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GlasgowRose
12/14/09

In reply to The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides
Speaking of holiday porn, could a Gawker admin please be a dear & clean up the spamage below by @williamhu et al? Though #brawbuy does sound right up my alley!
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GlasgowRose
12/13/09

In reply to The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides
Ah, holiday porn. I just want to know where to get the Ho (H0) outfits in the pic.
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ParahSalin
12/13/09

@GlasgowRose: I want to know where I can buy that baby. So cute.
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GlasgowRose
12/13/09

@ParahSalin: Bored with Trig? #mathFTW
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ParahSalin
12/13/09

@GlasgowRose: Well. let's just say he's a fine little political prop...
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GlasgowRose
12/13/09

@ParahSalin: C'mon, 'fess up: you're just eager to squeeze out another and name him/her/it "Shatner" ("Shat" for short). ;)
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ParahSalin
12/14/09

@GlasgowRose: You are close. I was going to name him/her/it "Shartner," so I could call it "Shart" for short. Classier, don't you think? I think it will work better when I'm hanging out in NYC and DC with all the liberal East Coast elites that I hate so much.
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GlasgowRose
12/14/09

@ParahSalin: Go with Tib, Tibby, or Tibs -- short (or shart, if you will) for Tiberius, the T. in James T. Kirk. Much more "one of us," darling....
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ParahSalin
12/14/09

@GlasgowRose: So you think naming him little Saxby Chambliss is a little too elitist?
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GlasgowRose
12/14/09

@ParahSalin: A mite, old pip. #tallyho
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Guggenheimlich
12/13/09

In reply to The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides
What I want is an Automatic Foster Kamer Life Venn Diagrammer.
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GlasgowRose
12/13/09

@Guggenheimlich: I'm whipping up Bananas Foster Kamer for dessert tonight. Come with!
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Trai_Dep
12/13/09

In reply to The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides
I once figured I'd tie two activities I do anyway - pimping my words for $$$ and capping off pub crawls with public urination - into one unseemly, efficient advertorial product: SnowPee Branding™.
Like The Karate Kid with a weak bladder, I'd practice my craft on walls, sidewalks and streets. I'd field-test marking passing-by automobiles, aiming alternating streams for an animated effect akin to flipbook animation. I'd practice creating mini-logos out of the caked freezer ice when visiting homes equipped with refrigerators lacking frost-free freezers (sorry, grandma, it wasn't the cat's fault, after all).
My dreams, unfortunately, were quashed by the fact that Los Angeles doesn't get as much snowfall as I'd thought. That the philistines residing here don't appreciate Art. And the restraining order granted to my grandmother protecting her kitchen.
Ambition crushed, I now lick my wounds, reflecting on a career that might have been, my inner Renoir starved, the accolades misplaced or stolen by jealous competitors.

Advertorial, you're a cruel bitch. I rue the day you first tempted me with your glossed, sugary dreams.
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cyrprus
12/13/09

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i guess being the naive non-media person that i am i never knew so much was behind gift guides. also, is it just me or do i sense some animosity towards drunk interns?
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Trai_Dep
12/13/09

@cyrprus: Just the ones that steal booze and break up marriages by using their shiny-faced, perky good looks to transform wives/mothers (husbands/fathers) into sex-dispensing strumpet whores.

...In other words, all of them, and a LOT of animosity.
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xyzpdq
12/13/09

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Does the dude in that picture have a boner?
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komowkwa
12/13/09

In reply to The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides
Another thing about gift guides is that people buying those those "shiny, pretty things you can't afford" keep a bunch of other people [outside the media] working too.
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drunkexpatwriter
12/13/09

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I fucking hate writing advertorial, but it does pay well.

And, it's less irritating than writing Google bait keyword rich articles which is what half the people hiring freelancers on the Internet wanted a couple years ago.
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metoometoo
12/13/09

@drunkexpatwriter: I have a full time job writing Google bait keyword rich advertorial, and as a result I am constantly filled with loathing for myself and my coworkers.
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ParahSalin
12/13/09

@drunkexpatwriter: "I fucking hate _______ _____, but it does pay well."

That sentence applies to any job I've ever had.
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drunkexpatwriter
12/13/09

@metoometoo: I know the feeling.
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Alexia Tsotsis
12/13/09

In reply to The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides
Advertorial, Bitches. Welcome to 2010 people I have conversations with.
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Oface
12/13/09

In reply to The Gawker Field Guide to Gift Guides
But...but....what's step 3????
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Helio
12/13/09

@Oface: profit. duh.
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NathanSt
12/13/09

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That's the problem with mediocrity. It's so goddamn profitable.

Advertorials: the fake silk boxers of journalism. They look and feel similar..
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IDunnoIzJustAPerson
12/13/09

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No offense Foster, but everything you have ever read in a newspaper has been paid for.

I hate to disillusions such a young writer such as yourself, but business is business. When youngish Benjamin Franklin started the newspaper in America (I know!!!! First owner of the New York Post got shot in a duel too!!!) it was solely for the purpose of selling you things...

Indeed. The reason Benjamin Franklin created the first Post Office? So he could use the government to deliver you his SPAM, I mean newspapers, cheaply.

So, Brian Moylan, like my knowledge of history..

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Foster Kamer
12/13/09

@IDunnoIzJustAPerson: BRIAN MOYLAN WHAT EXACTLY? Don't harsh on my crew, homie.
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raincoaster
12/13/09

@IDunnoIzJustAPerson: That Benjamin Franklin created the first Post Office will come as a surprise to the von Thurn und Taxis family, who invented the postal service to get rich off the Emperor.
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Trai_Dep
12/13/09

@raincoaster: While your description is a common mistake, it's not entirely true. von Thurn un Taxis invented postal service as a subsidized delivery mechanism for their thriving Wood-Cut Print porn business.
Nice try at rewriting history, though.
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