Comments on: “Day begins to crumble” http://wrenkin.net/weblog/2007/11/18/day-begins-to-crumble/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:53:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Gorilla Romero http://wrenkin.net/weblog/2007/11/18/day-begins-to-crumble/#comment-2252 Gorilla Romero Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:07:45 +0000 http://wrenkin.net/weblog/2007/11/18/day-begins-to-crumble/#comment-2252 <p>Your use of the phrase "the above" suggests you've chosen the right profession.</p> Your use of the phrase “the above” suggests you’ve chosen the right profession.

]]> By: Wrenkin http://wrenkin.net/weblog/2007/11/18/day-begins-to-crumble/#comment-2248 Wrenkin Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:55:32 +0000 http://wrenkin.net/weblog/2007/11/18/day-begins-to-crumble/#comment-2248 <p>I had been putting off buying <em>Monocle</em> given the cost ($12.50 or something ridiculous). However, I was eventually pursuaded by a very perceptive <a href="/weblog/2007/07/15/nature-hides-herself/" rel="nofollow">magazine seller</a> who spotted my waffling a mile off. I don't think it was worth it. I get what they're going for, with the whole <em>Wallpaper</em> but newsier thing, but I think their divertisements are a little too divers. I felt like I was wasting my time learning about all these irrelevancies (and I'm normally all about useless knowledge), and wondered how such an imposing magazine could read so fluffyt. Surely their target market, no matter how stressed out, can concentrate for more than 4 minutes.</p> <p>The cover story a few months back about the world's 20 most livable cites was maybe 15 small pages long, and I don't think they managed to say anything perceptive about Vancouver in the 200 words afforded. Why bother? This has been a complaint about <em>Wallpaper</em> as well, where "the hot spots" in each city are often uninteresting places that just happen to be near the hotel where the correspondent stayed, supplemented with a few places that even the Globe and Mail would considered having peaked. The editor briefly had a show on Newsworld which was at least interesting insofar as you got to watch him go around London and spend lots of money.</p> I had been putting off buying Monocle given the cost ($12.50 or something ridiculous). However, I was eventually pursuaded by a very perceptive magazine seller who spotted my waffling a mile off. I don’t think it was worth it. I get what they’re going for, with the whole Wallpaper but newsier thing, but I think their divertisements are a little too divers. I felt like I was wasting my time learning about all these irrelevancies (and I’m normally all about useless knowledge), and wondered how such an imposing magazine could read so fluffyt. Surely their target market, no matter how stressed out, can concentrate for more than 4 minutes.

The cover story a few months back about the world’s 20 most livable cites was maybe 15 small pages long, and I don’t think they managed to say anything perceptive about Vancouver in the 200 words afforded. Why bother? This has been a complaint about Wallpaper as well, where “the hot spots” in each city are often uninteresting places that just happen to be near the hotel where the correspondent stayed, supplemented with a few places that even the Globe and Mail would considered having peaked. The editor briefly had a show on Newsworld which was at least interesting insofar as you got to watch him go around London and spend lots of money.

]]> By: Sheila Cooke-Witt http://wrenkin.net/weblog/2007/11/18/day-begins-to-crumble/#comment-2247 Sheila Cooke-Witt Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:08:32 +0000 http://wrenkin.net/weblog/2007/11/18/day-begins-to-crumble/#comment-2247 <p>Dear Alex, Rob tipped me off re your rhyming law assignments and the recent mention of your Aunt from Germany. Remember looking at your blog once years ago....cool. So I had to search for it & first stumbled onto Brenda's and as it was titled Moot Point I thought it must be yours, you are, after all, the one studying law. Hear you are enjoying it, I'm glad. But I'm really writing to ask whether you bought Monocle or not. Tyler Brule has become a semi-regular contributer to the Int'l Herald Trib and I can't STAND him. What a pompous idiot! Each column (which I now just skim with a sort of car-wreck-peering fascination) is worse than the last, the latest was the most over-the-top and at the same time limited-and-narrow list of the 50 greatest travel experiences (or something, couldn't really understand the list parameters). It was a strange grab-bag list of bizarre bragging items. If he were at all witty, his columns could be delicious a la Oscar Wilde, but his writings on the life of luxury come off as some sort of longing/insecurity/over-compensation. UGH. Study hard and have fun, Sheila</p> <p></p></p> Dear Alex, Rob tipped me off re your rhyming law assignments and the recent mention of your Aunt from Germany. Remember looking at your blog once years ago….cool. So I had to search for it & first stumbled onto Brenda’s and as it was titled Moot Point I thought it must be yours, you are, after all, the one studying law. Hear you are enjoying it, I’m glad. But I’m really writing to ask whether you bought Monocle or not. Tyler Brule has become a semi-regular contributer to the Int’l Herald Trib and I can’t STAND him. What a pompous idiot! Each column (which I now just skim with a sort of car-wreck-peering fascination) is worse than the last, the latest was the most over-the-top and at the same time limited-and-narrow list of the 50 greatest travel experiences (or something, couldn’t really understand the list parameters). It was a strange grab-bag list of bizarre bragging items. If he were at all witty, his columns could be delicious a la Oscar Wilde, but his writings on the life of luxury come off as some sort of longing/insecurity/over-compensation. UGH. Study hard and have fun, Sheila

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