October 2009
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Sorry, Guys.
But you know what’s so ridiculous about This Is Why You’re Fat?
Everything.
All Growns Up
My first thought after reading KB’s thorough curb stomping of ESPN’s bitchass “personality plus” Ombudsman to town, which went a little something like this:
Ohlmeyer builds to the rousing conclusion that “ESPN needs special outreach to communicate the fact that programs following live events can’t always start as scheduled.” Well, then. Doesn’t the company have more than...
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ninety9:
fek:
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Last Night's Party
Oh, and by the way: as I fell a little ill last evening, I’m sorry I couldn’t make it Rosen, I owe you a drink. Though the way they serve ‘em at your parties, I hear I should gift you with a raincoat, too. HEY-OH.
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Since they last won a World Series (last century),...
And in a week, you can start that counter all over again. Yankees 4Eva, assholes.
A week ago, I’m the only one to get the word “shit” into an Atlantic Wire roundup. This week, I get Jews and Their Horns in one (“…He doesn’t stop there…”). I’m still trying to sneak a “cockwaffle” in there, though. It’s gonna happen.
(1) I can honestly claim not to get it, which is a rare stance for me to take. Am I that oblivious or (2) is this the creepiest Krucoff has ever gotten? Too Insidery, or Too Molestery? Take your pick, try not to get skeeved out.
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Thrillist Junket Fallout: Times Freelancer Mike... →
youngmanhattanite:
fek:
(via soupsoup)
This is fucking absurd.
Look in the Krucoff, Foster. LOOK IN THE KRUCOFF. What do you see?
Give me a break.
Freelancers have to take junkets. They get jobs using junkets. Publications don’t have the scratch to support their writers - and especially their freelance writers - giving publication-backed assessments of places unless you’re...
Thrillist Junket Fallout: Times Freelancer Mike... →
(via soupsoup)
This is fucking absurd.
@ The The-tah: 'Superior Donuts' ****
Tracy Letts, August: Osage County playwright’s new dig. Came on the same road August did (via Steppenwolf). It starts on the day aging hippie Aurthur P. (Michael McKean) walks into the uptown Chicago donut shop he inherited from his family long ago to find it vandalized. His counter-boy just quit, and he needs to hire someone new. Franco Wicks (Jon Michael Hill), black kid from the South...
Watchitsthereal:
Re-Up Harangue: We shot it 4 cheap.
Wamp Wamp.
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There’re 753 words in this Atlantic Wire roundup of the New York Times’ call out over the Washington Post lying to them over the reporter/lobbyist salon scandal. Take a guess who the lone explicative - “shit” - belongs to.
Sammy Sift Sexed Up Sea Urchin, Today
What’d you do? Aight, Sifton. You might’ve cost me $20, but goddamn if this isn’t spot on. Presenting the best new dish in New York, folks, from my favorite new restaurant in New York. Momofuku Pork Buns, meet your match:
The very first item on the menu at Marea is ricci, a piece of warm toast slathered with sea urchin roe, blanketed in a thin sheet of lardo, and dotted with...
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The Nightman Cometh
chrismohney:
or rather, the nightblogger. Looking for someone to do a small amount of overnight blogging, say between 8pm-6am EST. November & December assured, maybe more if warranted. Paid. See bbook.com for “style” and “samples.” Email cmohney@bbook.com if interested.
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“Thanks to Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith for starting this magazine 15 years ago…”
– From The Acknowledgements in Vice: New, Nudity & Nonsense The Best of Vice Magazine Vol. II 2003-2008 (via youngmanhattanite)
That’s such fucked up bullshit.
Ayelet Waldman's Admittedly Unsolicited Writing...
Presented without context.
@weareyourfek Well, I’ll say this. You were probably as pleasant as Gawker allows, within the requisite snark-parameters.
@weareyourfek Here’s a word of unsolicited and surely unwelcome advice. Writers get trapped in a genre. To bust out is hard. cont’d
it took me 3 books and about 9 zillion articles before I stopped being referred to as a mystery...
On The Job Of "Night Editor"
Some of you, if you’re into that kind of thing, may have noticed an interesting thing happen on a website last night, in which a new byline by a writer appeared on a website. That website is staffed by a few other writers, one of them being me. And the nice way of saying it is that I hold very strong contentions with at least a voting majority of every stance this writer has ever taken or...
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Are groomsmen ‘the ultimate bros’? →
hipsterrunoff:
Photos via sorryimissedurparty
Sometimes I wonder how many more opportunities I will have to chill hard with my bros. It seems like something inside of me ‘wants to settle down with a woman…
nudawn:
“His takes on issues are mature, often without ego, and most importantly: intuitive.”
I love Brian Van to death, but this is the funniest thing i’ve read all day.
I do however also endorse him for this position.
Well. Compared to me. Brian’s old enough to restrain himself from penis jokes every 200 words. I’m not.
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Brian Van for Gawker Night Editor
youngmanhattanite:
This makes sense. Please reblog your support.
Okay. Here goes: Brian should definitely be applying to one of the two positions announced today. His takes on issues are mature, often without ego, and most importantly: intuitive. [They’re also always fully fleshed out, but we’ll get to that.] It’s pretty strange that this is kind of a novel idea, but not really:...
jessicacoen:
Virginia Heffernan’s book is the book we all want to write, but can’t. No pleasures, indeed! I’m a little sad, honestly. Going to spend the rest of the day staring at my hands and this filthy keyboard. White keyboards, what the fuck.
I guess I’d like to write this book, but in a bring-all-my-friends-and-rage kinda way. I can’t see this being otherwise interesting or fun,...
November/December Assignments: Awesome.
I just confirmed my magazine assignments for December/January.
Drake
The xx
Speech Debelle
Funny enough, the one I didn’t pitch of those three: Drake, the most epic of that list, even though I’ll be doing a phoner with him and Speech Debelle (who got stuck in London because of visa issues, and can’t make CMJ because of it).
The xx, I get to talk to sometime next week. Hip...
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Take Your Pick, John.
I am willing to offer up the following editors to please His Holiness of Guitar Face:
Chris
Gabriel
Alex and Choire (Two for One!)
Krucoff, I guess.
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Your "Craft"
murray: "writers"
Ryan Brown: yeah
Ryan Brown: SERIOUSLY
Ryan Brown: also "article"
Ryan Brown: also "literature"
Ryan Brown: also "creativity"
Ryan Brown: also "fun"
murray: hahahahahaa
Ryan Brown: also "future"
murray: "reality"
murray: "real life"
Ryan Brown: "murray"
murray: hahahahaha
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Wow. And I thought I had a bad weekend ... →
juliaallison:
This is just so devastating to read. Can you imagine, standing your bride-to-be up like this? What a coward.
Julia, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you haven’t read anything about this other than what the Post had to offer. Because yes, it was a bad weekend for Chang: gold diggers with restaurateur fetishes everywhere are ashamed of a prenup...
