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more about #fromthemailbag more comments → RollsRoyceRevenge: This picture killed whatever humor the original site had to begin with. It's Blagg's Error--when you make fun of what people wear for a living it's p... more » Artie Fufkin: Really that site should be a lot funnier. I hope he can step it up for the book. Good luck! more » Sheila: Good on him---but when are young wannabe authors going to start, I don't know, WRITING again, rather than spending a couple weeks on a blog idea? more » HiredGoons: He writes a lame blog and is on VH1 - this is news? more » LUV_TRUK: Nice American Apparel striped hoodie, you fucking hipster. more » Mama Penguino: I LOL'd at "Actually, I'm the least liked of all the Crips." more » Smitros: Since he probably did a two-book deal, lets hope the second one is LATF Getty. more » johnny_carsick: 'cos you know one surefire joke, kills 'em every time, is to say that certain people will like this one thing, and then go "whoops no they won't". HAH... more » Conchie Birdie: Hipsters are funny when you don't have one in the family. Kinda like alcoholics and crackheads. more » Banjo-Sea Kitten: Gosh, people, it's not like he's writing "Eat, Pray, Love II" more » City_Dater: Is the book going to be called "Shooting Fish in a Barrel"? And his blog cannot begin to touch the hilarity of the late, lamented Blue States Lose. I ... more » bytememehard: I looked at that fucking hipster blog and learned something. Mustaches are back in style. Who knew. more » Awesome X: What's that supposed to mean? We like things. We like ... we like ... uhm ... more » iplaudius: He should release a book of pictures of himself. That screen cap is just hysterical. FWIW, I LOLed at the LATFH pics. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Don't care. Want to know two things: 1) What is Ali Campoverdi up to? 2) What is Vivi Nevo up to? Ok, four things: 3) What is Rupert Murdoch up to? 4... more » -
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Hipster Blog Author Speaks, Comedically
Joe Mande, the NYC comedian revealed yesterday as the author of the Look At This Fucking Hipster blog and recipient of the latest Tumblr-to-Book deal, has shed some comedic light on his book deal, via email. Here it is: More » -
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Bloomberg's Dubious Claim: Three Times Scoopier This Year
Bloomberg retains a reputation as the most brutal and authoritarian of the news wires, so it's no wonder the company's internal memos could pass for North Korean propaganda. Scoop production increased threefold, the glorious regime just reported! More » -
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Flickr Founder Calls Nuked User 'A Dick'
An update on Shepherd Johnson, who lost 1,200 Flickr images over comments on White House photos: Yahoo said the activist's pictures are gone forever, offered him $25 and blocked his messages. And Flickr's founder called him "a dick." More » -
#sanity
Why Is Shep Smith on Fox?
Oh, right, because he's a wonderful entertainer. But he also has a brain, and a conscience, and Shepard Smith has noticed that the emailers have become... unhinged, lately. -
#fortherecord
Fallen Tech Messiah: I'm 30 Pounds Lighter, Not in Cannes
Michael Saylor has written in with corrections to our item on him yesterday. The MicroStrategy CEO was was not in Cannes this year, as Page Six had it. And we used an old, fat picture! More » -
#synergy
Sobbing Columbia Student Says Prof Hated Having to Share
Last night we were baffled by a Columbia graduation fuss involving a professor blocking a student's graduation. It turns to be a classic new media/old media debate, on the ethics of content sharing, according to an email from the student.
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Student-Professor Dust-Up at Columbia
Today was graduation at the Columbia Journalism School, and the ceremonies were tinged with regret. Not just because the news media is imploding, either: there's a mysterious flap involving a non-graduating student and a professor who supposedly breached "standards of communication." More » -
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Save Your Newspaper: Don't Let Anyone Cancel
The chairman of the Associated Press says he's "mad as hell" at people who don't pay for news. Is that why his newspaper is reportedly impossible to cancel? More » -
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The Hipster Grifter's Charm in Action
How did hipster grifter and fugitive from justice Kari Ferrell take advantage of so many people in two separate states? With charm! We have two charming emails from her, as proof. She's sorry, okay?
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#rumormonger
Esquire Is Getting Nervous
Esquire's ad revenue dropped 22% in the first quarter, which actually put it above average. But we hear that the magazine's staff, and its corporate overlords, are on edge. There was a meeting yesterday [UPDATED]... More » -
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Hipster Grifter Kari Ferrell's Victims Speak Out!
Kari Ferrell, the crazy pathological liar and scammer now legally known as the "Hipster Grifter," is already an internet superstar! We have new stories about her from unfortunate acquaintances. And the cops are everywhere! More » -
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The Mommy Flip-Out Too Hot For 'Park Slope Parents'
"Park Slope Parents," the Brooklyn listserv, is in the midst of a civil war between yuppie parents and list moderators. One combatant finally just snapped, and she's shared her rant with us. More » -
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Hud Morgan Giggles At Mere Suggestion He'd Return To Daily News Post
Don't let the barroom slapfights and gangster garb fool you: Hud Morgan, the Men's Vogue editor turned aspiring screenwriter, can be delightfully helpful. For example, the ex-gossip nearly answered our question, "Is Hud Morgan Begging For His Old Daily News Gig?" More » -
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Horace Mann's Little Roy Cohn Writes Letters
Little right-wing creep kid Charles Stam sent a two thousand word letter to the editor of the Horace Mann Record, his high-school paper. More » -
#strugglingwriters
Google's Piddling $60 Promise To Writers
Google paid $125 million to settle copyright charges over its scanning of 7 million books. Today authors were told their cut: $60 to $300 per title. Woo? More » -
#memos
Daily News Eliminates 401(k) Contributions
It was upsetting enough for employees to hear the New York Daily News was ending its 401(k) contributions (memo below). The jokes about bigwigs' extensive stock holdings only made matters worse. More » -
#obamahotties
The Bold Ambitions of Ali Campoverdi
Alejandra Campoverdi zoomed from campaign intern to assistant to a deputy White House chief of staff with, we're told, no other political experience. But the "flirtatious" Obama staffer supposedly wanted more. More » -
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Michael Chabon's Wife Had Way More Inaugural Fun Than You
Ayelet Waldman, the writer and the overadoring and slightly stalky wife of Michael Chabon, emailed a lengthy account of the couple's AAA-list adventure at Barack Obama's inauguration. To 5,000 less awesome people. More » -
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Arianna Huffington Lays Off 12,000 Citizen Journalists, Hires Godson
Two of the hottest 2008 presidential campaign scoops belonged to the Huffington Post's Off the Bus. Arianna Huffington let the citizen journalism project stagnate, then gave it to her godson.
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