Purely Random People Coming Together: The National Magazine Awards - Gawker Comments

Purely Random People Coming Together: The National Magazine Awards

DigitalVersicolor — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:23:27 EDT

Judah Friedlander is getting waaaay annoying.

Purely Random People Coming Together: The National Magazine Awards

lizzybennett — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:17:18 EDT

@Bunsy:
I met Rob Lowe at an NBC event once. He was very cool, funny and polite. I also met Courtney Love at a Jane function once. She was very cool, funny and polite. And attractive in that Bleached out banged up way. (Kurt was not so funny, but very cool, quiet and polite). People tend to be very cool, funny and polite and down to earth at these functions. As for the otherwordly beauty--I think Padma looks like Yvonne Elliman. Who at least fucked Eric Clapton--so waaay cooler (and less vomit-inducing) than Salmon Rushdie, sorry.

lizzybennett

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lizzybennett — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:23:01 EDT

I probably sound all cracky, more than bitchy, and shit--but why the fuck (and for that matter what the fuck) is Padma Lakshmi giving out the ASME for fiction? If there's irony involved, I don't care enough to get it, and I frankly think the fuss over her (who to me is just a pair of bug-eyes and a You Tube rant life story, sorry). Marries a coot (albeit brilliant one) dumps him and all of a sudden she's, what, worthwhile?
Just. Don't. Get. It.
I'd rather here about what the Elle editors were wearing, frankly. Or the Lucky editors--oh that's right! They weren't there!

lizzybennett

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onegirl — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:36:44 EDT

CHRIST, will someone please tell Julia Alison that she looks like even MORE of an ass when she puckers her lips that like?

onegirl

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Slackferno — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:13:23 EDT

I hearts me some Judah Friedlander. I heard the National Pamphlet Association booked Paul F. Tompkins for their soiree.

Slackferno

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Conbon — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:08:32 EDT

A world controlled by Padma Lakshmi and Judah Friedlander is a world I want to live in.

Conbon

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mitchel_stevens — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:49:19 EDT

@JuneBuggy:
and when security takes your $200 camera, the tears are priceless.

mitchel_stevens

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famousauthor — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:43:41 EDT

Where's the picture of Annie Leibovitz giving you tips on how to take really great cellphone pix, with Julia Allison as model?

famousauthor

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JuneBuggy — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:36:21 EDT

A reporter taking pictures with a camera phone? A good digital camera costs less than two hundred bucks. Invest!

JuneBuggy

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CaptainFantastic — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:14:00 EDT

@DorothyZbornak: I should have refreshed...

CaptainFantastic

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CaptainFantastic — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:13:09 EDT

"What the fuck are all these famous people doing here? Like Julia Allison?"
These are separate thoughts, right? You are asking whether we like J.A., I hope.

famous (adjective): very well known; known and recognized by many people

Define many.

CaptainFantastic

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DorothyZbornak — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:03:02 EDT

I'm assuming you're using the term "famous" very loosely when speaking of Ms. Allison.

DorothyZbornak

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Bunsy — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:59:49 EDT

Met Padma years ago at a Hearst mag event. She was really cool. Funny, good personality, but almost otherworldly, she is so good looking.

Now -- back among the rest of us mortals...

Bunsy

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Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:56:22 EDT

@RonMwangaguhunga: The ASME hall monitors kept coming over and harassing anyone they saw taking pics or pulling out a cell phone. Rachel Sklar was bravely doing some undercover photo work during the show though, at the risk of being scolded or shot.

Hamilton Nolan

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RonMwangaguhunga — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:48:54 EDT

What, no Padma pics?

RonMwangaguhunga

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Tammany_Fall — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:47:25 EDT

OK, I've tried for a year now to stay out of this, but it's time: that dumbass media whore's puckered mug makes me want to jam a fork through my forehead.

Tammany_Fall