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twitterati
Rob Corddry Sorry About the Ogling
A Daily Show host weirded himself out a little bit; a San Franciscan had pizza envy and Doree Shafrir discovered a yoga mat that automatically raises your blood pressure. The Twitterati were flabbergasted. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by VoxPopuli: The part about the Corddry thing that sticks with me is who the hell vacuums in New York? All the... 3 Responses | Other threads
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mother's day
Mother's Day, Professional Help Needed: I'm A Bad Son, What Do I Do?
So: let's say it's Mother's Day, and you're in a bind, because for whatever reason, you're a terrible son. What to do? Interview noted Mom expert, Postcards From Yo Momma luminary Doree Shafrir! More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Almostbanned: My mother is a lunatic for mothers day. God help us if we don't have something prepared that required at... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Assimilator
The Hipster Grifter Considered
So a regular feature with TAN on the weekend will be "The Assimilator". This week we have Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, Grifter story-breaker Doree Shafrir, and a book editor talking about: Guess Who? More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by BookishLookish: Man, the PD is really dropping the ball; it would be so easy to nab this grifty little female. Her... 6 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Methed-Out Twitterati Marry Evan Williams in Corpus Christi
The advent of Oprah has not changed the inanity of Twitter. Today, Bonnie Fuller met someone supercute, Karen Tumulty landed in the wrong spot, and Alex Blagg recommended meth! More » -
second cities
How To Grow Microcelebrities In The Comfort Of Your Own Second-Tier City!
Do you live in one of those "second-tier" cities that seems woefully bereft of despicable and/or overprivileged and whatever the case self-promoting social climbing youngs? Ever find yourself reading, say, a blog…and feeling just a twinge or a pang or whatever of envy for New York's thriving industry of microcelebrity manufacture? [JUST SAY NO.] But Kate Carraway, a writer in Toronto reflecting on that lofty matter of Jessica Roy, actually claims she does. "We have no Julia Allison, the current Wired cover star, and centre of much debate on media celebrity; no Sloane Crossley…" [sic] she laments. Nor do they have a Keith Gessen nor an Emily Gould nor even much, like, blow! "The NY media circus is ordered and replenished by an anxious, aggressive, semi-twisted sense of value, but value nonetheless," she writes, calling for "a collective pursuit of something better and more worthwhile." Well, Kate Carraway, if this is what you deem "better and more worthwhile," allow me to get service-y with you for a minute and and share with you an abridged and hastily-told tale of a group of anxious, semi-twisted twentysomethings who tried to do exactly what you aspire to do in their own "lesser" city.
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books
Why Does Newsweek Hate Blogger Prosperity?
Doree Shafrir has a bone to pick with Newsweek. The former Gawker editor recently scored a book deal from her blog of mom emails, and now Newsweek is asking whether she or any other blogger can even write books, much less sell them. "Many bloggers just repackage what they've already done," the magazine said, citing Gawker's book as an example. But the Gawker book did not contain any content from the site at all, so it can hardly be called "repackaged." And there are all kinds of other problems with Newsweek's blogger book slam: More » -
jealous rage
Gawker Alum Paid For Book Your Mom Wrote
The Observer's Doree Shafrir and Jezebel's Jessica Grose landed a book deal for "Postcards From Yo Momma," their beloved tumblr blog that reprints emails from readers' mothers, because we are all terrible children. Doree and Jessica "are said to have received a comfortable... sum," according to Balk, though not as much a the creators of Stuff White People Like. Of course the Stuff White People Like guys actually have to, like, write their book. Themselves! [Radar] Update: Doree says, "they actually want quite a bit of original content." Of course she'll probably make her mom write it.
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By PareeneComment by HeyThatsMyBike: @narnio: Nobody remembers when they wrote a book. I think Nick actually had the whole incident officially erased from history. more » | Other threads
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shut up, brooklyn
Gawker Stalker For The Ultra-Literary Set
Even if the Brooklyn Literary Scene is dead, or as Colson Whitehead put it, annoying and irrelevant, there still are a lot of writers kicking it in the borough of churches. In today's New York Observer, Fort Greene's own Doree Shafrir made an extensive list of the Brooklyn literarati, including neighborhood listings. Not to sound like an asshole, but even I didn't know about some of the writers and editors on the list. The Observer's non-college educated readership will be totally lost. More »
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By rebeccaComment by famousauthor: Why no Greenpoint? Don't famous bloggers live there? Or is it true, as Thomas Wolfe wrote, that only... more » | Other threads
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blogging bloggers
Backlash Against Hypothetical Tina Fey Backlash Well Underway
Tina Fey is a smart woman even dumb men like. But that kind of success comes with a price. Or rather, a point: the saturation point. Doree Shafrir, once of Gawker and now of the New York Observer, asked this morning: "Just curious ... ... when the Tina Fey backlash is gonna start. Because, you know, it's inevitable. Any guesses?" The response, within a small circle of bloggers, was deafening. "It's just a matter of time" says Gabe Delahaye the ex-The Unethicist, calling her the J. Lo of comedy. But wait! A retort! "No way, Jose" says Gabe's co-blogger on Videogum, Lindsay Robertson (paraphrasing). Moms — hers specifically — have no idea who Fey is. My opinion? If Tina Fey can survive endorsing Hillary Clinton, she can survive anything. Also, there's a piece of lint in my belly button that won't come out no matter how hard I stare.
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By rebeccaComment by DavinaGadison: Why would there be any backlash? The women is a successfull writer, actor in her industry. i do not see... more » | Other threads
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glaring omissions
Even More Moms Are Blogging
First Liz Smith and some other "Greatest Generation"-aged women launched Wowowow. Then former Gawker Doree Shafrir started Post Cards From Yo Momma. Now this: "I am e-mailing you because u are the first blog. The very first one. You set the trend. But web 2.0 has changed everything. Mom Blogs are a growing voice and they are 'oh my god' sunny. really sunny. Just read them. They don't talk about Omarosa sightings, they don't give us the 411 on Star Jones leaving the view. But they are growing." The rest of the email after the jump. More »
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Comment by MadameDecline: I don't care about any of this, I just want someone to make the Kimora-as-Divine ads stop! more » | Other threads
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alum report
The Internet Is Full of Moms
Gawker alum Doree Shafrir and Jezebel associate editor Jessica Grose started a tumblr made up of nothing but emails from moms. It's inspired reading, and also a fun ("fun") parlour game: match the mom-mail to the famous ("famous") New York media or internet personality! [Postcards From Yo Momma] -
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Breaking Gawker Alum Report News
Doree's mom commented on her Tumblr! She reveals that Doree loved her Commodore 64, which was "discarded" by "wealthy neighbors." [The Doree Chronicles]
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By PareeneComment by raincoaster: How the hell do you set up comments on a Tumblr? I thought the whole appeal was that you never... more » | Other threads
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the more you know
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
BREAKING UPDATE: DOREE BOUGHT JOSH THE FATEFUL CLAFOUTIS. OR HALF OF IT ANYWAY. [The Doree Chronicles, Related, Previously]
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By PareeneComment by PimpMyCouch: @Hez: Exactly. It's more of a comedic misunderstanding. Like in a Zucker brothers movie. more » | Other threads
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tumblrwatch
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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no exit
Balk's Back!
Former Gawker editor Alex Balk is blogging again! No, not really at Radar, where he works, but on his Tumblr. Have you heard of Tumblr? Allow former Gawker editor Doree Shafrir to explain—in the New York Observer, where she works, or on her Tumblr! Turns out blogging's fun when you're not getting paid for it! More good news: Denton has asked our tech wizards to "splice in" Balk's Tumblr, so you can read his drink-soaked classic rock-despising wisdom right here. (Though not at Radar, where you can read Tionna Smalls' East New York Truth.)
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By PareeneComment by IHateWhatYouHaveOn: Can someone (Balk? Choire?) finally admit that one of you (Balk) was NewToJezebel the whole time? more » | Other threads
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gawker calendar
'The Crier' Party And Oliver Sacks
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the new new new journalism
Must Every Journalist Act Like A Blogger?
"The journalistic culture in which columnists were the only ones allowed to have a personality, and everyone else's bylines were practically interchangeable, is practically gone," wrote Doree Shafrir in the New York Observer yesterday about how "personal branding" has infected even that holiest of holies, the New York Times. She uses the success of former 'TV Newser' turned Times blogger Brian Stelter as an example of the reversal of protocol that's recently taken place—reporters must now market themselves as specialists from the jump, instead of spending time working different beats until finding a comfortable "sincecure" later in life, in order to prevent themselves from being seen as interchangeable and therefore, redundant. The piece is exactly the kind of thinky, finger-on-pulse thing we've come to expect from Doree Shafrir, who also really likes 'The Hills'! More »
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By Emily GouldComment by Trackback: GUHL POWAH U BETCHES! by Molly Lambert In honor of the Spice Girls reunion, We’d like to officially declare 2008... more » | Other threads
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parties
The Political Is Extremely Impersonal At 'Radar'
Last night Radar, which is a magazine, threw a party at Goldbar for its new Politics issue. Outside, someone said that if Goldbar disappeared at that moment from the face of the earth, no one in New York would be offended. But there were free drinks, gold plated skulls, a slew of enemies and a couple of friends and a few awkward situations. Nikola Tamindzic was there to capture the gilded glory of it all.
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By Joshua SteinComment by SchmatSchmaymon: @generalmills: Give him more credit than that! Blasberg wouldn't even touch Laliberte. Well, OK he would. more » | Other threads
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eating out
"There are few social situations more awkward than the failed dinner party. The novelist at the table blathers on about his latest opus, to the adoration of the editorial assistant seated at his left and the eye-rolling of everyone else; the beef tenderloin is tough; someone repeatedly leaves to "take a call." That's Doree Shafrir in today's Observer. See the thing about blogging is we're all just too awkward to even attempt a dinner party (they aren't on Facebook) or even sentences with two semicolons! [NYO]
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By Joshua SteinComment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: @Seanibus: It wasn't throbbing, it was sobbing. more » | Other threads
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meeting people is easy
Scenes From A Long Night Of Drinking
Last night we went out for late drinks at Von, on Bleecker, to observer the departure of Alex Balk and Doree Shafrir from this here website. There I was accosted by a woman who was referred to as a "slutty intern" in a recent Gawker post about Harper's editor Roger Hodge. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by Moe: Pretty sure this broad gave me her card at approximately 4 a.m. She kept slapping the dude she was with.... more » | Other threads
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this thing looks like that thing
ABC News Handy With Thesaurus
Earlier this week, in her first piece since starting at the Observer, Doree Shafrir wrote of the David Burke & Donatella peanut butter & foie gras sandwich. Coincidentally, ABC News took a look at the sandwich today! Let's compare! More »
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By abalkComment by Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: I'm just amazed by how many people confuse a refined palate with a blind wallet. more » | Other threads
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why go out?
Art And Magazines Don't Mix At 'Radar' Art Party
"Someone in our art department knows someone at Campari," shrugged a Radar staffer when asked why Radar was co-hosting a party at the Campari gallery in Soho. "Hey, where's Balk?" I rolled my eyes at him. "So are you really upset about him leaving?" the Radar staffer persisted. "Yes, he's like a dadbrother to me," I told him honestly. "But I'm sure he'll have a great time working for you guys. He loves this kind of thing." The Radar staffer was just perspicacious enough to realize that I was being sarcastic. He shook his highball glass, which contained Campari. "Hey, free drinks." Laurel Ptak took photos so you can see just how wrong this scene is. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by scarcat: I have heard it said that the party is not over till there is nothing left to drink but Campari.... more » | Other threads
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eating out
The Foie Gras PB&J
The object of your curiosity is a $21 variation on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: a special, though almost every night it's on the menu, described as a "torchon of foie gras, macadamia nut butter, strawberry-vanilla jam, toasted brioche." At a restaurant known for taking culinary whimsy to a sometimes illogical extreme, this invention seems decidedly illogical: a kitschy bastardization of a fourth-grader's lunch.
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By abalkComment by HeatherNumber1: What's the big deal. Next time you order foie gras (if you're like me, it'll be sometime this weekend),... more » | Other threads
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yom kippur
My Bad, Darfur
Each year (or really, every 11 months and two weeks or so, kinda), the Jews observe Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, during which leather shoes and doing it are totally forbidden. Then there are many apologies. Let it begin with us! Herewith, Balk makes amends to some of the people he's hurt so horribly this year. More »
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By abalkComment by yourfriendandneighbor: Band Of Horses, "Everything All The Time." Best album of 2006. more » | Other threads
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fuck it i'm so out of here
Okay, It Really Is Goodbye
So guys? We're very quickly nearing the end of my tenure here. As you undoubtedly know, I'm going to that salmon-colored rag that Choire already turned up his nose at, and whose new owner, I'm told, forces all hires to eat liver and onions until they puke all over Peter Kaplan's desk. Not looking forward to that so much! Um. Anyways! As I said earlier in the day, I'm all kinds of excited and sad. But I couldn't leave without saying a proper goodbye. Memories!
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Comment by Phyllis Nefler: Doree, Rice just moved to Elizabeth above Houston! All is not lost! more » | Other threads
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goodbyes
Doree Shafrir: A Look Back
As you know, Doree Shafrir is leaving us today, which is an occasion for great sadness. As readers, you know her from her fantastic work here on the site, but those of us who work with her have been lucky enough to see a whole other side of Doree. Who is Doree Shafrir? Let's take a quick trip down memory lane, via the magic of stored e-mails. More » -
departures on great terms
Doree Shafrir Ankles New Media Sweatshop
Near the end of day yesterday, Gawker's Doree Shafrir handed in her two weeks notice. She'll be leaving us for the New York Observer, where she'll write and report on "ideas." (That role has been, it seems, officially unfilled since the departure of Sheelah Kolhatkar for Portfolio over the winter.) Doree began here as an "associate editor" last October, and early this year transitioned to reporting on the media full-time. She can only be replaced here at Gawker with a terrifying room full of jerry-rigged threshing machines held together with baling wire and lubricated with grain alcohol. We sincerely wish her the best of luck in destroying Jared Kushner from inside his own shop—or, at least, in bringing that paper what the boy publisher may not know it so desperately needs.
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By ChoireComment by Madame_Ovary: Now the Glaring Omission will be your absence. Was $168K too little for you? more » | Other threads
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to do
To Do: The Underminer, The Comedian, Or The Cobrasnake It Boy
- See Mike Albo's fluffy mustache in person: $10. (Bonus: see associate editor Doree Shafrir in person: it's a benefit for The Crier, one of her many side projects.) [Maud Newton] More »
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By Emily GouldComment by taylorklong: I like that they say that Steve Aoki is Devon Aoki's *sister.* I knew there was something funny about that... more » | Other threads
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doree shafrir
A Message From the New Associate Editor: All-Rack Edition
Oh, hello there. I'm Doree Shafrir, and what my new jailers like to call an associate editor. For your sanity and mine, they've benevolently granted me the late monkey-helper shift, which means your afternoons will be that much more enlightening, and also leaves me more time for my various other extracurricular pursuits. Now, who am I, you ask? Well. Some of you may remember me as the girl who confessed her love for Kevin Federline, but really, that's ancient history at this point. I've moved on to bigger and easier targets, like Chuck Klosterman, a dead horse I resolve to continue kicking long past the point of rationality. Honestly, though, he likes the attention. More »
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