I think this post is off-putting, btw, because Gawker's "voice" as a blog, as a whole, has moved so far away from the very Manhattan-centric feel it had at first. I pretty much hated this site when I first discovered it in 2005 (after Coen linked a blog I had then), but started loving it a lot within a year or so, as more bloggers were added and the subjects covered were more diverse.
This is a wonderful idea, even if the inaugural vintage post chosen is incredibly off-putting to anyone who doesn't live in New York City. (Mind you, I LOVE NY, too. But it's still off-putting.)
@RandomLunatic: Yeah, I figured that'd be the case. But as this was my favorite, and it's time-appropriate, we're rolling this out to start. Also, maybe some old-school might come out of the woodwork too? Who knows.
@Foster Kamer: Gawker without comments... now that is truly a mind-blower. Kind of like jelly without peanut butter, Garfunkel without Simon, Shirley without Laverne.
Oh my God, am I going to have to go through CollegeHumor's crappy archives now to find out if Jake Hurwitz has ever done any other hot fauxmo pictorials?
I've seen him before and been pretty meh, but now .... somehow I suspect he's going to be in my thoughts tonight. Maybe just maybe with Levi Johnston. And a black and white hockey stick.
Hey everyone. Calm your asses down. I can't believe people are arguing that it is wrong to throw snowballs at cars. Are you all serious? That's what cars are for! Besides... they are the main cause of global warming. How else is the snow supposed to fight back? I mean, sure....icy roads fuck up a car now and then. But we all must do our part to help the snow exact revenge. Besides....these were HUMMERS!!! Stupid hulking cars driven by assholes with microdicks, named after a well-known sex act. Please people. If we can't snowball a Hummer... WTF is this world coming to?!!??!
Looking at number 8, all I can hear is Eddie Monsoon's voice telling me "look at these cheekbones, sweetie! This entire outfit hangs on these cheekbones!"
Except in DVF's case, it's the entire crew in that photograph.
Regarding number 12 - Hurwitz is a faker and Blumenfeld, well still my beating heart but he looks like a sincere boy.
And Ricky Van Veen? Those eyes, that jawline. Swoon.
Hey Foster, though you meant this in a mocking sense, I'm sure--and I'm equally sure Nick or his human dog Gabe told you to post this garbage because they both find themselves and their kind interesting--no human being gives a shit what these media wastes did at their X-Mas party. Did Tina Brown eat vomit out of a diaper again? It's how she makes her *living*.
Also, no one has ever clicked on anything at college humor that Will Farrell wasn't doing as a favor. Ignore these humans. Ignore their videos, their tweets, their FB updates. Ignore them until they die.
Especially Tina's crap. She's a grotesque, greedy, millionaire pig who needs to share a dirt-box with Arianna Huffington.
@ian spiegelman: Au contraire -- I for one care about this exactly to the extent that any reasonably hot young guys were photographed doing sexy things to each other. But perhaps I've already made that clear.
@ian spiegelman: Ian! Hello! To be sure, neither Gabriel nor Nick instructed me to go up with this one; I quite enjoyed the site of Barry and Tina and Diane getting plastered with the Bright Young Things all on my own. Also, I get a fairly powerful shock delivered to my testicles whenever I use the old "slow news day" excuse, so let's just say I really, really enjoy combing Twitter for people's hangovers. Which...actually...I kinda do.
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"Because you have the luxury of deciding which kosher restaurants are good or bad instead of just being grateful that there is one." #123
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Like I said, though - I think this is an awesome idea overall - and this is one of the few blogs that can justify doing such a thing.
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I'm already really, really liking this feature.
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I've seen him before and been pretty meh, but now .... somehow I suspect he's going to be in my thoughts tonight. Maybe just maybe with Levi Johnston. And a black and white hockey stick.
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Except in DVF's case, it's the entire crew in that photograph.
Regarding number 12 - Hurwitz is a faker and Blumenfeld, well still my beating heart but he looks like a sincere boy.
And Ricky Van Veen? Those eyes, that jawline. Swoon.
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Also, no one has ever clicked on anything at college humor that Will Farrell wasn't doing as a favor. Ignore these humans. Ignore their videos, their tweets, their FB updates. Ignore them until they die.
Especially Tina's crap. She's a grotesque, greedy, millionaire pig who needs to share a dirt-box with Arianna Huffington.
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