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NERD ALERT: Oh hey do you like the new Internet fad of the Twitter? Well, your Wonkette has been on the Twitter for a while now, but it never really, uh, worked. (We blame past management.) Now it works! We still have no idea what the Twitter does, but 550 people have subscribed to it, [...]
Your editor is sitting in the backseat of a gold Town & Country, like Hank Williams, as your other editors jabber up front and drive through the cornfields and cow hills of Nebraska. Let’s check the e-mail and see what’s … Oh goddamn, what does the Library of Congress want from your Wonkette?
BE OUR D.C. INTERN: There is one (1) internship open for a Washington D.C. student who will write a quick daily thing, on weekdays, and have the personality to go cover some stuff in town sometimes, like indie rock shows and ice cream socials and gallery openings and K Street job fairs and inaugurations and [...]
SPEAKING OF CONVENTION PARTY TIME: Regarding this, about the fancy cocktail parties in Denver and St. Paul, Wonkette is not seeing quite enough invitations. We’ll need four invites for all the fun things, thanks, and then we’ll post the sexy pictures here. [The Hill]
Let’s give a big round of applause to our lovely sponsors, who would definitely come up to the bleachers and give a friendly “sucks to be you” after throwing a baseball bat into our face. Thanks to these fine institutions for advertising on Wonkette: ACLU American Apparel Health Care For America Now Al Gore/We Can [...]
You people make us proud. Here is the “Big Sale On Truck Nutz” quiz team in the “Geeks Who Drink” competition at some bar, we think in Colorado. “My team was named in your honor,” reports Wonkette operative Seth H. “We didn’t win, but we did come in last place, hurray! Intentionally! Because last place [...]
WEEKETTE: Do not forsake your Weekette, which is a wonderful weekly collection of your Wonkette items, in the LA CITYBEAT newspaper. Also, oh lord, what is your editor doing now? [LA CITYBEAT]
EXCITING LISTENING OPPORTUNITY FOR WONKETTE READERS! Those of you who have the XM satellite radio can listen to Wonkette’s own Comics Curmudgeon this afternoon!
AGGREGATION SWEEPING THE NATION: Here’s a little deal where you can keep up with your favorite political news and gossip sites, such as your Wonkette. [Straight Up Politics]
See all those pretty ads? Because of them, your Wonkette can continue to bring you the cheap jokes, snide remarks and full frontal insight that makes your day less grim while dramatically improving your test scores in the Politics and Drunken Humor categories. Please visit this week’s fine sponsors: American Apparel Work For Progress GrassrootsCampaigns.com [...]
Your Wonkette is in Vanity Fair (the one with the cover breasts of, let’s see, yes, Angelina Jolie), in this blog chart thing showing various levels of boredom/earnestness of the famous blogs of the Internet. We did not realize our headlines were so funny, or that our articles weren’t. Anyway, this just goes to show [...]
Create the ‘Wonkettini’ and Win a Secret Prize!
by Ken Layne
There’s a new restaurant opening in Chinatown called “Asian Spice,” and Booze Master ScottL wants you to help create a famous new cocktail. “I would love to put a Wonkettini on the menu and thought it might be amusing if the commenters suggest a tasty libation befitting the name,” ScottL writes.