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evilbeet
09/22/09

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This story is ridiculous and reeks of bitterness. I'm not a big Nikki Finke fan, but COME ON, she's only human. Obviously taking a few days off here and there hasn't stopped her from making a lot of money off her blog, and it doesn't seem to have caused media interest in her to wane, as you just wrote an entire freakin' post about how she's not a robot. Sheesh, lay off.
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karion
09/22/09

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Jesus, Cook, yours must be made of titanium.

I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze Nikki Finke.
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Seeräuber Jenny
09/22/09

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I demand a refund! -- oh, wait.

Doesn't she have MS as well? It's possible to have MS and be relatively asymptomatic, but she might not be that lucky.
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BaldwinPeriphetes
09/22/09

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Fail to see the point of this.

Next post up will be a shocking expose of missed deadlines in the webcomic industry, no doubt.

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Matt Cherette
09/22/09

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Maybe she should go get a new head shot taken on one of those days off.
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shostakobitch
09/22/09

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She's so intense/crazy and all that but I'm not going to begrudge somebody days off at a blog. She's not exactly conducting the war in Afghanistan. TV and movie screens aren't going to go dark if she were to say "I have taken a day off to watch cuckold porn and shitty reruns."
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RachelSklar
09/22/09

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One screenshot in the crowd caught my eyee:"Fewer Holiday Postings." Nikki Finke is no ordinary rank-and-file employee punching a timeclock - she's a workhorse who post around the clock, 7 days a week. So her new bosses shold probably take that into account. (And probably do - they know what they bought. One thing you don't need to worry about with Nikki Finke is her work ethic.)
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RandomLunatic
09/22/09

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As a similarly unreliable but nowhere near as well-paid a blogger as Nikki, I am surprised to find myself wanting to defend her on this score - esp. because the very limited exchange I had with her in the past was, on her part, pretty unnecessarily rude.

I guess I'll limit the defense to saying that surely the obsessiveness with which she attacks some of these stories, turning up real scoops no one else can get, simply predicts there will be times she drops offline for a bit. The mind and body just try balance it out after a while, esp. if there is an issue like diabetes to factor into the mix.

Odd, I never expected to feel any sympathy for her. I'll probably lose that in irritation the next time I see more than one "Toldja" on her blog's index page.
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BunnySkull
09/22/09

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It only got funny once I realized how long the scroll was through all her excuse posts.
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scroll_lock
09/22/09

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I feel her- when the dingo ate my baby I couldn't comment for minutes.
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Peoplefamiliarwith
08/06/09

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One of the many responsibilities of the auto task force was the closing of thousands of dealerships. The process of closing down dealerships was untransparent, and lacked objective criteria on why a dealership would be closed or remain open.

In the Chrysler bankruptcy court hearings, a dealer out of Little Rock expressed concerns that the process of closing dealerships was ripe with cronyism.

Here is a sample of his testimony before Judge Arthur Gonzalez:

"I have detected a pattern: In every market where there is a dealership connected with former Penske Automotive executive Steve Landers, or his new automotive partnership with "Mac" McLarty (former Chief of Staff for President Clinton) and Robert L. Johnson (majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats), the competitors are rejected."

He then goes on to list specific examples of profitable dealerships in Little Rock, Fayetteville, Shreveport, Springfield MO, and Huntsville AL that were closed down in favor of Penske connected dealerships that were located in suburban areas.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
08/06/09

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I would do it, but I can't work for free anymore. Whatever you do with this story, goose it up a little with some hotties!
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shostakobitch
08/06/09

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if only we could see through his five-head and read the thoughts inside.
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