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Here's an extra long read I found while working through the Ancient History thread in A/T. It's from the 80s and about the Army Corps of Engineers and their never-ending battle with the Mississippi. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
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"Frank Sinatra has a cold" is one of the best longform articles ever written, especially as it was written without interviewing the notoriously private man himself. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/
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Actually surprised this hasn't been posted yet. Ya'll like catfishing stories? It's by CNN, but it's actually a great article. "The naked truth" "She was the perfect hero: a cancer survivor baring her double-mastectomy scars on a 1,000-mile walk to Washington. Until her own words got in the way." http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/health/hfr-paulette-leaphart-naked-truth/
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:Actually surprised this hasn't been posted yet. Ya'll like catfishing stories? This one is a journalist's wet dream. Got sent to cover the dog show and uncovered a scandal.
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I don't know if this piece on Janet Reno (from 1993, when she was nominated as attorney general) exactly counts as a longform, but it's longish, and a great read. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/04/21/janet-reno-in-the-fires-of-justice/c01e78a1-0567-4cf2-8b21-e544ef9215c8/ quote:At 54, she is a tenacious, serious woman who looms so large that behind her back colleagues call her "Bigfoot." But what's most striking about the president's new chief legal adviser are her smaller, 3-by-5 moments. Like the warm Miami nights when Reno would lie in her back yard on the trampoline. She'd recite Coleridge in the moonlight with relatives until she fell asleep, surrounded by 35 pet peacocks, who are all named Horace.
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pookel posted:I don't know if this piece on Janet Reno (from 1993, when she was nominated as attorney general) exactly counts as a longform, but it's longish, and a great read. Man that's dope I wanna fall asleep that way
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May 3, 2017 23:35
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I'll settle for the 35 pet peacocks named Horace
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:Actually surprised this hasn't been posted yet. Ya'll like catfishing stories? Well, she outdid deathmarch goon at the very least.
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pookel posted:I don't know if this piece on Janet Reno (from 1993, when she was nominated as attorney general) exactly counts as a longform, but it's longish, and a great read. That's incredible.
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May 4, 2017 07:51
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Straight White Shark posted:Well, she outdid deathmarch goon at the very least. Deathmarch Goon was a fantastic bit of insanity My favorite detail was that his route involved walking down interstates through Texas and the deep South in summer
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Deathmarch Goon was a fantastic bit of insanity
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pookel posted:Do I have to read all 78 pages to find out if he survived? I know this is the longform thread but geez. It's a goon project, what do you think happened? he lasted about three days and gave up
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C. Everett Koop posted:It's a goon project, what do you think happened? He never made it out of the park he started in The whole saga is amazing and there's some quality poo poo in there joke wise
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35 pet peacocks named horace is my new life goal
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C. Everett Koop posted:It's a goon project, what do you think happened? - He died - He never started and it's 70 pages of goons mocking him - He stopped updating after a while and no one knows what happened.
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May 5, 2017 16:21
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The Magical Season of the Macon Ironmen. Small town Illinois high school team almost wins the big one. One of the players, Brian Snitker, is now managing the Atlanta Braves.
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pookel posted:Other options I considered were: So the actual story is his body gave up because it was day four and all he had eaten were some grapes This is the dude whose diet beforehand consisted of like pizza and nuggets He never made it out of the park he started in, the stroller broke down day two, he made it like four miles total. For reference I walked four miles home from school once because I didn't want to wait for the late bus
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Especially relevant with the (excellent) Netflix revival, I present Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:So the actual story is his body gave up because it was day four and all he had eaten were some grapes Wasn't it also a park that was a popular casual hiking destination, so he was getting passed by day hikers the entire way? Or was that just goon speculation knowing the area? I like to imagine him just constantly getting passed on the trail by kids and retirees, though.
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Antivehicular posted:Wasn't it also a park that was a popular casual hiking destination, so he was getting passed by day hikers the entire way? Or was that just goon speculation knowing the area? I like to imagine him just constantly getting passed on the trail by kids and retirees, though. I think that it might have been in the Marin Headlands in SF.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I think that it might have been in the Marin Headlands in SF. I'm pretty sure it was. He had gone about 3 miles total. He gave up next to a shower/bathroom camping area. If I remember correctly he was sitting on an outcrop looking down on it and all these people keep stopping and asking if he needed help. A goon in the area was going to go and see if he could find the baby stroller he'd been using that the wheels had come off of. It was never found.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:I'm pretty sure it was. He had gone about 3 miles total. He gave up next to a shower/bathroom camping area. If I remember correctly he was sitting on an outcrop looking down on it and all these people keep stopping and asking if he needed help. A goon in the area was going to go and see if he could find the baby stroller he'd been using that the wheels had come off of. It was never found. The goon who went looking did eat a sweet burrito though
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The Innocent Man, by Pamela Colloff On August 13, 1986, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally murdered in their bed. His nightmare had only begun. Part 1 Part 2 Another Texas-hosed-up-prosecutor story.
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Badger of Basra posted:The Innocent Man, by Pamela Colloff Huh, small world. I know the newspaper photographer whose photo is at the top of part 2 -- he was an intern at the paper I worked at up in northeast TX before getting the job in Austin.
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I found this on, appropriately enough, Longform, but I thought it was a great read. Everyone remembers TO CATCH A PREDATOR, and I'm sure everyone remembers that it was ultimately taken off air because a man killed himself. I remember at the time plenty of people were not all that sympathetic given that hey, the dude was going to happily take advantage of what he thought was a kid so there's one less of those on the street, but the story more complicated than that, and goes into the borderline illegal acts from the Sheriff's team as well as the group Perverted Justice as well as Chris Hansen and NBC, who grossly overstepped the mark and then tried to justify it later. It's a fascinating, frustrating and ultimately sad read. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3269/to-catch-a-predator/
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Badger of Basra posted:The Innocent Man, by Pamela Colloff More good stuff from Texas Monthly. I did a little light Googling and found a couple follow-up articles as well. Not longforms, per se, but they help to provide a little closure. Here and here. Don't read these until you finish both of the first ones, though.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:More good stuff from Texas Monthly. I did a little light Googling and found a couple follow-up articles as well. Not longforms, per se, but they help to provide a little closure. poo poo, this was a good read. I'm glad there was closure too. I saw the publication date and thought "poo poo, that's far enough in the past maybe there's been action on other bits" and there was and it was great.
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Not terribly long (more average-length magazine piece), But Caity Weaver is my new third-favorite magazine writer (after Skip Hollandsworth and Pamela Coloff at Texas Monthly, of course). Somebody linked me to her story on Dwayne Johnson, and I've been reading her back catalog for the past hour, she has that sort of cynicism/DGAF attitude that I, as a former journalist, love.
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Delivery McGee posted:Not terribly long (more average-length magazine piece), But Caity Weaver is my new third-favorite magazine writer (after Skip Hollandsworth and Pamela Coloff at Texas Monthly, of course). Somebody linked me to her story on Dwayne Johnson, and I've been reading her back catalog for the past hour, she has that sort of cynicism/DGAF attitude that I, as a former journalist, love. That was a good read. Thanks!
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The Rock is a national treasure and if I were president I would devote our defense budget to recreating him in a test tube so that he would always exist
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This is a good thread. More essay than article, but a good read: Lee Sandlin explores the diminishing cultural relevance of the Second World War, with lots of diversions into Norse mythology, Hitler's love of Opera and the industrial "weirdness" of modern warfare.
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Delivery McGee posted:Not terribly long (more average-length magazine piece), But Caity Weaver is my new third-favorite magazine writer (after Skip Hollandsworth and Pamela Coloff at Texas Monthly, of course). Somebody linked me to her story on Dwayne Johnson, and I've been reading her back catalog for the past hour, she has that sort of cynicism/DGAF attitude that I, as a former journalist, love. This is really great, I love how it's written and the fact that the rock just comes off as even more likeable than he already does.
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My Family's Slave An upper-class Filipino family trafficks a domestic worker into the United States, where she works for them without pay for the next 35 years. It's clear that the (now deceased) author, a son in the family, carried a great deal of guilt, but a lot of readers are (rightfully in my opinion) excoriating him for, as an adult, standing by and doing nothing for years while his mother continued to exploit her. He and his siblings did take advantage of an amnestry law for illegal aliens to eventually get her US citizenship (against their mother's objections) but by that time she was already in her seventies. And they did it in such a way as to carefully avoid revealing that she was a trafficking victim who had worked for their parents without pay for the entire period she had been in the United States
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Sucrose posted:My Family's Slave I just read that last night, it was a good read if rather troubling.
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On a somewhat lighter note, have this BBC write-up about the end of the circus. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/circus_leaves_town
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http://torontolife.com/city/crime/brilliant-neurosurgeon-beloved-family-doctor-untold-story-volatile-marriage/ An incredibly depressing read about how one half of a perfect looking "power couple" of doctors was found murdered in a suitcase.
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:On a somewhat lighter note, have this BBC write-up about the end of the circus. There was nothing light about this, this was the saddest poo poo
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It's lighter than slavery, but yeah it's sad. I grew up in the Ringling Bros. hometown and wanted to join the circus when I was little so I've been sad ever since I first heard about it ending.
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Hell the part about everyone living on a train like this big weird family makes me want to join the circus now
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Bamabalacha posted:http://torontolife.com/city/crime/brilliant-neurosurgeon-beloved-family-doctor-untold-story-volatile-marriage/ That story, in its essence, plays out pretty often.
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