March 2011
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The Man With The $1M (Digital) Arm →
This guy won a million bucks for pitching a perfect game of MLB 2K10 on his XBox. I talked to him:
ESQ: What team did you pitch the perfect game with?
WM: The Braves.
ESQ: Wait, really? The Braves? You a fan or something?
WM: I am. They’re my National League team. But the way the contest works is: You play in “MLB Today” mode, and you can only choose the teams playing that...
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Fair Enough.
F: nb. i'm thinking about starting a tumblr, single-serving, just pictures of hot chasidic women.
D: oh god
F: called CHOT CHASIDS
D: i see why you and orell and ryan are friends
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Beyond Robert Gibbs & Facebook: D.C.'s New Social... →
The Inquisitive Insiders: Personal Assistant to the President Reggie Love and Quora.
The slightly obscure social network is dedicated to professionals in their respective fields answering questions concerning their expertise. If anybody knows more than anybody else about both what’s going on in the White House and how it actually operates, it’s Obama’s personal assistant,...
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“Just about everyone hates the Washington Post’s online redesign. Hang in there,...”
– Gawker (via thecultureofme)
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Sorry, Mags.
If it helps, you don’t count?
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A young female staffer met him at the door and... →
Two things on this:
1. The quote was likely - or hopefully - something more along the lines of “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.”
2. As someone well-versed in tenuous relationships with publicists, I will say that this is the kind of thing a flack could do to really earn their stripes with me. I’d give up a terrorist fist-bump for this. If you’re enlisted with a...
philk asked: So what's on your reading list for the new gig?
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Watchrosiegray:
staff:
We had a great time at Tumblr Reads About Music! Thanks to the community and all the performers for coming out on Friday. Stay tuned for info on upcoming readings in Chicago and LA!
Jake edited out my talk-to-the-hand moment, but my terribly loud laughter during Jeff Rosenthal’s reading made it in!
I’m just glad this technology didn’t exist last year.
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Fucked Up - The Other Shoe We’re dying on...
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The-Brian-Stelter-Employment-Act-of-2011-2012-2013-... →
….and if you do attempt to physically jump the paywall that’s been constructed on 42nd and 8th, a man named Al Siegal is there waiting in black sweats and a hoodie, ready to pull you down and club you with an extendable steel baton before he proceeds to brand you with an emdash. It’s fucking crazy.
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"The city's sense of cool can often be nothing... →
Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal on LCD Soundsystem’s “Yr City’s A Sucker.”
[Previously.]
The Most Notes I've Ever Had On A Post
….is officially this dumb shoe boat. Fuck the internet.
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Q & A: The Most Important Website in the Middle... →
Despite being thousands of miles away, Brett Solomon, Executive Director co-founder of Access Now, is at the epicenter of it this week. Access Now is an NGO committed to “the realization of human rights and democracy…[as] predicated on access to the Internet,” and this week, released and is attempting to ‘digitally smuggle’ a bombshell document into countries whose...
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Tyler Coates: A thing that I think is really... →
tylercoates:
I wouldn’t say I’m a Julia Allison fan or a Julia Allison apologist, but I do want to point out that of all of the blogs that linked to my Tumblr (including The Daily What), Reblogging Donk provided the most traffic - by far. Like, staggeringly so. I wonder if the people who frequent the anti-Julia Allison sites realize that they are, in fact, her biggest demographic? Or at least...
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"Oh, Charlie."
Finally got around to reading Michael Lewis’ The Big Short. Favorite line:
Charlie Ledley and Ben Hockett returned from Las Vegas on January 30, 2007, convinced that the entire financial system had lost its mind. “I said to my mother, ‘I think we might be facing something like the end of democratic capitalism,’” said Charlie. “She just said, ‘Oh,...
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So, Apparently.
…An AdWeek hit piece about me - penned by the “talented” young turk who used his boss for sans-attribution slams on my new editor in a series of previous pieces likely commissioned by that same boss over a longstanding personal grudge - is now, actually forthcoming, explained someone to me who was contacted to speak for the piece.
The line I gave yesterday for a release...
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For Law Students With Everything, Dog Therapy for... →
In the event you’re still having trouble deciding between Yale Law School and somewhere else:
Yale Law School, renowned for competitiveness and its Supreme Court justices, is embarking on a pilot program next week in which students can check out a “therapy dog” named Monty along with the library’s collection of more than one million books.
THEY HAVE A LIBRARY WHERE YOU CAN CHECK OUT A...
Foster Kamer Named Senior Editor of 'The New York... →
soupsoup:
This is such a perfect fit. Congrats Foster, you’re “home” again.
This is my blog, so I’m gonna blog for a sec. Get off my internets if you don’t like this shit.
Anthony’s spot-on: That’s actually how it feels.
I actually still have another three weeks at Esquire, which - for the record - was a great gig. Working with Eric Gillin and Matt Sullivan was more...
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