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"I just invited everyone in my Outlook Contact sheet. And you were in there!!"

Boa-sporting Mediabistro.com proprietress Laurel Touby continues unabated in her menacing campaign to misuse email—an invention originally designed to simplify communications. Her latest infraction: in order to promote an upcoming "Mediabistro Circus," she decided to save a little time by sending a mass email to her entire contact list—all 2,000 people. The message starts off with an apology to those who "hate my guts," which is a good sign that perhaps it would be better to pursue a different outreach strategy. The entire ill-conceived email, after the jump. More »

5:14 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Latest by n/a: This kind of reminds me of the emails I would get from LA club promoters "inviting" me to their super-exclusive, all-VIP night at some mid-range club. Either it's all-VIP or I'm invited, but it can't be both (I'm well aware more »

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Internet Mayhem, Again

Remember last December, when Laurel Touby's inability to use the internet created mayhem? Now (or yesterday), months later, Animal gadfly Bucky Turco annoys everyone on that list again with the attached plug for a funny Pope-related thing on their website. No responses this time from Spiegelman, Bercovici, or Jared Paul Stern.

4:59 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Pareene
1,310 views, 5 comments

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Nabokov's Son Emails Like Your Mom

For lit geeks, the greatest scandal of our time continues. Dmitiri Nabokov has still not decided what to do with Laura, his father's final novel which he asked be destroyed. D. Nab is an unenviable position. On one hand, Lolita was so awesome that this book probably has some literary merit. On the other hand, taking away a dead man's final wishes is completely fucked. Isn't death enough of a punishment? But now, Dmitri speaks! More »

2:16 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By rebecca
2,583 views, 14 comments