"despite her being sharp as a tack, which she is"
I don't know where you guys get this. Did you read the emails? She's about as sharp as a bag of hair.
I don't know where you guys get this. Did you read the emails? She's about as sharp as a bag of hair.
@Brian Moylan: Please see my comment below.
@Brian Moylan: These attacks aren't personal. They're professional. I don't hate you, Brian. I hate your amateurish, brain-dead, stereotype-ridden writing. Just so we're clear about that.
@Brian Moylan: Suck up.
@eleusiswalks: Hear, hear!!
@Brian Moylan: the homosexuality practiced by ancient Greeks is nothing like the gay life I lead. First of all, there was no Madonna.
Oh, HA HA HA HA. You are such a CARD, kid! Hooboy, that's some funny, funny stuff! SUCH an original.
My god, Moy-ron. Thanks once again for the most facile, one-dimensional, borderline-homophobic take on what could have been an important and enlightening discussion. Gays like you are why so many people expect us to be shallow, vain little style-obsessed elves without a substantive thought in our perfectly coiffed heads.
@BookishLookish: Welcome to the masses of us star-stripped wretches, Bookish. Apparently some people at Gawker think they're above criticism.
@Brian Moylan: You thin-skinned little twat. I wonder how many more weeks you're going to be here at Gawker. Three? A month?
Cos seriously, little boy, you write like you learned everything you know about humor from a three week stint as a temp on the set of Will and Grace back in 1999.
@Spirit Fingers: Mostly so I could hate it in detail. But I didn't get past "Mike Immabottom" on this post before I felt my gorge rising.
You know, not only is Moylan's prose painfully clunky ("gayer than a lube-stained bathouse"? Really?), his humor a level or two below sophomoric (Can a "21 Reasons a Cucumbers is Better Than a Man" listicle be that far away at this point?), and his grasp of the language on a par with a high school newspaper's assistant editor (Anna Wintour's "kurt nod" is a howler for the ages), but his reductive thinking about homosexuality and its manifestations is embarrassingly passé. This is JUST what the world needs, more self-involved drivel from another self-hating queer. Whee! We've never seen that before!
For the record, the Lady Gaga dick jokes aren't funny and never were. It's just tired and would even be lame and irritating to a bunch of fifth grade boys.
Also, this whole "Ooh, he's a BOTTOM" thing isn't funny so much as an embarrassing window into Moylan's own deeply internalized self-loathing and homophobia. Clearly any person who takes on the "feminized" role in sex must the lesser partner in Moylan's universe, not a "real" man because GIRLS get penetrated and they're ICKY.
I *thought* that Andrew Belonsky was Gawker's most historically awful hire, but Moylan is really giving A.B. a run for his money. Whatever they're paying you, Brian baby, it's too much.
@Cicada: DING DING DING. You are correct.
My god, Moylan, your writing would be out of its depth on a high school paper's op ed page.
I had an ex who was one of those "Well, after a while they don't get any dirtier" guys. He's long gone, thank Bast, but I still think of him whenever I see pictures of Pig Pen from Peanuts. He was the single most untidy gay man I've ever known.
@BabyJane: I'm a once a week man myself.
This kid is what, 16?
@OneTwoPunch: Yes! Let's start our own PR company!
These people all so clearly deserve each other.
@OneTwoPunch: I've worked for people like Ms. Cutrone and part of the reason they tend to spend 40%-60% of their time running around re-doing things and screeching about how everyone but themselves is incompetent is because they can't issue clear, concise instructions about what they want. All it would have taken last week would have been for Kelly or Emily to make ONE gift bag as an example and say to the interns, "Make them all look like this. Exactly like it. Don't improvise, don't embellish. Just copy."
See how simple, Kelly? I could have saved you hours and thousands of dollars.
