October 2007
Guys With Quasi-Pornstar Names Make Bloggy Bucks,... →
Can’t say we didn’t try.
I Can Haz Teknocrotchy? →
I don’t get it either.
The Arcade Fire Was Once The Third Band On A... →
We know, more Gawker linkage. We’ll stop as soon as we start reading some new websites.
Our Former Neighbor, Dead →
He - along with Suge Knight, unsurprisingly - never really gave out candy on Halloween, a sacred tradition in the home nabe. Mrs. Gelfi, who beats out Rob for obscurity, used to give out the “king size” Kit-Kat’s. She would then offer your tired, aching, worn Trick-or-Treating body some water and a hug for the walk onward.
WatchHave you not seen any 30 Rock this season? Happy Halloween.
Human Giant is using Tumblr to blog. →
No surprise there. Aziz Ansari has made a solid point of always being on the cutting edge of all things bloggy, indie, funny, anything ending in “ee.”
There's a rip in my pants
And we’ve been walking around all day with a fucking huge notepad behind our back as to not show anyone.
“It is worth noting that one of the final images of Alex Rodriguez in a Yankees...”
– Will Leitch’s NYT blog “Fair and Foul,” Oct. 29, 2007.
“Where do you see the impact (of My So Called Life) in TV shows today? “I...”
– From an Entertainment Weekly interview with Wilson Cruz, saying what we’ve been telling people for over a year: that Friday Night Lights is the best thing on TV right now. If you won’t believe Ricky, then who do you believe?!
"The New Media Douchebag Meta Clusterfuck...
Or “Welcome to The Shit, Soldier, But We’ve Already Been Here For Four Years And Those Axis Guys Are Standing Right Over There” How do you follow up a post with a title like that? Like this: Emily Gould at Gawker wrote a gem of an item getting into the headier parts of former Gawk ed Doree Shafir’s NY Observer article which notes the current trend of journalists...
“Quite frankly, fuck discretion,” writes Moe Tkacik, a former newspaper reporter,...”
– The best line from Vanessa Grigoriadis’s necessary, long overdue NY Mag profile of Gawker and its impact of old and new (that - yes, we know - ran two weeks ago).
It Would Be A Shonda NOT To Post This.
Jezebel reports on a defense contractor who’s going to the hoosegow for - among other things - paying for his daughter’s $10MM bat-mitzvah. We love this story. Alternate post titles: This is our mother’s dream. “You’ve helped support my family/for the last four years/even though we’re not related/you’ve always been dear/and you’re probably an...
“Don’t be fooled, Ballmer cut a better deal than the public will ever get....”
– TechCrunch commenter John M. breaking down yesterday’s Microsoft/Facebook deal, October 24, 2007.
YM Helped Kill Punk With A John Varvartos Shirt →
Also, extols virtue of a JV shit.
Excerpt from Fantasy Indie Rock League...
Matt: what about, devandra and meg white for win butler?
Foster: thinking about it.
Matt: that's actually a really good offer. i can afford to over pay. probably should make it britt daniel or dan deacon, but i love matt berniger so much, not giving him up, sorry
Matt: obviously, if you wanted dan deacon instead, that's fine
Foster: what about James Murphy/Devandra?
Matt: that has to be a fucking joke
i wouldn't give you Murphy straight up
Foster: i like meg, but devandra worries me
and berniger is off limits?
Foster: it's just not love with meg
Weaksauced: KRS-One, "You. Must. Diet."
And to think that KRS-One always thought himself the “king of the beef,” Idolator reports that Kris is going on the next season of VH1’s trashtastic Celebrity Fit Club. King, indeed. ‘One’s been ‘sauced for two reasons: (A) he used to be a legitimately socially-conscious rapper who’s pandering (panhandling?) and become a weight-conscious D-lister on the...
Goomba "Fuck You": David Chase literally writes... →
““im in yur movee, takin upp alls the screan.””
– Ella Good @ Gawker Comments (which marks Ella Good tumbl #2 today), on a post as to why The Goss was replaced by Markey Mark in the big screen adaptation of Lovely Bones: because he showed up to the set fat.
Friends In Bloggy Places: Jeff @ P**SF**K
Like many New-Yorking paid, short-burst online content editors (we’re avoiding the b-word from hereon out), Jeff writes for an ominous British guy who shits million dollar ideas over at PSFK (or, the cutely vulgar moniker some have given it, “pissfuck”). It’s mostly trendspotting: eco/green efforts, corporate culture developments, new media developments, music, fashion,...
Girlfight
Apparently, subject-of-a-2,000-word-upcoming-New-York-mag-profile Julia Allison and Gawk commenter Ella Good are going pound for pound in Time Out, as TONY admits (finally?) that Allison has a few detractors. If the idea was to prove that the interweb denizens are just that, it might not have worked - it looks like Ella’s up. By about 450 votes. Does this affect Allison? We kind of wish,...
Rsstarded
Sorry, internets: we’re still figuring out our RSS situation so the feed is cleaned up. And by internets, we mean, four or five people whose attention we know we don’t have. None of whom know shit about an RSS feed. Or care.
The Hardest Blog To Blog
me: i'm blogging
http: //fek.tumblr.com/
but it's a tumblr blog
Leah: why's that bad news?
me: so it's not that bad
because it's like public self flagellation
blogging makes me feel icky
icky thump
icky blog
Oink gets busted; BV commenter calls people doing... →
Ephemerist breaks down the RS Perez article;... →
This is all you really need to know: the consensus is that nothing has changed since the last time you checked in with Perez.
more notes from the Justice show
and we’re not doing this because of our new name. we’re not even huge fans or anything. 1. the 1010 WINS of the internets says “underwhelmed.” 2. the BV commenters are still the funniest, trashiest indie-elitist peanut gallery around these parts. 3. the ‘Gum has little to add. quid novi ex ‘Gum? 4. the louis vutton don was in attendence. unfortunately for...
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The New York Times, Village Voice, Atlantic Wire, The Daily Dish, MediaBistro, Mediaite, Guest of a Guest.
