1814: What Women Want

[Norwegian_Fag]

I agree with Chemda that you can be "tolerant?"; be conservative on social issues and yet be accepting.
It think my grandmothers response when I brought my first boyfriend over was kind of similar to the way the Ruassian waxing-woman talks. She told my brother "they're just like regular people." She grew up while Norway was occupied by Nazi-Germany, so I think that's tolerant.

[presspirate]

I like Mark Normand. He's like the guy in the hip hop songs that just shouts out, Hey! Ya! He should periodically interject Mark Normand! into all his podcasts.

[lizsquiz]

Mark Normand sure does do that "whoa, phew" whistle a lot. (You know the one. The whistle where some guy talks about his Lexus to some other guy)

If I was Myq or James Adomian, I'd be incorporating it into my impression ASAP.

(Not in a bad way. I like Mark and this episode was good.)

[BrianAlt]

Originally Posted by Edward's Screen Name

I think the Rolling Stone cover is appropriate based on the story the magazine is promising will be inside.

Etc...

I basically agree with your post.

I don't think the cover is controversial, I think it's provocative. And the magazine industry LOVES provocative images.

But the real point here is, this is a good looking, young person with his entire life ahead of him. He's a, "normal American teen." He looks like a normal American teen. He's a good looking guy. How could a good looking guy, a normal looking guy, do this to the country we all love? The country he should have loved too! It makes the point that anyone could become a terrorist or perform terrorist acts. We don't know what they look like. They could look like anything. They could look like Keith Malley. We shouldn't be surprised anymore.

And the magazine is Rolling Stone, not Rolling Stones. Stones is the rock group.

[Leentron3030]

Originally Posted by BrianAlt

I basically agree with your post.

But the real point here is, this is a good looking, young person with his entire life ahead of him. He's a, "normal American teen." He looks like a normal American teen. He's a good looking guy. How could a good looking guy, a normal looking guy, do this to the country we all love? The country he should have loved too! It makes the point that anyone could become a terrorist or perform terrorist acts. We don't know what they look like. They could look like anything. They could look like Keith Malley. We shouldn't be surprised anymore.

And the magazine is Rolling Stone, not Rolling Stones. Stones is the rock group.

Matt Taibbi (a writer at the Rolling Stone) wrote a really great piece about his opinion of it.

Matt Taibbi Explains the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Rolling Stone Cover | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

"I can understand why this might upset some people. But the jarringly non-threatening image of Tsarnaev is exactly the point of the whole story. If any of those who are up in arms about this cover had read Janet's piece, they would see that the lesson of this story is that there are no warning signs for terrorism, that even nice, polite, sweet-looking young kids can end up packing pressure-cookers full of shrapnel and tossing them into crowds of strangers.

Thus the cover picture is not intended to glamorize Tsarnaev. Just the opposite, I believe it's supposed to frighten. It's Tsarnaev's very normalcy and niceness that is the most monstrous and terrifying thing about him. The story Janet wrote about the modern terrorist is that you can't see him coming. He's not walking down the street with a scary beard and a red X through his face. He looks just like any other kid."


There is really great journalism in every issue of Rolling Stone. They've covered everything from the financial crisis to the Iraq war to climate change. Matt Taibbi is an excellent writer, and Michael Hastings won an award for a piece he did in RS. The reason I have a subscription to this mag is because of their pieces; which I could get for free anyways online but I like to contribute.

[WittyReference]

I heard that JK Rowling put out her book under another name so it would be reviewed and sell on its own merits. She supposedly didn't tell anyone it was her until after it was successful.

That satanic church shit is brilliant.