urnidiot commented on Sloane Crosley: She's Everywhere Keith Gessen Wants to Be

"Keith Gessen: won National Book Critics Circle award and wrote for the New Yorker before age 30. You: wrote Everyone's Burning. Who am I going to trust here?"

urnidiot commented on A Drunken Sidewalk Scuffle In Virtual New York

"@Nick Denton: Like the PR-planted story into today's NY Post that's strikingly similar to your 1st post from today?"

urnidiot commented on A Drunken Sidewalk Scuffle In Virtual New York

"@Nick Denton: In your next GTA post, can you let us know how much Rockstar Games is paying you for these advertorials?"

urnidiot commented on MILF Island

"This is almost as fascinating as a nearly identical post that went up on Vulture four hours ago:[nymag.com]"

urnidiot commented on Trash-Talking Reporter Fulfills Promise To Kick Times' Ass

"@Ryan Tate: You mean the Washington Post story that's attributed to anonymous sources and the WSJ report?"

urnidiot commented on Trash-Talking Reporter Fulfills Promise To Kick Times' Ass

"@BooWahBabe: Well said."

urnidiot commented on Democrats Losing the Self-Important Socialite Vote

"Should she mention she just got shown the door by the same News Corp."

urnidiot commented on Jay-Z's $150 Million Concert Deal Changes Nothing, Probably

"You seriously cannot understand the difference between a $100 million deal with A RECORD LABEL that is an advance against future RECORD SALES, and a $100 million dollar deal with a CONCERT AND TOUR PROMOTER that is an advance against TICKET SALES AND MERCHANDISE? Are you like one of those reverse dyslexics that can only see numbers but can't read words?"

urnidiot commented on Stuff Happening To Magazines, Say Magazine People Again And Again

"Amen, Mr."

urnidiot commented on Malcolm Gladwelling at The Post

"You know what else was hilarious was the way you'd try to curry favor with Republicans by imposing a right-wing spin on as many items as possible, and publishing the rancidly homophobic "cartoons" of Sean Delonas. And wasn't it a hoot, how you used to antagonize sources and civilians who annoyed you by questioning their manhood and threatening them with physical violence? Ah, good times."

urnidiot commented on Ben McGrath Is More Than His Father's Son

"More revisionist history from Gawker, as usual."

urnidiot commented on Failed Gawker Editor Wrote The Times' "Crash Course in Online Gossip"

"Let's see if I have the math right: a guy who figures out Gawker's total lack of a consistent voice or viewpoint, and its pageviews uber Alles mentality in ONE DAY, and then goes onto write features for a widely read mainstream media outlet is a "failure"... What exactly constitutes "success" in the Gawker playbook?"

urnidiot commented on Another Filmmaker Flees Film

"You're way, way off as usual."

urnidiot commented on Neal Pollack: Just Not Much Of A Writer

""Ken Auletta's tan rivals George Hamilton's."

urnidiot commented on Whoops

"What exactly was bullshit about the Daily News front page?"

urnidiot commented on Second Disaster Book For Editor Of Fabricator

"So when the publishing house learned this woman was a liar, they did exactly what everyone's been demanding they do, and canceled the book before it could cause massive embarrassment."

urnidiot commented

""Here's the new guy who decides if you will get into the Waverly Inn and, wow, he's getting a friendly notice in Page Six!"

urnidiot commented on Lying Author's Ties To The Times Book Review

"As by usual Gawker standards, this commentary is totally clueless."