September 2010
Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep To Team In 'August:... →
So, true story, I was an (the?) assistant producer on this show for nine months (which included the day we won a Tony for Best Play for it). And great for Tracy Letts, but the fact that people aren’t going to get to understand this play without having the element of this kind of star power in it - regardless of their performances - is too bad, and definitely kills a huge amount of the, I...
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The Village Voice Institute of Crazy White... →
Patient #3: Michael G. Smith
From: Michael G Smith [mailto:agatehuntr@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:46 PM To: Thrasher, Steven Subject: I can see November from my house!
Steven….
If you’re this fucked up now, I can’t wait to see how over the top bat-shit looney tunes you’re gonna be after we kick your punk-ass to the curb come...
BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM BOOM FUCKING BOOM! →
For the record, that is probably my favorite thing I’ve ever written for the left-side, still, to this day.
Spiersblr: Foster Kamer on why tipping should be... →
spiers:
Foster wrote an enjoyably rant-y polemic against tipping for GourmetLive:
Tipping in its current form is an assault on fairness for employers and employees as well as consumers’ rights. It reinforces an economically and socially dangerous status quo, while buttressing a functional aristocracy.
If I’m lucky, “enjoyably rant-y” will make my obituary one day. But...
That whole alien ambassador thing, yeah it was a... →
….perpetrated by Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers. Plural: newspapers.
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Rahm Emanuel to Leave Motherfucking White House at... →
Headline fun. And now, I leave the office. Today? One of these.
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on semantics (last week)
Me: Eliza, you had a pee accident?! ok. nothing to get upset about...let's go home and we can just change your jeans.
Eliza: (between sobs) they aren't jeans...they...are...jeggings..
Breaking: Michael Arrington Responds to... →
If you’re a tech blogger and you get a good rumor like this at the right time, you run it, because there’s great traffic in it, and you turn off your bullshit detector to ratchet up the buzz on your story, which — even if it isn’t true — is a win/win for Arrington: to even have his company and “acquisition” being talked about in the same sentence by...
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How Angry NYT Editors and HBO's Bored to Death... →
John Koblin’s having a pretty good day. Did anyone watch Bored to Death’s season premiere last night? Remember the Orangina scene? John Koblin wrote it for them:
Stories like this one and other great media tales create a compelling narrative, despite an often limited reach among more readers, which is too bad. For one thing, someone’s gotta report on the reporters.
But for...
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Direct Line: Peter Kaplan on The John Koblin Hire,... →
John’s an ace, it ought to make the entire pitching rotation better.
True story: John Koblin’s an incredible young media reporter in New York City, and whether or not you care about media or reporting, he’s a young guy on the rise with talent most people doing what I do are crazy envious of, with good reason. It’ll be exciting to watch him and Kaplan make magic at WWD....
Asshole Quits Blog (Again), Blogs About It (Again) →
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Spiersblr: Gawker, Denton, New York, etc. →
spiers:
This is actually a pretty good Nick Denton profile. I almost wonder if it’ll scoop the New Yorker one. (Requisite disclosure: I talked to the NYer reporter, who I like and know, but don’t know well. And I neglected to call Michael Idov back after we missed each other via phone.) The fact checker wanted to make sure I was “new to New York” when we started Gawker.
I had been here for...
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Earnest Gonzalez - Dancing In The Snow
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Dan Fletcher: He Definitely Lives →
fletcherlives:
Real talk from a guy who once spent 30 minutes instructing me on how to disguise marijuana as a cigarette, knowing full well that I didn’t smoke either. I left that conversation thinking, “that was a waste of fucking time but goddamit does Foster put a lot of thought into his work.”
So, here’s an endorsement: the way I ended up doing all of this was because I stayed up...
Foster Misses The Obvious C: →
sarahkunst:
It’s disingenuous to tear people down while not disclosing that they are your competition. I wouldn’t talk shit about PMc or Page 6 without mentioning that if they suffer I stand to profit.
Not to sound like a corn pone Midwestern kid who hasn’t had the idealism knocked out of her by the big city yet but on a moral level Blagg’s business prospecting methods bother me. If he gets...
A Bajillion Hits: The Biggest Buzzness in Social... →
Feels good to get this off my chest: my rant on why social media expertise is a crock of shit, and why Blagg’s endeavor deserves the anti-bullshit vote’s wholehearted endorsement:
The fact of the matter is that (ballpark figure) 99% of the people promising services like “Social Media Expertise” and “SEO Consulting” are patently full of shit. They’re...
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Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
Well, I got a...
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Wow.
“I will happily divulge the torturous fashion week nights where she made us drink white wine and smoke kools (literally made it mandatory) in her office while she cried about her life until 2 am and then called everyone an asshole and a bad reporter the next day. [She] was genuinely the most evil human being I ever worked with though and was the reason I left newspapers. Her mindfuckery...
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This is not a parody, this kid is fucking sincere... →
Also:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs get on stage and Karen O is draped in a fabric that looks like it is covered in enlarged barcodes and she is wearing a gas mask and she holds the microphone up like a torch and pulls the mask off and brings the microphone down to her mouth and yelps into it, and then she grabs a bottle of Poland Spring and drinks some and cocks her head back and then spits the water up...
“I’ve enjoyed working with all of you…. for the most part.”
– ME-YOW.
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Orla Healy Fired from NY Daily News, Schadenfreude... →
Want to see some daily newspaper people talk some shit? Here:
“One of the most evil editors to ever work at the New York Daily News“
A “window into facism around the world”
Part of a “gangster regime that took root”
A “sadist”
“She was just destroying too many people for what was produced.”
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Breaking: Lincoln Restler, Brooklyn Democrats'... →
Long story short: Brooklyn’s Democratic party is run by an evil old-school party boss named Vito Lopez who likes to intimidate little old ladies into voting for him. Well, Restler decided to help start the New Kings Democrats to fight the Democratic establishment in Brooklyn, and he might’ve just turned the entire thing over.
Local politics: they happen. Good on this guy.
