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more about #characters more comments → TheHonJudgeSmails: Man, even the New Yorker's receptionist has to be pretentious?!? more » raincoaster: What does this mean for Our Man in Kabul, Tom Freston? more » smithhimself: Dear McKinsey Team: Please contact Smithhimself immediately and I will tell you who to fire at the New Yorker. Not receptionists! Or make up your ow... more » heartbreakturnip: Fire the"Jack-of-all-Trades," but don't fire us "Jack-off-all-Days." more » Trulymadlyme: I can just imagine the McKinsey consultant sighing and explaining to The New Yorker staff that there is no room for a magical black person in its bu... more » FormerEnglishMajor: TYpical. The senior guys, in desperation to save their own hides and look like they're "cutting costs", blow out the juniors. The receptionists are e... more » raincoaster: Thoth obviously has gotten too big for your provincial little burb. I propose he come to Vancouver. We're awesome; the downside is that we don't actua... more » cellardoor: While I'm not sure of Thoth's origins, I know he was San Francisco's beloved Market Street loin flasher/violinist in the 80's. I am VERY interested in... more » Dürer's Rhino: Wow, seriously? The first time I saw him was 98, maybe 99 performing "The Marriage of Figaro" on Strawberry Fields. After that, I have always looked f... more » Mediahohoho: Send him to Liz Cheney's house; she needs entertaining. more » Baroness: Confession: I was not a fan of Thoth's, when he seemed to live in that Central Park underpass, near the Bethesda Fountain. I'd try to admire the mura... more » NinaHagen: Soylent Green - now with more buskers! more » CoffeyWasHere: Knowing nothing of Thoth, I stumbled upon him once in the summer in 2001 (or maybe it was 2002) as he was about to begin his "prayformance". As weird ... more » NinaHagen: Bloomberg Nation. more » Mount_Prion: There's a reason that a large portion of the homeless population is paranoid schizophrenic. more » -
#layoffs
Conde Nast Eliminates Whimsy Budget (Updated)
Yesterday we told you that McKinsey-driven Conde Nast was firing all of its receptionists. A blow to the company's editorial glamor, yes. But the dragnet has also seized the New Yorker's whimsical, overqualified "jack of all trades!" [UPDATE: Maybe not!] More » -
#recessionomics
Cry For Thoth, For He Is Busted
The Way We Live Now: All Thothed out. Central Park's most...loiny street performer has been shut down by The Man. Our national half-naked dancing violinist falsetto index is approaching an all-time low. More » -
#thehomeless
Bloomberg's Greatest Foe Living on the Streets
Christopher X Brodeur, the kind of inspiring lunatic and perpetual media critic and NYC mayoral candidate who was news around here back in aught-five or so, is now homeless. Can he crash on your floor? More » -
#urbananthropology
Charlie Leduff Owns the Raccoon Meat Beat
Mustachioed man of the people Charlie Leduff is the type of reporter who wanders the backstreets of America, searching for someone who hunts raccoons for meat, so he may write about them. Found one! More » -
