October 2009
14 posts
Minutes from an editorial meeting
Editor 1: Best movies to watch stoned?
Editor 2: All of them.
Why, hello, old friend!
It’s come to this:
We’ll also be meeting with Joe Dolce, former editor-in-chief of Star, current social media consultant, who will propose a social media experiment for the China Grill restaurants.
Social media consultant — pretty sure that’s unemployment-speak for “Chodorow’s Twintern.”
spiers:
jessicacoen:
Virginia Heffernan’s book is the book we all want to write, but can’t. No pleasures, indeed! I’m a little sad, honestly. Going to spend the rest of the day staring at my hands and this filthy keyboard. White keyboards, what the fuck.
I think Virginia’s book will be good, but I can pretty definitively say that there is no part of me, not a single molecule, that wants to...
Why Gawker Is So Wrong About Virginia Heffernan's...
lindsayrobertson:
It’s actually amazing that someone out there who actually understands the internet is thinking about it all the time. And not the way we think about it, as bloggers (people to whom the internet affords no pleasures anymore) but as a thoughtful writer who only has to write one column per week and thus can go down the kind of rabbit holes most bloggers, with ten deadlines per day...
John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize New York Mag.
Is there hope behind the heartbreak [themes on the new album]? The melody is the hope. The lyrics are the heartbreak, the melody is the hope. If you have the lyrics being the heartbreak and the music as the heartbreak, your editor made you ask stupid fucking questions! You’re standing in front of me acting as if these questions are fair, but now we’re talking about something real. So...
“my dickhead is shaped liked a darth vadar helmet. my dick is so fat it looks...”
– Okay, now Tracy Morgan is on Twitter.
OMG Tracy Morgan Finally Joined Twitter Y'all!!! →
NB: His icon seems to be ripped from Starpulse, and the only person he’s following is his assistant. Both indicate that there’s a lot of editorial potential here — but until there’s some actual gibberish, I refuse to get excited.
“You ask yourself questions like, “If I knew I would have this sore throat...”
– What to Expect When You’re Expecting Swine Flu, by Lindsay Robertson