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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    I will never forget the thrill of The Village Voice when I arrived in NYC for college in the fall of 1975 from an upstate small town. The ads for gay movie theaters tweaked something within me. And then, my first semester, going to the personals ads and, very nervously, picking one by a gay man with his phone number and even more nervously calling him to make a date, thereby starting my way through the various baby steps to coming to terms with my sexual orientation, just six years after Stonewall. It really was wild and wooly and that wonderful Village Voice of days past, still so fondly remembered and the doors it opened still so deeply resonant to me.
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    08/06/09

    @TrevorNatta: When the VOICE was still interesting and the SOHO WEEKLYNEWS was around, it was heavenly newspaper reading for this arty suburban girl!
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    08/06/09

    @TrevorNatta: OK: so obvs you've been in NYC forever, do you remember the first NYC matchbook covers which had ads for phone s3x circa 1987, plain black text on white background reading simply "in the middle of the night, when there's no-one else" and a number to call? please, please, please tell me you remember this
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    It's sad, because Tom Robbins' weekly skewering of Bloomberg has been fantastic reading, and really the only critical voice in a NYC media that has fallen head-over-heels in love with our mayor.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Back in college I worked in a library that for some reason hoarded VV back to the mid-70s. It was interesting to see how straightforward the writing style was -- until about 1981 -- when it started reading like Semiotica meets Lester Bangs.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Am I the only one who clicked on the "New Wave" article link thinking I was going be reading a takedown of Truffaut and Godard?
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    08/06/09

    @1.1.1.: Yes! (Good article, though. His description of David Byrne is hysterical. And he recognized that The Ramones were a "killer band". Now, does ANYONE remember The Bananas? Not me...)
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Just about every free weekly alternative paper in the US was based on the Village Voice. The Voice clones were all bought by New Times Media. Then New Times buys the Voice...
    New Times Media comes in and decides that their experience with Voice clones qualifies them to use their management techniques to make the Voice "better"...
    Do you see where I'm going with this?
    It's like if MAD TV took over Saturday Night Live and made SNL be more like MAD TV... (vomit)
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    08/06/09

    @se7a7n7: That's a good analogy, especially since Saturday Night Live also long ago lost most of its relevance. I guess that makes Michael Musto the Voice's Kristen Wiig?
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Graham Parker, Joan Armatrading and ads for stereo equipment that made your music actually sound good.
    Major sigh.
    OH GOD I'M AN OLD!!!!!
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    08/06/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Oh, pipe down and finish your prune juice. I need help getting those damn kids off of the lawn.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Don't we still have a fascist mayor and closeted gay people?
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    08/06/09

    @depardoo: More fascist mayor, less closeted gays.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Nowadays, the Voice basically runs Musto's column, one big expose or thought piece, a couple of restaurant reviews and "around town" listings. Musto is really the only thing left that you can't get a thousand other places.
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    08/06/09

    @Nic Fit: Also: J. Hoberman. Damn you Village Voice for letting go of Nathan Lee.
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