June 2010
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Premium Village Voice Advertising Rates: Now with... →
Here at the Village Voice, we love a good bargain. And we also love to exercise our ability to be “utility players.” It’s with this in mind and the magic of Runnin’ Scared’s Division of Mark-to-Market Accounting that we’d like to offer you the Voice’s new advertising premiums: if you buy advertising with us today,
(A) We won’t talk about your...
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Video: Jersey Shore Second Season Trailer,... →
Honorary “Guidette” Nikki Finke posted the trailer for the second season of Jersey Shore on Deadline Hollywood this morning. “We’re ready to come out and destroy this place,” the thing they call “Snooki” astutely notes. She’s ostensibly talking about Miami, but really, the single place in America you once held absolutely sacred, known widely as...
Childish Gambino LIVE show in NYC on June 30th
iamdonald:
Childish Gambino (me) is coming to The Creek & the Cave in Queens (first stop in Queens off the 7 train) on June 30th at 8pm. It’s $5 for tickets.
Deal? Deal.
YO. I just found out about this. I’m going. I don’t care with who, I’m going. But someone should come with me. Reminder: He’s this good. Also, The Creek’s got good food.
I Called Out The NYTPicker
as they were totally wrong to go after Hilary Stout — the Styles writer who wrote “The End of the Best Friend” — and they keep deleting the link to my post calling them out for being wrong in their comments. I really enjoy the work they do, but I’ve always felt like there was some kind of insidious, overly-righteous, Finke-esque crookedness to it. What’s up with...
Facebook Photos of NYC's Red-Hot Russian Spy,... →
So! Anna Chapman — if that is her real name — is supposedly some kind of Russian Spy, and the feds totally busted her and a bunch of other Russian spies yesterday. Which is crazy. I can personally attest, however, to know one thing she didn’t come to America for: to bring back secrets of what it’s like being SEXY AND HOT AND BANGIN’ back to Mother Russia. Because...
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Why TIME Magazine's list of the best blogs of 2010...
tan3000:
When I last plugged into the internet, only a couple posts and days ago, I posted some comments on my fatigue with the “shocking!” race-story of how/why cable news is still mostly white. With my tsk-tsk sentiment duly noted I eagerly flew the coop to indulge the multicultural nightlife of Montreal, my eyes wowed by a rainbow of the most beautiful ladies our northern neighbors have to...
Video: Harry Potter 'Deathly Hollows' Trailer... →
Sorry to interrupt you from your daily reading about the boring-ass Supreme Court or the boring-ass Rolling Stone or the boring-ass BP oil spill or whatever other boring-ass “important” non-magical thing you read about today, but, um, THE NEW HARRY POTTER TRAILER IS HERE! Click the “More > > >” button! You know you want to. No, really. If you’re one of those...
NYT Writer Responds to NYTPicker Accusations of... →
The NYTPicker is an utterly fantastic if not slightly insane blog that picks apart the New York Times. They obviously care deeply about the quality of the paper but have some kind of serious, fucked up axe to grind, with which, most of the time, they’re dead correct about.
This was not one of those times.
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Fashion Breakthrough: Is Kanye West's Neck-Toaster... →
Last night, Kanye West performed “Power” on top of an Aggro Crag at the BET Awards and opened the show by doing so.
Thing is, we actually found out what was on his neck. That does not, however, make some of these possibilities any less hysterical:
A “dustbuster.”
A “crappy ol plastic lookin chain.”
A “Mini Me.”
A “midget.”
A...
The Creators Project
M.I.A, who had red white and blue hair, played songs from her new album /\/\/\Y/. Some people left early. “She’s horrible,” one man remarked. Others left because it was just too cramped. Downstairs, there was plenty of room to dance to Mark Ronson’s D.J. set. He played hooks for two hours, Josh Hartnett showed up, and the bartenders were relieved while guests with...
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The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut →
jstn:
Salander opened the door a crack and spent several paragraphs trying to decide whether to let Blomkvist in. Many italic thoughts flew through her mind. Go away. Perhaps. So what. Etc.
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“To try and be cool in a way that’s not being yourself, to work the cool machine,...”
– James Murphy (via goldenfiddle)
Andrea Rosen Gets Out The Google Gat →
So I was at Northside HQ tonight by myself, and things were slow because most folks have already come by to pick up their festival badges. One goateed, stringy-haired gentleman came in, a little out of it, but no more so than any other Williamsburg dude on a Saturday night. He claimed he was there…
HA. Get ‘im, girl. *Three Snap Formation*
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And For The Record.
I, too, agree with Nic. Journolist was a (not entirely, but mostly) bad idea that could be executed better in one way: I. R. L, people.
Who Smeared Dave Weigel?
[I’m posting this here because I can’t get Runnin’ Scared to work. I’ll be replacing it to a link with the story as soon as it happens. But this needs to go up, now.]
UPDATE: Runnin’ Scared is finally working, at 12:02 AM. The post is now there. Please go read it.
The Sad, Bullshit Story of Dave Weigel's... →
This is a story you should familiarize yourself with, for two reasons: (1) You may hear more about it over the weekend. And (2) It’s a story about the state of dialogue and opinion, of ethical gray lines and competing reporters, and the way a fast news cycle — like a strong tide — can politicize an issue until it ends in the worst way possible. Until earlier today, the...
Traditional Media Is Having A Field Day On Tumblr ... →
joepompeo:
Yawn Yonson on Jun 25, 2:17 PM said:
Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Yawn. Oh, and one more Yawn for the next newspaper/website/homeless person who gets a tumblr page.
Sam T on Jun 25, 4:51 PM said:
@Yawn Yonson Holy sh**, you are hip. Pull your American Apparel hoodie further over your head and...
INTERN ANNIE FTW.
anniewerner:
I got linked!
Well Played, Dave Weigel.
Nice.
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Video and Tell: The Destruction of Downtown... →
00:29: THE FIRST BITE ALWAYS THE SWEETEST. LIKE MEAT MELTING OFF OF BONE FROM COWS NOT GROWN LIKE/BY/AS ROBOTS.
00:32: TOOK TOO BIG OF BITE. NEEDED TO GO TO WATER BOWL TO WASH DOWN.
00:35: HEY PERSON WALKING BY WITH STUPID MESSENGER BAG WHY ARE YOU NOT WATCHING ME THIS IS AWESOME. SHOULD EAT YOU.
00:36: FAVORITE PART COMING UP.
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The Way We React To Editorial Launches Now
So, I wrote my little ditty on why you should care about the Capital New York launch. Let’s see how the other NYC media mouths moved:
The New York Observer hasn’t said shit, obvi. Would you? TBI, who had Gillian Reagan leave them for Capital, hasn’t said shit (other than when Blodget blogged about her peacing out, thereby breaking some early CNY news) either. Mediaite...
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Divorced Manhattanite: Telling the kids makes it... →
Telling the kids makes it official and so like the responsible adults we are, we’ve been putting that off. I don’t know if that makes me feel better or worse, like maybe we aren’t so sure about pulling the trigger. Wife’s big family reunion is next weekend and apparently I’m not going, so we’ll…
“A kid at my old high school told me that once he was working at a sub shop with...”
– One of the coolest comments on the Bill Murray article by Nick Haramis. I have a feeling there are a ton of BM stories out there… (via bbook)
Four New Tracks You Haven't Heard from Arcade... →
YZZR.
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just...”
– Steve Jobs, to Gawker employee, liar, and creative-person-belittler Ryan Tate (via jakelodwick) (via juliaallison)
What’d he do that’s so great? Well, for starters, that post.
But it figures that people like Julia Allison and Jakob Lodwick would want to jump on Jobs’ train here,...
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Arcade Fire - City With No Children [Live on...
Moving Traffic: a case study between Blackbook's...
nycthe:
Both feature a link to the post on NYC The Blog about the “considerate cartographer.“ Blackbook’s is here. GOAG’s is here. You could argue GOAG’s is the more prominent of the two, visually. Either way, Blackbook’s tumblr has been driving expotentially more traffic then GOAG. The link from Guest of a Guest, as of now, has only sent a few hits. Less than 5. Literally. Ripley’s believe it...
Awesome Parentheticals in Public Radio Transcripts
JEFF BERCOVICI: (Steve Jobs) wants to give you an environment that’s very controlled and curated, and in general people have responded to that well. So I think that’s why in a lot of these cases he’s sort of erring on the side of when in doubt, throw it out.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: [LAUGHS] Both the iPhone and the iPad come with browsers. You can go to any website, pornographic or otherwise,...
For the Record: The Kid in Toy Story 3 is Not... →
2. No Pixar character would ever be a Tumblr user. Unless they make a movie about a self-indulged meme-aggregator who lives in New York, LA, or Tokyo (or wants to live in New York, LA, or Tokyo) and works in media, tech, or is thinking about going to grad school (no matter how old they are) and is a chronically over-emotive…sea otter. Or Lay-Z-Boy. Or whatever other inanimate object...
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Famous Writers and their Typewriters
I have this old Xavier University page bookmarked, and it came up again after seeing Caroline’s Flavorwire post on it.
I’d love to put together a list of New York writers — bloggers, poets, ‘zine geeks, design dorks, screenwriters, playwrights, novelists, whoever — who are also down with typewriters. I just think it’d be a fun list to have. The only four I know...