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Wired editor Chris Anderson has finally had it up to here. He just published the long list of everyone who's been banned from his inbox—mostly publicists—in the last month. (One of the people he banned works for the Department of Commerce, but hey!) Total dick or total genius? You decide. Also, he only gets 300 emails a day. Ha! Oh, baby. Come over some day and I'll show you my inbox. [The Long Tail]

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this modern age

David Kamp Invents Entire New Form Of Writing!

There's something new in ideas, at last, announces Salon: "First there was Horace. Then there was Juvenal. Now there is David Kamp." My goodness! You see, this fellow has invented the "aspirational satire" with his new book, "The Food Snob's Dictionary." Except then Salon goes on to say he sorta didn't? "By targeting two distinct kinds of readers—those who read one of the Snob's Dictionaries to learn the information it contains, and those who read it to congratulate themselves that they already know it—Kamp is following a trail blazed by his fellow Spy magazine alum Lisa Birnbach. Birnbach's 1980 'The Official Preppy Handbook' is the ur-document of aspirational satire." Mmm, take-backs.

Snobbery Rules [Salon]

10:20 AM on Tue Oct 9 2007
By Choire
640 views, 17 comments

Latest by Dwayne Provecho: I've always regarded Martin Mull's "History of White People in America" as factual. more »

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Elizabeth Dewberry Left Robert Olen Butler To Join Ted Turner's Collection

"The novelists Robert Olen Butler, 50, and Elizabeth Dewberry, 32, knew they were meant for each other when they could sit in a room together and not only write but also write well," begins that couple's Vows announcement from twelve years ago. And earlier today we wondered what Pulitzer winner's wife left him for a captain of industry. Now we've gotten what we believe is the full insane insane INSANE email that Bob Butler sent to his department, describing the breakup of their relationship. More »

11:43 AM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Emily Gould
75,036 views, 167 comments

Latest by Trackback: Monster Hospital by Alex Carnevale A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. - Groucho Marx  So my dad had a biopsy today. I took the day off from work, evidently to get my mom a baked more »

this modern age

Computers Can Annoy, Anecdotal Reporting Finds... Again

New York Observer new gal Meredith Bryan has two solid swings this week: one hit (seriously, the Klute haircut piece! Wild!) and one miss. In the latter article, she writes of an annoying trend that's plaguing Williamsburg and presumably other places where people have a) dinner parties and b) computers. "We were sitting around eating appetizers and drinking wine," Meredith quotes "Eleanna, a 27-year-old artist who lives in Williamsburg" as saying. "Then we somehow started having an argument about yams and sweet potatoes. As in, 'Is a yam a sweet potato?' And Matt was like, 'That's it, I'm going online.' So we all crowded around his computer and learned that yams were not sweet potatoes. This was like, the evening's entertainment." Dear god. This article. Really? Let's all hop into the wayback machine and travel to February 15, 2007, the last time an iteration of this 'technology and real human interaction meet and mingle, so wacky-annoying' article made us want to punch someone in the face. More »

4:40 PM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By Emily Gould
1,449 views, 24 comments

Latest by Cookie Guggleman: The Klute haircut piece brought back a memory of one my early style struggles with my mother. I saw a photo of Fonda in Time magazine after Klute came out and she looked so cool in a turtleneck sweater with more »