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Lie-plagued yuppie lifestyle app The New York Times has a big problem. On the one hand, it wants to have lots of link-bait articles full of lies — anything a politician says, “yoga will kill you,” etc. On the other hand, it has a few nervous-nelly editors wondering whether there is some “market share potential” [...]
Here’s a funny thing, on this day when the Important Political Media is reporting on the separation of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Kennedy Family lady Maria “Sargent” Shriver: We like Arnold. We like Maria. We don’t know them, although we have long existed in that strange California zone between media, politics [...]
The Awl has introduced us to a fine musical talent today: Winterband, a group of Pentecostals who specialize in freak-folk and classic rock songs, about morality. This one, “Obama Muslim 9/11,” is just an acoustic; do you know what it’s about? “He says he’s a Christian/ a good faithful Christian/ but he sounds like a [...]
BECAUSE NEWSPAPER EDITORS ARE DUMB & LAZY: Your editor Juli Weiner once faked out an entire prosperous town with the simplest of pranks, all because of one little public-urination dual arrest. [The Awl]
Two issues “on the table” in this week’s heads-a-bloggin’ exchange between your editor and Choire Sicha: that goddamned White House Correspondents Association Dinner/Jerkoff, and a curious new marketing video put out by our former employers at Gawker Media. Who will win?!
We heard your cries of horror, so this week’s edition is three minutes long and PACKED with health & safety tips from The Awl’s Choire Sicha, so you won’t die of the pig-bird-hybrid flu! [The Awl]
WTF? Oh look it’s Choire Sicha & Ken Layne’s hit new teevee show, Gossip Girl, at THE AWL.
HOORAY A BLOG! It is about time that former Wonkette guest editor/contributor Choire Sicha and his little friend Alex Balk stopped being weird and just started doing another blog together, like they did and Gawker and then at Radar, until the latter was purchased and written by an anonymous pornographer. So here is their thing, [...]
