August 2010
Press Clips: Certain Media Reporters Think Howard... →
Well, it’s true.
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Paris Hilton, Cocaine, Vagina, "Pro": Take A... →
“She has cat like reflexes.”
Are Black Jews in New York Really All That... →
Drake, Eli.
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The Washington Post Still Hates and Does Not "Get"... →
I’ve been sitting around with a set of notes on my desk title “WAPO: FUCK INTERNET, OURSELVES” just waiting for their next fumble. Which happened today. I changed the headline, but everything else from the notes…
What this is, however? More evidence towards the widely-held notion that the Washington Post is facing one of the worst identity and culture crises in the...
Michael Roston to NYT →
Talk about a happy ending. Long story short, Michael worked his ass off and was a believer in all the good parts (and there were many) of True/Slant, a blog network that - if you don’t know - was (all but) eaten up by Forbes when they brought on T/S’s chief Lewis Dvorkin, essentially taking True/Slant off the market, and perming much of its blogger model over the one that used to exist...
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“At 8 a.m., thousands of people wearing “Restoring Honor” shirts were streaming...”
– Beck, Palin tell thousands to ‘restore America’ (via rubenfeld)
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Was the Muslim Cab Driver Slashing the First... →
rubenfeld:
The most up-to-date accounts of who the stabber is comes, of course, from the Voice’s Foster Kamer.
*raises roof with one hand* *eats kung pao chicken with the other*
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New York Times Can't Get Over This Whole "Sober... →
We’ve reached out to Times Metro editor Joe Sexton and Times Styles editor Stuart Emmerich for comment. Clearly, the politik answer is that the Metro section is only covering one specific subset of “sober dancers,” but the settings, references, and even language of the pieces are incredibly similar! Almost as if
(A) Metro writers don’t read the Styles Section, (B)...
Crowdsourcing Interns
Know anyone in college who can get credit for an internship through their school? Not that I’m this person, but would you trust the life of someone you wouldn’t want to hate you with them? Would you really? Because I get the feeling you’d like Jen and not that our interns have Jen’s life in their hands ever, but for this purpose, let’s say they do. And do they have a...
Veraville: How to Refer to a Lover? →
I humbly submit ”MY BOO.”
The National - Lemonworld
This pricey stuff ...
19th Amendment: Happy Birthday, Whatever You Are →
The next question, obviously, is if this post is a shameless traffic ploy. We plead the 5th! [That’s a Bill of Rights joke, Jakarta. By the way, welcome to The Village Voice, America’s oldest Alternative Weekly Newspaper.]
The Written-In-The-Style-of-Tao-Lin New York... →
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“Never Again”, Books, Existential Pain Sadly Doesn’t Pay the Bills, Foster Kamer,Happiness Is a Warm Something, Hipsters, New York Observer, Sorry, Tony, There Tao Lin There Is Your Village Voice Post Are You Happy Goddamnit
Breaking: New York Times Told to "Chill" on that... →
“Told You Motherfuckers” tag time. Also, how about that Phil Corbett? Way to come in guns blazing this summer.
Press Clips, Day 5, Evening Edition: The New... →
Well, as far as hangouts go, it certainly beats the shit out of Tom & Jerry’s.
Dear Rest-of-America: Take This Map, It's Why... →
Now you have a map to see how wrong you are, okay? Now: Fuck you. Fuck you and shut up, you assholes. Shut up and leave New York alone.
I don’t really get this ragey over political issues, but for some reason, this one lit me up. So, uh, I took the earnest approach (also known in New York as “The Spiegelman Technique”). Also, this guy, you’re an asshole, and...
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Press Clips, Early Lunch Edition, Day 4: The... →
Wait, Wait, Okay Gimme More: Zeke Turner notes a great quote on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me host admitting to have blogged on painkillers. True story: One time I messed up my back and did two straight weekends of Gawker on Vicotin, including this post.
Having a lot of fun with my new media column. Join in!
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This is How Your Page Six Gossip Battles Are... →
Why would Albrecht want to play nice with Page Six now? For the same reason anyone contacts a reporter on a story about themselves: to give that reporter the exclusive on the news with the hope (or sometimes, expectation) that they, the tipster and story subject, will get treated better than if said reporter found out from someone else. And Page Six survives off of tips from publicists, but...
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Sesame Street: Your Social Media Success Story of... →
This is of course exclusive from the FUCK YEAH SESAME STREET Tumblr (?!), but is wonderful no less. Want to see what their social media strategy involves?
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Watch(via sesamestreet)
Sesame Street has a Tumblr.
Yes.
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Poor Little Rich Girls: The Ballad of Sara and... →
Slow clap for Ms. Mo Tkacik. Instant classic Observer reading. Here’s the story. Ready? Okay:
Two rich liquor heiresses become part of a cult you’ve never heard of called NXIVM (pronounced Nex-ee-um) and lose $100M of their father’s fortune to the cult. The cult, based outside Albany, has special striped colored ranks members ascend, a leader named Vanguard, employs private...
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1, 2, 3, 4: This Is How You Smartass the New York... →
Slow clap, Sergio Hernandez.
Press Clips, Afternoon Edition, Day 1: An Exercise... →
I’ve stolen the old Voice column name for my own shitty purposes. Let’s see how this goes. Reminder: Alex Balk graded the last Press Clips writer OUT OF A JOB. For the record, she was hot.
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Blog Saves Dog, Inspires 'Oh God.' →
“Jesus fucking Christ: servicey and stupid” is how ANIMAL NYblogger Bucky Turco alerted me to…
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Sorry, Kids! After Sifting Through 1,000... →
Also:
According to Meaghan O’Connell, Tumblr’s director of outreach, almost 1,000 people applied.
Holy shit.
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Special Announcement: A Runnin' Scared Staffing... →
Big news, everyone:
It’s Friday, and we here at Runnin’ Scared have an exciting, bittersweet staffing announcement to make to cap this week off with. One of our own is moving on.
Gotta Say
In all sincerity, I’m actually very proud of Krucoff and Paolo for their anti-pretzel-ad campaign. I think they win this week, or in YM parlance, “have the penis.”
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One of “those” days, I see.
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The Five Best Video Arcades in New York City →
This is one of those lists I always wanted to read and never did. So I made it myself after reading today’s NYT piece on the famed Chinatown arcade, which contained what’s possibly the best quote in the history of the Styles Section:
The biggest of the group turns to his friend and says, “He literally picks up his own life bar and beats you to death with it, son!”