April 2008
40 posts
In 2000, my best friend and I discovered you could...
March 2008
57 posts
THEORY!
Here’s a theory…work with me here. Could there be more than one NGD? The post below is a grammatical nightmare, even for an “Englishman.” Going through the posts, some seem incredibly verbose while others seem a bit flat. Usually there isn’t such a wide range in grammatical eptitude…there’s a lack of consistency that seems curious. Keep an eye out for it. ...
Kids Slaughtered in a Marriot Days After I Walked... →
I was like, PRACTICALLY here. Baltimore blows.
Jory Writes a Story! →
…and I question why us Straights can’t spend $125 for a fuckfest at the Roseland Ballroom. Hell, I don’t think $1,250 would pay for a straight fuckfest at the Roseland.
BREAKING
For the first time in 6 months, there is actually SUNLIGHT coming through my apartment window, which faces a brick wall. Scientists postulate that the current tilt of the earth is to blame for this natural phenomenon that occurs once every six months for approximately one week, when the sun rises and sets at approximately 7 degrees from the horizon, with a peak altitude of about 49 degrees. The...
getting his red wings
I remember this infamous Love Line moment! AND! I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV until high school! itsbedtime: Once I was watching Love Line in like, 9th grade. I really wasn’t even allowed to watch MTV at that point, but whatevs… I was up late watching it and this dude called in and told a really gnarls story. Basically, he was like “Once I was going down on this chick and she started her...
Great Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A. - A...
peterwknox: To: The citizens of the United States of America: In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas,...
She makes the best cheese balls!
I’m in Baltimore for the next 24 hours, giving my friends Eve6 a hand with merch and spending some QT with Scott Kidder’s mother. We’re going to the aquarium tomorrow!
Richard Lawson's Email →
(via blakeley)
Richard @ Gawker is Richard Blakeley, not lolcait
Blakeley: hey man
Lawson: hey
Blakeley: so today is the day i've finally had it with forwarding your weird emails, from now on you can read them all here:
Blakeley: http://richardlawsonsemail.tumblr.com/
Lawson: haaa
Lawson: sweet jesus
Lawson: thanks
Gawker Commenter-Generated Posts
nicknoyes: Can anyone—JDel and Blakeley, I’m looking in your direction—explain what was up with all the commenter-generated posts on Gawker last Thursday and Friday (and maybe still happening right now?)? I stop paying attention for a few days and all kinds of fun things happen. My favorite of the few I managed to stumble across tonight is Hez’s bikini test, which is filled with all kinds of...
Media Meshing, where the media elite meet and... →
(via blakeley)
“I never try to take advantage or gloat over a personal tragedy. However, this is...”
– My hometown representatitve from Seaford, Long Island, being a total asshat. (via maura)
i wonder...
I hear this. Having gone to a school whose mascot is a fucking FLOWER, I don’t expect much out of my guestimated picks. cajunboy: how long will it take for my ncaa tourney bracket to be completely fucked? i’m guessing that by 6pm today i’ll be out of the running for the $70 up for grabs in my pool.
*Rainbow Effect*
jdel: then it really looks like Gotham City
jory: NYC has been called Gotham since the early 1800's :-)
jory: thats where the batman stuff got it from
jdel: well
jdel: i got nothing
jory: THE MORE YOU KNOW
jory: *rainbow effect*
“Ms Dupre may have never expected journalists and bloggers to pore over...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | The web, the politician and the prostitute (via melissa) I CALL BULLSHIT, BBC! I said all of this days ago, without the swarmy English-ness.
KADIUM Announces Merger with Euro/RSCG
Got a very cool email this weekend from the fine folks at Kadium…it looks like they’ll be merging with worldwide uber-agency Euro/RSCG to become Euro RSCG San Francisco. Kadium has done some way cool stuff, so this is a way exciting announcement for everyone! Congrats guys! Here’s what the email says:Kadium has joined forces with the San Francisco flagship of Euro RSCG, the 2006...
“(Incidentally, this is a sign of a new era in trashy journalism. Ashley has left...”
– Nick Denton, Exclusive: ‘Kristen’ In Girl-Near-Girl Video Action It’s only a new era in trashy journalism if the press uncritically republish all of it. Ashley’s MySpace, though personally revealing about her past, is — compared to most other 22 year old’s MySpaces — pretty damn demure. How many...
The Call May Not Be Coming From Inside The...
Agreed. Junior Detective JDel points to THIS article from the UK Observer, published earlier this week, that misnames our affable Tech Guru: Friday lunchtime and time for the weekly management meeting. Soon these will take place in the new Gawker headquarters, but for now it’s Nick and a few of the guys around the cooking island in the kitchen of his loft. Ted Plunkett, the tech guy who...
Tom Cruise's Insane Scientology Birthday Party... →
(via blakeley)
For the record.
This is perhaps the best take I’ve read on publishing in a long time. alexbalk: Over at Gawker, Alex Pareene’s got a post expressing amazement over the fact that the Times has pretty much owned the Governor Hobagger story. Now, I love Pareene; I think he’s one of the best writers in the Gawker Media stable and a couple of friends and I are trying to figure out some sort of Underground...
Nick Noyes Is My Consultant (Pimp) →
Good boy. ashleyalexandradupre: His guidance has been invaluable in navigating through this crazy period of my life. Thanks Nick!
"You see, Sally, if you blow a dude you should...
alexbalk: Judy Kuriansky, a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Teachers College, said parents should be ready if children ask what a prostitute is. “If they ask,” she said, “You say, ‘Sadly there are some women who feel that when they have an intimate experience with someone they need to get paid for it. This is something that is not healthy, and I don’t accept it or condone...
fake tumblrs are the new black
cajunboy: i woke up this morning and logged into tumblr to find that there’s already a fake tumblr for ashley dupre, the prostitute at the center of the eliot spitzer saga, AND SHE’S FOLLOWING MY TUMBLR! so now i’ve got fake nick denton, fake ashley dupre and fake julia allison following me! i don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
And again...
For the record, I just watched that video again, just to make sure I recognized how flawless it is. It’s flawless.
WatchLadies and gentlemen, this is the best coverage of the Eliot Spitzer scandal I have ever seen. It is so good, I plan on nominating Sarah Meyers for a Peabody. Seriously. Gawker? Fuck us. We look like shits compared to the coverage seen here. Everyone who’s even simply heard of the state of New York should watch this video at least 6 times. I’m on my 17th viewing, myself, but...
Eliot Spitzer's Hooker's Myspace (Teaser: She... →
Uncovered by the NYT.
We Hardly Spitz Ye! →
Maybe It's Not Balk, I'm Still On The Case
Balk: motherfucker, so it IS you. It's you and Brett, isn't it.
Blakeley: dude, why did you change that time stamp?
Balk: Hahaha, LIAR. I never chasnged the timestamp! Check with Mohney, he reblogged it.
Blakeley: ahhhhh fuck! i was never good with numbers
Balk: So the only reason to lie about my changing it is... TO COVER YOUSELVES.
Blakeley: hahaha, i wish man, i do
Blakeley: http://chrismohney.tumblr.com/post/26431890
Blakeley: fuck, yeah that makes no sense, i don't care if it's you or not, i'm going to figure out who it is
Balk: Go to it, Inspector Gadget. But CLEAR MY NAME.
Blakeley: i will update it
Balk: I don't wanna be associated with that crap!
Blakeley: it's not as funny as you would make it
Balk: EXACTLY
Blakeley: yeah that would be like, people saying i was (redacted), haha, oh i JUST got how bad that is... like i felt it
Fake Nick Denton Is Alex Balk Of Radar Magazine
Blakeley’s blog entry here is perhaps the most complete treatise on why Alex Balk must be the Fake Nick Denton. The only valid clues Blakeley misses are the multiple instances of Radar links in Fake Nick Denton’s blog, a veiled attempt to pull traffic in, similar to the time the Real Nick Denton linked Balk’s tumblr on Gawker. Otherwise, spot on. UPDATE: Blakeley has gone...
There Will Be Blog
rickyv: I was eating lunch with a media-industry friend the other day and the conversation turned to Michael Arrington’s recent post “When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide?” (asking when the personal attacks on the blog Valleywag would lead someone to kill themselves). Though I’d say Arrington’s prediction is improbable, I wouldn’t say it’s totally impossible. Which led me ask the related...
BREAKING!
Almost everyone in my life has asked what my obsession with JA is, and I still have no fucking clue. But hopefully, like a methadone clinic, this will break my habit… juliaallison: I can’t do this anymore. It’s ruining my life.
Clarification
The marketing agency I came from, RepNation Media, is not pathetic. Far from it. What I meant to say was my job there was pathetic, though I suppose it could be argued that placing banners on a website is equally as pathetic, if not moreso. Come to think of it, the job there was pretty badass. I got to approve wireframes and yell at developers. The PAY! There we go. That was the pathetic part. I...