December 2009
28 posts
Fishbowl NY “reports” that I am returning to Gawker, “confirmed” by Gabriel Snyder’s Twitter. Which, you know, fine—I don’t really consider it news but that’s a matter of opinion. But then:
“Could these decisions to return to the blog have anything to do with Gawker’s recent decision to offer its writers full-time employment and...
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Before everyone gets too excited! I’m going back to Gawker as a two-day-a-week contributor. I will be writing about subjects to be determined but my mandate is to do “original reporting,” which might mean that the story of the next Hipster Grifter actually gets written on Gawker in the first place!
There are many amazing parts of Ke$ha’s Wikipedia entry, but my favorite is this line: “She has been announced as one of the acts for the 2010 revival of Lilith Fair.”
“It’s a sexy, fun place to be. This is where the power is.”
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The Partygoer's Dilemma
A: Hey are you going to M’s?
B: I dunno. Are you?
A: Thinking about it. Not sure.
B: Yeah. Me too.
A: I don’t know if I’ll know anyone there.
B: Yeah, same.
A: I’ll go if you go.
B: Cool. I just have to check with C—she said she might be going.
A: Oh, C’s coming? Haven’t seen her in ages.
B: Well, maybe. I told her if she doesn’t go, then...
What CityCenter is Like
alexanderbasek:
So, I was out in Las Vegas for the CityCenter opening. One day of the three-day festivities was plenty, thankyouverymuch. The entire project, which was finished only when Dubai World sued MGM to complete it after MGM tried to pull out, is staggeringly unnecessary. It’s like visiting the home of a couple that remains married because it’s too expensive to be divorced.
It’s a...
THE AWL: How to cook a latke with Doree Shafrir →
rebeccalando:
rockuboff:
fek:
davidcho:
Fun fact: I’ve never had a latke, and up until 20 minutes ago when I asked Doree what kind of cheese she used (:/) I had no idea there was no cheese in them!
Also lol:
So your 20 latkes will cost $3.76 if you don’t have oil or flour or baking powder or salt. That’s the MAXIMUM they will cost. That’s 19 cents a latke.
And you’re still going to...
Hee:
Choire: *Gets off soapbox* Tom: Don’t get off your soapbox yet! Choire: I was just making room for you up here!
There’s so much other goodness in this edition of The Shadow Editors, but this little aside made me chuckle, so.
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omg for real?
sparkleneelysparkle:
these people really NEVER go anywhere without each other?
listen, my parents are inseparable. they dont do anything without each other either. but thats because my mother and my father are each other’s best friends. and since they got married its just been them (because they MOVED so much it was tough for them to establish circles of friends)
HOWEVER on the rare occasions...
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Don’t mean to be a BUMMER but shouldn’t it be “you and I could write a bad romance”?
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Thank you Tumblr! I am 99% sure it was that horrible, annoying, why-would-anyone-in-their-right-minds-want-it-to-default-to-it shake to shuffle setting that I didn’t even know existed until Maura pointed it out! Seriously that needs to change, like now.
I’m having a problem with the iPod on my iPhone that is starting to drive me crazy.
When I play a playlist on shuffle, it’ll play a few seconds of a song, then make this weird beeping noise, and it’ll change to a new song (and restart the playlist—that is, the new song will say, like, 1 of 14 or whatever). Then that song will play for a few seconds, I’ll get the...
I mean… I MEAN… WASHINGTONPOSTOMGWTFWHAAAAAAAT!@!()#$*$ [head explodes]
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
You know what’s an annoying feeling, for about a gajillion reasons? When you have a story idea and you’re like, “Wow, that would be a really good Observer piece.” (You=me.)
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Mom: You wrote on your blog that you have a new picture but I can't find it.
Doree: You have to have a Tumblr to see it.
Mom: I have to go to Tumblr?
Doree: No, like, you'd actually have to start a Tumblr to be able to see my photo.
Mom: Oh. Well, I don't want to do that.
Doree: Yeah, I didn't think so.
Mom: What photo is it?
Doree: It's the one I have on Facebook.
Mom: Oh, the one from the book? I love that one.
Doree: No... the one from Maine.
Mom: Oh, you're on a beach or something?
Doree: On a boat.
Mom: But there's water in the background?
Doree: Yeah. That one.
Mom: Oh.
[pause]
Doree: What, you don't like that one?
Mom: Well... I dunno.
Doree: So you don't like it.
Mom: You look sort of... weird.
Doree: Oh. I see. Well, whatever. Other people have told me they liked it.
Mom: They could be lying.
Doree: You're such a bitch!
Mom: So you want me to lie?
Doree: Well... no.
Mom: I try to be honest. You're not supposed to lie.
Doree: What about when someone gets a new haircut and you don't like it?
Mom: Well, that's tough. Because they can't change it.
Doree: Yeah.
Mom: So you don't want me to lie but when I tell you the truth, I'm a bitch?
Doree: Yeah, pretty much.
I don't understand most of this but there's... →
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me: i don’t get what meta enabling is
Choire: adsfjkladsfjkl i should go find two good examples! well.. i think it’s pretty much EVERYTHING on daily intel?? (most of which is the good version?) jezebel does it a lot. like with TYRA. haha
me: but why is it enabling i don’t get that part
Choire: HA
me: i get, like, the idea of writing about...
REAL TALK:
Why are they so creepy? Of course all they get is the desperate end of the night drunk girls. I feel kind of bad for them, they think these girls are cruising them, when in fact they are thinking- well he can’t have an STD, because with that mustache no one is hitting it, I could take him in a fight if he is in fact crazy, and well, I am drunk, I lost a contact, my friends have...
Oh, there, she’s back. That was weird.
My most recent post (not this one, the other most recent post) is showing up in my Dashboard but not on the live site (the front end? I hate that terminology. You know what I mean.). This happening to anyone else?
The NYT’s war against “no problem” has been well documented, but I fear this is just the calm before the storm; everyone knows that “no worries” is a potentially much more controversial issue.
I got a little too close to the judicial process today.
My day started in Kings County Civil Court at 360 Adams St., so I thought that if I did indeed get called to serve on a jury, it would be in a civil court matter. But when my name got called, they told my group of 30 we were going over to the “other” building—the Criminal Court at 320 Jay St. Another hour or so went by, and...