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the way we live now
How Will the Media Profit from Michael Jackson's Death?
Now that Michael Jackson's passed away and the mad scramble to cover the breaking story has settled down a bit, the media can now turn its focus toward more important matters—How to profit from Jackson's demise. More »
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Comment by LeeroySpitzer: It's OK Gawker, Rush Limbaugh said we need hypocricy. It shows that we have cultural values. 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Lady Senators Wouldn't Be Constantly Cheating, Twitterati Told
Amanda Carpenter provided a gendered response to the Ensign scandal; MC Hammer shamed a writer and Choire Sicha revealed Awl. For the Twitterati, it was a day to discuss secrets. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Drunken Economist: I guess Ryan's the next one on the way out; Owen started this twatterati thing and was gone x months... 1 Responses | Other threads
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WTAN
Deep Thoughts: In the Year 2050 Will the Internet Still Be Using Exclamation Marks So Much?
We're past the first 100 days of Obama, but the post-racial buzz is still in the air. Even Jay-Z says there's no such thing as "black music" anymore? Ok, but what about white punctuation marks? More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by TedSez: By the year 2050, how you feel about something you write won't be expressed by punctuation at all, but by... 3 Responses | Other threads
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alum report
Blogs People Who Once Worked at Gawker Launch
Gawker emeriti Alex Balk and Choire Sicha have launched their blog, The Awl ("a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes"), which explains where I sit and features Emily Gould's advice. Welcome back. More »
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Comment by MisterHippity: Choire, Balk ... and a post by Emily too? It's like 2007 all over again — but without the asshole president! 5 Responses | Other threads
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alum report
Choire Sicha to Save New York, With Book
Former editor of this site Choire Sicha is writing a book! Which we knew already. But now he's talking about it! The Platonic Ideal of 'Gawker' is writing about...people like you! More »
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Comment by ADismalScience: The problem with New York is people that think that transcendent genius is caged in their mind, a few sentences... 62 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twittered to Distraction
Jennifer 8. Lee saw Cameron Diaz. Ashton Kutcher missed Demi Moore. Choire Sicha dreamed about his therapist. On Twitter, we are all the stars of our own movies. Today's narcissist watch: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Truculent: Any minute now Jenny will start developing her own gravitational field. Put down the chopsticks, Jenny, before you become Jennifer... 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
The Rules For Interviewing Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper prefers to address questions about his sexuality with on-camera winks, nudges and the like. There's a reason the CNN anchor is not asked for more direct answers in formal interviews. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Madge Gristle: Kathy Griffin put it best - he's a well respected journalist who has gone into countries in the middle of... 15 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Life Is Good for the Twitterati
The media live deeply ordinary lives. Okay, deeply ordinary lives in which their bosses buy them caviar. The Twitterati report in with a feast for the senses: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by contradicto: Today I had a diet greek salad for lunch. The "diet" part confused me because it was basically a gyro... 4 Responses | Other threads
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view askew
The View Meets The NY Times, Talks Cruise, Coulter & Cantone
Last night, former Gawker editor Choire Sicha attended a panel with the women of the View sponsored by the NY Times. Joy Behar was there! Ann Coulter was mentioned! After the jump, his story. [Jezebel] -
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Life Beyond Blogging
Former Gawker editor Choire Sicha is now—for New Year's Eve at least—MSNBC's expert on the Obama girls.
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By Nick DentonComment by Baroness: Did they coordinate their 90's tech-geek outfits? I'm having flashbacks to Soledad O'Brien's days as Manix Pixie Dream Techie... 1 Responses | Other threads
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passive aggressive
Anderson Cooper 'Not Interested' In Rachel Maddow's Show
Ha ha, dig CNN golden boy Anderson Cooper's subtle dig at competitor Rachel Maddow's show in the LA Times today: He thinks she's great, he just finds her show boring and cliché. Oh, OK! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Pope John Peeps II: Did Anderson Cooper say all this while standing in a hurricane, wearing a poncho, looking like an idiotic wet spaniel? Or... 11 Responses | Other threads
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50 cent
50 Cent Is Reading This
Choire Sicha learns 50 Cent's darkest secret: CS: "So wait, you get up in the morning and look at, like, Perez Hilton?" 50: "You better look at Perez Hilton, ThisisFifty.com, Concrete Loop, Gawker — you can skip Media Takeout." [LAT]
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Comment by Hey_mikey: Hey Fitty, nice to see you're keeping it pimpish as always. So, buddy, how many scholarships have you endowed, um,... 14 Responses | Other threads
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doug dechert
Bitter Old Man Threatens To Punch Choire Sicha
Doug Dechert, a "sometime PR flack" and sometime-writer who's about 50 years old, threatened to assault former Gawker editor and current Radar writer Choire Sicha Wednesday night. Specifically, Dechert said “I’m going to punch that little prick [Choire] in his fucking face." Dechert—who was once on the receiving end of an email defenestration and a shove from Ian Spiegalman—made the threat at a book party for chaste author Dawn Eden. Which Choire Sicha did not attend. Here are the specifics, from NY Press writer Matt Harvey, who was there: More »
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Comment by the supergoddess: Oh Dechart, no no, bad idea buddy. I would back slowly away from the Great and Might Sicha if I... 7 Responses | Other threads
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rev-lol-ving doors
CHOIRE SICHA TO RADAR
Former Gawker editor twice over (twice-former??) Choire Sicha recently got canned from his job writing columns for a pittance at the New York Observer because he wrote something about how no one at that sad newspaper has any air conditioning, because of wee Jared Kushner (and now we know that we shall never work there!). But good news for him! He is joining former Gawker editor Alex Balk at Radar, where he will certainly never get in trouble for writing anything about anyone who may or may not own that fine publication. He will be called an "Editor at Large," just like Hamish Bowles! The position is sort of the one our own Moe was going to take, but then she came to Gawker instead. There are like three jobs in New York and they now they are ALL taken. [Radar]
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By PareeneComment by raincoaster: @UnstableMabel: Nah. Tempest/Teapot, really. It's not like one has to choose sides; this isn't the War of the Roses or... more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Alec Baldwin Walks Out On Choire Sicha, LA Times
"Then he suddenly stood up and said, 'Lemme go find out something, hold on' and, inexplicably, went to lunch." [LA Times] -
ruiners
Choire Sicha: Enemy of Love
Choire Sicha (inadvertently) destroys celebrity relationships! First the former Gawker minion interviews actor (I guess?) Balthazar Getty who gushes about his fabulous wife and kids and then a few months later he's caught cheating with a topless Sienna Miller. Then he spoke with baby-faced Biloxi Blues star Matthew Broderick, who also waxed rhapsodic about his family. And now? Ol' Bueller's sneaking out of some red headed floozy's friend's window. Choire, you must be stopped! Or, at the very least, please don't interview Matt Damon or his barmaid wife. I just love them together. -
Things As Good As Cheese
A Demure Review
More Batman! Our former leading man Choire Sicha reviewed The Dark Knight for Radar. And he liked it. A lot.
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Comment by TallulahSkankhead: Wow. Why didn't I like the movie? At all? Why did Heath give me the retarded tingles? But at least... more » | Other threads
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jessica roy
About That Gessen Cabal...
"This 'tiny concentration of hyper-intellectuals has become a juggernaut that subtly controls everything that happens in the industry' is what [Jess] Roy says she came to believe. But most of these people to whom Roy refers can barely put on underwear before noon." [Choire Sicha, Previously]
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By Ryan TateComment by MadamButterfloozy: Jess is certainly on her way to making lots of frienemies. more » | Other threads
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blogdom
Blog Feuds
Choire Sicha provides a useful history of blog feuds. (But the precious former Gawker editor can't bring himself to make a fully-fledged listicle.)
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By Nick DentonComment by the supergoddess: Mister Denton, you two are so cute when you're angry but can't you kiss and make up already? more » | Other threads
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alum report
All The Sad Young Literary Former Gawker Editors
Hooray! Now we all get to track down Choire's book proposal! It is called And the Heart Says, "asdjdhslakdsf." [Twitter] -
bastards of young
The Internet Says Drop Out of School!
The internet is full of scorn and advice for The Youngs, today. Everyone is so concerned! It's sweet. As we mentioned, Doree explores the topic of foolish Ivy League entitlement at some length in The Observer. Young-on-young violence! Meanwhile some of us are forced into oppressive internshps. An angry old man says quit bitching, basically. A sad young literary old man has advice (?) about how we Youngs are full of GUFF. Guff toward him! Of all people! This rubs some youngs the wrong way. But there is a solution! To everyone's problem! Everyone needs to drop out of school, as soon as possible. The best of the best have done it and lived to tell the tale. Including that angry old guy from before, who was, once again, ahead of the curve. He has moved on to unemployment, which is, we hear, similarly freeing. Who else is in? Update: Ha ha ha. Maybe we should all learn trades?
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By PareeneComment by RollsRoyceRevenge: @Tyrone-Slothrop: I can't believe it either. I thought the old duffer he referred to was an actual person he... more » | Other threads
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elizabeth hurley
Elzabeth Hurley Still Not Enraging Denis Leary's Wife
Yesterday, Daily News columnists Rush & Molloy speculated that maybe, just maybe, the novel from the wife of comedian Denis Leary (above, right) is autobiographical, since it's about a wife whose famous husband is good friends with a hot Australian movie star, sort of like how Leary is friends with hot English actress Elizabeth Hurley (above, left). In the novel, the actor's wife is upset by his "schoolboy crush" on the friend. We wrote that Ann Leary had "sadly channeled her frustrations into a thinly-veiled 'novel.'" But she replies that Gawker is "crazy," and told Choire Sicha of the LA Times that we're just clawing for cheap attention. Well, that last part is true. But at least we can admit it! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Trixie from Toronto: @VoxPopuli: It was a pretty open secret, I thought, that they were in fact banging. When Stephen Bing was disputing... more » | Other threads
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rage of the creative underclass
Keith Gessen Is Morally Superior To You
We don't know Keith Gessen and haven't read his book (and never will!), and obviously we're biased because Gawker turned us evil and we like Choire (and Emily!) but he has a very important essay (THE MOST IMPORTANT TUMBLR RANT OF OUR TIME) that he tumble logged about how people need to stop being mean to him because THEY ARE WHORES INFECTED BY THE STAIN OF WRITING GOSSIP and HE WRITES ABOUT CANCER, CANCER GODDAMMIT. Also stop calling him a blinkered, privileged asshole because that is EXACTLY WHAT REPUBLICANS DO and also, and we quote: "Everyone went to the same six schools. Everyone has dated everyone." It's funny because it is insanely incorrect! Oh my god we haven't even gotten to the worst part. More »
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By PareeneComment by MAGGIEBETH: You know what? I'm on team Gessen. You know why? It's a hard world for us incurably earnest. more » | Other threads
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alum report
Where Are They Now
Choire compiled the ultimate Gawker Alumni Report. Go see what every former editor is doing right now! (Except, uh, Maggie?) (Update: Nevermind! Now it is comprehensive, except of course for the OLDE WEEKEND CREW) [Radar]
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By PareeneComment by RollsRoyceRevenge: @flossy: More like "25 Editors, One Cup, the Odd Unfortunate Tattoo." more » | Other threads
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sex wars
Male Writers Having Trouble Getting it Up
This week, everybody's wondering why boys (yes, they call them boys) can't write anymore! In the Observer, Choire Sicha argues that with the current crop of women writers looming over them—Janet Malcolm, Ursula Le Guin, Didion, Dunn—dude writers simply can't concentrate, much less perform. " A little penis, it turns out, can be a dangerous thing," he writes. "But it's not crazy at all to feel bad for the young male writers of our time, despite all they have done to us with their books." Or what they haven't done to us with them! Debut novelist and n+1 editor Keith Gessen's photo, tragically, illustrates this article. And now Emily Gould chimes in on Galleycat. (Disclosure? "Whatever. Google me.") More » -
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Today in Lists
Today, the UK Telegraph unveiled its "50 Most Influential US Political Pundits" list. Though only entries 50-41. This merits a Drudge link? The rest of the entries will apparently be revealed as the week drags on. We anxiously await learning who some center-right Brits think pull our strings! Meanwhile, Nerve today posted the more satisfying "Top 10 Rich People Who Look Poor" list, so we figured we'd just combine them and present the Top 2 Influential Political Pundits Who Look Poor. More » -
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Choire Sicha Blogging On Liberated Wonkette
Choire Sicha is getting a new column on the new Wonkette. Observer contributor Sicha of course held intermittent leadership jobs at Gawker, not unlike his new boss Ken Layne, who held intermittent leadership jobs at Wonkette. Sicha and Layne also worked together at shuttered Gawker Media site Sploid. Sicha's new column does not yet appear to have a name. Five words: "Choire And Ken's Live Yoga." Or maybe something about beard maintenance. [Wonkette] -
douchebags
"Joe Dolce And James Frey Are Now Friends"
When he was editor in chief of Star magazine, Joe Dolce would let nothing, not even a wedding, or journalistic ethics, keep him from telling a tawdry story. At least that was the idea, until Dolce found himself looking for a new job. A year later, Dolce has dusted himself off and taken the first critical step toward rehabilitating his image: becoming Facebook friends and, no doubt, lifetime soulmates with writer James Frey, another fallen purveyor of overaggressive, ethically-challenged "nonfiction." Dolce added the lying author of a Million Little Pieces to his friends list on Valentine's Day, which is just really sweet. Maybe he can convince Frey to accompany him on one of his travel-writing assignments — it's ethically challenged and everything, James! — and then learn the secret to profiting fabulously from infamy, as Frey did with the $2 million advance on his forthcoming novel.
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By Ryan TateComment by the supergoddess: @PimpMyCouch: yes! especially now that the weather is turning - it's fun to take it to the park or the... more » | Other threads
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listicles
Internets, Gays, Celebrities: Three Things That Will Destroy Your Family This Valentine's Day
The American Family is Under Attack. Homosexuals, liberals, Europeans, celebrities, immigrants—all seek to undermine our nation's moral code. Marriage, parenthood, even chaste teenage courtship are embattled and probably doomed. Movies about children having children out of wedlock, gays trying to marry gays, and wife-stealing media moguls are just symptoms of a deeper moral rot in our culture. Here, we present to you, exclusively, three of the greatest dangers to your family unit that you are sure to face this February—and beyond!
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By PareeneComment by the lesser of two weevils: Coming this fall to ABC: He's a holy priest, she's a resto druid, and with two small children at home... more » | Other threads
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scandal
Gawker Alum Report
Former Gawker editor Joshua David Stein's Page Six Magazine story on the unhappy end of his not-quite-secret romantic relationship with former Gawker editor Emily Gould leaves neither of them looking particularly mature. It is, poetically, not available online. The best recap may be this one, from Karen, an "avid quilter" and "middle aged blogger." Former Gawker editor Alex Balk gives Barack Obama "the coveted Balk endorsement," because he hates baby boomers, dynasties, and women (j/k!). He also pens the ultimate Radar post. Former Gawker managing editor Choire Sicha interviewed Paulda Abdul, commented on the Stein/Gould affair via IM transcript, and started a band. Jessica Coen: still Tumblring. Update: The full story, with commentary, may be found here.
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By PareeneComment by triplethreat: Why do I picture Emily and Julia driving off in a convertible, boobs hitched to their chins, throwing money at... more » | Other threads
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travesties
Why won't THE MSM leave Choire Sicha's liquor store ALONE! [Radar]
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money changes everything
Jon Fine Would Rather Not Discuss His Billions of Dollars
Former Gawker editor Choire Sicha interviewed BusinessWeek's Jon Fine—husband of confused gazillionaire Mediabistro lady Laurel Touby—for this internet video thing called Bloggingheads. And he sorta made Jon uncomfortable! No one likes to talk about money, especially when they have lots and lots of it. "This short clip is my final, incoherent (and actually feverish) attempt at rehashing his wife Laurel Touby's complaints about her riches in the New York Times," Choire says. Enjoy Jon's hip Ramones shirt and admire his vast record collection, after the jump! More » -
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Today In Gawker Alums
Doree is bored by The Wire's Baltimore Sun storyline. Choire is at a seafood restaurant in South Carolina. Emily is posting photos of her dog (and criticizing books about sad literary men). Balk is really sorry he hasn't updated in a while but it's been totally crazy at work! -
where are they now
Today In Gawker Alums
On his Tumblr today, Alex Balk muses on Nick Denton's morality, suggests that his vision of hell involves doing his current job with Radar, and makes one (1) tit joke. Guest-blogging at kottke.org, Choire Sicha continues mining Times metro sections of days past for ironies and gimlet-eyed commentary on the sorry state of 2008 New York. Doree Shafrir has a photo of Emily Gould's dog. Emily Gould has re-launched her blog. Jesse Oxfeld IMd us earlier to remind us that he has "a very small and entirely static presence" on the Internet. Jessica Coen's website has itself been fairly static since the start of the year. [Previously]
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By PareeneComment by Curse_of_NursePornstein: @scarletmenace: Status quo ante. more » | Other threads
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bloggorhea
Alumni Report
Missing the taste of classic Gawker? The inimitable Choire Sicha is blogging this week at kottke.org, the personal site of Jason Kottke, a fellow blogging old-timer. Emily Gould has introduced the exclamation — Yay! — to Jewcy, the online magazine for "New Jews". Former advice columnist Tionna Smalls tells readers of SLC Outsider, based in Salt Lake City, that life is what you make of it. Alex Balk and Jessica Coen are now, tragically, in management. And Elizabeth Spiers is otherwise engaged giving quotes to the New York Times.
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By Nick DentonComment by I-heart-Rien: @nutmeg: Pope Pious XII? Christ, how OLD are you dude? more » | Other threads
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modern serfs
Management Gawker Style
Because it's allegedly "Administrative Professionals' Day," the folks at MediaBistro have put together a package of "seven things the kid getting your coffee can teach you." While we don't necessarily consider ourselves assistants, we are all subservient to our Managing Editor Choire Sicha, so we read the piece with some interest as to how it reflected his management style. We've pulled out the seven tips and, via the miracle of preserved IM transcripts, taken the measure of the manager. Results follow. More »
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By abalk2Comment by Caroline Bingley: They forgot "if your assistant is well connected he can double as your dealer" and "if you promise to toss your... more » | Other threads
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photos
At Least We Know It's a Chain-Smoking Writer Type
Because our slutty sister left us briefly and utterly confused earlier today, we'd like to make a brief public service announcement. It is not New York Observer senior editor and Gawker alumnus Choire Sicha in the above photo. Rather, it's Christopher Hitchens. More » -
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Gawker Explainer: Names in the News
Because apparently none of you people can read without also moving your lips, we hear your pleas and provide this assistance: More »
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By JesseComment by Valerie Flame: Hey this is fun! Corky Shi-mash-ko (Siemaszko) more » | Other threads
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radar
The De-'Radar'-ing: Finally, the Souvenirs
Feel the need to commemorate Radar's short life? So far, two options seem to be available: More »
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