My friend Michele and I were on the phone yesterday talking about…well, the only thing there is to talk about.<\/p>\n
I did slip in the big news that I’d gotten a haircut but neither she nor I paid any attention to that.<\/p>\n
The Conversation. The Conversation always comes down to: “What do we do now?”<\/p>\n
While both of us are trusting there will be an insurrection, until we can figure out what shape the insurrection will take, we read. A lot.<\/p>\n
For a tad of comic relief, I have been entertained by how brilliant NMP (Not My Pres) is as a tweet salesman. After he disparaged the New York Times (maybe “disparaged” is too classy a word for what he did but I’m still not functioning up to snuff with vocab), Times subscriptions went way up.<\/p>\n
And what about Vanity Fair?<\/a> When a VF reviewer trashed the Trump Grill (or Grille)<\/a>, NMP clumsily trashed Vanity Fair and its editor, Graydon Carter<\/a>, muttering something about what a failure the magazine was, what a failure Carter was. You know, the usual nonsense.<\/p>\n And subscriptions for Vanity Fair–which has never been a failure–went soaring.<\/p>\n So this is one thing we can do: support the First Amendment<\/a> because it may be all we’ve got in the coming months, until the insurrection. Don’t wait for NMP to trash tweet: subscribe to good newspapers and magazines.<\/p>\n Of all serious magazines, the New Yorker<\/a> is the best. Great writing, deep thinking, wisdom elevated to a mountain peak. And the cartoons, sure. They’re still laugh-out-loudly funny.<\/p>\n I have subscribed to the New Yorker for so long, as did my family when I was a kid, I don’t remember when I started reading it. It’s always been there for me.<\/p>\n So I’m pleased to give Michele and the rest of you this, from John Cassidy and the New Yorker. It answer that nagging persistent question: what should we do?<\/p>\n I’m also apologetic: I don’t like the state publishing has found itself in, what with all the free stuff available on the internet, and try not to link to any article I haven’t paid for because so many writers aren’t being paid.<\/p>\n So I hope the New Yorker will forgive a long-time fully paid-up subscriber for delivering this to all of you. Consider it a pitch for the New Yorker: don’t wait until NMP trashes it to subscribe.<\/p>\n There are lots of ways to get involved and retain your sanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Source: Nine Ways to Oppose Donald Trump – The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friend Michele and I were on the phone yesterday talking about…well, the only thing there is to talk about. I did slip in the big news that I’d gotten a haircut but neither she nor I paid any attention … Continue reading