{"id":352,"date":"2007-09-14T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/hoisted_from_comments_magazines_for_the_west_coast"},"modified":"2013-11-18T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:03:10","slug":"hoisted_from_comments_magazines_for_the_west_coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2007\/09\/hoisted_from_comments_magazines_for_the_west_coast.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoisted from Comments: Magazines for the West Coast Elitist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year after the <a href=\"\/Journal\/2006\/06\/smugger_than_thou.html\">Smugger Than Thou<\/a> discussion, <a href=\"\/Journal\/2006\/06\/smugger_than_thou.html#comment-1659\">Damon chimes in to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You people suck at being West Coast elitists. I herby and forthwith look down my Birks<br \/>\n  and Vespa at you all.<\/p>\n<p>UTNE, Mother Jones, and without apology, The Economist (ne&#8217;er a rag written with less<br \/>\n  genuine concern for the human person as such;let&#8217;s face it, elite is elite. Only the<br \/>\n  material of selfishness changes, not its form.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And there we have it: <em>the<\/em> definitive list of magazines for the West Coast Elitist, suitable for strewing over any coffee table. And we didn&#8217;t come up with any of it. We <em>do<\/em> suck. (Certain elitists might still take <a href=\"http:\/\/tanglebones.com\/\">Jemaleddin<\/a>&#8216;s suggestion of <cite>Variety<\/cite>, but I think this is only permissible if you&#8217;re in the movie or television industry.)<\/p>\n<p>In related happy news, my subscription to (quintessentially middlebrow) <cite>Newsweek<\/cite> is about to run out. They&#8217;re already starting to send me their patented series of sad-sack renewal letters and postcards. That trick even used to work on me, occasionally. But after being subjected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14308339\/\">the most insulting op-ed ever written<\/a> last year, I think I&#8217;m pretty much done with <cite>Newsweek<\/cite> forever. Even free from NPR, it&#8217;s not worth the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain elitists might still take [Jemaleddin](http:\/\/tanglebones.com\/)&#8217;s suggestion of <cite>Variety<\/cite>, but I think this is only permissible if you&#8217;re in the movie or television industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}