urban anthropology
Meet Ed Shepp! He's looking for a home in "a safe part of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Jersey City or Hoboken." A cheap home. Like,
cheap. "Like seriously cheap, like under $700." As we learn from his Craigslist posting, he's
friends with Tionna, for one! (Our popular
erstwhile advice columnist, Tionna Smalls.) He is adorable, dragging out all his media and tchotchkes for digicam show-and-tell! In an effort to be servicey, we procured a roommate reference for him, straight from Ms. Tionna herself:
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An adorable little blonde person ventured out to the East New York home of former Gawker advice columnist
Tionna Smalls to ask her what she thinks about Internet fame. "It's all a lot of fun of games in the beginning." But. "If people think you're getting more burns off their site than they are, they'll get rid of you. It's jealousy."
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Alumni Report
Missing the taste of classic Gawker? The inimitable
Choire Sicha is blogging this week at
kottke.org, the personal site of Jason Kottke, a fellow blogging old-timer.
Emily Gould has introduced the exclamation — Yay! — to
Jewcy, the online magazine for "New Jews". Former advice columnist
Tionna Smalls tells readers of SLC Outsider, based in Salt Lake City, that
life is what you make of it. Alex Balk and Jessica Coen are now, tragically, in management. And Elizabeth Spiers is otherwise engaged giving quotes to the New York Times.
internets
Wednesday readers were shocked —
shocked — to see
Julia Allison talk about her life on the very site that through lurid coverage had transformed the columnist-pundit from someone no one knows about to someone Gawker readers know about. She's our symbol of the loathsome self-promoter, apparently because no one in New York realizes that her exhibitionist habits are perfectly normal.
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ask tionna
Got ish? Our advice columnist, the author and blogger Tionna Tee Smalls, is here to help you handle your problems in a mature and reasonable fashion. Ask her anything! In this week's installment: How to approach a woman who has dated the same man as you in the spirit of sisterly solidarity, and how to beat her up when that doesn't work out.
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"I don't consider myself a socialite because I major in sociology." Also! "Lemme explain something, I am going to say this ish now and never again- I speak like this because its easier for the reader to read it. No one wants to see a bunch of proper words lined up in a page while their sneaking on their computers at work. People want the real."
Tionna Smalls is the best blogger in the world. [
Talk Dat Ish]
"My
email marketing finally worked. Gawker.com
did a story on me. They
did 3 actually. And if you're in the industry u know that Gawker is a celebrity website that keep it real and from that story I am meeting with an agent today who contacted the kid after reading and researching me. Wow, you get rid of the losers in your life and doors began to open for you. So let me get this book deal on and popping. So we shall see what's good with that. Right now I'm on my sk so I can't place a link of the story but just google me or wait until I get online later on to do so. Life is starting to look up for
Tionna Smalls and I'm happy. I'm happy with my fam situation, my man situation, friends, locality, everything. I sleep all day, work all night. That's the life of a go-getter. Were planning the next luncheon. What else can happen to make my world better?" [
Talk Dat Ish]
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