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Last night, Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby wonderfully displayed her utter inability to use email. (Once again, we question how this woman founded an internet company and sold it for $23 million.) Rebecca Fox, Mediabistro's managing editor, had sent out an email alert that News Corp. had bought Beliefnet.com. Rebecca did not bcc the email list—and so her boss Laurel replied to all. Which started a most unholy email chain!
We're sure Matt Drudge, Time Inc. guy Jim Kelly, the TV critic of the Washington Post, and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin really enjoyed watching Laurel praise her staff. Uh oh! Here comes novelist and former Page Sixer Ian Spiegelman!
Eeek! And Portfolio blogger Jeff Bercovici!
Uh oh, did someone say former Page Sixer and Ron Burkle-suer Jared Paul Stern? (It's like Candyman—say his name and here he comes!) 
We sure wish we knew!
And yet... we never did find out who the hell this "Hunter" was that Laurel mentioned; the Mediabistro item was written by someone called "Noah." Perhaps, as it was lower-cased in Laurel's praise email, she was referring to her staffers as "hunters"—they hunt and gather information and bring it back to the Mediacave! It sounds fun there, maybe we will go apply for jobs.
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How very Michael Scott of her.
What the hell, why am i not on this CC: list? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?
Just wait until Laurel discovers "blogging".
Thank you for my new friends list.
Tab Hunter, Hunter S. Thompson (belief.net indeed!), Crocodile Hunter (a fortiori. . .
Nothing says professional like a friendly "reply all."
@collegecallgirl: Then again, if I had 23 million dollars I wouldn't give a flying fuck.
come on now, you guys know who Julia Allison is.
@DorothyZbornak: "Good luck with the band, Hunter."
I hope they like the lolcatz updates I'll be sending them all every day!
Ian's response is fabulous.
@RosemarysBabyDaddy: Yeah, wow. Choire, are we near approaching your Joe Dolce moment?
Also, the site is beliefnet.com, not belief.net...it's the home of the astoundingly accurate Belief-o-matic: [www.beliefnet.com] - give it a go!
Spiegelman always has the best insults!
@KimGordonsPanties:
Having never read the email that got him fired, I am now a little tiny bit in love with the man.
Ariana Huffington has an AOL email address... hahahaha.
To me, Jim Kelly will forever be the black guy from Enter the Dragon. No other will do.
@Mary Mouse: Stub-fingers that I am, I typed in the wrong website and ended up filling out the Beef-O-Matic. This says that Jennifer Love Hewitt is being overnighted to me on a kaiser roll.
Someone must submit that JPG to spam.erectiledysfunction.org
Great!! Now I have 99 new people to sign up to my Christmas newsletter. I can't wait to share my new tuna casserole recipe with such movers and shakers and opinion makers.
Amazingly enough, in the last five minutes my New Year's evite has spiked from 25 invitees to 104.
I think I'll send out a mass someecard to celebrate! And to remind everyone to respond soon as I'll be refreshing the evite every five minutes.
@Ha Ha Sound: Speaking of hitting refresh...
@concerned citizen: Don't worry about it. You know what would cheer you up? A fresh, new, exciting way to make tuna casserole. I'm on it.
@nutmeg: Or the Bills' Hall of Fame QB.
Off topic, but: Choire, when does the pay-by-page-hit begin? If it's started, we could send you out in a big way....
@PandoraSpocks: @KimGordonsPanties: I have fond memories of when he and NewToJezebel debated the class aspects of the American educational system here. Somehow, by the next day they were, like, buddies. Dare I say I miss her?
@Mary Mouse: Apparently I'm either a secular humanist, a Catholic, or a Sikh. Off to worship... or not worship, depending, I guess? There is so much to learn.
@irishbreakfast: Yes... I would be very happy to join in such a program.
@GeorgeBabbitt: If you say Beetlejuice 3 times in a row NTJ --or whoever was behind her -- will come back and reveal the secrets of the universe.
@Mary Mouse: I couldn't get past question one, but only because "None of the above" is not how a survey on beliefs should begin.
@TheHonJudgeSmails:
You mock an AOL address, yet don't touch "Adam@Penenberg dot com" ?
Oh, to hear his Stephen Glass stories for the two zillionth time.
@Mary Mouse: huh. Mainstream to Liberal Protestant -- 100%. Can someone please pass the Wonder Bread and Hellman's?
@irishbreakfast: We'll send links to your article to at least 99 people at once, yo.
@karion: Oh you!
can someone post the full text version please, so my intern doesn't have to retype all these?
ok, thanks!
I come out at 100% Orthodox Quaker myself, which is interesting since that's not what I practice...hmm.
@Fritzpeterson: I, too, am a Mainstream or Liberal Protestant! And I actually am (Congregationalist, which used to be Pilgrims/Puritans).
It's like I always say: Ever since we gave up the drab clothes, scarlet A's, and burning women as witches, we've risen on the warm and fuzzy religious scale!
When the reply-all virus starts circulating in my company, we inevitably get another 20 e-mails sent to everyone condemning not only the original culprit but everyone else who replied to all in response. But I see when this happens in media circles, rather than think "nuisance" they think "ooh, an audience."
I know I'm new and all, but where's my New Year's Eve invite?
@Ha Ha Sound: @concerned citizen: Christmas cards? Pffft. I'm going to request every single one of them as Facebook friends. Go for the gusto!
@Ha Ha Sound: Do what I do... using the Spam recipes in the "spam" folder in your Gmail, replace the word "spam" with "ambiguous seafood."
The Spiegelman comment is a tour de force! more!
Well, there are a lot of places you don't have to bother sending a resume to, Choire.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I loves me some Spiegelman.
Hey, can *he* be new editor?
That would be the most spectacular two weeks ever!
Aw, this is cute!
I'm enjoying today's episode of Spiegelheart.
@irishbreakfast: it really sucks that Choire couldn't do more of this stuff until now. The greatness of Choire's posts today is like the ultimate f-you to Denton.
Hey, Jess Cohen has HER OWN DOMAIN?! Awesome? Er. Awesome!
Well, non-shockingly, this tells me I'm a liberal protestant.
My friend at least got to be a neo-pagan.
that was straight old school gawker right there. good stuff sparky.
@Ian Spiegelman: that made me moist too. if i give you my email address will you please write to me and insult me mercilessly?
"Save Image As..."
...my next job.
@DorothyZbornak: Awesome!