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    Image of Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter
    10/20/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein 'Getting Healthier' by Bailing on His Businesses
    Isn't the old "Hate the evil Weinsteins" thing a tad cliche? #harveyweinstein
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    unclevanya promoted this comment Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter was starred Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter was unstarred
    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    10/20/09

    @Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter: Only if and when the concept of evil itself becomes cliché. #harveyweinstein
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    10/16/09

    In reply to Who Knew the Weinsteins Still Had 30 Employees Left to Fire?
    That button does not stand a fucking chance. #harveyweinstein
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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    10/16/09

    @resipsaloquacious: The right eye of the person standing to his left is about to get punctured. #harveyweinstein
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    10/16/09

    In reply to Who Knew the Weinsteins Still Had 30 Employees Left to Fire?
    Nothing says "layoffs" like an expensive steak dinner. #harveyweinstein
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/03/09

    In reply to Media Still Talking About Partying in 1999
    Five. Dollars. A Word. I mean, listen: I know it's semi-inexcusable for me to be shocked by that number, but it's like looking at what a one bedroom loft costs in downtown Omaha: you simply can't believe people are (or were) living like that. Adjust for inflation and holy shit: the only way a writer could pull that kind of con now is if he's taking money for every word he doesn't write [bidding starts at $0.45].
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: I too refuse to buy such a thing. They're all wildly hyperbolizing or have their pants aflame. No way in hell did that transaction ever happen in the world of print journalism. Copywriters for Microsoft or Apple product, on the other hand.. They prolly get paid $500,000/word.
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    Image of elinorwhyme elinorwhyme
    08/03/09

    @snugbug: Hmm, more like $4 a word, but it happened. Just not for most of us. That rate was for the famous authors/essayists who would write one 3000-word feature a year at two or three mags tops.
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    Cynical Media Bitch promoted this comment elinorwhyme was starred elinorwhyme was unstarred
    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    08/03/09

    @elinorwhyme: Even not-so-famous niche-media types (such as yours truly) could get $1/word a few years ago. One could (sort of) scrape by at that rate.

    Today, at 10¢ a word, I can no longer afford to write. I know that I'm supposed to suffer for my art, and that I should feel awful for being unable to keep my creative fires burning, but I don't.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/03/09

    @snugbug: Oh, no, the thing is, I know it happened. I'm just still shocked by it. Tina Brown paying $5/word in '99 = Tina Brown paying upwards of $250/feature at The Daily Beast in '09.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    08/03/09

    In reply to Media Still Talking About Partying in 1999
    Open bar is my idea of unconditional love.
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    Image of Iwillnotauditionforastar Iwillnotauditionforastar
    08/03/09

    @BlinkyMcChuck: Only way to get me to show up.
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    Iwillnotauditionforastar was starred Iwillnotauditionforastar was unstarred
    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/02/09

    In reply to Media Still Talking About Partying in 1999
    Cajun garçon, you made my day with this post.. Cookie for you!

    That party sounds like major fun, actually, all Prince song puns and David Carr boo-hoo-ing aside. Aww.. Talk was really good and fun, people. Like The New Yorker for smart people who love to get trashed and then comment on Gawker! Once Talk got the obligatory cover celeb suckup outta the way, each issue was a treasure chest of awesomeness. As a Tina Brown freak (shoot me!), I like what she's doing with The Beast, but it's not even in the same galaxy as Talk.
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    Edited by snugbug at 08/02/09 11:47 PM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    08/03/09

    @snugbug: There was a time when I was a chocolate chip cookie kind of guy, but these days I'm partial to oatmeal raisin. Just so you know.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/03/09

    @The Cajun Boy: Coming right away, though I'm more of a savory-snack gal..

    BTW, and sorry for the thread-jacking comment, but the Next Food Network Star is unfolding right now on my sat cable, and I'm in a maelstrom of emotional turmoil. If Jeffrey Saad, aka my real estate dad crush who just made a harisa-splattered merguez sausage sandwich doesn't win, I will weep. =( Where are MisterHippity and the Wednesday nite Gawker Top Chef crew to hold my hand?
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    08/02/09

    In reply to Media Still Talking About Partying in 1999
    Guess every generation must wax poetic about some great party but it wasn't The Black & White Ball now was it, and no great novelist thought to include it as a touchstone in a magnificent book now did they. I would rather have talked to Capote than Brown so you can see my prejudice. One was a celebration of the accomplished and one was a product launch.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    08/03/09

    @belltolls: Wow, so you read enough of Kurt Andersen's Turn of the Century to find out that this soiree wasn't in there? Better man than I.
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    skahammer was starred skahammer was unstarred
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