March 2010
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Blodget and Salmon on Blodget vs. Salmon: The Last... →
Shots…
Henry Blodget: We’re large enough now that dust-ups only generate meaningful traffic when they’re with really high-profile folks. Felix is well-known and well thought-of in New York media circles (including at our shop), but most people in the real world have never heard of him.
Fired…
Salmon: ……it’s a lot easier to imagine people paying to...
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“A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever...”
– Our Lady of the Immaculate Penis, Gaga
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Wave of Mutilation (U.K. Surf) - The Pixies
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On Leaving Beth Israel.
L: Are you gonna have to spend the night tonight?
Me: Not if I have anything to do with it. Hell no.
L: But they just put you on a morphine drip?
Me: Ha, yeah they did.
L: They have no idea what's wrong with you. It's 9PM, they just started with the morphine.There's no way they're letting you out of there tonight.
Me: Please. I've walked around the East Village way more fucked up than this.
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The Guy Behind the Guy, Behind the Guy: Gawker... →
Chris Mohney: BlackBook Is Hiring: Features Editor →
BlackBook Media seeks an experienced, skilled, talented, ambitious individual to serve as Features Editor. Primary responsibility is the daily oversight of BBook.com, a website with a large and growing audience; components include both daily editorial content (20+ posts per day) and online guide…
I’ll be the first one to tell you: BlackBook is an awesome place to work, and Chris...
Invoice: Commentary on Jimmy Dolan's Penis,... →
Well, looks like I’m gonna have to tell the wife and our nine adopted children with various disabilities that less impair them than they do make them unbearably cute in a Finding Nemo-esque fashion that my first raise won’t be coming in quite on schedule this time. Our hypo-allergenic pet turtle (already named: “Sam”) will have to wait until next Christmas. : (
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Oh, and By The Way.
What, you thought I could only do dick size?
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Rise If You Must: Really Big News In My Life →
Life has a way of surprising you.
Not all that many years ago…
Wait. Actually it was many years ago.
Anyway, I was on a plane coming back from a meeting in North Carolina. We were negotiating the financing of a mattress company.
Oh wait. I forgot to say. I was a lawyer back then.
The mattress…
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Lines from Emails I Didn't Think I'd Recieve When...
In my experience, jewish cock is on par with black cock. Plus, it’s the cleanest cock. Always.
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Lines from Emails I Didn't Think I'd Send When I...
Well, then I’m probably projecting about the size of my Jewish dick (double-whammy!).
On Gender Essentialism Combat, I Guess? →
Kinda misses the point. For one thing, it’s not a battle. But then again:
whatwillsuffice:
So, okay. I understand that there are a lot of men in the world who feel that they’ve done all they can not to be sexist assholes and make fun of women to their faces and also their mom was a doctor for obese women so they are totally down with that experience. I understand as well that these men...
The Back-of-the-Book Math for the MTA's Budget...
The MTA recently complained about holding back until June on, among other things, cutting student Metrocards as the latest budgeting measure. They said it’s gonna run them $8M in savings. Forget that there was a surplus a few years back and forget that these clowns couldn’t budget their way out of a dollar store with $100 and marching orders to buy toilet paper and bring back change....
You guys...
fimoculous:
….good jokes, but seriously, Dolan likely doesn’t even know about the Gothamist purchase. That’s seriously 8 layers down the org chart for him. This is completely driven by Rainbow Media (who yeah, I’ve work with).
Rex, you’re right and you’re wrong. Rainbow’s more likely - on the organizational chart - probably three or four layers beneath the top. But Rainbow is...
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Today, in Predictable Bylines.
This. That said, I suppose it’s better than having cultivated a reputation for managing a cock joke into every headline possible. That won’t go without saying that I didn’t quite enjoy the review, because I did. Mostly because I don’t think Noah Baumbach is all that great, and also, it was funny. I particularly loved this sentence:
Natasha: Is Greenberg self-aware? And...
Jose Gonzalez (covering Kylie Minogue) - Hand on...
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Notoriously Litigous Sexual Harrasser Cablevision... →
So, you’re in the corporate communications department of a very big company whose chairman has a reputation for being so aggressive with the press as to invoke comparisons to swatting flies with hammers. Something not nice is written about your boss in a very concise if not generally cheeky and/or obscene matter. There are three ways to handle this situation…
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doree:
I really, really hate this culture of “macho-nerds.” What, it’s okay to be a jerk because you have literary pretensions? Plus ca change, etc.
I think there’s a trend piece here….
The First Part of Tumblr's Monetization Plan... →
The “custom self-portrait” ‘pro’-feature is obviously forthcoming.
The dangers of not properly flattering me? →
nic-rad:
I was just owned. I kinda liked it.
(via fek)
1. There is no danger; in fact, I can think of no less than nine people who’d love to take that picture and supplement it with a Shepard Fairey-esque captioned FUCKER underneath it and a street team to get it out there.
2. Flattering? The one self-portrait I’m ever gonna get and I look like what was just described to me as...
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On Properly Identifying a Racket When You See One
What the shit is this noise? Meaghan gets painted as Jane Birkin. Soup gets treated like a Adonis-esque messiah. Even Tavi gets colored nicely. Do I not have enough Twitter followers? There are few situations in which I’d rather be the melting face of G. Gordon Liddy. Nobody else looks like they’re being sucked through a motherfucking wormhole on the worst hair day anyone’s had...
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Video: Barack Obama's Health Care Speech Crashed... →
Any post I manage “Dance Magic Dance” in there: solid.
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The Greening of America
Good morning, Komrades! In case you didn’t hear, health care legislation passed last night, and for all of our new readers who’re getting to know your new socialist regime a little better, let me introduce you to the Village Voice, wherein by “Village” we mean “America” and by “Voice” we mean “anyone but your own, especially that of Glenn...
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'On one side there's Michael G. Lacey, 61, the... →
doree:
natashavc:
Yes! Read this piece on the bonkers war between the Alt-Weeklies in SF! READ IT AND FEEL THE H88888
I mean, yes, I will probably read this story, but the sad thing is that really very few people care about alt-weeklies except for the people who work/have worked for alt-weeklies, in part because (as this quote points out) this is just a fight between two old white dudes. The...
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BlogBeat: Gothamist Sells Out to Cablevision,... →
Which raises the question: Wonder how Dobkin’s gonna feel with Jimmy Dolan’s cock in his mouth? Depending on whether or not the deal goes through - a fact that has yet to be confirmed - one could speculate something along the lines of “relatively occupied.”
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"I won't respond to a review again. You can hold... →
youngmanhattanite:
…and you will know us by the trail of reblogs.
“The Iraq War is seven years old. No one responsible for it is in jail.”
– Pareene - Happy Birthday, Pointless Quagmire - Iraq - Gawker (via peterwknox)
Reporting as Mercenary Work
On March 3, however, on his 17th try, Mr. Hagan was granted parole, the State Division of Parole said. His final release date is tentatively scheduled for April 28. The news was reported Thursday on The Village Voice’s Runnin’ Scared blog.
This one was all Hunter. All I did was answer an email and hit the publish button. Which brings a better question to mind: Will doing what Hunter does -...
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Ken Friedman Confirms Plans for an Ace Hotel John... →
“But we wanna move quickly. We have a meat resto in The Ace. There’s a need for FISH.”
And here’s the second one.
WSJ's New Union Contract: Wage Freeze to July... →
The contract runs until June 30, 2014, and still has to be ratified. Either way, now a bunch of people at the Journal know what they’re making for the next few years, at the very least: two percent more than they did after the wage freeze ends. At which point, Rupert Murdoch may be dead. Or not.
Today’s a two-scoop kinda day, no? Here’s the first one.
