle of literary short fiction publishing. 2…
* The New Yorker * Harper's * The Atlantic * and, believe it or not, Playboy
In re: the latter, see https://ew.com/books/playboy-hugh-hefner-famous-authors/
Reading the article, looking at pictures from the Beverly Hills Hotel in the 70ies and 80ies, and considering the fact that Irving V. Link acted in a movie once, I get the strong feeling that an episode of Columbo in which Link played himself as a wrongfully accused prime suspect (saved by Columbo in the end) would've been excellent . Just imagine Peter Falk and Link conversing next to that pool: https://www.american…
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I always find fun these "generalizations". Like: "Eggs are fine". If you are a 50kg person that eats 20 eggs for breakfast each day I doubt it would be fine. We would need something like LD50, or even better a range over a period (eggs are mostly fine if you eat between 2 and 5 per week)
With the help of a stochastic parrot I've determined the following: Consuming an LD50 quantity of eggs (400–500 eggs) would amount to about 29% of a 70 kg person's body volume. This suggests that such an amount would be physically impractical to ingest in one sitting, even before metabolic toxicity becomes an issue.
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Quite limited view thats valid in certain times in certain cases, in certain countries etc. What about drawbacks of owning a house? You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up, keep fixing all things that deteriorate. And everything deteriorates. I mean really non-trivial, count how much your hourly rate is and how much you will waste instead of making some fun good activities,…
>>You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up To up keep your home! You also pretty much up keep your rented home too. And at the end you spend to maintain other people's home. >>Is that really how you want to spend some part of your me-time? Most of the times its not that bad, you talk like you are on-call 24x7 throughout the year. >>You are also locking yourself down at very…
> Then Irving would either walk back home to his wife and two children What the... he'd leave his wife at home with the kids while he hung out all day at the pool with "magnificent-looking young women, full of theatrical drive" and eat all his meals at the hotel?
At the viewing I noticed how it looked quite distinctly worn.
Like, the ceiling above the stove was full of grease from frying and the interior of the oven had clear signs of only being used for frozen pizzas. Looked like he'd only ever made like pork chops or frozen pizzas.
The floor in the main bedroom was very well preserved, except for a noticeable worn path leading to the bed and a small oval next to the bed. Similar things in the living room.
I mentioned this to the agent, which replied: *Oh yeah, the guy bought the place so he could stay here when he needed a break from his wife. Apparently he'd come here every few weeks or so and stay for a couple of days."
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Of course when they bought their house it would have cost mere 10s of thousands. You can see why there's an attraction to owning your own house.
Owning a home is always good no matter what the finance influencers tell you. In fact, earlier the better. Its not even the buying vs renting thing, renting is bad, you don't get to own anything at the end of the journey, and often the kind of things you have to put up with to save rent, or avoid getting homeless in case of of a job loss or other life crisis is just worth your mental health. Most of your life is spen…
There are real-world examples of providing affordable housing that allows people to live with dignity, even if they can't afford to buy a home.
How Britain (almost) solved the housing crisis:
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Quite limited view thats valid in certain times in certain cases, in certain countries etc. What about drawbacks of owning a house? You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up, keep fixing all things that deteriorate. And everything deteriorates. I mean really non-trivial, count how much your hourly rate is and how much you will waste instead of making some fun good activities,…
>>You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up To up keep your home! You also pretty much up keep your rented home too. And at the end you spend to maintain other people's home. >>Is that really how you want to spend some part of your me-time? Most of the times its not that bad, you talk like you are on-call 24x7 throughout the year. >>You are also locking yourself down at very…