2008

Great moments in movie marketing (and the view from my...

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I don’t know who this guy is, but after staring at my...

Their messages complemented one another, as did his blue tie and her blue pantsuit.

Joanne Lucas knowing that Florent would remain open as some sort of diner but not telling anyone,...

Writing this was like the matrimonial equivalent of birth...

Martha Stewart blogs about her trip to...

“Looks like we’re in Egypt - but we’re really in Detroit!” Hm. I suppose...

Andrew 1: Knock knock.New York: Who’s there?Andrew 1: 9/11New York: 9/11 who?Andrew 1: You said...

special stories about special people

If you read only one thing today, let it be the Observer profile of Kelly Cutrone. If you read two...

I have read (alright, skimmed at best) this three times now, and I have yet to find a mention of...

And now she will disappear in a puff of...

suck it up, whiney mcbitchnmoan

alexbalk: So Cechin is on vacation for the week, which seemed like a fine idea at the time. Of...

Friend: I moved to Park Slope.Me: Did you have a baby?Thing is, I wasn’t trying to be a smart...

To be fair, it *is* from the whiz who...

Over at Vulture, we’re previewing all the greenlit pilots, digesting their complex plots and...

Waxy memories

I still go to Maya because of this. doree: I was discussing the merits of various bikini waxing...

As I remember it, it was more...

“The best bloggers […] were, it seemed, self-actualized mavericks.” - Simon...

Three-Word Review: 'Indiana Jones'

Big dumb puppy.

Now it becomes clear: They just wanted a piece of the...

We've been getting a lot of email from...

coen: david archuleta has his own army of claymates
coen: they just need a catchy cult name
kois: "archuletoids"?
coen: "achelupas"?
kois: "pedophiles"?

Donnie, How Far You've Fallen From the...

NKOTB on the Today Show: When Joey McIntyre says, “It’s almost like the last 15 years...

877.353.4448

OMG: IO Digital Cable has a new commercial! It’s definitely marketing to a different...

She also kept block parties under...

It’s not quite the same as Ricky the Special-Needs Monkey (it’s more awful), but...

And she's not very tired tonight,...

I feel like my spam is getting genuinely nice. Maybe I’m just a mixed-up girl who lives in a...

A woman's right to choose

Anyone else notice how politicians talk about Hillary ending her campaign as if it’s an...

Discuss.

Georgina: If you put the camera over there, she’ll never know.Male: You sure she’s going...

Game over.

This is why the internet exists. This is why we do it. Special-Needs Monkey Celebrates They made...

alexbalk: “…and that’s when we decided that, for the good...

Researchers Discover Massive Asshole in...

the crazies can see your gay

There was a guy on the subway tonight spouting off unintelligible gibberish, but in a moment of...

I was very distracted by Hillary's necklaces...

David Ortiz 'Curse' Jersey Going for $30K on...

Whenever one of the NYM bloggers cuts-n-pastes my IMs and...

A text message exchange occurring during...

Me: THEY DID NOT JUST MENTION THE GODDAMN JERSEY...and they filmed it?!
Lock: Best Meme Ever
Me: They fucking filmed the excavation?!
Lock: 'vi.
Me: I'm angry.
Lock: Why, pray tell?
Me: Because it's a fake story! It's a stunt staged by the nypost, for the nypost! David Simon would be all over this shit.
Lock: I agree with your reasoning, but emotionally I arrive at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Me: Only because it's the Sox, so you think it's cute. Meanwhile, some baby just died of neglect somewhere, and we didn't hear about it bc of this stunt.
Lock: Shh, Sig's on.

“Sometimes watching my parakeets is like watching a reality...”
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A Day at the Office

Rovzar: There is just so much puke in New York City. You don’t even notice it because...

Maybe the Vagina Hour on the Today Show isn’t so terrible? Kathie Lee just noted that...

Not likely, but wouldn't it be...

caro: I’m starting to think that Fake Nick Denton is Real Nick Denton.

Write what you know, &c.

If this is what I'm preoccupied with, I...

I’m a juror on a criminal trial (no, unfortunately this is not some April Fool’s joke)....

alexbalk: J. Co can’t admit that she’s crying on the...

Preview: Obama on the View tomorrow

Regarding my previous post: At what point did my internal monologue start sounding like a bunch of...

I just went to the office bathroom and noticed that we have new faucets. This is fantastic! The old...

bipolar bowler

Things that haunt me: Last night I had four strikes and a spare in a single game, and yet I only...

I kinda feel like Drudge is treating the HRC-Bosnia snafu like it’s a Steel Magnolias moment:...

Someone should've stayed "the girl who...

I actually thought The Hills couldn’t get any better, and then this season started with...

Wine may be worse for the brain than beer

In a stroke of promotional genius, some cotton company has...

Friday night bloodlust

After a long day at work, when I come home and start setting up my Victor Electronic Mouse Trap, the...

I should leave the office.

I’ve been working pretty hard on fashion-related things at work lately, so much so that I feel...

The other day, I was stopped by lost out-of-towners and asked for directions not once, but TWICE...

I’ve ALWAYS wanted to be one of those people who updates her Facebook status with some sort of...

I just saw a commercial for Atonement set to that song Apologize (you know, “it’s too...

One of the best captions I've ever written.

ok. so i might find it personally amusing that at 12:55 on a wednesday night i am, frankly,...

Just what type of morning does one need to be having in order to justify, say, inhaling a large...

Gawker editor shops memoir

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4.45 PM
coen: heath ledger dead
rovz: what?
coen: interrupted news right now
coen: put it up now
coen: channel 7 news just reported
coen: gogogo
rovz: oko ok ok
4.45 PM
coen: um, you ready for the shocker du jour?
lock: yes
coen: heath ledger is dead
coen: they just interrupted commercials during oprah
lock: WHAT?
coen: um yeah
coen: ah on p6.com
lock: holy
coen: omg page six has a siren.
lock: wowzers
coen: right?!
coen: how fucking crazy is that???!
lock: jesus
lock: on broome street
lock: no less
4.45 PM
neel: holy shit heath ledger died
4.47 PM
coen: on p6.com now
rovz: link them?
coen: you could say saw it on the news, page six confirms
coen: throw noe some love
rovz: they say it was a drug overdose. do we say that?
coen: say that they said it
coen: AP on it now too. just get it up.
4.50 PM
coen: talk about celebrities you didn't expect to die today.
lock: for serious
coen: brad renfro, like, ok. he was off the charts.
coen: but heath fucking ledger? serious a-list actor?
lock: lock: dude shoulda stayed in brooklyn - Joey: traded it all for the bright lights of the big city - look where it got him
coen: you two.
lock: it's the only way we know to numb the pain
lock: drudge siren
4.50 PM
coen: it's like the whole world just found out during the same 10 minutes
rovz: during the same 5 minutes
rovz: that was amazing
4.51 PM
lindsay: RIP Heath Ledger!
coen: i know
coen: like, omg
lindsay: What a big ass celeb funeral that's gonna be
coen: i think the whole world found out in the course of 10min
lindsay: yeah
lindsay: wildfire
4.55 PM
lock: ok, this is funny
lock: Subject: New York Sun Breaking News: Heathcliff Ledger Dies, Police Say
coen: SHUT UP
coen: can you fwd that to me?
5.00 PM
coen: now i've got someone making the joker jokes
rovz: oh God
coen: you realize that in the course of 20 minutes we've gone from shock to spreading news to horror to sad, and now we're at humor?
rovz: I'm not ready for humor
coen: me neither!
coen: i'm a little horrified by how quickly that happens
rovz: though I did laugh when the CNN reporter said "we BELIEVE his ex-wife Michelle Williams was in Brokeback Mountain as well"
5.00 PM
lindsay: my personal contribution is "Renfro/Pleshette/Ledger: MLK Week '08"
coen: pleshette?
lindsay: suzanne pleshette died
coen: i don't even know who that is.
lindsay: it's ok
5.00 PM
coen: surrounded by sleeping pills.
lock: yup
coen: suicide
lock: joker crying on the inside
coen: GOOD ONE LOCK
lock: har, the news just swept the curbed office
lock: people here are a bit slow
coen: you guys are too busy chronicling subprime shit
lock: joker jokes officially over, 21 minutes after the news hit
lock: time to start working the reax to the reax angles
lock: like, are we SURE they finished ALL filming on the batman flick?
lock: what if he still had some voiceover work to do?
lock: it's too much to contemplate
5.05 PM
rovz: ooh, look how nice the apartment was! corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=1100251
coen: um link that
rovz: ok
5.10 PM
coen: i don't see denton in the live footage of paparazzi at the bldg door
lockloct: eesh
5.15 PM
lock: wait, this was mary kate's apartment?
coen: what?
lock: someone just made that claim here
5.15 PM
coen: have you heard that it's mary-kate's apt? could be total rumor bullshit, lock said someone said it over there
rovz: it was on Perez
coen: plausible?
rovz: she lives in Soho?
rovz: I don't know, I'm sure it's plausible.
rovz: funny, TMZ just reported "EXCLUSIVELY" that he's dead
rovz: not like them to be behind CNN
coen: i'm sure they'll get the toxicology reports
coen: and pictures of the pill bottles
5.15 PM
bossman: i can't believe heath ledger dies
bossman: nevertheless, well done getting that up so quick
5.20 PM
bossman: we flicked over to the homepage during the presentation
bossman: and everyone saw the headline and went "what???"
5.20 PM
lock: joey: "would probably be in poor taste to do a 'what other units are available in 421 broome street' post"
5.20 PM
lindsay: broome street??
5.20 PM
rovz: I'm pretty sure it was his apartment
rovz: otherwise why would his housekeeper be there?
coen: yeah
5.25 PM
lindsay: haha, on the page six post:
lindsay: Related Articles Heath Ledger and Yet Another Blond Girlfriend; Ladies, Look Who's Single!
lindsay: I just read that mk olsen owns the apt
5.30 PM
coen: it IS mk's
coen: sewell chan on the case
lock: wacky times
lock: dude sewell chan IS the scene
lock: ha, crappy valleywag splice on gawker disrupting denton's coverage
lock: that amuses me greatly
coen: pretty funny
5.30 PM
bossman: omg
bossman: they just threw mary-kate into the mix??????
coen: HA
coen: yes, it's MK's apt.
bossman: how could this get any better from a tabloid perspective?
5.35 PM
coen: it doesn't. i hate myself
5.38 PM
levy: they took heath from us too soon
coen: seriously
coen: such crazy late-day tabloid action
levy: and ashley olsen
levy: once again, RUINING THINGS
coen: nnono
coen: MK.
levy: no
levy: mk's apt
levy: ashley was there tody
levy: THERE TODAY
coen: WHAT?
coen: where is that?!
levy: gawker
levy: that ashley can't leave well enough alone, can she?
5.40 PM
coen: jesus, ashley was there today?!
rovz: well, that's a rumor gawker is reporting
rovz: is it confirmed somewhere?
coen: no but it's a good rumor
rovz: it is a good rumor
5.40 PM
coen: ASHLEY WAS THERE TODAY?
bossman: i saw, yeah
bossman: that's how it gets better
bossman: heath was having sex with ashley in mary-kate's apartment
coen: no. NO.
5.45 PM
levy: son of a bitch
coen: first lance, now this.
levy: EXACTLY
levy: leave our heros be please
levy: LEAVE THEM BE
coen: ha
levy: seriously, though
levy: ashley was involved
levy: wow
coen: you don't know that for a fact
levy: i don't really care, jc
levy: the mere suggestion
levy: there's a chink in the armor
levy: in the olsen armor of invincibility.
coen: they never had armor, ben
coen: they were so fragile
levy: non-fact
coen: need i remind you of the cirque lodge?
levy: they wanted you to believe they were fragile
levy: so when they KILL
coen: they can take their victims by surprise.
6.10 PM
levy: any updates?
levy: is AO in custody yet?
coen: HA
coen: that would be amazing
levy: here's one to blow your mind
levy: what if she is now WITH CHILD?
levy: and it's his?
coen: love the way your mind works
levy: now that would be something
levy: i think we can agree
levy: if two celebrities are alone doing drugs
levy: they're also having intercourse
6.10 PM
lock: any new hot breaking intimate details??????
coen: yes!
coen: i just put on pink underwear!
lock: YES!!!!
6.44 PM
lindsay: ha, on the way home I was thinking I was going to make a joke when alex got here "let's go up to broome street and look at the media circus." and then I just read your blog!
6.45 PM
lindsay: (I hadn't seen the post you linked to or any pics of the apt)
coen: yeah denton ALL over it
lindsay: crazy. I'd be so embarrassed to even be there!
lindsay: ok, just signed on to say that!

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