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more about #rexsorgatz more comments → Smitros: Roasting a vagina would make for the strangest taco ever. more » YaffaRutilus: read this mediaite story where rachel writes about her bff julia allison. it is nauseating: http://www.mediaite.com/online/julia-allison-nonsociety-j... more » oldgraygeek: Rachel was an unashamed shill for the Clinton campaign during the Democratic primaries, smearing HuffPo with bullshit praise for the Hill and near-sla... more » MisterHippity: Hey Foster, you chose the wrong Georgia O'Keefe painting to illustrate this. She made many vaginal paintings, but that's not one of them. Now THIS o... more » Matt Cherette: This is meant to go with the below comment, not sure what happened to the pic... more » Matt Cherette: Is Rachel's Megan Fox obsession an extension of her vagina obsession? Last night, she twittered that she missed Jenny Slate's F-Bomb on "SNL," to whic... more » SpyMagician: Why do all weapons (ie: guns, bullets, billy clubs...) look like penises? And why do all pastries (ie: doughnuts, bagels, danishes...), look like vag... more » ninety_nine: This post was going okay until you tried to shoehorn that video in. Clearly that video belongs in a post with the infamous Rack Tazer, because you'd b... more » squeakel: I thought everyone was obsessed with vaginas? more » Airvault: Good God - what a beautiful bouncing woman. more » RachelSklar: I am pretty sure this post is not going to help me be inscribed in the Book of Life. Good Yom Tov! more » Sproing: I'm still floored that Michael Moorcock used to hang out with Hawkwind. more » Rozelle’s Bagman: I went to Luna Lounge for nothing? I feel so used. Though Lotion did a great cover of Christmas Wrapping. more » flathead: "Every night, somewhere on the outlaw side of some town, below some metaphysical 14th Street, out at he hard edges of some consensus about what's real... more » smithhimself: An book editor friend of mine just got an invitation to an event in September involving a number of New York bands and another mysterious author -- Jo... more » -
#vaginas
Why Is Mediaite's Rachel Sklar Obsessed With Vaginas?
Nothing like a good dick joke, right? So says the hetero, who keeps going on about the Lady Gaga Penis Business. But Dan Abrams' henchwoman and Fearless Leader of Mediaite, Rachel Sklar, can't stop it with the vagina talk. Proof? More » -
#hoaxes
Thomas Pynchon is No Indie Rock Groupie
In 1996 the New Yorker ran a "Talk of the Town" piece about the notoriously reclusive Thomas Pynchon becoming a huge fan of an indie rock band called Lotion, a story the magazine now acknowledges was all a hilarious hoax. More » -
#statusgalleybookclub
Gawker's 'Status Galley' Book Club: Twitter Wit, The Authorized Book Of Tweets
Publishers release "advance copies" for the Literary Elite to have before the masses/Oprah ruins them for you. Being spotted with one sometimes merits "status"...that we're about to ruin. Today's selection is TwitterWit, The Big Book of Collected Tweets!
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#newsyoucanlose
Things For Which There Is No Right Answer
Microfame expert Rex Sorgatz asks: "The second local version of HuffPo, NYC, launched last week. Will anyone read it?" I can say from personal experience: no. In other news, Gothamist is still very servicey. And pays their writers. [Fimoculous] -
#teampartycrash
Smiling Through the Mediaocalypse
Who are these kids, exactly? Rachelle Hruska's not-a-nightlife-blog blog, Guest of a Guest, kicked off "summer" and a new season of Hamptons coverage with an apocalyptically cloudy rooftop tequila drinking thing on Sunday. -
#partygames
Let's Play NY Blog Media Bingo!
Surely you've seen those Bingo cards for hipsters, and Blipsters. I always wondered why there wasn't one for New York's Blog-media. Now there is! More » -
#hackers
The Latest Facebook Scam
Oh no! There's a site which tricks you into handing over your personal information for its own nefarious, moneymaking schemes! It's called Facebook. Oh, also, people are all upset because FBstarter.com is stealing their passwords.
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#fieldguide
So You Want to Be a Fameball?
Too often, random people contact us, begging to be covered as fameballs. What they don't realize is that fameballdom is an organic process. This guide will help your effort to become ubiquitous and despicable:
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#videuhoh
New York Times Writer Learns about 'Internets' at SXSW
In the '90s, the Web cognoscenti joked about doing crack. But New York Times columnist David Carr actually did crack! Which might explain his befuddlement in this clip from the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. More » -
#panicatthegoogle
Momentary Google Search Weirdness Sends Shockwaves Through Blogging Community
New York, NY—"This site may harm your computer." That was the chilling message with which internet users were greeted for nearly twenty minutes this morning when they searched Google.com [GOOG]. Widespread panic ensued. More » -
#fameballs
Rex Sorgatz's Exaggeration
After igniting controversy throughout North America with his comments to the Observer, Web attention-trolling expert Rex Sorgatz backtracked. Or, as he put it, cleared some things up. More » -
#fameballs
The Inconsistencies in Rex Sorgatz's Story
First New York bloggers were incensed by Rex Sorartz's caddish self-promotion in the New York Observer; now fellow Midwesterners are raising questions about the life story he floated in the paper. More » -
#fameballs
The Last Hurrah of Microcelebrity
Rex Sorgatz knew an account of his bed-hopping among New York bloggers would ignite controversy; he's the internet infamy expert. But why did he play along with protocelebrity now so worthless?
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#fameballs
Your Two Favorite Fameballs to Overshare Sex Stories
Ahh, Rex Sorgatz and Neal Boulton! We've teased microfame expert Rexie for "forgetting his Internet safeword" while we flogged him a while back, and the endearing pansexual Genre editor Boulton for being a pussy/publicity hound.
