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Team Party Splash: Thrillist @ Hotel QT
Last night Thrillist threw a party in conjunction with a certain alcoholic energy drink at the Hotel QT. Though we are usually loathe to frequent the hotel, most famous for having a pool in the lobby that is often coated with a thin skin of hair grease on the top, the prospect of free Sparks proved irresistible. Gawker visiting photographer Kate was there for the photographic documentation. After Hours Editor Josh was there for the Cesare Lombrosian classifications.Gallery: More »
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Thrillist Endorses Most Douchey Product Ever
Hey, see that guy over there by the bar? OMG, don't point! He'll see that we're checking him out! Turn around slow, like you are just happening to look over in that direction... totally hot, right? I just love that tattooed-sleeves look. It reminds me of like, really tough and cool rock stars. Like Benji Madden! Or maybe Dave Navarro but he is kind of old. Do you think he would buy me a drink? I don't even have any piercings except my navel and my ears!!! I am probably so not his type. I mean, you have to be seriously committed to being like really, really alternative to have fully tattooed arms like that. There are probably a lot of jobs that guy couldn't have, like, they probably would not let him work in a day care! He is probably a DJ or, like, a whitewater rafting guide. Wait! What is that thing at his wrist? Um, are his tattoos actually just TATTOO-PATTERNED NYLON ARM STOCKINGS? More »
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Thrillist: For Hard-Living Badasses
Dude, I have no idea what to do this weekend! I'm torn between rock-climbing and seeing a sports game, because I am such a heterosexual male urban rugged individual. If I were a car, I'd be an SUV with a name like Ticonderoadster or Moutaineerio. Yeeeah! So I turn to a daily email newsletter to let me know what's cool, what's hip, what's hot, what's new, and most importantly what I can do with all this annoying cash I have in my wallet.Sports game it is. But where should I eat dinner afterwards? This new restaurant Bar Martignetti sounds pretty sweet. It's a "no-nonsense brasserie" (hey, that sounds kinda dirty!) that serves "solidly wonderful" stuff like a goat cheese and beet tart and a duck confit salad. Aw, hells yeaah! And here is the best part:
their creed demands they not boot you even if you're the last man not passed out in his Sierra Nevada.
Dude, that is for sure a good thing because I pass out in my Sierra Nevada all the time. Depends on how much duck confit I've had, you know? Woot!
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Bob Pittman Will Buy You Now
Taking up an austere few thousand square feet on Madison Avenue are the offices of the Pilot Group, a shadowy private investment firm run by Robert Pittman, the poor sap who took the fall for the AOL/Time-Warner merger. Of course, they're not really shadowy, just secretive and private and investy, and Bob Pittman is anything but poor. The Pilot Group specializes in "control positions" (i.e. they like to top) on emerging new media and Internet companies. Most famously, the P-Group purchased a controlling stake in girly e-newsletter Daily Candy for $3.5 million in 2003, then put DC on the block earlier this year for $100 million. That sale ultimately didn't happen, as really — $100 million for an email list? Even so, Pittman and Pilot still managed to score an undisclosed minority investment to placate those other stakeholders who wanted their Bubble 2.0 money right now. Comes the rumor that Pilot has inscrutably made a deal for music blog Stereogum. (Perhaps this will console Stereogum's Scott Lapatine after last night's altercation with Jared Leto.) No doubt, you're asking yourself — hey, I have a blog, how can I get Robert Pittman to cover me in bags of filthy lucre? Know your quarry, after the jump. More »
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Team Party Crash: Thrillist First Birthday @ Guest House
They say the first year is always the hardest for both marriage and websites, so it makes sense that when that mark is hit, one would want to go out and get shitfaced. Last night, the boys from Thrillist did exactly that, inviting perpetual troublemakers Intern Heather, shutterfly Kate, and dance-happy videographer, Richard Blakeley along for the ride. The tequila-soaked lovefest saw standard-issue stripey shirts and skanks spazzdancing with kids from College Humor, Converse, and News Corp, which left us wondering ... would a Daily Candy party ever involve this much douchebaggery? Probably not. In the clip above, observe the various hot new dance moves practiced by various attendees. And you may enjoy a further photo gallery here.
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Can't Buy a Thrill
When you've got two separate e-newsletters dedicated to helping New York's least inquisitive former fraternity fellas figure out where to snag some trim you're bound to have the occasional coincidence: After all, there are only so many places in town a bunch of bankers can burn their expense accounts after a tough day of sexually harassing their female colleagues. Still, we found today's Thrillist/Urban Daddy mailouts particularly amusing: Both chose to highlight Room Service, "a spacious, ottoman-strewn lounge ringed by four grades of curtained off, rentable party suites" (Thrillist) that are "fitted with everything you need for a proper night in—leather couches, a plasma TV and DVD player, a mini-fridge stocked with champagne, and a drawer stocked with essential toiletries...like mouthwash and condoms" (Urban Daddy). Again, we don't want to make too much out of what is surely a coincidence, but two things are certain: One, Room Service's publicist deserves a bonus, and two, we know where we'll be doing our date-raping on Thursday night. More »
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Remainders: Thrillist Is Also Looking for a Copy Editor
• Tao Lin and Whitney Pastorek star in the world's most boring literary feud. [RODB]
• More sushi for Julie Buxbaum! [Above the Law]
• Flash mobs: The second generation is even douchier than the first. [Gridskipper]
• Former NYT neediest case not exactly helpful to the needy. [NYDN]
• New York is the new Sacramento: Ruby Tuesday is coming to town! [AP]
• NYT cannot get enough of Peter Gelb, the Met's new general manager. It's like they're related to him or something. [NYT]
• NBC harnesses the power of YouTube. This gets a little meta. [YouTube]
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Battle of the Alpha Male Email Newsletters
We couldn't help but notice that yesterday's edition of the UrbanDaddy newsletter (think Daily Candy for cocks) is frighteningly similar to today's edition of the Thrillist newsletter (again, Daily Candy for cocks). Both reviewed the Meatpacking District's latest addition, Pre:Post, which caters to patrons with drinks and meals both before and after their club crawls. A brief comparison of the two reviews' bullet points: More »
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