AskMe cited in Walrus article

August 15, 2008 3:05 PM

This AskMe question about sad music was cited in an article in the May 2008 issue of the Walrus.

Perhaps of interest for those of you who like to keep track of such things :) The article's not bad either. The Walrus is a Canadian New Yorker/Harpers wannabe that never quite manages to hold my attention. I was flipping through a back issue today and discovered this AskMe citation, which I had missed before.

posted by sevenyearlurk to MetaFilter-related at 3:05 PM (22 comments total)

The Walrus is a Canadian New Yorker/Harpers wannabe that never quite manages to hold my attention

They might use that tagline in their future ad copy
posted by matteo at 3:47 PM on August 15, 2008

also, the little figures in their ad on top of the page look like dildos, not walruses
posted by matteo at 3:49 PM on August 15, 2008

Clearly they need to rebrand as LOLRUS.
posted by Artw at 3:49 PM on August 15, 2008

Clearly they need to rebrand as LOLRUS.

And then get a bucket.
posted by never used baby shoes at 3:51 PM on August 15, 2008 [3 favorites]

Metafilter: Can anyone recommend some pensive, melancholy, dirge-like chamber music for rainy days and blue moods?
posted by lukemeister at 4:15 PM on August 15, 2008

Weird, most of the responses in that AskMe are what I'd call "achingly beautiful," not sad. Maybe that says something about me. Half glass full?
posted by naju at 4:33 PM on August 15, 2008

I would subscribe to LOLRUS.
posted by the littlest brussels sprout at 4:50 PM on August 15, 2008

slow loris
posted by docpops at 5:55 PM on August 15, 2008

dolores
posted by docpops at 5:55 PM on August 15, 2008

clitoris
posted by docpops at 5:56 PM on August 15, 2008

that last one doesn't rhyme at all.
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:07 PM on August 15, 2008

I am the AskMan (woo), they are the AskMe (woo), we're in The Walrus,
Coo coo, kachoo.
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:20 PM on August 15, 2008 [6 favorites]

The Walrus is a Canadian New Yorker/Harpers wannabe...

In direct competition with THE EGGMAN I suppose.
posted by turgid dahlia at 7:41 PM on August 15, 2008

bit late to the show, turgo.
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:03 AM on August 16, 2008

Mulva?
posted by knave at 9:26 AM on August 16, 2008

that entire episode I assumed her name was "Kit" until the end.
posted by Challahtronix at 12:09 PM on August 16, 2008

(Not Regina?)
posted by Sys Rq at 1:42 PM on August 16, 2008

Well, there's a pull-quote if I ever saw one for the Walrus.
posted by cgomez at 10:58 PM on August 16, 2008

It's a good quote. Personal ("my attention"), yet profoundly universal.

(Yes, I've bought it several times out of nationalistic guilt, and have never made it more than half way through.)
posted by maledictory at 12:59 AM on August 17, 2008

I've bought it in airports and also wanted it to be good. It reads like a Canadian campus newspaper without the BOGOF restaurant advertisements.
posted by srboisvert at 6:48 AM on August 17, 2008

Here I was thinking there was an Eastern chain called BOGOF. Thanks goodness for Wikipedia.

The Walrus exists merely as a way of showing that you're of New Yorker readership quality, but with that CBC guilt.
posted by acoutu at 10:57 PM on August 18, 2008

"CBC guilt"? Huh. I dunno, man.

PBS guilt, sure; that's where I'm a freeloader. But CBC guilt? They're using taxpayer money on crud like JPod, and I'm supposed to feel guilty? No, sir.

The guilt associated with The Walrus and, moreso, MacLean's, is better compared, I think, with the Harvey's hamburger: Sure, it's a bizarre and unbeefy texture and always tastes burnt and the silly giant pickles don't really fit, but it's the only Canadian horse in that race and would be doomed to failure if we didn't all suffer the gristle every now and then.

That said, I've never read The Walrus, and MacLean's is waiting room only, assuming there's not a Time in the pile.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:37 AM on August 19, 2008