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We've introduced you before to Cosmogirl/Smith grad, young Leo, who blogs sweetly and often naively for Cosmopolitan while toiling in the big bad media jungle. And now she's unwittingly given us a blind item to guess at! So there was a media networking event last month, and... "One guy blogger even asked for my number. I gave it to him (he was totally charming), but I'm wary because two bloggers dating can spell disaster! He told me the story of a very public breakup that ended up all over the Internet and even made its way into the papers..." Update: Well, I feel dumb! Our very own videographer and tumblrblogger Richard Blakeley just walked over to my desk and confessed. It was him, and his breakup with Jezebel's Moe did end up in the Post, on Page Six...
OK! We want to know who this is, and it's Friday, and we're too hungover to think straight! How many guy bloggers have been in the "papers" (really?) for "very public breakups" recently?
Could it be Glamour's fired dudeblogger Mike Cherico? But he lives in L.A. Um... it couldn't possibly be Jakob Lodwick. (Could it?) And no, it's not former Gawker Joshua Stein—I just asked him. So: whose last breakup "ended up all over the Internet" in the papers? Halp!
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Oh, gee. Now who could this be?
um leo, have you been cheating on me?!
You're kidding, right?
This sounds like the work of Sweater Man, serial sad sack.
Is this a trick question? Or are you just joshing?
der, it's joshua stein.
watch out, Leo, he'll name his moustache after you.
Jimmy Whales!!! (Does he count?)
What do I win?!
Well, it couldn't be the work of Emily Gould that she's referring to now, is it??
I have been using the word "blind" wrong for a long time, I think.
Is this a test to see who's been paying attention to intra-gawker romance? Cuz, duh, we all pass.
The way she worded it, though, I got the impression that the guy was talking about A break-up, not necessarily HIS break-up.
Of course he was "totally charming;" he wants to fameball her.
It's NOT JOSH. I asked him.
That picture makes her look like a Martha Stewart Mini-Me.
Balk.
I remember when privacy and discretion used to be mutually desired regarding romantic/erotic pairings. Now I feel as though I'm reminiscing World War I.
Blakeley.
Oh, and nothing turns me on more than knowing that the guy who's hitting on me has had an ugly public breakup that "made the papers." Gets me wet.
@Conbon: Have we met?
Alec Baldwin from HuffPo.
@blakeley: Nope. Why, am I right?
I can pretty much guarantee that it wasn't me.
@Conbon: Seconded.
wait a minute...it has to be blakeley!
[www.nypost.com]
[cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com]
the only thing that doesn't fit is the charming part.
@Sheila: I bet it's JOSH STEIN.
@Richard: But I bet it's LOLCAIT! Clever!
@Conbon: What makes you think it's me?
@Conbon: I bet it's RICHARD BLAKELEY.
@blakeley: I bet it's CONBON. He just broke up with ANDREW SULLIVAN.
@moff: I bet it's him, too!
Tim Sykes. He had that public breakup with 35% of his money.
@moff: WHOEVER SMELT IT, DEALT IT
There's nothing about her wording to suggest that it was *his* breakup, though. I think she's just that wide-eyed that she'd never heard of such a thing as a dramatic internet breakup.
@moff: LoLCait dated Blakeley?
I bet it's fake nick denton.
I'm not really a blogger and I haven't asked for anyones "digits" in over 10 years. I will however get your name and stalk you on Facebook.
@SarahHeartburn: I bet she did!
@blakeley: The media networking event part.
@blakeley: Are you a moody hermit writer?
@ronniedobbs: You're right ... nice close reading there!
Okay, define, "very" "public" "breakup" "blogger" and "give a shit".
@blakeley: What do you call these?
[blakeley.tumblr.com]
[boinkology.com]
[nickguidodenton.tumblr.com]
@CodePink: I don't even know what that means, I just make silly videos in an attempt to entertain you people while you're slacking off at work.
I didn't read this to mean that the "very public breakup" necessarily involved this particular guy blogger. He might simply have been relating that story as a cautionary tale.
Don't pay me any mind; just yesterday I read Salvia as saliva.
@CodePink: Worse - he has a livejournal!
Or maybe just that Matt Drudge was really taking the piss....
@mitchel_stevens:
or cajun boy.
either/or really.
@PomPom: @ronniedobbs: Then maybe it was Blakeley telling Cosmogirl about Josh (or vice versa, unless Josh is telling Sheila the truth). But the part that doesn't make sense is why a blogger would jeopardize a pickup by reminding the target blogger about a disastrous public breakup of two other bloggers. And also why we commenters are interested in this stuff.
@Phyllis Nefler: Since 2000 even!
[blakeley.livejournal.com]
@ronniedobbs: @GeorgeBabbitt: Oops! Sorry.
@blakeley: I don't know what it means, either, really. You don't ask for numbers and stalk people on Facebook. It all sounded rather romantic to me!
No it says charming.
@Phyllis Nefler: And how could this be me when I'm dating you?
I really miss the days when a "very public breakup" entailed getting a drink thrown in your face at dinner.
No, really, I miss that.
@blakeley: I heard that I can buy underwear with your picture on them. True?
@Bell County: I do that all the time! "You can have my phone number, but know that it could end terribly."
@Phyllis Nefler: Yes, but you know I don't wear those... but you still called my underwear "silly"... which it is! I admit...
@Clarence Rosario: Rent "Moonstruck". It happens to John Mahoney a few times, I think.
totally Jakob.
@Clarence Rosario: Wet and hysterical:
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