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    Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?

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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/15/09

    In reply to Anarchy in the Machine: Welcome to Gawker's Open Forums
    I'm not very easily sold on change, but this is nothing short of excellent in ten different ways. My favorite, irreverent two: (1) this places a greater emphasis (and importance) on the fine art of tagging. Which is awesome. And (2) this is going (ideally) to move a lot of the insidery, old-school, overindulgent stuff off of posts and into tag forums. Where readers may put the "hack" in "hacking away" at us, and we can provoke them. On that note, you can find me here:

    #sorrygabe
    #tooinsidery
    #oldschool
    #tagrelatedhumor
    #mycock
    #nickdenton
    #selfreferential
    #juvenile
    #immature
    #foster
    #jambalaya
    #rappers
    #fuckinjews
    #fuckyousoupsoup
    #thisisgoingtobesomuchfun
    #EEEEE!!!!
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    10/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: #toddenglish has hurt feelings. #comments
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    10/15/09

    @PhyllisNefler: Word to #Altarcations. I don't feel bad.
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    10/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: Re: "This is going (ideally) to move a lot of the insidery, old-school, overindulgent stuff off of posts and into tag forums."

    What "stuff" would that be? Care to elaborate? #comments
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    10/15/09

    @MisterHippity: "Stuff" = "Cocaine use." #comments
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    10/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: Ah, I see. So the forums will be the place to go to find the blow. Got it. #comments
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    Disagree on Perez and Arrington, but the rest sound pretty dead-on to me. Still, the Dark Lord will not be pleased.

    Perez's personality is the key to the site and the key to the media coverage: he's kind of like JT Leroy, except (alas) he actually exists. There's gotta be some money in that. His sister and whatever wankbloggers he can sucker into posting for him are worth money precisely and only because people can mistake their work for his. No Perez, no brand, no popularity. Authenticity, even or especially outrageous, offensive authenticity, is what the audience is responding to.

    Arrington is sort of a found comedy object among the geekerati, but otherwise not key to the success of his site.

    Moral: despotism pays. And Huffington and Denton should never shake hands, or the universe will explode.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    With $40+ million, one hopes Drudge would buy more than one hat. Or at least a new siren.
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    10/13/09

    @drewB: Hey, that's not fair -- sometimes he has TWO sirens on the site!
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    Ok, I bite. How much for Julia Allison?
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    10/13/09

    @Senator Sully:
    Around these parts the opening bid is $120 for the best bits.
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    10/13/09

    @Smitros: How dare you! Julia gets paid $120 for two tweets worth of her expert dating advice. $4/word, remember?
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    Since the day I saw "Don't Tell Her It's Me" on USA I have wanted to sex the Guttenberg. I would sex him all over the place. Like, in the woods, or even a sardine factory.
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    If I could I would give Nick Nick Denton, Gawker Media galactic overlord, a fully-operational Death Star, equipped, of course, with death panels.

    I only ask that Nick use it to destroy TMZ.com immediately not unlike Vader did to Alderaan.
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    Happy Birthday, Nick.

    Just remember you get a pass on all bad behavior today so enjoy!
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    Don't forget the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79! All in all a pretty bleak day in history-- I know because it's my birthday too.
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    08/24/09

    @Bliz: happy bday leo!!!
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    When I created Nick Denton, I had such high hopes for him. I wanted him to settle down with a nice girl in Virginia, get a job with an intelligent design think tank, beget at least ten children and start a prayer group in his woodshed.

    Instead he started this Online Internet Blogg (a tool of Satan, natch) that celebrates the gay lifestyle. And now, thanks to a combination of sin, hard work and intelligence, he has become incredibly wealthy and successful despite living in his parents' basement and working in his pajamas.

    I would unleash a plague on Gawker but then Denton would blogg about it the next day in an evil manner and ruin my reputation. I'm going back to freerepublic. The low-tech atmosphere, ponderous design and profusion of "LOL!"s and "libtards are morans!" and "Proof that Obama is actually an arugula-eating alien cyborg muslin communist from the future!" makes me feel welcome.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/24/09

    @God: Don't leave us, Lord! Who is going to school us on the color of Satan's semen? What "fifth base" means? You haven't even touched on teenage Jesus and those years he disappeared. Did he really tell Joseph, "Fuck off, you're not my real dad!"?
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: You need to read the Gospel According to Biff for those details.
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    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: i don't know if jesus so much told joseph to fuck off, as they went on maury and had one of these moments: [www.youtube.com]
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    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: Cheque out the bitter, jilted-lover vibes of "G_d"! Also, Y_hweh of Old Testy fame? What you put Abraham through to prove his loyalty to you was a major a-hole move. Always wanted to say that to your face. Thanks!
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    Image of PikaDar Brisetout PikaDar Brisetout
    08/24/09

    @God: If you're really God, you should be starred!
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    08/24/09

    @PikaDar Brisetout: I'll promote that.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    Aw, well he doesn't look a day over 41.

    And happy birthday Richard Blakely! I feel you should've gotten a bigger shoutout, so there it was.

    And, what the hell--happy birthday to my brother-in-law, who's probably never read Gawker in his life. Just in case.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    1814: British troops burn down the White House.

    Technically, Canadian troops, I believe.

    That's right motherfuckers. And we'll do it again. Don't think we won't.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Oh, Your Holiness, why are the Canadians so up in arms today?

    I've got a house for you to burn down, if you don't mind burning a bridge, too.
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    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I believe the White House's original doors were spirited away to Montreal and never returned.

    Now that's a pussy move if I've ever heard of one.
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    08/24/09

    @skahammer: Yeah! We want those back! Also, there was boucoup silver in there, and fancy furniture, and nubile women, who steals some planks of wood!?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    08/24/09

    @skahammer: The doors just need to secede, that's all.
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    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: JUST TRY GETTING PAST U.S. CUSTOMS, MUTHAFUKKA. No seriously, you guys can ride inside the wheelwells of semis now.
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    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: One more reason to blame Canada--besides the obvious ones, aka Celine Dion and Nickelback.
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    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:

    There are still wall scorches downstairs in the kitchen area, you fucks.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Sorry, no, the troops involved in the Chesapeake campaign were British veterans of the Peninsular phases of the Napoleonic wars. However, my Canadian ancestors were busy conquering Wisconsin around the time Washington burned.

    Outraged Americans should remember that their troops upped the ante, by burning down the government buildings in what is now Toronto. And you can't have the doors or any other trophies returned, because they're now at the bottom of the Atlantic.

    I must add that ever since, most of you have been remarkably well-behaved, at least with regard to Canada. I guess you finally learned after going 0-2, huh?
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    08/24/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Well, at that time every troop was actually a British troop, because we were a colony? The Brits who stayed became Canadians! Along with all the scots and germans and a strangely high number of ukranians!

    And I didn't know we got your doors. It makes sense though. We're a practical people. During an invasion, we'd probably loot based on the "oh, this would go really well in the master bedroom" principle.
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    08/24/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: The Battle of York: [en.wikipedia.org] - was in 1813 - burning down the White House in 1814 was revenge.
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    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: You had a lot of help staying Canadian in those early years from the French, please don't forget.

    And FYI, I was drawing the distinction between troops raised in the UK and troops raised in Canada, the latter generally serving as militia and irregular forces.
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    08/24/09

    @Xylo: My point exactly. What's yours?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/24/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Hey! Thanks for ruining our fun with your tiresome pedantry. Come back again soon!
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    08/24/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Mine? Bolstering YOUR point with some fun facts, you humourless fuck.
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    08/24/09

    @Xylo: Uh-oh, WTFight orange alert! Can't we all just join arms in a joyous hora dance and revert to congratulating/taking the piss outta Denton?
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    08/24/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: You can't keep your facts straight, so that makes me guilty of tiresome pedantry. Got it.
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    08/24/09

    @Xylo: Sorry, dear, I missed the "fun" in your fact. Where was it, exactly?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    Happy birthday, fellow Leo!
    Wences sent this to me, now I am sending it to you. "We need more sex than most, it's just a fact, not a boast..."!

    [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: i knew my hearting you was written in the stars! hoooray for leos! since i didn't get an awesome bday post for my birthday, i've compiled a list myself. celebrities born on august 18:
    *tigolbitties
    *frances bean cobain
    *jada pinkett smith
    *malcolm jamal warner
    *christian slater
    *denis leary
    *patrick swayze
    *frankie avalon
    *robert redford (he's still alive?!)
    *roberto clemente
    *roman polanski
    *shelly winters
    *max factor
    *COCO CHANEL (BITCHES!)
    *marshall field
    *virginia dare
    ***obvi, my birth day is the shit
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    08/24/09

    @tigolbitties: And happy belated to you.
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    08/24/09

    @BookishLookish: thank ye very much! and happy (possibly belated?) bday to you!!! i hope the busy season ends soon!
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    08/25/09

    @BookishLookish: @tigolbitties: I hate to break it to you two fine Leos, but I'm pretty sure that someone born Aug. 24 would be a Virgo. On the cusp of Leo, no doubt, but a Virgo nonetheless.
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    Happy birthday, Denton. My gift to you: Will add to Wikipedia and amend their List of Notable Alumni of University College to include you. Right up there next to Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bill Clinton, and Sir V. S. Naipaul.
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    ...And, to add to the litany of chaos on 8/24:

    AD 79: Vesuvius obliterates Pompeii
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Today's Birthdays
    Happy Birthday, Master Denton!
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