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    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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    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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    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    the book is so pre 9.11 it's a shame to lose the wtc from the cover
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    I thought McInerney had it written into his contract that only Chip Kidd could do his covers... and this doesn't look like one of his to me.
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    I can't wait to see how they re-work the cover of Ransom for its 25th anniversary.

    Oh, wait...
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    The makeover is eye-pleasing, but I feel like I've seen it done this way at least 657th times. Huh. And I don't think I'm even counting all the SNL Saturdays, either.

    Also, I would hope they would keep that Raymond Carver blurb in some sort of prominence; that bit o' honey is something to cherish. Anyone ever read Cathedral? Ahh.
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    Shrewd SNL observation. Also, the newly released BLBC audiobook is narrated by Don Pardo.
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
    Oh, the 80s. Sniff (sarcastic sniff, not coke sniff).

    For my Gawker babies: Anyone who tries to back-in-the-day you with references to the glorious nights hanging out at the Odeon, you have my express permission to punch them in the head/balzac. That place was a Eurotrash/hangers-on dumping ground par ex, and all the cool kids were down the street at the Mudd Club, or even over on Leonard Street at the Clocktower.
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    08/31/09

    @BookishLookish: Yeah, really, the Odeon of all places?
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    08/31/09

    @BookishLookish:

    And nowadays the mere presence of Jay McInerney signals pretention without real style or compelling substance.
    The more things change...
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    08/31/09

    @City_Dater: His presence might signal lack of compelling substance, but it eternally signals the abundance of at least one type of substance. I hugely enjoyed Jay McInerney's cameo in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park. Bret is having a party at his house, and Jay shows up uninvited and starts distributing coke to everyone. HA!
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    08/31/09

    @City_Dater:

    But what about his work on Iron Chef America?
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