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    Image of HelenofPeel HelenofPeel
    11/12/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    Let's face it, HuffPo is sensationalist journalism with a leftward slant, versus Drudge being sensationalist with a rightward wingnut slant.

    They both are awful. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @HelenofPeel: I would promote that if I could. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @Adah: I can! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    Wow, where did you get that pic of Nidal Hasan? #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    HuffPo will never work until it stops censoring comments so much; the sameness makes it as boring as the comments on, oh, CuteOverload, for example. It's become more about boobs and provocative titles and giving hacks of every kind a chance to "post" their inane comments or flog their latest book/product/agenda. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @Novaload: I am proud to have been banned from HuffPo for calling Alec Baldwin a douche! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @Nigerian Business Executive: OMG, I went after him, Jamie Lee Curtis, Maria Shriver, and the feel-good fake doctors of everything promoting their books and tapes. I didn't get banned, they just refused to approve the comments, so it became a challenge to me to find the key flag words. Apparent "fatuous pinheaded fame whore hack" is a no-no, but that's just my working hypothesis. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @Novaload: There are comments on Cute Overload?
    Edit: Yes, and there's currently a raging controversy about whether human babies should be allowed!
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by Maryscary at 11/11/09 9:27 PM Maryscary was starred Maryscary was unstarred
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    11/12/09

    @Maryscary: OMG yes. But it's a cult, wherein you are only allowed to say "OMG!" and "Oh, my head will asplode from teh qute!" and they exchange sunshine tofu recipes and give each other imaginary cookies-- and if you say anything that strikes anyone negatively you are a terrible, terrible person. It's notorious for requiring that the rear end be kissed of the Megan and her henchman, Theo. I know this because of painful experience with a cousin. They also had a huge argument over whether people's faces should ever be included. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @Novaload: Except for when people go crazy saying "That toy has a sequin on it that COULD HAVE KILLED THAT CAT. Turn the owner in!" #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @triplethreat: Yes, yes! Those are called 'nuffers' there--If I recall right. "That's enough with the poor kitties who are posed precariously on a piano! That's enough of wet kitties" yadda yadda yadda. I know it's evil, but I sometimes wish 4chan would go after them.
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    11/12/09

    @Novaload: Nuffers! Everything is cute! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    So, if any of us had bothered to answer the ad and if we made the cut, we could be getting a Huffington Post?
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    People who miss Geocities can get their fix of bad design at Huffington Post. The place looks more and more like Homer's Web Page by the day! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    Everybody knows you can't feed journalists because then they'll just continue to hang around, digging up your garden and criticizing the sloppy syntax in your shopping lists. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    I have a friend since high school whose late mother was a best-selling writer and whose father was his wife's business manager. Years ago, while still a whelp, I placed an article in a highly local newspaper, an article I wasn't paid for but that gave me experience and a small platform. When I proudly told my friend's parents about this, her father gravely said, "You're a writer when you get paid for it." #huffingtonpost
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: As a Greek-American writer, I offer my very distant relative Homer to refute your statement, TBG. Then again, you are TheBusinessGuy--what else are you going to posit?

    Your post brings up an interesting debate. Next time you're in L.A., first rounds on me... #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: I didn't say I agreed with it. But I will take the round, and thanks. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You didn't. As someone whose income is falling more steadily than a pair of cosmetically enhanced breasts, the whole "when is a writer a writer" debate takes on renewed meaning. It is a touchy subject, as my Mother would say.

    Anyway, you're welcome. Keep up the great posts... #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: Hey, some of my best friends, etc., etc., etc. Thanks for the kind words, which I return in kind. And good luck! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You're a writer when you don't need other people to tell you if you're a writer or not. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @raincoaster: I like that. But what about all of those people who think they can write poetry? #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    11/12/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: when you get paid for it. Interesting hypothesis.

    The other one that I've heard is that you cannot tell during your own life whether you are a writer or a copywriter. Only your thombstone will tell the truth on that question. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: Please retract your statement above. You've clearly forgotten about graphomaniacs.

    This isn't a jab about your writing in general, just about the single above sentence. It is just wrong. #huffingtonpost
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    raincoaster promoted this comment Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was starred Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was unstarred
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    11/12/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Nobody said they were GOOD writers. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: Nope, I just expanded on it. You can be a writer without being a talented writer, same as you can be a dreadful actor, an appallingly bad painter, a really clumsy dancer. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: After all, we need those kinds of people in the industry to make US look good. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: "You haven't seen enough to be a writer." --Wolf Larsen, The Sea Wolf, by Jack London #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @atlasspanked: That'll school that uppity Emily Dickinson. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    As a resident of Denver, I must say that Denver's Huff Post is tedious, annoying and awful. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/11/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Oh, great, just what L.A. needs, more tedious, annoying, awful things. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Oh, come on, you mean Los Angeles doesn't need more of its' obnoxious cliches documented? #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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