May 2010
April 2010
On The Concerns We Have For One Another
N: haro
F: haro back
N: did you hear about the guy who an eel ate his butt to death
thats awful
ANYWAY
F: well
N: no eels eating your tushie?
F: i haven't had any eels "eat my butt to death" today so i think i'm doing ok
N: good
i hope that never happens to you
F: i hope that never happens to you!
i'd be sad
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Gillian Reagan Leaving BI To Become Founding... →
OMFG. Already knew Capital was going to be amazing, but now: so, so psyched. This is rad news for everyone.
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Elsewhere In Chabad News, Though Of The Very Sweet...
F: oh god
jesus
i hope she's feeling better?
G: she's doing ok
she was updating facebook from her hospital bed
that's gotta be a good sign
F: I think it is?
G: they'll know in a few weeks how she's doing. i just hope that this is the last of it. the poor girl has been through enough.
plus, her boyfriend of 6 years wants to propose...and she told him he can't even think about it until her hair grows out long.
i was like "fuck that. propose when you want to, and have a long engagement. she can grow her hair out then."
the kid is not jewish...goes to chabad with her every friday night...wrapped fucking teffilin at the hospital yesterday...let him fucking propose.
F: Amen, sister. also, Chabad? eegh. Poor guy definitely deserves a break.
10 Ways the New York Times and Wall Street Journal... →
….Pranks. At the heart of every mostly meaningless war (and really, which of them aren’t?) is mischief. Imagine the possibilities here:
Every time David Rohde walks out of the Times building, coming at him in a keffiyeh with a Super Soaker, screaming ALLAH AKBAR! Etc.
Replacing everything on Mark Penn’s desk with miniature versions of what was once there.
Planting...
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jhnmyr:
If you’re looking for a way to unravel the mystery of finding some good people to follow on Tumblr, one thread to pull on is soupsoup.tumblr.com. Then check the sites that are reblogged. Kind of a one-stop shop for cool stuff.
MAKE THIS SHIT HAPPEN ANT.
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Alex Pareene, On The White House Press...
Anyway! We have a cowardly and cynical press corps made up primarily of people who understand politics solely as a zero-sum game of ruthless skill coupled with a White House that thinks it has the right to dissemble and intimidate and whitewash solely because they’re not as bad as the other guys. And on Saturday night they will all dress up in their finest rented tuxedos and pretty...
You Probably Should've Watched Charlie Rose Last...
CHARLIE ROSE: You believe that Africa’s future depends on a recognition that it is a good place to invest? MOHAMED IBRAHIM: We are a rich continent, one of the richest continents, but we are poor people. So we ask why. Why? Why are we poor? We have the second-largest continent in the world. We have 25 percent to 30 percent of the minerals and resources of the world. Why, Charlie,...
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n+1 Now Taking Back the Internet With a Redesign →
New York Observer writer Molly Fischer: Marry me, plz.
Out of Context: Editorial Meeting Between Weekend...
“Harmless Yet Intensely Irritating Pranks.’ Putting a crack pipe on David Carr’s desk. Every time David Rohde walks out of the building, coming at him in a keffiyah with a Super Soaker, screaming ALLAH AKBAR! Etc. hahaha jesus that’s awful. awfully funny
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Today, In Nick Denton Quotes In Retrospect After...
From Gaby’s letter to California Cops:
“A search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist…Jason is a journalist who works full-time for our company.”
From Nick Denton being quoted by Howard Kurtz last June:
“We don’t seek to do good,” says Denton, wearing a purplish shirt, jeans and a beard that resembles a...
Chris Mohney: On Gawker →
There’s a big blank gap of details between unknown guy finding the phone and it getting onto Gizmodo’s dissection table. I’d be real curious to know how contact was established, how the arrangement was negotiated, what the Giz editors thought and how the company strategized to deploy the story package, etc. Of course all that must be obscured as a defense versus any legal abuse from the...
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copycats:
I Woke Up In A Car remixed by Adam...
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“I’m Jewish,” Pogany said, “and I don’t even know how to...”
– It’s like Manhattan Murder Mystery meets 2 Fast 2 Furious. In other words: “Genius.”
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WatchHere is my brother eating a grilled cheese sandwich on the news! This is the best thing I will see today, and that is fine.
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Applied Mathematics: By The Numbers, A Website's... →
“Back to back, double-plat, I did what you won’t. Men lie, Women lie, Numbers don’t. Ain’t nothin’ changed ‘cept the year it is. I think I have to send you a reminder, Here it is.” – Jay-Z
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE RESULTED FROM THIS WORK.
Number of Theme Songs: Not one, but two!
Number of Books Spawned from Awl Columns: Two (known) Authors of These Books: Natasha Vargas-Cooper...
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Anonymous asked: Does Denton know?
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The WE ARE YOUR FEK Redesign Launch Party →
For our first redesign in like three years, basically, we threw in a skybox, a tip box, some palm trees, and a bunch of shitty content. More to come. If you want to get into the redesign party tonight, email me a picture of some unopened Uniball pens, a brown paper sack, and some kind of whimsical aerosol product I wouldn’t think to huff, or at the very least, wouldn’t think you...
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Photos: Barack Obama Is Hanging Out in the East... →
Crazy white tents everywhere! Ten bucks to the crafty NYU kid who can tag the New Museum’s HELL YES! sign on it without having his cock snapped off by a ninja from the Dept. of Treasury.
Are There Really No Hipsters in China?
nycthe:
Irony-resisting Chinese bicyclists have skipped the fixed-gear trend that has swept the rest of the world.
J. David Goodman [Slate]
Has anybody noticed that J. David Goodman is becoming the Allen Salkin of the hipster beat?
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The ##: Tumblrviews: Lauren Leto →
Here at The ## we have a segment called Tumblrviews where we interview authors of popular Tumblrs websites. Today’s is with Lauren Leto, co-founder of Texts From Last Night, which, she wrote recently, went viral exactly one year ago. She first paid the site’s designer with a…
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Celebrations.
From: Gabriel Snyder Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:22 PM To: Kamer, Foster Subject: Re: CONGRATS!!!!
Thank you, sir.
On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Kamer, Foster wrote:
And the SAME DAY!
http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/a-quick-note-regarding-allen-salkin%E2%80%99s-return From: Gabriel Snyder Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:09 PM To: Kamer, Foster Subject: Re: CONGRATS!!!! Spooky!
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A Quick Note Regarding Allen Salkin’s Return →
It is worth quickly mentioning that the byline of Allen Salkin—once appropriately dubbed the “Seymour Hersh of the Sunday Styles”—has returned to the pages of the New York Times…
Politico's Mike Allen is the new King of the...
youngmanhattanite:
cajunboy:
Mike Allen knows where it’s at:
It is almost impossible to find anyone who has seen his home (a rented apartment, short walk to the office). “Never seen the apartment,” volunteered Robert L. Allbritton, Politico’s publisher, midinterview. “No man’s land.” When sharing a cab, Allen is said to insist that the other party be dropped off first. One friend...