Stereotyping People by their Favorite New York Times Writer
Since this is my last weekend on the site until I return, begging for a job as James Del's assistant, I've invited some friends along. Lauren Leto is a blogger and the proprietor of Texts From Last Night. Lauren?
What To Do Seven Years After You Were the Founding Editor of Gawker
Since this is my last weekend on the site until I return, begging for a job as James Del's assistant, I've invited some friends along. Elizabeth Spiers is the founding editor of Gawker. Mallory Keaton doesn't like her.
Adventures in Public Art: The Balthazar Delivery (Or: "Baked Eggs Oversleazy")
Hey man, as long as you don't run into his neighbor. Then again, nah. I think he's already taking a lien over the marbles out of my paycheck. GET OVER HERE, ANDREW. Update! Young Manhattanite is here. With video!
Knopf Editor Makes Great Case for Editors in Poorly Written Post About Needing Editors
If you wrote a piece for the Huffington Post entitled Do You Really Need an Editor at a Publishing House?, you'd make a strong case, right? The answer, as evidenced by Knopf editor Carole Baron, is a resounding absolutely.
The Blog as Performance Art: Politician Penis Projection Edition
Here's a blog strictly of politicians and world leaders appearing to discuss penis size.
In Which the New York Times Tries Not to Say "Tits"
The only thing stopping The Grey Lady from getting totally felt up this weekend must've been a particularly adamant copy editor. This weekend, the Times introduced us to a "lactation consultant." Naturally, a few fourth-grade level "har har" moments followed.
Battle of the Blog Designs: The Guest of a Guest vs. Gawker Design War
Today's Page Six had an especially glorious item, pitting the designs of two gossip blog networks against each other, with chatter that someone's totally biting our shit off: the socialite chronicling Guest of a Guest, and Gawker Media. That's us.
Climate Change's Bad Lieutenants, Barack and Hillary: Bustin' Down Doors
Wow. Talk about burying the lede. Obama and Clinton went BAD. ASS on some sucka climate change opposition. The two've been chipping away at this Copenhagen summit, but it took them busting down a door to get things "handled." Observe:
School Is Hell
How academia should be: "'Hideous Gnosis,' a six-hour theory symposium on black-metal music" at a Williamsburg bar last weekend. Talks included "Perpetual Rot: Obsessive Cycles of Deterioration," on "'liminal death-space' in the work of Xasthur." Screw college. [NYT; Related]
In Recognition of Our City's Amateur Scribes: The Winter of Our Cock Deficiency
Craigslist Posting of the Week? By the time you get to "cock deficiency," yes.
Your Last Chance to Buy Gawker's James Franco-Endorsed Sarah Palin SlamBook: Tonight
The moment's almost here: one lucky bidder is going to be the proud owner of our charity-friendly National Book Award-winner and James Franco-endorsed copy of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, which is going to benefit Save The Children. Not Dave Eggers.
David Carr's Requiem For a Media Scene: "Goodbye to Some of That"
Media columnist David Carr just Twittered a caption for his latest filing, a media death knell with a bright-eyed ending, summoning the title of Joan Didion's famous essay about leaving her New York experience behind. Is the comparison merited?
The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
At 2009's National Book Awards we honored Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as 2010's frontrunner for the NBA Fiction Prize by getting it signed by the gathered literary luminaries. And now, it can be the best charitable, tax-deductible present ever.
The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
The Harvard-Yale game's a storied tradition for Ivy League grads who enjoy comparing degree sizes/names. For everyone else, it's an opportunity to watch America's Prestigious Ivy Grads try to act like normal football fans, which they can't. So: what happened?!

