Former Gawker editor Choire Sicha interviewed BusinessWeek's Jon Fine—husband of confused gazillionaire Mediabistro lady Laurel Touby—for this internet video thing called Bloggingheads. And he sorta made Jon uncomfortable! No one likes to talk about money, especially when they have lots and lots of it. "This short clip is my final, incoherent (and actually feverish) attempt at rehashing his wife Laurel Touby's complaints about her riches in the New York Times," Choire says. Enjoy Jon's hip Ramones shirt and admire his vast record collection, after the jump!
Jon Fine Would Rather Not Discuss His Billions of Dollars
2:01 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Pareene
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Wow. Choire says, "Um, you know," a lot.
PAPA BEAR!!
Gazillionaire? Since when does $9 million and a stated desire to wildly mismanage that $9 million make Ms. Touby a "gazillionaire?"
Choire, Mister Big Hands!
choire, my beloved, you may be poor but you are seriously hot.
That "Ramones" shirt is unbearable. When I become a gazillionaire, I promise to accouter myself appropriately: In a life-sized Fabergé egg carved from a single giant ruby, perched on golden chariot wheels, and pulled by a team of the six noblest Chippendales dancers in all the land.
Oh, Choire's not very good looking at all, is he? (Sarcasm) Jeeze oh crow, good job on the genetic good looking genes things, Choire.
@CodePink: 0:39-0:48 - oh my my, that saucy little head turn & smirk!! swooooooon!
I wouldn't say "uncomfortable." More like "understandably bored by the question."
this was pretty dumb except for the "move to the ninth ward and build some houses" line (how could it not be; interviewing someone who's less interesting than interviewer). as a new orleanian and a person, i'm back to liking choire on a basic level.
Choire has a twinkle in his eye!
I wonder if Jon knows that Lindsay Lohan also wears a Ramones t-shirt now.
choire, even brangelina doesn't actually LIVE in the lower 9th ward. they just do good works there.
Yeah, seriously, my multiple offers to "do" Choire still stand. He does have a habit of batting his eyes and bashfully turning his head away like a Japanese schoolgirl, though, which alternates between being cute and being Jimmy Fallonesque. But who wouldn't sleep with Jimmy Fallon as long as no one would ever find out!
Oh, Choire. You. Complete. Me.
@the cajun boy: they built all those pink fake houses though!!!
"What else should be done with it?"
It's like, if you don't know, then maybe you don't need so much of it.
I've wondered for some time how one pronounces Choire. Is it like "choir"? Or "chore-y"? What's the deal?
Ah Choire, you're pretty. Um, you know.
@Nic Fit: You pronounce it like "a million bucks covered in chocolate syrup and sarcasm."
And maybe you should pay 1 million for my instructional workshop on what to do with the remaining 8 million.
@soybomb: but john cougar mellencamp would have also built pink houses for you and me.
@Nic Fit: [choiresicha.com] or, um what MattGaymon said
Um, you know. No, really I don't. Why don't you show me...
Also, can we all just agree that Choire makes us all want to smoke? And be poor? And be better looking than everyone else?
71 minutes long, really?? The kid can pick herself up at preschool!
Perhaps Choire could ask this guy: "What makes you think that even a few million bucks makes marriage to that woman tenable?"
OOOOOOOOOH, those come-hither eyes befringed with thick, lustrous lashes!
Thumbs up for finding eyes to match that pretty blue shirt, Choire (of course I noticed). But, I also noticed the nose check thing, a little too obvious for the camera, don't ya think?.
I may be extra grumpy today, or am totally missing some insidery joke here, but is Gawker communist? Taco Bell should give away its products, and someone who has found success should feel guilty for not giving everything to charity? Maybe I just need to stick to the open caption posts for now.
Watch out, Andrew Sullivan. There's a new bearded web gay in town...
Also, his hands are lovely.
So yes, it's conclusive: all the good ones are gay.
Sassy eyebrow! Please Hammer don't hurt em!
In other news, WE MISS YOU DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such a DILF. (But no, it doesn't make me want to smoke. Well, not tobacco.)
*blush* Hi Choire!
Goddammit, you're hot.
@fiveinchtaint:
That's not communism!? Maybe being-a little on the left side...
Is this the same Jon Fine who in the mid-90s used to troll around the East Village in a band called Vineland, most noted for its association with Bitch Magnet? If so, he had a lot more hair then.
An excerpt from an interview I just found:
Tell Music: Vineland has seen many lineup-changes. Would you say they are mostly a result of fate (whatever that is) or of your personality? Are you difficult to work with?
Jon Fine: Alright, alright, I admit it: I'm an asshole. I really don't know the answer to this one. I can say in early versions of Vineland, I'd ended up with people who seemed right at the time, or were great pals, but turned out to be unsuited for what I had in mind, once it developed. Since then, it's been a mixed bag: drugs, people going to school, people leaving town, people just getting sick of it.
these comments (in relation to the reality of the situation) lead me to question: are gawker commmenters, as a whole, fugly?
C'mon, Choire, you KNOW they also spending it on going out to dinner every night.
@soybomb: Is that a koan?
@soybomb: yes
Wow, those are two unattractive men. (Sorry.) They should stick to the printed page.
Um, (rub nose), I don't know, (long Beatty-esque pause), you know............. (puff on cigarette, twist neck around)
@Bunsy: Have to respectfully disagree with you, but as Hez sez, Choire's DILF status is pretty much a silled dill
@fiveinchtaint: It's worse than you think; I've actually even been told that liberals control the media.
Can we make this a regular feature? Choire making rich folks squirm?!
@Bell County: You just get right out of town. Now!
@Nic Fit: ME too. i always thought it was 'choir'. but it sounded like Jon pronounced it 'Corey'.
also? i like that Choire is smoking. no one smokes anymore. is it wrong to say he looked really cool doing it?
Don't let 'em get you down, son. At least you didn't roll your eyes.
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