It's been fun, everyone, but I'm returning to obscurity. It pays better.

Thanks to Jessica for patiently explaining to me again and again what "Conde Nast" is and why I'm supposed to care; Lockhart Steele and Nick Denton for both being quite clean and good-looking; and thanks particularly to Thomas Friedman, for teaching me to love again. But most of all, thanks to you, the readers, for sending in great tips and links and devastating remarks about my intelligence.

If you need me, I'll be writing an anonymous blog full of vicious rumors about Denton.

-Alex Pareene

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