November 2010
1 tag
"There is one disagreement that became harder to... →
O RLY?
2 tags
Master (De)bators →
youngmanhattanite:
So I’m pulling this post from the vault because on this visit home — instead of visiting with every asshole I ever went to high school with — I took a trip out to see my old debate coach on Thanksgiving Eve, who’s now a principal at a middle school in Old Henderson. Yes, I am one of those dorks who goes to see his old teachers — public school teachers, Andrew — every couple of...
3 tags
On The Matter of Expensive Legal Bills
See, now doesn’t this make the whole Jimmy Dolan thing look like a bar tab in retrospect? LOL.
Quoted Saying "Fuck" By NYT, Threatening... →
Life: Complete. Thank you, Dave Itzkoff. You’re a prince amongst men.
2 tags
PRESS CLIPS: News Corp. is Basically Hiring... →
This blog post is one of the worst things I’ve read all year. Please ignore it at least until I can process it further.
SHOTS! Find out what blog post am I talking about that is not my own! More Peter Kaplan-esque fun! Other things! They’re all in today’s return of Press Clips, which I enjoyed writing greatly.
2 tags
The End of Media
cvxn:
youngmanhattanite:
spiers:
I just explained what Young Manhattanite was on CNN.
Bomb. Repeat. Bomb.
WHEW! Thank goodness I noticed the empty boxcar on this train before it pulled out of the station.
3 tags
In Soviet Russia, TWITTER Follow YOU! →
Random TeeVee: Parker Spitzer tonight
youngmanhattanite:
spiers:
I’ll be on Parker Spitzer’s political party roundtable tonight (CNN - 8pm EST) talking about current events (QE2, TSA pat downs, What Sarah Palin Is Doing at This Very Minute, etc). If it goes well, it’s because I’m obviously awesome. If it doesn’t, it was this guy’s idea. Blame him.
YM Shabbos Party HQ will take a break from Srugim and watch this.
“a few minutes later, Foster Kamer, a blogger for the Village Voice, goes “okay i...”
– Snuck Into National Book Awards | The Awl
Okay, I love me some Katie Baker, but someone tell me why a sports blog was at The National Book Awards and none of us raging book nerds were, please.
(via housingworksbookstore)
Because I needed a lookout to go with me. Also, sports bloggers read books,...
BOOKSHAKALAKA: The National Book Awards Jam Throws... →
An unlikely ballroom of people in the troubled business of literature — publishers, editors, writers, reporters, and respective sycophants — gather yearly to ostensibly celebrate writing. But really? To get trashed and dance. For books. Last night on Wall Street, the 2010 National Book Awards went down like this.
My second-annual National Book Awards party report is live. Please do...
2 tags
3 tags
WSJ Couch: A LeTR fROm thE MedOLANdS Ratz →
ATeNShUN OWNRZ OF NEW YORK FUTBALL GIANTS AND NEW YORK FUTBALL JETZ: WE, ThE UndeRSIGNNED, ARE MeMBERZ OF A GRaSS ROOOTs ORGANASAYTION CALLED “THE FUTBALL LOvING RATZ OF THE MEDDOWLANDS”
WE HAVE MOR than 2,300,000 MeMBERZ IN THE AREA OF ALL AGES AND WE AR MULTIpLYEENG EVRY HOUR, EVRY DAY.
Jason Gay, everyone. Wow. Just, like: wow.
2 tags
In Soviet Russia, DOG Name YOU! →
….Some ideas:
Дейзи.
Лола.
Снежок.
Чернобыльской.
КГБ.
Four Loko, Under Absurd Political Assault, Soon to... →
“This ruling should be the nail in the coffin of these dangerous and toxic drinks,” Mr. Schumer said. “Parents should be able to rest a little easier.”
Parents who let their kids on a long enough leash to get ahold of Four Loko in the first place? Why doesn’t Sen. Schumer get parents who let their kids drink Four Loko banned? Oh, that’s right: because they can...
David Remnick, the editor, said Mr. Frere-Jones... →
Ahem:
MURDOCH PAYS FOR SFJ POWER PLAY
REMNICK ROCKED BY MURDOCH COCKBLOCK
MR. JONES AND ME: RUPE AND S-FRERE TO PUT FEAR IN CULTURE PEERS
IPAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! MURDOCH MAKES MOVES ON MEDIA ELITE.
TABLET? MORE LIKE FAB-LET!
A PALER SHADE OF MIGHT: WHITE GUYS IN MEDIA CONTINUE TO RETAIN POWER, BUT YOU DON’T HEAR SACHA FRERE-JONES COMPLAINING!
2 tags
What Are New Yorkers Thankful For in 2010? →
Yes! A turkey! And you can do with that turkey pretty much whatever you want, once it’s out of our hands. Free it! Raise it in the city! Teach it your Haftarah portion! Or kill it with your own hands, just strangle the fucker, then cut it up, cook it until you’re sure you’re not gonna get salmonella poisoning or whatever bacteria turkeys carry, and proceed to make a bunch of...
1 tag
why my friends are better then your friends
Michael: well let's figure out a possible friday. maybe even stirfriday
me: stirfriday?
Michael: yeah we can have stir fry on friday. stirfriday. or stirfryday
On The Matter of Happy Surprise Terrorism.
N: i am telling folks as i talk to them or see them
F: yeah, so am i
it's like getting to throw this very happy water balloon at people i've been carrying around for just when i see them
N: ha
just like that...
F: you don't think so?
N: not really
my friends are all like.
F: : /
N: yeah duh
F: well mine are much more surprised and happy for me so HA
N: a water baloon is more surprising
mine are super happy
its like giving them an ice cream sunday when they ask for an ice cream sunday
F: but all that makes you is an ice cream scooper of good news
i am like a jihadist of good news
Press Clips: NY Mag, Yahoo, Mediaite, CNN, and... →
Remember, remember, the 15th of November. If you want to see just how interconnected New York media hires are — not that you already don’t know, but.. — today was the day to watch. This…is insane. WE ARE ALL CHAOS THEORY.
1 tag
Back for good!
nyobserver:
Okay, okay, we know. We haven’t posted for awhile. But don’t take the 6-month lapse in Tumblr updates personally—we still want you to follow us, and love us, and reblog us, and we promise we’ll do the same. Can you forgive us? We hope so.
Tumble On,
The Observer Team
NY Times: Krucoff Has The Penis →
“It is like a nuclear launch code,” admits its founder and lead blogger, Andrew Krucoff.
In Which We Learn from Our Former Colleague that... →
seedz:
:P;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
One source says yes!
HA!
2 tags
Oh give me a break. Ever wonder why you didn't get... →
The short answer? No.
101 Incredible Tumblr Blogs For Men's Fashion →
iwantthisshirt:
I’m #44. Thanks Guy Style Guide.
THIS IS MY BFF HENRY FOLLOW HIM THX.
1 tag
Press Clips: The New York Observer's New... →
Both of Summers’ pieces on the matter are so unmoving in their narratives, it’s almost as if he has a dog in the fight. To wit, it might have been worth it for Summers to make a few disclosures in the piece…
3 tags
On The Matter of Writers Speaking for The...
This is quite wonderful! It’s another review of Super Sad Love Story — which, after all the great reviews of the book I’ve read, whether the reviewer enjoyed it or not, makes me think I need to read this book — that goes beyond the call of duty to merely review a book and instead seizes on the opportunity to talk about Bigger Picture Things. And my, how it is seized!...
No charges in destruction of CIA videotapes,... →
‘Citizenry can go eat a dick,’ they added.
No one will face criminal charges for the destruction of CIA videotapes depicting harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
"Wow! She just gave birth to a child. Vaginally. I... →
John Mayer (at the Save the Music benefit), everyone. Also, my first filing for Rolling Stone.
Three Reasons Why You Should Be Upset About Cathie... →
Mom’s a teacher. Dad’s a lawyer who used to work for the school district. I come from an education family. This one stings. Consider this one of Bloomberg’s most epic fuck-overs of New Yorkers of all time, the play on which we will not understand until he’s fully removed from the public sector again.
2 tags
Why Men Fake Orgasms, by a Man Who Has Faked an... →
RS: So you’re saying you’ve exhausted every option, and it’s just not going to “happen”?
M26YOWHFAO: I mean, sure, you could go out on a limb and say, “I’m not going to bust until you start whistling Old Dixie while I read last week’s Economist during the handjob so furiously fast and intense it begins to chafe your hand more than it does my...
Press Clips: Murderous Monday Feelings →
You know who I want edits from? My editors. Or people from whom I ask. Not professors-cum-pundits whose unilateral advocacy of “new media journalism” or whatever they’re calling it these days, who are paid to keep moneyed children — or children moneyed by banks soon to be sacked with unbeatable debt — out of the workforce anywhere from three to four years longer...