December 2008
42 posts
Guys! Can we discuss how horrible The City was? I made it through about seven minutes before I had to turn it off in utter disgust. I mean, I wasn’t expecting The Wire, but I’m someone who thoroughly enjoyed two and a half seasons of The Hills. I love all of the Real Housewives. I even liked Laguna Beach! Which is all my way of saying: My tolerance for bad reality television is quite...
Ahem!
Yesterday was my one-year Tumblrversary.
The Jew vs. the WASP:
Mr. Noel first met Mr. Madoff in the 1980s, and Fairfield’s fortunes grew along with the returns Mr. Madoff reported. The two men were very different: Mr. Madoff hailed from eastern Queens and was tied closely to the Jewish community, while Mr. Noel, a native of Tennessee, moved in the Greenwich social scene with his wife, Monica.
“He was a person of superb ethics, and this...
Cityfile: The Cityfile Collection →
Just a friendly PSA to please purchase your domain name.
“Several sources described it as really weird. They got there sometime in the...”
– David Hirshey Victorious As HarperCollins Beauty Contest For $2.5 Million Sarah Silverman Book Finally Ends | The New York Observer
Guess what one of my coworkers just unearthed,...
laurlinkdump:
LOVE IT
OMG, I totally forgot about this. Dying.
What do I have to select to get Choire back?
karenuhoh:
justsayjolie:
From a yanked post on Gawker about another fucking redesign rollout:
Change is always jarring, but for those who like the old ways, you can always go back to our classic view by selecting “Expanded” in the View menu in the black bar at the top of the page.
I just got my Classic Gawker Home Game, by Hasbro. The Emily Action Figure is really flexible. The Choire...
SOME PEOPLE may be judgmental about this band, but...
WatchRod Blagojevich on the Daily Show in 2006. Watch the whole thing.
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Massachusetts Inquiries Breeding Public Distrust... →
What, you thought Illinois and New York and Florida and Rhode Island and Alaska and Louisiana and Pennsylvania and Alabama had a monopoly on corruption? (The Mass. story: A state senator was caught on tape stuffing $1,000 from a constituent, who was trying to get a liquor license for a club, down her shirt.)
youngmanhattanite:
Just three short years ago, a very young Foster Kamer (came ere — get it?) to the city with a single-minded goal: to earn media clips from successively more impressive outfits with measurably less remuneration. I humbly present the whirlwind summer of the one we know and love as FEK: Radar > Blackbook > The New York Observer. Fin.
Behold: The power of the Tumblr want ad.
“ROD BLAGOJEVICH, AKA BLAGO, the governor of Illinois, is at his tacky Ravenswood...”
– Glengarry Rod Blagojevich
Choire imagines a few scenes that do not seem too far from the truth.
Favreau's Sexist Photo Is No Laughing Matter →
thepoliticalpartygirl:
by Dee Dee Meyers
“What’s bugging me is his intention. He isn’t putting his hand on her ‘chest,’ as most of the articles and conversations about the picture have euphemistically referred to it. Rather, his hand—cupped just so—is clearly intended to signal that he’s groping her breast. And why? Surely, not to signal he finds her attractive. Au contraire. It’s an act of...
Relaunches and Redesigns
Jess and I relaunched Postcards From Yo Momma today with the help of our trusty Web Dude Eric. We wanted it to look more like the book design (you can see the cover here). Pretty, right?
Toddling Down the Drain →
karenuhoh:
You have to have grown up in this sinkhole of a state to truly appreciate the suppurating glory in seeing your pus-faced governor seized, apparently from his bed, before he can “sell” the vacant senate seat of the President-Elect, all reported by a bankrupt newspaper.
Not to mention thinking he could buy his way into a Cabinet position.
Moe’s report from the Winter Wonderland Ball at the New York Botanical Garden, in the Observer:
“There is this weird schizophrenia at events like this,” mused Margherita Missoni, the model-actress and heir to the Italian fashion house, who was standing nearby waiting patiently for the throng to clear the way toward the ballroom. “We know it’s happening, but...
Puppies save three-year-old boy lost in freezing... →
PUPPIES.
First name or last name?
So in this week’s New Yorker, in addition to the article on Naomi Klein that everyone’s been blogging about, there’s also an article on a former NYPD detective named Derrick Parker, who was known as the hip-hop cop. It’s a really good article and unfortunately not online (just an abstract).
Now this is where I get a little wonky. But as I was reading it—right after I...
caro:
youngmanhattanite:
Caroline and I have had plans to attend the Gala for Good on Monday (I’m sure this will put an end to the Rex rumors or at least replace them with one even more implausible) but she threatens to wear 4-inch heels. Does anyone have a leather jacket I can borrow?
Too bad I don’t have that haircut anymore. Otherwise, you’re set.
Yay! I will be there. Not in 4-inch...
Workers Give Up - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com →
Why the horrible jobs report is even horribler than you thought.
See, I told you Urban Outfitters was a bunch of hypocrites:
My friend Tara Littman, the President of Support Shirts, is a designer whose work was picked up by Urban Outfitters a few months ago for sale in some of their stores and on their website. The style Urban chose was the work of her and her boyfriend Travis, a shirt that proclaims “I Support Same Sex Marriage.” Lots of my friends (mostly...
The Cop Cab Manifesto
caro:
Despite having lived in New York for almost three years now (I’m not counting the half-dozen years I lived here as a kid) I was never actually aware of the fact that sometimes a cab is not a cab, it’s a cop car. Until tonight, when I saw one. The thing was roaring down 2nd Avenue, lights flashing and sirens on, and I was like “whoa.” So I posted to Twitter, “OMG just saw a cab that was...
My brother's company is hiring
For an “online news editor”:
Seeking a proven expert in online editorial operations to run a business news operation for the world’s largest online service catering exclusively to the $100K+ career marketplace.
Reporting to the Director, Editorial & Content, the Online News Editor will make sure all content addresses key topics relevant to the high end of the job market....
Book Deal of the Day
Crescent Dragonwagon’s FEARLESS WRITING: WRITE NOW, WRITE WELL, based on her successful workshops, this is a hands-on guide to working through fears and discomforts of writing by integrating process, craft and habit, to Brie Mazurek at Ten Speed Press, for publication in 2011 (world).
(This one’s for Lindsay)
Now, on to more important things.
What happened to Tammy Knickerbocker on The Real Housewives of Orange County? I sort of liked her. She had the most actually fucked-up life.
Dear Darlings Doree and Krucoff: Guess What?... →
shnayerson:
Which is excellent! For the aforementioned recently laid-off Miss McClear, that is. Who says? Why, the New York State Department of Labor, in its concerted two-year effort to crack down on employers who misclassify their workers as independent contractors!
Question. Does anything happen to the companies in this case? So Sheila gets laid off. She applies for unemployment. They see that...
“Wholesalers say cart operators have tried hiring Americans to staff carts, but...”
– Shalom, Christmas Shoppers: Israelis Sell Cosmetics, Toys at the Mall
“Real Housewife” NeNe Leakes EVICTED! | Young,... →
It’s time for Anderson to step up and BE A MAN.
youngmanhattanite:
Oh, can we stop saying Sheila was fired? It’s a layoff. You can debate the semantics but the New York State Department of Labor has a glossary for this stuff.
Fired: You were fired because your employer alleged that you violated a company policy, rule or procedure, such as absenteeism or insubordination; because of a disagreement or dispute with a boss or co-worker.
Clearly...
“Soho: A new La Colombe coffee shop/cafe is opening up on 270 Lafayette....”
– Very excited for this.
[via Eater]
Pareene on the Approval Matrix: Just under a third of the way into “Brilliant,” just over a third of the way into “Lowbrow.” Sounds about right, though I’d probably shove him a little further into Brilliant.
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I Know People You May Know.
spiers:
The Facebook “People You May Know” function is, unfortunately, a magnet for many of my I-have-five-minutes-and-I’m-bored impulses. (And I have a lot of five minuteses in my already Swiss cheese-ish work sked.) 50% of the People I May Know are actually people I may know. 2% are People I Do In Fact Know And Can’t Stand. And 5% are People Whom Everyone Knows [Who They Are] But There Is No...