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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    12/28/08

    In reply to Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
    The Voice has its moment. I subscribed to it for 3 or 4 years before moving to Manhattan in 1966. It taught me pretty damned exactly what to expect. In the past few decades, though, do.not.want.
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    12/28/08

    In reply to Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
    Blecch. Yeah, Gawker is like the New Yorker in the early days. Maybe if your abused writers strike it would be.


    Yuck, you little fraud. To think you used to be a writer. You never will be again. You gave that up. I hope the lunches in Soho are worth it. But watch your ass. We have labor laws here in NY State. Look into them. And let me know when you figure out the problem.

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    Image of bikini_lounger bikini_lounger
    12/28/08

    In reply to Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
    Maybe when there is no more original and reliable news content to speak of, people will decide its worth paying for.
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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    12/28/08

    @bikini_lounger: We won't know what we've got 'till it's gone.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    12/28/08

    @mmstk101: They paved paradise and put up with snarking lots.
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    12/28/08

    In reply to Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
    Gloat all you want, bloggers, about the demise of newspapers. One wonders where you'll get your material when they're gone.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    12/28/08

    In reply to Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
    "..attitude is cheap, reporting is expensive."


    That was Denton's "Eureka!" moment, wonnit?

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    Image of flossy flossy
    12/28/08

    In reply to Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
    Gawker launched in 2003 as a snarky blog for young Manhattanites that reveled in its insider-y tone. When advertising and circulation grew - and editorial budgets increased - it quickly dropped its finger-in-the-eye-of-the-establishment pose and signed up for full membership


    "Denton's readers were sometimes business types and politicians, but they were also sometimes caricatures of the sort of people one would imagine to be Gawker readers-hipsters, media insiders, unemployed screenwriters. Gawker was the medium through which a mainstream middle-class readership stayed in touch with its inner hipper-than-thou sophisticate. It was the Chuck Taylors on the man in the gray flannel suit."

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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    12/28/08

    @flossy: Yes, it's the typical life-cycle of any cultural artifact.
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    Image of EmersonErmine EmersonErmine
    12/28/08

    In reply to Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
    Newspapers are like Gawker... they both used to have ads on them. The only question now is who will die first.
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    Image of wattznext wattznext
    12/28/08

    @EmersonErmine: You're silly.
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    "It is written in his usual obscene and bitter style." I was reminded of Balk.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    That's one of his wives. Can't remember her name.
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    Image of lazereyes lazereyes
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    I want an FBI investigation into who is that babe is. She looks like a redhead, even in b&w.
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    Image of Bottle-Of-Smoke Bottle-Of-Smoke
    11/11/08

    @lazereyes: That's Norris Church, his last wife.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/11/08

    @Bottle-Of-Smoke: Still foxy.
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    Image of Bottle-Of-Smoke Bottle-Of-Smoke
    11/11/08

    @BookishLookish: He may not have treated women very well, but he apparently had impeccable taste in them. I wonder if he mellowed out in his later years or if she just had the constitution to keep a crotchety old misogynist in check.
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    11/11/08

    @Bottle-Of-Smoke: He definitely mellowed, was nearly deaf at the end of his life and walked on canes, but Norris is a tough ol' gal from Arkansas and she probably handled him fine.
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    Image of averyreade averyreade
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    Ah, the good old days. So quaint.


    Now the NSA just collects the phone calls, emails, credit card purchases, and travel records of everyone. So much easier that way.


    And if you make waves, onto a no-fly or terror watch-list you go.


    Best of all, The Military Commissions Act of 2006 now grants the executive branch authority to declare any U.S. citizen an "unlawful enemy combatant" and detain them in an undisclosed location indefinitely.


    Good times!


    As for Mailer, the feds actually came very close to getting him at least once--but Richard Stratton refused to cooperate, taking a 20-year sentence instead of selling out his friend, the government's true target. Fortunately, Stratton became his own attorney in jail and got himself out based on an error in his sentencing after only 8 years.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    Mostly this just shows how batshit Hoover was and perhaps how his own penchant for dressing up forced agents to do the same. Still, get your comedy where you can.


    FBI is not so mediocre anymore and has much bigger fish to fry than snooty writers.

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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    You have to admire a time when the FBI even took things like the secession of New York City seriously.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/11/08

    @Iceland_Spar: I still have hope for it. I want to believe.


    I always used to say, "Well, they [the rest of the U.S., not just the state] have the nukes but we have the stock market."


    Somehow I think that provides less leverage than it used to.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/11/08

    @Mount_Prion: But we still have the most delicious knishes and prettiest women and that has to count for something.


    Right?

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    Image of Unfun Unfun
    11/11/08

    @BookishLookish: Don't forget pizza and bagels!
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    Image of Larry Fine Larry Fine
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    Jesus Christ, his FBI file is even overrated!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/11/08

    @pareenesterrine: You know, a lot of people actually confuse their literary likes and dislikes with a valid opinion about the objective worth of a writer's work.


    Which is pretty silly.

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    Image of Larry Fine Larry Fine
    11/11/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: I decided to rewrite your comment in Mailer's voice on this Vet's Day:


    A lot of people actually confuse their likes and dislikes in bed with a valid opinion about the objective worth of a lover's work.


    Which is pretty silly fucking.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/11/08

    @pareenesterrine: yeeesssssss.... that sssssuuuurreee is Mailer all righty. Wow. You're like one of those famous Monet forgers.
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    Image of Larry Fine Larry Fine
    11/11/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: The correct term is Maileree.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    11/11/08

    In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
    Michiko Kakutani was an FBI snoop?
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