Apologies - Gawker Comments

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famousauthor — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:33:56 EDT

Excuses, excuses.

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pufflehuff — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:32:50 EDT

@rosaluxembourgeoise: Fair enough. Sounds... Dellilo-esque, if a little tiring.

So what's next on the reading list, in case Nick Denton's blog empire lets us down again? I'm going for The Telegraph myself, hoping that there are more "functioning alcoholic" diaries to set a benchmark for me. Er, I mean, to shudder at.

pufflehuff

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Un Chien Andalou — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:04:07 EDT

First,
I thought it was me crashing the server as all the beautiful women of Gawker sending their photos into the Girls of Gawker Gone Wild Calendar Contest overloaded the system.

[gawker.com]

Then I realized the Gawker offices were being sprayed for crabs.

Still time to enter. See your favorite gawker female commentators before the calendar goes on sale.

Un Chien Andalou

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rosaluxembourgeoise — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:47:04 EDT

@pufflehuff: Honestly? The bits on commodity fetishism rang uncomfortably true. So relieved to be resuming meaningful human interaction under advertising banners.

I was beginning to feel so...alienated.

rosaluxembourgeoise

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beercheck — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:43:15 EDT

Gawker Media needs a new Director of I.T. Seriously. Think about it.

You've got my email address.

beercheck

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pufflehuff — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:41:37 EDT

@rosaluxembourgeoise: How was it?

I just read a newspaper instead. I might have singlehandedly revived that ol' dead tree media. Yay me.

pufflehuff

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Kim Gordon's Panties — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:14:18 EDT

That's what you get for pissing off 2 billion Muslims. What the hell did you think would happen when you (not me, certainly) insulted Mohammad like that?

Kim Gordon's Panties

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MyCubeHas3Sides — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:06:13 EDT

Man, those Gawker Tremlins are a bitch!

MyCubeHas3Sides

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MartyPants — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:03:50 EDT

@Mary Mouse: Yup. With myself.

MartyPants

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LadlySack — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:00:21 EDT

@fiveinchtaint: We broke Gawker. I know it. Now everyone go comment on Taint's post 150 more times...

("Taint's post": sounds dirty)

LadlySack

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donmiguel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:56:26 EDT

@Mary Mouse: Not with anyone else.

All kidding aside, that hurt.

donmiguel

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Steverino — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:55:25 EDT

Was this like a Starbucks-style shutdown?

"We are going to make PERFECT blog posts now, people. If you think your post is crap, don't post it for our customers. And if you need to grind your beans, do it out in the open. I want us all to be inspired by the natural aroma in here. Now get blogging."

Steverino

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NeverEnough — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:53:49 EDT

3/20. Never again.

NeverEnough

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Mary Mouse — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:52:46 EDT

So, did anyone have Gawker blackout sex?

Mary Mouse

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rosaluxembourgeoise — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:50:54 EDT

I finally got around to reading Das Kapital.

rosaluxembourgeoise

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In Other News... — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:50:03 EDT

Isn't "Pop Fiction" by Ashton Kutcher DA BOMB y'all?

In Other News...

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In Other News... — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:39 EDT

China says it's the Dalai Lama's fault.

In Other News...

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Sarcastro — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:30 EDT

I'm still shaking a bit.

Sarcastro

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MartyPants — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:47:44 EDT

@Henifer Hropes: mwah ha ha ha. mwaaaahhh ha ha ha.

MartyPants

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lawyergay — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:42:27 EDT

Guys, while Gawker was down I blogged that I have a real problem. I want you to know that I've blogged my first blog: I'm bloggerless over blogs, and my blog has become unbloggable.

lawyergay

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che_leo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:42:22 EDT

did Pakistan try to block you guys again?

che_leo

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fiveinchtaint — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:39:53 EDT

@collegecallgirl: Ha. Nor did I. I was catching up on email in between hitting refresh 9000 times.

fiveinchtaint

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Henifer Hropes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:38:19 EDT

@MartyPants: Clearly, bringing down the gawker sites isn't one way. (Must go converse with the Pinky to my Brain to figure something out)

Henifer Hropes

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SoftBeadySuedeShoes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:37:57 EDT

@MartyPants: LOL, I went to PH just to see if there was any kind of "Gawker is down" post.

SoftBeadySuedeShoes

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britneyspearstears — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:37:19 EDT

...and the world comes to a halt.

britneyspearstears

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WideStanceRomancer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:36:51 EDT

I'm willing to try to move past this ugly incident, for a star.

WideStanceRomancer

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MartyPants — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:36:30 EDT

@Henifer Hropes: How DOES one rate one of those star things anyway?

MartyPants

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Henifer Hropes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:36:28 EDT

@CodePink: And the FourthGawkerDimension survives on. Where we boldly go where no other commenter has gone before.

Henifer Hropes

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Mary Mouse — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:36:16 EDT

I met Emily Gould a couple of weeks ago. She asked me what I do for a living and I told her. She said "Well, clearly you have a lot of free time!" Just how much free time, I did not realise until today.

Mary Mouse

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MartyPants — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:36:05 EDT

@BK_KT: You think that's bad, sister? I was desperate. Desperate! I had to kill me some time...and ended up on Perez Hilton. egads! Kill me now.

oh...and first, bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MartyPants

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belltolls — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:35:58 EDT

My satellite went down about the same time and I was convinced we were under attack. They I realized my cell phone worked and so did the rest of the internet. So I made a relish and mustard sandwich and soldiered on.

belltolls

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SoftBeadySuedeShoes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:35:23 EDT

Also, Nick why not use the old "Sorry, the site was down for some back-office upgrades" excuse? Used to work in the old days.

SoftBeadySuedeShoes

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Henifer Hropes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:35:22 EDT

@SoftBeadySuedeShoes: True.
Actually, it was ME who brought it down. In protest. Because I don't have a star.

Henifer Hropes

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MartyPants — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:34:57 EDT

I was a tad nervous it was all the ohammed-May artoon-cay okes-jay. Glad to know everything is fine.

Praise allah.

MartyPants

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meerkat — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:34:45 EDT

And during lunchtime, too.. very frustrating!

meerkat

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Maya Twocents — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:33:23 EDT

Gawker sites were down an hour, doo-dah, doo dah
Housekeeping apologies, oh dee doo dah day.

Maya Twocents

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collegecallgirl — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:33:10 EDT

Oh, really? I hadn't noticed.

collegecallgirl

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SoftBeadySuedeShoes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:33:06 EDT

@Henifer Hropes: No way, don't go blaming that guy. He got lynched anyway! He has taken enough abuse.

SoftBeadySuedeShoes

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ljnd2 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:32:40 EDT

@Helman: It was 2 hours. I counted.

ljnd2

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lawyergay — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:32:14 EDT

Don't EVER do that again! My friend in IT got canned last week and I was afraid the new regime was cracking down.

lawyergay

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BK_KT — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:32:13 EDT

You have no idea how hard this was for me. I was forced to kill time on NYmag.com.

BK_KT

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Sargasm — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:31:42 EDT

Melee

Sargasm

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Helman — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:29:47 EDT

It felt like 5 hours. Which is really disturbing in the Gawker-as-crack sense.

Helman

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CodePink — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:29:07 EDT

@Henifer Hropes: Blogably.

CodePink

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KarenUhOh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:28:40 EDT

You don't say that like you mean it. Who were you with?

KarenUhOh

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Henifer Hropes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:28:32 EDT

Did this have anything to do with the blogswithinablogwithinablogwithinablog?

Henifer Hropes