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Republican's Abortion Joke Positively Uproarious
A Bush-Cheney operative let loose a zinger about orgies and abortion; Kurt Andersen finally watched The Wire; and Neel Shah was discovered something unusual in Oprah's hold music. The Twitterati found some low-hanging fruit. More »It's No Coincidence that Spy and Ferris Bueller's Day Off Both Came Out in 1986
Someone sent along this side-by-side of Kurt Andersen and John Hughes, two men whose sensibilities came to define the late '80s and early '90s, for better and for worse. Where have we seen this bit before?Spy Founder Kurt Andersen Flabbergasted By Brush With Michelle Obama, Stole From White House
This is fun: Spy founder Kurt Andersen boastfully threw a picture up on his Facebook page of him sitting twenty feet away from a certain president's wife, speaking to a room full of people. Andersen was positively schoolyard-crush giddy. More »'Michelle Obama Ran Her Hand Across My Back'
Kurt Andersen enjoyed an intimate, sexy moment with Michelle Obama; a Chicago Tribune writer made an orgy of his meal and Micki Maynard rocked out. The Twitterati were feeling carnal. More »It's Not a Crippling Recession. It's a Learning Experience!
How You Could Have Saved Michael Jackson
The Twitterati were obsessed with the less brilliant Michael Jackson: His most brain-dead lyrics, his worst video moments and his awful neglect at the hands of...you! More »Lesbians Really Dig Kurt Andersen
All lesbians are Midwesterners who cotton to Kurt Andersen; all Apple copywriters should fear a Steve Jobs tantrum; and all people with cameras are unpaid Associated Press stringers. For the Twitterati, Monday was absolutely something. More »'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
The Very Long Con of a Very Short List
Barry Diller's effort to pawn off Very Short List, his failed shopping newsletter for the rich, is turning into a classic New York media folly — a big drama over a puny digital property. More »Sweetbread Piccata iPhone App Makes the Twitterati Go Chris Brown
Why isn't there, like, an iPhone app that does all your actual work so you can spend your day chatting with friends on Twitter? TourĂ©, Courtney Hazlett, and Kurt Andersen puzzled over similar questions: More »Would You Rather Be Graydon Carter or Kurt Andersen?
Sara Nelson recently got laid off as the editor of Publishers Weekly, so she's blogging about her "Reinvention." So far she's decided she does not want to be reinvented as Graydon Carter. More »The Day the Twitterati Ate Their Own
Careful what you Twitter! Blogger Ben Leventhal savaged Julia Allison for a brainless tweet. George Stephanopoulos denied inhaling at a White House dinner. And Kurt Andersen just shouldn't have typed anything. Today's 140-character mistakes: More »A Day When None Rose Above
What's going on with our favorite Twitterati? Read what floats Jason Pontin's boat, discover the key to Shira Lazar's heart, and learn Aaron Task's wooing secrets. More »Twitterati on Parade
Did you hear Twitter is now bigger than Digg? That's because you can't vote on Obamanaugural headlines by text message. More OMG Barack!!!!!!1!1!! tweets from the media elite: More »Kurt Andersen Gives Up New York Column
Kurt Andersen is, at long last, giving up his column in New York, the magazine he edited 12 years ago. Now he has time for things that are, somehow, even less important. More »Spy Founder Joins Twitter
Kurt Andersen, who invented "snark" in 1986, is now "microblogging" at Twitter, the official web service of imagined pithiness. More »Spy Kids Belatedly Publish Yearbook
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