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    "I Should Really Start Making a Bigger Deal About Things"

    commiesWe all work hard all week long to bring you news that you can use. No, make that news you can comment on! Lolcait, the hardest-working man at Gawker Media, combs the comments weekly. Here are some of his nits!

    O hai. I haven't got time to say much because I'm so busy running around buying Christmas presents and sewing flannel into all of my clothing. So without any ado:

    From CODEPINK in "I'd Rather Not":

    "I should really start making a bigger deal about things."

    Does that not perfectly sum up this whole operation?

    From LULULEMMING in "Upper East Side Rumors":

    "Hint: they were once Time Magazine's person of the year."

    See what TIME has done?

    From ADMINSLAVE in "Who Is The Whitest Kid You Know?"

    "Can I send a collage of my best friends ex boyfriends? She has the whitest taste in the known universe—and she's not even white! She sent me a photo of her current boyfriend and he's in all khakis and the caption to the pic is 'Chad getting his wine on!' GAH!"

    Gah is right.

    From NUTMEG in "Bitches":

    "Does that look like Goldie Hawn to anybody else?"

    Yes. Yes it does.

    From MLADEN in "The Bard Sublime: The Day David Bowie Died":

    "...But you could find Gore Vidal's old review copies in the library. Plus the books there still had cards in them, with the signatures of plenty of famous former faculty members - Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, William Gaddis - plus noted alums like Chevy Chase, Blythe Danner, and, well, the Dan. If I'd had the sense to slip 'em all out of there, I could have made a mint on Ebay by now. Probably these were all replaced by magnetic strips later in the '80s. But maybe the copy of Peggy Guggenheim's memoirs in which she wrote a long, pretty pornographic inscription is still on the shelves."

    Well, really the whole comment is fun and informative. Go read it!

    And the Party Pick is...

    From CATONYMYHEAD in "Oh No Your Boss Sent You a Facebook Gift":

    "My boss keeps asking our team to get Second Life accounts so we can hang out together online. I said my SL avatar was too busy running a brothel for furries, but I'd give her avatar a gift certificate."

    PLEASE SEND MORE EMAILS!!

    Ta.


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