There’s just no excuse for slacking off. Each week, new issues of the New Yorker come for to pick on. But we’ve been busy. There’s lots to do in Dubuque. Just last week the mailbox needed repolishing so we can receive our dispatches from our intellectually superior brethren in the East.
Here’s the lowdown on the May 31, 2010 New Yorker:
-The cover. Strikingly similar to a cover they had about two and a half to three years ago. Well, okay, the drawings of people are similar, so it may just be the artist. Still, we accidentally almost left this week’s issue in the mailbox, figuring it was just delivered again by accident, and really really late.
For Medical Dispatch: Jerome Groopman takes on a certain material that is frightening to everyone who’s seen “The Graduate” (or last week’s “60 Minutes”): “Plastics.” More specifcally, are there chemicals in them that are a threat to us and our children, or is this just hype? Should we not take a risk? And a question we here would like to add: What if you cook stuff on a plate that you later realize wasn’t labeled microwave safe? We do this all the time.
In Shouts & Murmurs, Paul Rudnick takes on a subject who is little too easy. For criticism, we mean. We’re talking about MTV reality star Heidi Montag, who’s been in the news for having 10 plastic surgeries in one day. Paul, does that mean you’ve seen the show? So like should she totally drag Spencer Pratt in for mental health counseling, and why does Lo Bosworth roll her eyes at everyone? Up next week: A Shouts & Murmurs about Brodie Jenner.
Jonathan Franzen writes fiction (bravo!) in the voice of someone much like Heidi Montag as imagined by Paul Rudnick.
Here is an article we really don’t get: Patricia Marx offers serious and strange gifts for the college grad. Why does this merit nearly four pages? Next time just get Junior Junior, Jr. a subscription to a magazine. The price is right. Or, subscribe them to this blog – the price is even righter.
Tags: Brodie Jenner, Heidi Montag, Jonathan Franzen, Paul Rudnick, Shouts and Murmurs
