swampman posted:gifted it to george w bush.
the contest is over
discipline posted:he was chosen a winner by upvotes. I'm not sure the baffler editors read the entries at all.
i thought the baffler editors read all our posts
getfiscal posted:imagine i edited the bush 9/11 reading book to kids picture with the berfler instead
Haha, could somebody with elite skills at ph't'ch'ps, please, as the title image for the front page. Finishing edits now. Also please put conec's response on the front page. Hahaha i love dissing this zine
babyfinland posted:i googled baffler and it looks like the onion av club style thing, why are we shitting our diapies abt this magazine exactly
they asked
Senorah posted:most of my gen x lefty friends are really sentimental about da bafflah. apparently there was nothing else to make them giggle at and feel extra cool about at the time. proto-jacobin
maybe it was cooler back then like lawn darts and the Sandinistas
daddyholes posted:babyfinland posted:i googled baffler and it looks like the onion av club style thing, why are we shitting our diapies abt this magazine exactly
they asked
does someone know someone who works there or some shit
swampman posted:Backus posted:swampman thta was incredible, i lolled repeatedly and will steal some of your jokes for irl
maybe you should use them as part of the recruitment script for tHE rHizzonE rEGistration drivE
i admit i am pretty proud of this and am editing it up for front page, but i really crave baffler to acknowledge feeling the slap. I want the attention. Give it to me the attention
The jokes felt autogenerated by the content and I can easily keep up with three issues a year, so, i'm ready to play again. i would love multiple subscriptions to the baffler so i can leave dozens of issues around on my coffee table, to "baffle" my guests with, Lol
I would definitely like criticism of weaker parts, and bad/unexplained logic. You can tell that I started getting lazier after the initial burst, but anyway this ended up being 4000 words, a good length for long-form article. I think most of you could do this for any given "left" magazine, you just need to find 1 or 2 points per article, and hammer on them like they're the only thing that matters. If you finding the good points it seems to end up that they are. I was surprised that baffler was so weak, having never read it, but maybe the topic "play" caused it to be particularly twee.
despite all this, it is still good.
Crow posted:an editor reads the rhizzone. But definitely not your posts, because they are really shit
swampman posted:getfiscal posted:imagine i edited the bush 9/11 reading book to kids picture with the berfler instead
Haha, could somebody with elite skills at ph't'ch'ps, please, as the title image for the front page. Finishing edits now. Also please put conec's response on the front page. Hahaha i love dissing this zine
ok guys listen up swampman's article cant go up until someone gets this done. i wanna see it
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discipline posted:Like, the caliber of work here is kinda bad, even articles posted to the front page seem sometimes like a proud mom putting her kid's art on the fridge (many of them are mine full disclosure). We all have the capacity to produce work that exceeds the Baffler or anywhere else in quality but we hate ourselves, which is how you know we're sincere about our politics. Joey saw the promise and build us this wonderworld. That's why daddy left us forever.
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