Never met Pareene. Never spoken to him, in person or on the phone. We only ever sent short messages via gchat, exclusively, because nobody else uses gchat so you don't get bothered. Never had any substantive conversation regarding Wonkette or anything work-related beyond constant complaining about the company and its terrible broken technology. We only ever had one single goal: to move Wonkette to blogspot. Oh, and to quit. [Moving to Gawker's not really quitting Gawker]