January 2012
We’ve reached out to David Pogue for comment with... →
List of inventors killed by their own inventions -... →
Kim Kardashian Will Read This Blog Post, So You... →
Parmville! How Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi Made... →
“Glad to hear that it sounds like these guys are embracing the douchebags they really are. (Actually, just Mario),” wrote one anonymous commenter on Eater, a line that had the trio cracking up.
“Mario is actually a pretty decent guy …” countered Guest #3. Mr. Torrisi looked at the floor, unsuccessfully suppressing a grin, while Mr. Carbone shrugged.
“… compared to Rich, at least.“
At that,...
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The Cat Marnell School of Dating: "IF YOU DON'T... →
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Julie Schott <julie@xojane.com> wrote:
Hi S, Thank you for your response. Cat appreciates your invite to dinner, but will be busy this evening smoking dust. Again please feel free to follow up with any further questions. Xx Julie
A Very Serious Request
ninety9:
If you find your fingers typing out ‘South By’ at any point over the next forty years three months, do me a favor and, um, chop them off?
Preemptive Irritation: MUST CREDIT KATIE BAKES DOT COM.
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Goodbye to Adderall That: One Writer’s Breakup... →
“The first four paragraphs were really good,” he told me. “You gave me the rest the next day, and it was totally incoherent. I think the Adderall is affecting your writing. Your voice is completely different. I mean, it’s basically just speed, you know?”
Lana Del Rey’s Publicists Force Thought Catalog to... →
This may be the funniest media story of 2012 yet. It involves two of the most patently ridiculous blogs on the entire internet, one of which cowered in fear at some overzealous publicists, who made their cause only worse by asking for the removal of a blog post, which the other ridiculous blog has now published.
Schadenfreude Time: Bonus Day at Goldman Sachs is... →
One girl, Carney reports, was crying. Meanwhile, the numbers from Dealbreaker:
“First years: 40k annualized (base: 70k) Second years: 40-56k (base: 80k, 10k bump in August).”
Yup. Still making more than any of you their first year on the job.
Only 3.8% of the English majors were One... →
Put that in your Thought Catalog and post it.
Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Facebook or Google... →
And Tumblr! Sorry, Tumblr. But it’s true.
“Some companies fear that doctors may no longer... →
Today, in utter bullshit.
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The reason this news is important and is being... →
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Also pulling papers two days ago (Jan. 10) was... →
Mikey! My brother!
Mr. Brisbane is asking whether or not it’s a... →
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Spiersblr: Randomly: a few of my favorite Observer... →
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Randomly: a few of my favorite Observer pieces from this year, in no particular order:
A Twee Grows in Brooklyn: the Portlandification of the increasingly bourgeois borough by Adrianne Jeffries
Almost Amis by Christian Lorentzen
Peter Braunstein Still Has Issues by Aaron Gell
Pony Up, Haters: How 4Chan Gave Birth to the Bronies by Una LaMarche
The Situation and the Story:...
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Another reason the Mayor has been successful in... →
Le Baron, New York City’s Most Anticipated... →
In the mean time, New York City’s nightcrawling scenesters can pass the time attempting to cadge drinks from their moneyed older dates at the Electric Room as Nur Kahn secretly transmits subliminals upon their delicate, desperate psyches. Hold out, young urbanite! You may be roused from you (distinctly French) existential nightmare in due time. Salvation may be forthcoming, yet.
Awl City: The Awl Launches Awl Music,... →
New blog alert: TUMBLRS.
The first such beef happened in the early ’80s,... →
Interestingly, the authors found that the... →
Even when Goldman is knowingly selling intentionally shitty securities, those securities still perform better than everyone else’s intentionally shitty securities. That is impressive.
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Do you know what Alternative Investments are?... →
Meet President Obama’s new chief-of-staff.
Breaking: Guy Works from Home, Cooks Himself... →
There’s an argument to made for telling the human story of startups; fair enough. But there’s also an argument to be made against the kind of tech coverage that feeds into the narcissism and press lines which, at best, results in favor-trading for scooplets that are essentially press releases said line-toer gets before anyone else, and at worse, simply shills sans-skepticism for an industry that...
End of an Era: J. Hoberman is Out at the Village... →
Ms. Benedikt may have articulated the sentiment best, concluding: “OK going to drink alcohol now. #hoberman”
That said, former Village Voice intern, staff writer, editor, and Hoberman protege Zach Baron (now reviewing film for The Daily) may have summed up the state of the once-storied alternative weekly’s legacy best, in the form of the bylines of Voice legacy writers, all of whom have been...
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Dylan Goes Eclectic! →
I profiled MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan for the first New York Observer cover story of 2011. He’s an interesting guy. He also said this:
Mr. Ratigan left CNBC in April 2009. “I’m happy to not be a journalist,” he said, noting that the constraints of the profession had made it impossible to see the big picture. “My old style was, ‘Well, this is a sport [in which] we try and figure out what’s...
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This is actually the one time when Gawker put... →
Why would anyone take a blade to Champagne? Well,... →
True story: Sabering champagne is a fuckton of fun. UPDATE: The comments on this thing are hysterical.
I’ve done this several times with mixed results. Once a party guest wanted to try it, the bottle slipped from his hands when struck, flew off the balcony, landed in the yard, and then was propelled horizontally by jet action into the neighbors yard. It was quite memorable.
December 2011
GRPN vs. BDNK (Or: The Battle Between My Fat, Pale... →
I had been decent—not great, but good enough—about going to the gym regularly prior to this. I guess if you weren’t me and knew this, this would kind of be like insider trading on my ass, but thankfully, $BDNK isn’t subject to SEC regulatory law. So there’s that.
Have been waiting a while for today, when I finally got to post this. Good times. Also, uh, dark ones.
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