Lloyd Grove — who evidently still has a newspaper column here in New York? This I did not know — mentioned New Yorker editor David Remnick's recent trip to LA. Apparently Remnick and his writer Ken Auletta did a dog and pony show at the Hammer Museum. (That's different than a donkey show, don't get excited.) Lloyd's source says of the talk that "It was the first time I've heard the word 'hermeneutically' used in Los Angeles," to which I say: you need to spend more time getting stoned on the Chinatown gallery strip.

But wait, there's more: LA Comfidential attended the Hammer evening of talk-talk, and quotes Remnick as saying "I wouldn t have become the editor of anything else. Esquire, GQ, Guns and Ammo, Maxim, what have you. I wouldn t have done it. What s the point?" Now that's one way to spread the love in editor-land.
Condescending and Nasty? [LA Comfidential]
Lloyd Grove's Lowdown [NYDN]