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more about #newthings more comments → miss_msry: Shit, I'm too old to use a fixie. I need me some easy gears just to ride on level ground, not to mention a 1% incline. more » Ephraim Gadsby: This journalistic phenomenon merits an Animal Planet show called 'When Old Editors Try To Be Hip'. See also: the recent NY Times review of Gold Bar. S... more » gawkimo: Meanwhile the Times points out that the "food vending cart business has actually seen strong demand," according to Ozone Park industrial bike manufact... more » Cheap Shot: I'm not sure how this fixed bike trend happened, all I know is that my friend who owns one has flown over the handlebars more than once. He put brakes... more » hamburgerhotdog: I've been riding one since 2003. It's all personal preference - I like that it gives me strong cadence for when I do long rides on a geared bike, I li... more » shag_carpet_bomb: We've had them in Redmond WA, for a while, we just ride them in our velodrome. Also, about 10 years ago I did the AIDS ride from SF to LA and a dude d... more » J. Frank Parnell: Fixed wheel bike (used) - $550 New center dent fedora - $25 Skinny black jeans (used) - $85 Having to relearn the goddamn alphabet because you were s... more » harumph: Now if we can just find a way to ship all the fixed-gear a-holes to DC, we could make them feel trendy while instantly improving quality of life here.... more » m4ximusprim3: Wait, are their bikes broken? Why do they need to fix the gears? Where am I? more » TableNein: I bet they have a wonderful expose about those "Che Guevara" shirts, too. more » onebadclam: I know this is about fur but that commercial inspired a whole 'nother narrative for me. more » homoviper: As long as people still pay attention, any kind of attention, PETA will never go away. Meanwhile, AR groups that do some really great work (Friends o... more » Brad Brown: If masturbating for a good cause is wrong, I don't want to be right. I like to think of it as giving back. more » Weegee's bored: OK, so this is Pam Anderson's career-extending cause, right? Jenny McCarthy has autism tied up and Jerry Lewis holds the copyright on muscular dystrophy. more » TRexstasy: Because nothing says, "Take us seriously" like Stevo, Andy Dick, and painted-on abdominals. more » -
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Real Newspaper Discovers How Kids Are Fixing Their Bike Gears These Days
The Washington Post discovers a new trend: "Fixed gear bikes," which young folks are reportedly riding all over DC, trendily. This is why we need newspapers. You just don't get this stuff from blogs. [WaPo. Pic via] -
#crazynotions
Could Sexxxy Nudes Help PETA?
I wonder what would happen if PETA made a commercial with Pamela Anderson looking sexxxy and other sexxxy nude people and one lady in fur who was not sexxxy cause only animal lovers are sexxxy? We may never know. [Adrants] -
#recessionomics
Third World Is the New First World
The Way We Live Now: Third-worldin' it, yall! We are the world. We are the USA. We ride on little tap-tap scooters and buy coconut water from street vendors and smoke bootleg cigarettes. We know how you feel, impoverished masses! More » -
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Tom Wolfe Writes Story About Rich People
White-all-over author Tom Wolfe has a new, extremely well-compensated (we imagine) short story in Vanity Fair. He decided to write about the wealthy this time! Yet he retains that flair for authentic dialogue he displayed in I Am Charlotte Simmons. More » -
#chchchanges
Gawker Comments Are Made of Stars
The new Gawker commenting system is here. And, if everything works out as planned, it will let us highlight the brilliant, witty and informative comments. Welcome to a new hierarchical era.
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Gawker Stalks the Tribeca Film Festival
We're unveiling a new kind of feature here. The Tribeca Film Festival is underway here in New York and we've assembled a passel of movie insiders in attendance who are Twittering about everything they see.
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Newspaper Discovers 'Radar'
"Most Americans had likely never heard of RadarOnline before now. But the site almost instantly made a name for itself with the Octo-Mom story."—LAT, today. Come on now. I mean, really. -
#trendwatch
Have You Heard of This Facebook '25 Things' Thing?
Oh lord oh lord, the trend pieces about Facebook's '25 random things' lists are spreading even faster than the freaking lists themselves. They are the kudzu of the media world! Yesterday was only the beginning:
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New York Finds Enough 'All New' Stuff to Fill an Issue
Two months ago, New York magazine staffers were emailing friends seeking ideas about New things for the "All New" issue. Now that issue is here! It's just as totally contrived as you would expect. More » -
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Mustaches are Back. Again!
Drop your razors, fashionable young men: the New York Times reports that mustaches are back—in style! Somehow this story sounds vaguely... familiar: More »
