December 2010
“That’s when panic sunk in,” Mr. Gedeon said. “I’m looking at my watch, and I’m...”
– Too bad the guy next to him wasn’t like, “Well, that depends. What universe are you from? FOOOGLEMBAK!”
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via hyperallergic)
Longreads: Foster Kamer: My Top 5 Longreads of... →
longreads:
Foster Kamer (ex-BlackBook + Gawker + Village Voice) is online features and news editor at Esquire.
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2010 was an incredible year for writing, bottom line.
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The Best (As-Yet-Unmade) Movies of 2013 →
Huzzah, first Esquire feature:
For the last five years, an equally loved and loathed list has circulated around Hollywood’s insider circles, every year, without fail. Meet The Black List, a list of the best screenplays in Hollywood that have yet to be produced. It’s voted on by a shadowy, motley bunch of production execs who use it as a way to either give voice to projects they...
The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides →
This post helps me pinpoint the exact moment when people on sales at Gawker started hating me. Easily still one of my favorites.
Why wouldn’t they just publish a recession-friendly gift guide of interesting things they worked very hard to seek out? If the aim of a gift guide is to be servicey, why wouldn’t they provide a service that others don’t? And by...
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THE HUNT BEGINNITH.
Hi, everyone! I’ve been away for a minute or two because I’ve been genuinely enjoying the feeling of a. Not being on Tumblr b. Not really checking to see if anybody else has used my password to log in and create anarchy on my Tumblr. c. Not feeding my work shit into Tumblr to hawk it. d. Getting work done at this new job of mine.
But now I’m back to (C) feed my work shit into...
The Line I Removed About Jimmy Dolan
[Finally, Jimmy Dolan, you are the distinguished and otherwise impossible combination of being both a cocksucker and a penis. You make Rupert Murdoch look like a humanist and Carlos Slim look like a compassionate loan officer. New York City deserves a better media mogul than you. Also, despite your best efforts, you failed to get me fired. Fuck you, you piece of shit. You’re even terrible at...
Regrets, Remainders, Deleted Scenes, and Bridge... →
Well, here we are. The final Press Clips. COME ON, POOKIE! Let’s burn this mothafucka down!
A LONG TIME AGO, in a media climate far, far away, Jessica Coen was once the lead writer of Gawker.com.
On her last day, she wrote about an encounter with a certain editor that she’d been holding fire on until she left. Well, I don’t have a story about him. But I’ve got a few...
The 114 Most Important Lessons I've Learned at The... →
After a 285-day stint, I am abdicating my post here atThe Village Voice. I’m going to work for Esquire.com, so I may — as one commenter noted — continue my work as a “a twentysomething angel of death.” Yet, while I was here, I learned some very important things, and had some very memorable moments.
I will never forget the following.
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The 2010 Media Holiday Party Circuit Crash-Map →
For my second-to-last Press Clips, Day 27, we have a very, very special treat. Every year, many of the New York-based media companies who produce a large portion of American media that is consumed across the country gather after months of conspiring…to get shitface drunk. Behold:
The 2010 Media Holiday Party Circuit Crash-Map.
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Watchdavidcho:
Puff walking the streets of New York, talking shit, accosting Jews, and giving out money. It’s great.
David Cho: Fan of People Accosting Jews.
The Drug Economy at Columbia University: A... →
This week, we met Columbia’s Drug Dealer Frat Boys, and learned:
The Street Price of Cocaine at Columbia University!
The Street Prices of Ecstasy and LSD at Columbia University!
and The Street Price of Marijuana at Columbia University!
So, what’s next for the boys? And more interestingly: overall, how are the prices of drugs at Columbia University ? Well…
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Cocaine at Columbia University: The Price of... →
UPDATE 1. A reader writes in:
You sure about these numbers? Is this in pesos? Also, if those numbers are right, can I please have the number of your dealer? NOW?
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What is the Street Price of Marijuana at Columbia... →
These guys only made $7,900 from cops. If they moved $7,900 in eighths, they would have only been selling at a little under $25/eighth. What happened?
Well, one possibility is that their weed was god awful, but that’s doubtful, because (A) It’s Columbia and (B) a risk-benefit analysis of selling drugs is already incredibly heavy on risk in the lower quadrants of the drug trade —...
What Are the Street Prices of Ecstasy and LSD at... →
Drug dealers don’t offer deals on acid because it’s already so goddamn cheap, and gets you so fucked up for so long the average user doesn’t need more than a hit or two of what a Bulgarian cook at summer camp once noted as “you know, the [sticks out tongue, points to it, waves hands in air frantically while rolling eyes] how-you-say, DOCTOR OFF-MAN!”
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What's the Street Price of Cocaine at Columbia... →
Holy Scarface! Five kids were busted yesterday for selling all kinds of crazy drugs at Columbia University. Ivy League? More like High-vy League. Luckily, via Columbia’s BWOG, understanding the numbers of the busts also gives us a chance to understand how much drugs cost at Columbia! It goes without saying, but The Village Voice, Village Voice Media, and Runnin’ Scared do not...
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The XX - You’ve Got The Love...
“Ms. Kaufman treated many of her regular patrons as both friends and extended...”
– NYT’s Elaine Kaufman obit (via joepompeo)
A Very Special Announcement: Changes at The... →
I’d now like to take the chance to thank Katie for introducing me to Faces of The Last Season of Oprah.
Also, JOE! Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
Also: I’m going to be working with Eric Gillin! BLACK TABLE 4 LYFE!
The Daily Kill Dossier, Part 2: Another Hit List... →
Sasha Frere-Jones ofThe New Yorker, you now know who had your job before you: ______ _____, the executive editor of _____ _____.
Guess correctly [you won’t] and win a prize [I’ll never give you]!
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Buried Parenthetical of the Day, New York Times... →
Tom Brady is the face of Uggs for men; NFL New... →
There are so many taboo words I want to use in this headline that I will not use because I’m not that kind of person but just like come on man seriously you’re feeding this to us.
Elizabeth Spiers, who was the founding Gawker... →
Jokes that never get old (to me).