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    The Tripping Point

    Your Guide to the New Yorker Festival

    Peggy Noonan At The New Yorker Festival: Kind Of Embarrassing

    Junot Diaz On Truth, Memoir, Fiction and How James Frey Cheated

    Seth Rogen And Judd Apatow's Dude Disciples Celebrate The Victory Of The Nerds
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    "Phantom Fro Syndrome" #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    "...now trumpet cresendo and bring in kettle drums....NOW! And oboes, on my cue..." #malcolmgladwell
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    snugbug promoted this comment A Message To Rudy was starred A Message To Rudy was unstarred
    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    "And there on the car door handle--was a hook!!!" #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    10/19/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Ha. This one wins. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/19/09

    @MisterHippity: You are too kind. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    "Outlier? I didn't touch her." #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    New Snorer Festival #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    Mentat Piter DeVries addresses the Landsraad. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    I skip his stuff in the New Yorker now. So clever/predictable its just not worth the time. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    Local Writer Makes it to Quarter Finals in National Heads-Up Staring Contest, Refuses to Blink. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/19/09

    @TableNein: Ha! #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    SO YOU JUST KEEP BREATHING BACK AND FORTH INTO THE BALLOON UNTIL YOU'RE LIKE WOOOOOOOAAHHHHH. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome ...
    im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret! #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    10/19/09

    @MisterHippity: Perfect! #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/19/09

    @MisterHippity: Your cleverness has backed me into an anagramming corner:

    Malcom Gladwell = Well-Clad Mag Moll #malcolmgladwell
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    10/19/09

    @MisterHippity: PS, While we're at it, lemme do you too:

    Mr. Hippity = Pithy, Prim
    Mr. Hippity = RIP, 'Pi' Myth!
    etc. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    10/19/09

    @snugbug: "lemme do you too ..." That's what she said last night. (In the dream I had.) #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    10/19/09

    @snugbug: My favorites are "My hip, ripe tits," "I tip my hipster" and "Hie, prim typist!"

    Yes, I've actually done this before:
    [misterhippity.tumblr.com]
    [misterhippity.tumblr.com]
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/19/09

    @MisterHippity: Ah, I'm so busted, My Hip, Ripe Tits! Couldn't you have allowed me to propagate the illusion that I came up with these anagrams on my own? #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of blix blix
    10/19/09

    In reply to The Tripping Point
    Author suddenly realizes that he mistook the Preparation H tube for Crest toothpaste yet again. #malcolmgladwell
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    09/18/09

    In reply to Your Guide to the New Yorker Festival
    Will Salman Rushdie be discussing what it's like to nail Padma Lakshmi? Because that'll definitely bump my interest level in this event up a few notches...
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/18/09

    @DahlELama:
    I don't know how you verify this, but I'm betting she's a lox in the sack.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @Smitros: Are you suggesting she couldn't cream your cheese? I would still like to caper with her.
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/18/09 1:56 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/18/09

    @The Lone Scout:
    Were I single, prolly. But my one single-guy experience with that sort of eye candy makes me wonder if, at least sometimes, foxy=loxy.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @Smitros: I would try to come back with something involving lemon juice and dill sprigs, but I think I've already worn out the whole brunch-in-the-sack metaphor.
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/18/09 3:24 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of ShreeparnaAristodemus ShreeparnaAristodemus
    09/18/09

    In reply to Your Guide to the New Yorker Festival
    Nice job on the New Yorker festival screwing up the URL for the ticket sales. Everything decent sold out.
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    marin79 promoted this comment Nick Denton approved this comment ShreeparnaAristodemus was starred ShreeparnaAristodemus was unstarred
    Image of hamburgerhotdog hamburgerhotdog
    09/18/09

    In reply to Your Guide to the New Yorker Festival
    Dirty Projectors show Friday night?
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    09/18/09

    In reply to Your Guide to the New Yorker Festival
    I would come to the Gawker Festival only if we wore masks representative of our avatars.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/18/09

    @Iceland Spar: What if your avatar is a snapshot of nothingness?
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    Edited by snugbug at 09/18/09 11:42 AM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of Better to Eat You With Better to Eat You With
    09/18/09

    @snugbug: Lampshade.
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    snugbug promoted this comment Better to Eat You With was starred Better to Eat You With was unstarred
    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/18/09

    @Better to Eat You With: Or bank robber ski mask.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    09/18/09

    @snugbug: Nixon mask
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @Iceland Spar: I would come to the Gawker Festival only if other commenters really looked like their avatars. (I'm not ready to have cold water poured on my randy fantasies about certain commenters.)

    PS Yes, I'm male, I ride and shoot, and I do prefer the wild trail to my cubicle, but I'm not a Native American.
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/18/09 12:03 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/18/09

    @BookishLookish: Or Banksy mask.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/18/09

    @The Lone Scout:
    This probably doesn't involve your fantasies (I hope), but I look almost exactly like my avatar.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @Smitros: No fantasies for you, other than my favorite armadillo recipes, my little armored friend.
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/18/09 12:35 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/18/09

    @The Lone Scout:
    I'm scrawny (only 4K of memory, I think), so you can find better.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @Iceland Spar: I heard that at the Jezebel Festival they're going to saddle up Sarah Jessica Parker for kiddie rides.

    [Gratuitous equine humor in the absence of actual SJP post]
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/18/09 12:45 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @snugbug: I like you just for being, and consider you more than nothingness.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @Smitros: Mmmm, barbequed armadillo on a spit, Mexican armadillo casserole, mu shu armadillo...
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    Image of hamburgerhotdog hamburgerhotdog
    09/18/09

    @Iceland Spar: If I did that horrible violence would ensue. Against me.
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    09/18/09

    @snugbug: Your name speaks far louder than any visual ever could, and you will forever be très adorable in my mind. Masks be damned.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    09/18/09

    @The Lone Scout: Well I know it's hard not to have randy fantasies about my avatar, but in all honestly, this isn't my usual shade of lipstick. The rest is dead on though, so hopefully I won't disappoint.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/18/09

    @The Lone Scout:
    W/Leprosy!
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @Smitros: Blue ribbon for overshare. Let's get back to our discussion of Padma's potential loxiness, shall we?
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/18/09 2:14 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @DahlELama: "DahlELama," eh? Sorry, I'm Presbyterian.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/18/09

    @aLostLady: @The Lone Scout: Aww.. sweet.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/18/09

    @snugbug: Yes, but mine was sweet with existentialism on top.
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