In your dreary Monday media column: HuffPo launches four new verticals for the easily amused, a football player threatens a sportswriter, The Awl's empire expands, the creative class is dead, and Yahoo News and ABC learn to share.
You know what the kids are doing these days? Nothing. They are living in their parents' houses (or houses their parents pay for) and not working. But they are turning their unemployment into a new trend: the Millennial Job Whine.
As is required of all blogs these days, The Awl gets its very own monster.
The future of blogging rests in Choire Sicha and Alex Balk's laptops. After defecting from the Gawker Empire for Radar, which closed, they opened up their own shop: The Awl, which arrived in (thrust itself into?) a new era, today.
It is impossible not to squeal with glee upon watching one girl's Harry Potter fantasies come to life. See if you can pinpoint the exact moment when her heart explodes from joy.
Of course you would! It's been two hours since TMZ got ahold of the call to 911 reporting Michael Jackson's heart attack and we haven't posted it. Dereliction of duty! Anyway, the link is here.
