Comments on: Pick Up a Paper, or Better Yet: Fire Up the Comments!

By: Reid

Reid — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:37:58 +0000

"Congrats, Reid. You got it!" By your tone I assume you're saying "of course this is like the New Yorker cover. Don't pat yourself on the back too hard for figuring it out. Jackass." But it's one thing to be an homage or a response to the original. This just seems to be an uncredited imitation because it doesn't put a twist on the original, or say something like "with all apologies to the New Yorker". Nor do I think the original is so notorious as to not need attribution. Whatever. I think the names are funny, I just thought proper credit was due (which you might do in the paper version, I just haven't read it yet).

By: Jule Banville

Jule Banville — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:38:39 +0000

Congrats, Reid. You got it!

By: Reid

Reid — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:36:37 +0000

I love that cover. Almost as much as I loved it the first time, when it was on the New Yorker seven years ago:

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/2007/02/newyorkistan.html

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:03:15 +0000

Sounds like a Liquorridor resident wished he were living in Laptopia!

By: Ryan Grim

Ryan Grim — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:59:35 +0000

U Street gets the shaft? You split the neighborhood up like Jerusalem. The first injury came when they drew the cab-zone right down U -- and now this!