@helveticamistress: Seriously, those comments are the greatest source of unintentional comedy this side of John Fitzgerald Page.
"That was A great presentation,its hard to
articulate thoughts into a speach sometimes,
(it is for me anywase) but it just shows
you truely beleve in Ron Paul he seems to
be geting pretty popular with all the
discontent we have for our mainstream
runners, I hope that made sense."
Between Josh and this, I'm having a wonderful Gawker day today.
This is just like the last scene of AI, only without the aliens. Don't go, Josh!
Question, cribbed from Broadcast News: how many cameras did he take to that interview?
Every single book?! Not, say, every single fact in a given book, but the whole goddamned book?
This would never have happened to a water polo player.
Am I the only one shocked that Gigi and Archie weren't featured prominently? I mean, they have the video ready to go and everything.
If we photograph ourselves in front of each of them, do we get a free rocket launcher that reappears in our apartment every morning?
I don't have a whole lot to add to what DismalScience has already said very well. But I do have an objection to the premise of this post. Joking about killing dogs, killing babies, killing Julia Allison: dark, but largely okay, even in Gawker circles. What's red and goes round and round? A baby in a blender. F'ing hilarious.
But there's a big goddamned difference between a joke ("Let's toss Julia Allison off the roof! Haha!") and tossing Julia Allison off the roof. I for one am horrified by the fact that people die with stunning frequency every day in Iraq, not to mention Darfur, etc. But I don't yell at Gawker about this because, um, Gawker isn't posting a video of a soldier tossing an Iraqi kid off of a bridge and asking us to "grow a pair" about it. The day they do that, I promise you I'll be even more outraged than I am by this. But that's starting from a pretty high level.
In short: jokes about killing things: not taboo; actually killing things: taboo.
You do realize, of course, that you've now given the hipster straights seven new ways to cast further ambiguity on their sexuality.
1,200 hours from a major law firm should be somewhere in the $600,000 range. I wish you could add a zero to those numbers, but sadly, she'll probably come out of this just fine.
@rubyruby: Don't worry, it's "toast americain" over there. I think we can just rename it as "American toast" on our side of the pond as well and be done with it.
As for Ms. Cotillard, I'm sure she'll find a very welcoming home on The View if she so chooses. I think they're disposed to this kind of bullshit over there.
@zahava: I was very fond of SMU undergrad Ashley. "I was completly frusturated!" I bet.
Though I have to admit, I'm as tempted by the "huge, central AC/heat, bidet-in-the-bathroom, sub-zero fridge, roof-deck, wash/dryer on the floor, elevator apt in one of the best neighborhoods in NYC" as the next girl. I was just surprised to find that John Fitzgerald Page was renting out the other half of the bed in Manhattan rather than Atlanta these days.
Though I have to admit, I'm as tempted by the "huge, central AC/heat, bidet-in-the-bathroom, sub-zero fridge, roof-deck, wash/dryer on the floor, elevator apt in one of the best neighborhoods in NYC" as the next girl. I was just surprised to find that John Fitzgerald Page was renting out the other half of the bed in Manhattan rather than Atlanta these days.
Dave Eggers
would be the poets' Andy Kaufman.
Do your own damn work.
would be the poets' Andy Kaufman.
Do your own damn work.
@NYM: Sadly it's not like it used to be: in the old days, before they settled on the Miller standard for obscenity, they used to have a screening room in the basement where the justices and their clerks would all get together to watch porn and decide if it was obscene.
They took no action on the case today ([www.scotusblog.com]); the decision should come sometime soon, though.
@KimGordonsPanties: Possibly true. For what it's worth, exit polls also don't mean shit, because they can only con students into running them, and students, like all young people, are terrified of and won't voluntarily approach old people.
@trojanhorse: To be completely fair to Brooks, Bobos in Paradise came out in 2000, but he didn't join the editorial page until 2003. Which I think points to a bigger problem with this idea if you expand it beyond reporting. It's one thing for the paper to tell its reporters, who come up with their ideas largely because of work performed on behalf of the newspaper and whose books are expansions of that work, that their books' successes derive from their official roles. But that doesn't apply as easily to op-ed columnists, who usually are invited to join the page because of the prominence they bring to the paper, not the other way around.
Pretty...
@Godless Liberal: It's not: Obama leads in total votes, even counting Florida and Michigan.
But he's only ahead by like 4%, which means that Hillary's winning in a landslide!
