another eye opens

…there’s  a lot of good stuff, starting with:

1. Christoph Niemann’s cover image (above), which I instantly captioned “Modern Tragedy,” but its actual title is much wittier: “Dropped Call.”

2. Rebecca Mead’s Talk of the Town piece on Iggy Pop. Can I just say: I ❤ Rebecca Mead.

3. Alec Wilkinson’s astonishing and sad profile of Gil Scott-Heron, the proto-rapper whose “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” created musical history and who is now a hermit with a propane torch who allowed Wilkinson to witness and write about his crack addiction.

4. David Sedaris’s hilarious piece about bonding (or not) with people in line at the airport.

5. George Packer’s well-reported but completely dismaying article about the day-to-day activity (or not) of the U.S. Senate.

6. an article by Nicholson Baker on video games that I couldn’t understand a word of, having spent less than 3 minutes playing video games. It’s a world I’d like to know more about but can’t prioritize actually pursuing.

7. this cartoon — why didn’t we think of this sooner?

This entry was posted on August 3, 2010 at 6:36 pm and is filed under In this week's New Yorker.