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Juancho
10/29/09

In reply to Esquire Betting it All on Flashing Electronic Doo-Dads
Also, this RFID/Barcode box thing has been going on for a while now. Golf Digest has had it, and I doubt it's doing wonders for their renewal rates. #esquire
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Hamilton Nolan
10/29/09

@Juancho: Also:

[gawker.com] #esquire
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sarrible
10/29/09

In reply to Esquire Betting it All on Flashing Electronic Doo-Dads
I must say I have no problem with Jeremy Renner taking his clothes off anywhere and any time he wants. #esquire
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DahlELama
10/29/09

In reply to Esquire Betting it All on Flashing Electronic Doo-Dads
I know people love to lament how Esquire has worsened considerably since the "good old days" or whatever, but since I wasn't around for those and therefore have no basis for comparison (kind of like early SNL) I must say that month after month, I continue to find Esquire fanfreakintastic. Love the fiction, the "funny joke from a beautiful woman," the one-page celebrity interviews, pretty much any article by Tom Chiarella...all in all, I find it to be one of the most quality publications out there.

I realize none of that addresses the real subject of the post, but the reliance on technology to enhance a hard-copy publication makes me unspeakably sad. Especially since I don't own a webcam. #esquire
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kepster
10/29/09

@DahlELama: I love Esquire as well. Why is it that "mens" magazines are so much more interesting than "womens" magazines? Oh yeah, because they recognize a world beyond romance and weight loss. #esquire
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Juancho
10/29/09

@DahlELama: I have to agree with you, for the most part. It's still my favorite magazine to read, but I think it has fallen off a bit from 2001-2003, when I could read it cover-to-cover as soon as it came.

As for the "glory days", get any book by George Lois, and you'll have your fill. It was good stuff, but you can only read so much old news. #esquire
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DahlELama
10/29/09

@kepster: Discovering men's magazines in college was an utter revelation. Funny how none of them ever devote more than 2 pages to "How to Please Your Woman," "How to Lose 10 Pounds," or "437 Grooming Products You Need to Buy Right Now or You Will Become a Hideous Beast That No One Will Marry." Kind of makes you wonder what the content of women's magazines could be... #esquire
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lobstr
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
Hah, whenever I hear "Choate" I think of this:

[www.adultswim.com]
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lobstr
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now

with the caption "He keeps the bathroom caddy affixed to the mirror with suction cups."

Holy shit he's a visionary!

Or... he went to Wal*Mart and blew $5..
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i'm a bottle
05/05/09

@lobstr: The mirror is warped, no?
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Professor Korbel
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
I knew this would make Gawker. I know this guy, and he's truly a sweet guy...
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Cicada
05/04/09

@Professor Korbel: Oh, there you go ruining it for everyone with your "reality" and "perspective". Sheesh!
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
Sure I'd go by Maximilian too if my name was Ronald.
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Curatorial
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
I can't get past the three toothbrushes. For someone so tidy....it's curious.
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nirreskeya
05/04/09

@Curatorial: As someone with three toothbrushes, I should note that they all clean differently. For maximum effect, you need to alternate.

I don't mean to sound so pretentious there (I'm not an early twentysomething, by God). Truthfully, this three-toothbrush thing come up only recently and quite by accident, but the discovery remains.
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Rumpelstilskin
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
I bet he was really pissed about the hole NY Mag had to drill in his ceiling to get that shot.
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i'm a bottle
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
God, who wasn't utterly pretentious in college, in one way or another? -- Be it our hipsterish-ironic taste in music, our interest in French literary theory or our being fashionably and/or Romantically wasted, yes, we all possessed Max-like traits in some degree.
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Baroness
05/04/09

@i'm a bottle: I agree, I have sympathy for him. Young people are in the midst of finding themselves, they overdo it, they're pretentious but part of that is a desire to find what they stand for, often clumsily, pretentiously. So what? Should he be doing kegstands to escape mockery here? To fit in, and be boring and "normal" like a frat boy?

The more I think of it, Pareene's subject title is a bit cruel. Let the kid have his imagination.
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Hydroceph
05/04/09

@Baroness: OK, so we let the kid have his imagination, but does he need to do it in public?
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i'm a bottle
05/04/09

@i'm a bottle: I would probably be careful about taunting him as well: I am the last one who wants to see a school shooting involving a set of fin de siècle British double bore shotguns with Floretian gold inlay accents and Colonial-era elephant rifles.
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cdmunch
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
He'll have his khakis down to his knees for some Latino thugboy in the backroom of the Hose in no time.
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Hydroceph
05/04/09

@cdmunch: We can only hope someone captures it on his iPhone.
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cdmunch
05/04/09

@Hydroceph: That's terribly filthy of you, wanting to watch that.
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Hydroceph
05/04/09

@cdmunch: Oh, like you're so pure. You'll be the one with the iPhone, won't you?
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cdmunch
05/04/09

@Hydroceph: Ha! It would get stolen in a second in one of those sexy awful dirty places. Anyway, I'm a shut-in with a NetFlix addiction.
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Hydroceph
05/04/09

@cdmunch: But you admit you know what they are, which is more than i can say. I'm stuck with watching it on some skeezy webpage. I mean, i would be if i knew of such things. Yeah, that's what i mean.
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Baroness
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
A bit Lalibertèan. A strange dejà vu. But, let's do give the kid a break. At least he's not boorish and boring, and everyone has splashy photo-filled articles that they'll be mortified about later when they're adults, right? Looking at you, Tatler.
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kathotdog
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
I had a funny smell in my room in college. I finally moved the bed and found The Scab. It wasn't a real scab, but a foot and a half long by foot wide spill of some sort of red juice and alcohol that had soured and attracted cigarettes and fuzz and an odd sock, a condom wrapper and other miscellaneous bits.
I moved out shortly after that.
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nirreskeya
05/04/09

@kathotdog: My freshman year dorm room shared a wall with the bathroom on the floor, specifically the wall that encased the urinal plumbing. Two weeks shy of May finals there was a backup in said urinal, with the overflow seeping into my room. They moved me to a conveniently recently abandoned room across the hall shortly after that.
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Hydroceph
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
Nice basket.
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dandles
05/04/09

In reply to So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
He's like a Bret Easton Ellis character come to life, the one who pines away for the straight hero, who bangs him on a drug fueled dare. I want the hipster grifter to come into his life and absolutely destroy him.
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hatey
05/04/09

@dandles: Please write this novel immediately, but with a little less "Bret Easton."
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