Consultancy Founder Devotes Himself To Remaking Atlantic Media Online [WaPo]

The HuffPo notes at least ten differences between the old and new drawings. A few items they missed that the drawings omitted altogether: crazily vascular forearms; bear paunch; rolling papers. Also the crazy nerd-chick in the background of the new drawing? Is that the secret crazy tranny that tells him what to change his mind about each week? Or does the Atlantic permanently employ Velma from Scooby Doo? Are they besieged by ghosts?

Well. We went to the NAF's website, and, quite frankly, we know what we're going to do the next time we're having trouble sleeping. Should you be made of sturdier stuff, we invite you to explore and send us your suggestions. One name, however, did pop up before the silky fingers of Morpheus danced about our eyes: James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly National Correspondent and tech-savvy mofo. (We understand that he's currently in Shanghai.) We're actually pretty sure this is your man, but suggestions to the contrary can be sent to the usual address.

Mickey: It Wasn't Me [BloggingHeads]
New America Foundation
At Home In Shanghai [Slate]

Earlier: JoeJournalist.com: Could One Of These Men Be JoeJournalist? Yeah, Maybe.

• "Perhaps Joe Journalist was Tom Wolfe? Would fit the description. TomWolfe.com was created July 20, 1998. Gladwell's site went up in September of 2004, BTW."
  
• "Reeks of Brit Hume. He was a computer geek before most of the world knew what a computer geek was. But don't quote me on that!"
  
• "I'd always assumed that stupid Kinsley column was referencing Josh—excuse Joshua Micah Marshall's—excruciatingly self-infatuated blog"
  
• Isn't it Adam Nagourney?
  
• "Wouldn't it be Matt Drudge?" [No. —ed.]
  
• "It's definitely Andy Glass."

  We'd actually be inclined to buy that last one, assuming we knew who the fuck Andy Glass is. Thanks for playing. More on this stunning story if it ever develops.

  Earlier: JoeJournalist.com: World's Most Boring Guessing Game Continues
  

The first person I knew who had a Web site of his own was a fellow Washington journalist. This was when many journalists were still just getting into e-mail, but the URL for this Web site quickly circulated around town and around the world. Why? Well, we were all impressed by the technological savvy. But we were absolutely astounded by the solipsism. What on earth had gotten into Joe (not his real name)? This was a modest, soft-spoken, and self-effacing fellow, yet his Web site portrayed him as an egotistical monster. Or so it seemed at the time. All of the elements that struck us as obnoxious maybe eight years ago no longer seem that way. In fact, they are now virtually required for any writer's Web site. The Web address, of course, was his name: JoeJournalist.com. It's hard to recapture why that even seemed pretentious. But it did. Then there was his deadpan list of books he'd written and awards he'd won. And quotes from other journalists about how wonderful he is.

Speculation, naturally, has centered around Andrew Sullivan and Mickey Kaus. (Kaus denies that it's either of him, although his disavowal of Sullivan is more a case of getting a dig in at Andrew, which is pretty much Mickey's raison d' tre these days.) In any event, a well-connected tipster raises another possibility: "Kinsley's talking about Gladwell, I believe. When www.malcolmgladwell.com first appeared — 97? 98? — it caused much twitter in such circles. Gladwell was modest and self-effacing at the time, and may well still be — I never see him." (Note to tipster: You can't miss him; it's the hair. Ba dump bump.) Sounds good to us, except that Kinsley mentions the "deadpan list of books he'd written"; did Gladwell write anything before Blink? Could Kinsley be changing a few of the details around? Is this maybe the least interesting blind item guessing game ever? Answers or further candidates here.

Like I Care [Slate]
Michael Kinsley Holds Our Interest For Record One Paragraph [Wonkette]

• We think it's kind of tacky to mock a Parkinson's patient for writing a doddering, fogeyish column about the Internet. So we'll let Wonkette do it. Anyway, our guess as to the mystery journalist is Kaus. [Slate]
  
• Boo hoo hoo, Washington Post reporters now have to go through the same appraisal system everyone else in the white collar world goes through annually. [NYO]
  
• Allison Benedikt officially named Voice film editor. [The Reeler]
  
• Military fantasist/departing Cond Nast Steve Florio to open a restaurant. Damn it, Graydon, see what you started? [NYP]
  
• Tribune wants to delay its buyout, presumably because no one was dumb enough to pay the premium on what they're selling. [LAT]
  
• "Tomato-haired beauty" Maureen Dowd "has the greatest job in America." Also, she is not Tony Dungy. There's a reason some stuff is only published on the Web. [The Nation]
  
• Jon Friedman is the meat in a Julia Allison/Melissa Lafsky sandwich. Yes, there's a reason we didn't throw the picture up here. [ETP]
  
• We're just gonna quote Romenesko on this one: "Dobbs overdose." [Mother Jones]
  
• What we need more of is Tory Burch profiles. Thanks for making that dream come true, Vanity Fair. [WWD]
  
• Portfolio should just buy the Wall Street Journal and be done with it. [NYP]
  
• "Fuck IvyGate." [NYO]
  
• Correction of the Day: "An article and headline on Saturday about the Staten Island Museum, which is celebrating it's 125th anniversary, referred incorrectly to one item in the museum's collection of curiosities. It is a four-legged - not four-headed - chicken." [NYT]
  
• Bonus Correction: "An article last Wednesday about Jim Leff, a founder of the Internet discussion group www.chowhound.com, misstated the number of continents on which the food writer Mimi Sheraton has searched for bialys. It is five, not two." [NYT]

CNN.com

Yesterday, Time's blogger Andrew Sullivan announced that the new editor of Out magazine is a heterosexual. "Seriously, I think it's great that a straight guy is now heading up a gay magazine," he wrote.

While that idea fits nicely with Mr. Sullivan's theories on the continued blurring of straight and gay culture and identity, it doesn't quite deliver, as Mr. Hicklin is actually not a heterosexual.

Andrew Sullivan Sees Straight in New 'Out' Editor
[Daily Transom]

Colbert: So edumacate me here: A blog is what? I know the kids do it, I hear it all the time with, like, iPod, I hear those two terms thrown around a lot.

Sullivan: It's almost like you have truth that you give us every night. But some of us, we just struggle every day to put whatever little bit of truth we can find on the internet and call it a blog. It's literally a web log, it's a log of your random, incessant thoughts, on the web.

C: So a blog is web log? Is there an apostrophe, or do you guys not even have the strength for that? You're just gonna jam two words together?

After the jump, Sullivan's impressive answer and truthiness for the Times.

S: Over time it just became a "blog."

C: "Blog." It's a beautiful word. It's musical. So, uh, you type your thoughts and they appear on a screen instantly and that's it. That's what you do?

S: That's what I do.

C: They used to call that typing. I don't trust you guys, because anybody could do that, right?

S: You don't. The only way you can trust anybody who blogs is by following them and making sure they're not full of it all the time. The one sign of a good blogger is that he immediately corrects a mistake. And unlike the New York Times, where they can put all of their millions of mistakes in a little box in the corner every day which you never read, a blogger has to fess up, right there, just like you do every night.

C: Actually, I read the New York Times corrections. It's the most entertaining part of that paper.

I was visiting New York City last week and noticed something I'd never thought I'd say about the big city. Yes, nightlife is pretty much dead (and I'm in no way the first to notice that).

Bastard!

That's the last time we invite you over and listen to you go on and on about how you can squat 385 pounds, jerk!

Society is dead, we have retreated into the iWorld [Times.uk]
Team Party Crash: Pundits on Parade

Apparently, he is not. However, Michelle Malkin did appear as "Cheerleader # 4" in Toni Basil's "Mickey" video.

Actually, come to think of it, she did not.

Know Your Bears: The Case of Sullivan vs. Babydaddy [Wonkette]

As Sully himself puts it:

Much as I would like to do everything, I've been unable to give the blog my full attention and make any progress on a book (and I'm two years behind). It's not so much the time as the mindset. The ability to keep on top of almost everything on a daily and hourly basis just isn't compatible with the time and space to mull over some difficult issues in a leisurely and deliberate manner.

Feeling, please grab him! We just don't know if we can go on if you don't.
THE DISH AS YOU'VE KNOWN IT [Andrew Sullivan]
[Crying Pop via Old Men Crying]

Apparently Sullivan suffers from sleep apnea. Funny, we thought only liberals had trouble sleeping at night in these new dark days.

Anyway, watch as CNN's Wolf Blitzer bullies Sullivan into talking with the mask on. Anyone else getting a Pulp Fiction vibe off this?
Andrew Sullivan's Bedtime Headgear [Wonkette]
Pulp Fiction 'Bring out the gimp' T-Shirts [Amazon]

From the The Provincetown Banner, page 23, Nov, 18, 2004.

So, what happened to the $6K a month in blog income? See also: "After start-up costs for even snazzy sites, most income is profit." [A Blogger Manifesto, AndrewSullivan.com]

This is a must-see. Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan, and others, discussing Orwell. And discussing Orwell is a synonym for a debate about the modern Left. Mark your calendars.
Thursday, October 24th, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Basic Books and the NYU Journalism Department present:
Does Orwell Matter? Social Criticism Today
Christopher Hitchens, author of Why Orwell Matters
Vivian Gornick, author of The Situation and the Story
Andrew Sullivan, author of Virtually Normal
Michael Walzer, author of The Company of Critics
Jurow Hall, Main Building
100 Washington Square East
New York University
The Christopher Hitchens Web

Kurt Andersen, on Andrew Sullivan's blog: "I derive some tiny but real pleasure in knowing, for instance, as a result of reading andrewsullivan.com, that you spent the last month in Provincetown attending Space Pussy concerts."
Are Weblogs Changing Our Culture? [Slate]