Jesus. She's getting trashed over there. She's their JA now?

sleeping bloggy

@fiveinchtaint: I suspect that's who got her in the front door through her own puff piece not so long ago.

A question--not meant as an attack--if Emily is so over Gawker and has renounced her time here, why is she writing on jezebel? It's not that far removed from those things she hates...

It's a fairly even-handed piece, I'd say. Don't see her trashing anyone in there, and the criticisms are mainly of herself.

I'm sure I'm convincing you all.

@hamburgerhotdog: "I hate Macs. I work for iTunes now."

I think this is Emily's oversharing opus, really. Perhaps now she will move on? I think so.

"They were creeps hitting on me at a bar."

I'm so happy to have been included...

That picture neatly sums up what I do whenever I'm confronted with another article on the blog generation.

I thought the Times didn't do posed photographs?

Someone claiming to be "Banksy" provided Comment #8.

The Comment editors over there must be wishing it was Monday already.

Ok, if I see ONE MORE infantile, self-absorbed unmade bed pic of any blogger whatsoever with the light hitting them just so and attached by umbilical cord to their GD laptop, my head's going to explode. It's not cute, not DREAMY, not introspective or revealing in any meaningful way.
/end of rant

"Back in 2006" is today's "Back in the U.S.S.R.".

I don't really care about any of this performance piece. I just want to know if that's a hyacinth tatooed on her shoulder. Because I'm a total gardening fag.

@fiveinchtaint: Yeah, it's getting nasty. I might drop a comment in there that Procter & Gamble is doubling the price of Metamucil, just to give their commenters a good scare.

@scroll_lock: Sorry Scroll... when I dream of Emily that's exactly what I dream. With more tattoos. And her left hand in a Vulcan Hand Salute. Wearing a Snorg tee.

Seriously, not only was it not well written, it wasn't even written up to any kind of professional, adult standards. Absolutely terrible. One of the worst things I've ever read in a print publication. Ugh. Shut up, blog-person.

10 pages!? i can only handle 200-word max blog posts.

@BadUncle: That's some flowery prose comin' from you.

Good lord. It's not like she shit in their kitchens and peaced.

totally in agreeance with lock-scroll. blech. move on.

Ah, to be young, white, over-educated, and fake earnest in New York.

@In Other News...: Ha! I needed that laugh, beloved ION.

You forgot to add a kustom handbag! Gusta ka kustom handbag?!

@BadUncle: that's hilarious

@EleanorRigby: Precisely my reaction. Thanks, Nick, for the speed link to the comments.

That article is ten f*ckin' pages. I fell asleep after "Back in 2006, when I was 24..." First I threw up in my mouth, and THEN I fell asleep.

@KarenUhOh: I'm with you, sister.

@Nic Fit: Yeah, fake-earnest is what I was getting from that: manufactured drama to entertain those darn Olds who still insist on a narrative arc.

@miasma-protege: Truly. I have no interest in what she does (aside from a general dislike of people who broadcast intimate details of their lives as a way to get attention/make a career), but I can't stand those who take her prominence as a personal affront or a disgrace to the writerly professions.

I don't much care for tattoos, either.

P.S.: You kids get off my lawn.

In Sicilia, we call what's going on here tit for tat: Its only a matter of time before Josh comes back to point counterpoint her. Then she'll be fetal some more.
She shoulda chosen j-school.
Anyhoo: Gayker must solicit response from Josh -- and more pictures of his glistening naked body!!!

@scroll_lock: Gusto ka mag blog?

Martha? What's this blogging thing they are talking about? And why is this girl on a bed? Martha? The deer ate the tulips again.

She has done a remarkably sensitive job of documenting the most recent dialectical turn in Habermas's Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. I say bravo!

How many screen-grabs the main page of nytimes.com do think Emily's taken this morning? She's right next to New Fears on Long-Term Global Oil Supplies

I feel bad for her. I can't help it. And I miss her posts.

@NoDowdAboutIt: Surely you jest. Have you been reading an all-type version for the past ten years?

Also, folks, in general, remember it's the Times Magazine, the sales outlet for this sort of trendoid fluff.

@fiveinchtaint: The comments over there are AH-mazing. I want to switch teams, but I don't think they will accept my semi-retarded little spurts of hilarity.

Emily, what pray tell, is the POINT of this? To blog about yourself or not? After 10 pages I have no clue what your conclusion is, all I know is that I feel bad for Henry.

@cassandra: @KarenUhOh: I'm almost done markering my shoulder and then I'll meet y'all out back near the foursquare for a smoke.

@it takes a train to cry: I guess she has totally abandoned that whole respecting Henry's privacy act as well.

@In Other News...: Only one by you!

@Nard38: This is probably wreaking havoc on the plumbing at Del Boca Vista.

@KarenUhOh: Agree. Plus, for an incredibly long introspective magazine piece, it's quite well written. Except for the "creeps in a bar" line, of course.

This is the excuse I read:

"Maybe this wasn't as good an idea as I thought."

Fool me once, shame on me. I never get fooled twice.

This article is as craven a lie as Emily's victimhood, her fragility, and her personal shame. She may feel it, but it's dull and distant, like vestiges of emotions that she senses strongly should be there but are not.

It's chaff. Carnival three-card-monte personality construction, attempting to absolve the sins of the past to ensure a future. This article is one long attempt to justify a career in character assassination by the fact that she feels really, really badly about it now - all, of course, gift-wrapping her triumphant return to the media scene.

@Nic Fit: Printing a story that features your ex in a major publication as a means to announce that you're going to start respecting people's privacy does seem contradictory.

@belltolls: Pretty much. A bunch of Andy Rooneys trying to read nyt.com through bushy eyebrows. "Why do they call it taking a dump, when you're really actually LEAVING it?"

I still think she looks like a boy.

Too. Much. Cute. Emily, dear, wake up, I made us egg muffins for breakfast and we HAVE to finish watching Stick It! I can't believe we fell asleep like that!

She's beautiful. Oy!

"I opened my eyes. "Don't delete it," I managed to say. "Just make it all password-protected.""

@ADismalScience: Considering she always seemed very pleased with herself.

It sounds like Ms. Gould went through what alot of people go through in their 20s: questioning their career, their relationships, their values as an adult apart from the family you grew up in. You either work through it or you implode. Along the way you don't deal with it too well and you do some things that don't help: Emily shares her struggles with anyone that will read it; i drink. Neither is constructive.

I am pleased to be a minor contribuor to the vitriol clearinghouse. Do you guys have a big sweepstakes where Ed McMahon comes to the house with a huge check?

I just read Emily's self-effacing confessional/exercise in narcissistic control. It's too long. Maybe she should get a tattoo for her other arm that spells out Self-Referential and Highly Self-Regarding. If she moves on, though, what would she write about if she could not write about herself? Just asking.

@Nic Fit: Look how well that strategy worked for Nabokov.

@ADismalScience: well put.

On the off-chance that no one has claimed Web N.O. for their own, please consider this my letter of intent. Emily, half of any profits from this are yours, ok?

God almighty, I would never date a blogger. Or a writer, for that matter.

@KarenUhOh: Have to say I agree. I don't much like Emily: I think she's behaved pretty shabbily when breaking up with a boyfriend or a place of employment for that matter. However, the critics of this Times Magazine piece are too harsh. She's a distinctive writer and the topic of online narcissism is both interesting and one that she is uniquely qualified to examine.