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    Dave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print

    RadarOnline Charged With Violating Octo-Labor Laws

    Modeling Clay Solves America's Race Problem

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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/16/09

    In reply to Dave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print
    I also think advertisers have to decide what kind of options they want. If you only want chronic wankers who never leave the house, by all means, advertisers, continue to shift all your dollars to the web.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/16/09

    In reply to Dave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print


    This is my best reason for believing print will survive.
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    Image of DavidWatts DavidWatts
    07/16/09

    In reply to Dave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print
    I dunno, Mr. Boy, I think there's some merit to what Dave is saying, but to me the problem is that he's describing a viable model for a weekly/monthly/quarterly publication that doesn't expect to make much money. Still, that vs. a daily paper that doesn't make ANY money . . .
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    Image of wertherian wertherian
    07/16/09

    In reply to Dave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print
    It's not an illogical argument to think that in a world where every yahoo can publish something to the web that the physical obstacles to (quality) printing will make it so only "the good shit" makes it to print. Or that, over time, we'll view what little print we have left as a bit more highbrow or something.



    Of course, to get there, we have to finish killing off all of the shitty magazines that still have yet to die, somehow, inexplicably.



    We could do worse things than listen to a guy who owns a profitable periodical, profitable publishing company, and runs non-profit reading centers in like 12 cities about where print's headed.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    07/16/09

    @wertherian: Really, a print model only sets the barrier of entry at "shit that can be commercialized," not "shit that has merit."

    Although I love Eggers and didn't realize he was getting better-looking with age.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    07/16/09

    In reply to Dave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print
    Making the argument that the web is destined to replace paper -- in a post where technical difficulties cause most comments to be rejected -- is a worthy commentary of its own, isn't it.
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    Image of DeltaGuy DeltaGuy
    07/16/09

    @skahammer: I personally enjoy commenting on my dead tree newspaper. My snarky scribbles in the margins are seen by approximately the same number of readers as an unstarred Gawker comment.
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    07/16/09

    @skahammer: Speaking of which, has anyone else experienced the behaviour where your comment is erased if you click outside of the comment box (say to scroll up to re-read something you want to reference)? Unless it's just me and some weird browser compatibility issue, not cool.
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    Image of dinalohan dinalohan
    06/16/09

    In reply to RadarOnline Charged With Violating Octo-Labor Laws
    Why the fuck do you need a studio teacher for an infant? Actually they function more as welfare workers at that age, to make sure the kids are dunked or smeared in grape jelly or exploited by nut job women who have 8 kids and no visible means of support or sanity.
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    Image of kookla kookla
    06/16/09

    In reply to RadarOnline Charged With Violating Octo-Labor Laws
    While they're at it, take away the license of the fertility doctor that impregnated her 14 times and the plastic surgeon who worked on her face.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    06/16/09

    In reply to RadarOnline Charged With Violating Octo-Labor Laws
    Ha. California’s statute law gets so bizarre. Our constitution is like a rabbit hole leading to many different very fucked up wonderlands. But in this case, I support the law and underlying legal theory 100%. Fuck celebrity gossip journalism.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    06/16/09

    In reply to RadarOnline Charged With Violating Octo-Labor Laws
    Re: Update


    So in short, in California the infants each have to get an agent or else any footage is illegal. Well played.

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    Image of Our Lady of the Massacre Our Lady of the Massacre
    06/16/09

    In reply to RadarOnline Charged With Violating Octo-Labor Laws
    And yet no one can figure out how to get the kids removed from a clearly unfit parent's care.
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    Image of sassypants sassypants
    06/16/09

    @Our Lady of the Massacre: Ugh. So right on, and infuriating.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    06/16/09

    @Our Lady of the Massacre: Well, it's an intricate system. First the State pays millions for the delivery and neonatal care. Then they pay for welfare and food stamps, and for special needs care for her 3 autistic children. Then an army of nannies comes to the house to take care of the children, thus freeing up Octo-Mom to shop.


    I think it's quite a deal. Here I am F#$&@#($& working and not seeing my kids all day and she gets round-the-clock nanny care, her medical bills paid for by the CA taxpayer, and gets photographed shopping for makeup.

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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    06/16/09

    In reply to RadarOnline Charged With Violating Octo-Labor Laws
    How is this in violation when Bravo and TLC have made themselves rich off of John & Kate, the Gosselins, whatever trillions of multiples including the morbidly obese of all ages and yuck?
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    Image of Robert Synnott Robert Synnott
    03/02/09

    In reply to Modeling Clay Solves America's Race Problem
    Note that the other ad (with a Taliban-ish character) proposing to an orthodox Jew, is also all-male.


    Baby steps, wacky clay company.

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    Image of Crackers in Bed Crackers in Bed
    03/02/09

    @Robert Synnott: I thought they were dancing Saturday Night Fever style and playing air guitar??
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    Image of Crackers in Bed Crackers in Bed
    03/02/09

    @San Francisco via Alabama: oh wait, you're kidding. i'm REALLY slow on the uptake today.
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    Image of TheMac TheMac
    03/02/09

    In reply to Modeling Clay Solves America's Race Problem
    It's edgy, and amusing, but I'm kinda bothered by the Black Play-Doh character, who looks a bit like he should go here.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    03/02/09

    In reply to Modeling Clay Solves America's Race Problem
    Uh, I'm more concerned by the strange, bepinked, sparkly, Klan loving child that supposedly created this Play Doh vomit-inducer. Does his name happen to be Adolf Hitler and he lives in a Jersey trailer with his parents Brother and Sister Scared Racists Who Named Their Kids After Demons, Because They Were Too Afraid To Change Their Names Themselves?
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    03/02/09

    In reply to Modeling Clay Solves America's Race Problem
    Is that a pack of birth control pills behind he Klansman?
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