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FIRE UP THE SIREN! MAN THE BATTLEMENTS!

Soup! Orell! …someone else? Anyone? Um, yeah, the long-hoped-for bullet is entering their...

Oct 1st

youngmanhattanite: FOYM Ray Wert makes this year’s Heeb 100. At least there’s no laptop in the...

Oct 1st

“Actress Kirstie Alley wrote on Twitter “JUST FOR THE...”
— It’s a veritable...

Oct 1st

Sondheim on Sondheim? Really, Roundabout? Really?

Oct 1st

Why waste time with double-entendres when you can get there much more efficiently with a single?

Oct 1st

youngmanhattanite: Mickey Kaus is a mess. I do like the attempted neologism...

Oct 1st

fek: The rest is all Bakes, who requires no editing whatsoever: I run it as I get it. Also, best...

Oct 1st

Might it be that the Polanski case is the first time widely distributed access to media means that...

Oct 1st

youngmanhattanite: Dennis Hopper is trying to distract us from the matter at hand. Next thing you...

Sep 30th

Film People not supporting Polanski

1. Kevin Smith 2. Luc Besson 3. […]

Sep 30th

Also related: someone work in a Gawker couch joke please.

Sep 30th

Related: can you imagine the “Thinking and Drinking” show that you could have this week?

Sep 30th

So, ladies, can you help me here: is “rape-rape” worse than ‘”It was rape,...

Sep 30th

It’s really time for Blakeley to reprint that date rape how to post.

Sep 30th

So Netflix On Demand finally has Miller’s Crossing. I intend to become the mayor of...

Sep 29th

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(via alexbalk)How sad is it that I identified the video from the first still?

Sep 29th

fek: andrearosen: youngmanhattanite: The intention of comedy, Andrew. I know how to spell Marc...

Sep 29th

Maybe Polanksi should welcome his extradition

Sep 29th

I guess we can add Richard Rushfield to...

At Salon, Kate Harding writes a hang ‘em high piece succinctly entitled “Reminder:...

Sep 29th

spiers: Orwell on Polanski (sort of.) : In an age like our own, when the artist is an...

Sep 29th

peterfeld: What meanings/connotations do NYC area codes carry? youngmanhattanite: ...

Sep 29th

Merlin Mann on Adobe

Sep 29th

Well, they are, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi finds that endless humorous.Well,...

Sep 29th

Interesting fact: Teterboro, the airport, which has the highest number of wildfire strikes...

Sep 29th

Yes, it’s after sundown, so I am celebrating a little late, but leave it to fusty academics to...

Sep 29th

youngmanhattanite: peterfeld: If Chicago gets it, we...

Sep 29th

Things that really trouble me about this...

katiebakes: but only kind of meh when I see them in US Weekly Shudder.

Sep 29th

Crowdsourcing 101

youngmanhattanite: We need a handy cheat sheet of go-to jokes/phrases for easy application to any...

Sep 28th

Thanks to YM (was that sac?) for the joke. Cooper Black, of...

Sep 28th

To all my Jewish friends: Happy Polanksi Day!

Sep 28th

Glue sniffing teenage gangs in Kathmandu

Sep 28th

"Straight up, what he did to me was wrong,"...

Sep 28th

Would everyone feel less comfortable defending Polanski if Hilter was a better painter? I went...

Sep 28th

youngmanhattanite: David Edelstein should be burned at the stake. COMMIE. After his infamous...

Sep 28th

I wonder if Polanski is observing by going the whole day without drugging and raping a 13 year-old.

Sep 28th

How come Jews brag about not eating for one day, but you never hear much about how Muslims...

Sep 28th

I won’t go in the books as a classic correction, but I do like that it is a bit on the florid...

Sep 28th

I hope someone does a bit about how a Flash Forward character says in response to a question of what...

Sep 28th

When is someone going to do the definitive “Ooh! Brantley burn! Oh, wait, it reads just like...

Sep 28th

While everyone is dusting off their Free Polanski rant (kids — he’s the...

Sep 28th

I wonder if any is pulling stats on frequency of deaths caused by off-duty intoxicated officers....

Sep 28th

Photo credit: mostly a detective from the NYPD but also a...

Sep 28th

During the first six months of 2009, 25 people in Nassau County died of heroin overdoses — more than...

Sep 27th

Sorry bloglympics, the siren call of the Hudson Valley...

Sep 27th

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You do not listen to enough Nina Simone. And a big downs to Tumblr for not letting me post the MP3....

Sep 27th

I hate to be a crank — well, actually, I don’t — but the only way to make claims...

Sep 25th

Mebbe Choire will do a clever post about how the CNN dude was wearing Mom jeans (really, don’t...

Sep 25th

youngmanhattanite: soupsoup: If I can’t call people out on their bullshit or get upset when...

Sep 24th

The Dan Abrams School of Media Crit:...

youngmanhattanite: The funny thing about Soup’s blatant anti-Gawker Media bias? He’s not even...

Sep 24th

Just a little housekeeping to make future posting more...

Sep 24th

And if he wasn’t still fucking that chicken, would any of you talked about local news this...

Sep 24th

peterfeld: ninety9: allthecoolkids: The problem with Gawker. Part whatever: Confused Justine...

Sep 23rd

allthecoolkids: The problem with Gawker. Part whatever: Confused Justine Bateman Attacks ‘Human...

Sep 23rd

Bakes, always worried about the quality of the commentariat.

Sep 23rd

youngmanhattanite: vicemag: “They were old enough to...

Sep 23rd

Following up, Philly ed: turns out they just...

Sep 23rd

Your White Noise moment (it's a book, kids) —...

Sep 23rd

Hey everyone, you should try this!

I was just at Hunch. It was great. You give them like $40 with of consumer survey data, answer three...

Sep 22nd

So, this is why Modern Love rejected my...

fek: I’ve never liked men. I like guys. Guys are often in between things like jobs and houses,...

Sep 22nd

Apparently making $2.5M isn't enough to...

Sep 22nd

Geek fest

@girlfriend is reviewing MacArthur’s to insure we aren’t too hateful....

Sep 22nd

Has tumblr been drag-ass slow for anyone...

Sep 22nd

youngmanhattanite: I read it ten times; underwhelmed. The writing doesn’t pop off the page, you...

Sep 21st

natashavc: It’s difficult to write when you a love of adjectives. Compounded by a hatred of...

Sep 21st

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Noted without comment, because how can you top FMU? And if you wonder who the other two guys...

Sep 21st

How fucked in the head is the NY Democratic...

Sep 21st

spiers: I like Mashable, but their hiring requirement that new bloggers must have previously...

Sep 21st

Since my dashboard is looking more and more like Foster...

Sep 21st

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These creative types did this and were apparently showing it at Rubulad events on a Super-8 until...

Sep 21st

The Summer of Death finally does some of G-d’s work: just under the wire, Irving Kristol.

Sep 21st

Shakespeare in the park attracts, well, all kinds of people.

Sep 20th

It must be getting crowded in Jobs'...

Hell, maybe that’s why he has a hard time staying in the office. Anyhoo, the big story in Big...

Sep 19th

funsize: “OK, here’s a problem that is holding back feminism and you see it on the blogs. We all...

Sep 18th

A short primer on the why anonymity on the...

Sep 18th

Um, guys, time to fire your ad sales guy.

Sep 17th

Adventures in unintentionally ironic accidentally contextual...

Sep 17th

Sharpen your pencils, olds: we're going...

So Pavement is reuniting? I first heard of Pavement relatively late — summer of 1992. I went...

Sep 17th

youngmanhattanite: fimoculous: People I wish were around to talk about the internet: Warhol,...

Sep 16th

How can Obama Not Win the Healthcare...

In EIGHT STATES, getting beaten by your husband is a PRE-EXISTING CONDITION. Related: waiting for...

Sep 16th

So I absolutely did not recognize 11 of the 50 pundits on The Atlantic Hott List. Sad day for Bakes:...

Sep 16th

OMFG!

There’s a cell phone and a backpack in the very room I’m working!!!!!!! Is there a...

Sep 16th

Hoping Gawker gets to their ‘This is what we know about Richard Blakeley’ post soon,...

Sep 16th

pareene: ninety9: Why is it so hard to find election results? I mean, I admire that the Times...

Sep 16th

Why is it so hard to find election results? I mean, I admire that the Times did 531 posts about...

Sep 16th

peterfeld: ninety9: I asked my brother in law about the race — he’s a civil rights litigator...

Sep 13th

The resurgence of the yumblr?

What’s with the photos? Anyhoo - two lightly scrambled eggs and a side of tomato.

Sep 13th

youngmanhattanite: peterfeld: I’m supporting Cy Vance for Manhattan District Attorney, and so...

Sep 13th

Fall of Death gets off to a solid start: Larry Gelbart. Poor Larry didn’t even have a canned...

Sep 11th

katiebakes: Puff daddies and pot mommas. Um, so I never really considered the name...

Sep 11th

Your tasteless 9-11 SMS thread

Friend: Do you ever come to the Doughnut Plant on Grand? Been here shooting this morning [Friend is a gaffer]... think you would like it.
Me: Haven't been in a while. But yea, excl donuts. Happy 9-11!
Friend: You too. It's like a party.
Me: Like a party times two.
Friend [later]: Just finished shooting at Katz's. Boy that place gets packed.
Me: Everyone goes there for 9-11.

Sep 11th

Anyone else feeling a little bit like the Decoder blog about now (don’t worry dude, it’s...

Sep 11th

Christ, there was a lot to hate on the Internet today.

Sep 10th

A lifetime at Burning Man

youngmanhattanite: mikehudack: justinday: Burning Man was an incredible, life altering...

Sep 10th

When I Orell reblogs me, I trust that it means something. Like, you know he just won’t reblog...

Sep 10th

Is Smails pursuit of JA for nudix pix the most under-appreciated meme ever? Because, you know,...

Sep 10th

More shameless geekness: I will admit that cross program key commands get flukey on WinXP. But joy!...

Sep 10th

Dear New Yorker: Thank you so very much...

Dear Nic, Due to overwhelming consumer demand, we have extended our Fall Fashion Sale for 3 days...

Sep 10th

You know what else I'm tired of?

josephweisenthal: ninety9: maura: Non-disclosed friend-backscratching. I mean, come on. Not...

Sep 10th

spiers: ““I don’t understand this. I don’t understand what their purpose is.”” — Fran Lebowitz,...

Sep 10th

You know what else I'm tired of?

maura: Non-disclosed friend-backscratching. I mean, come on. Not saying that the women listed...

Sep 10th

Some people never call (like, for 18 years!). I’m just...

Sep 10th

And the post says... find me!

multiplied by spending a day feeling sad about something you found out by Tumblr-searching your...

Sep 10th

So now Joe Wilson’s Democrat opponent in the 2010 election—Rob Miller, a Marine for 13...

Sep 10th

Why didn’t anyone tell me you could add transparency to gradients in Illustrator CS4? I would...

Sep 10th

First Obama has the temerity to suggest that we use a date of sad infamy as motivation to bring...

Sep 9th

youngmanhattanite: That one’s actually true. I’m...

Sep 9th

youngmanhattanite: Well, there’s that. Get it while you...

Sep 9th

Um, Cajun, Maura and Mohney Blog About...

cajunboy: ninety9: Guys, I could have made a shitty cloud diagram for you without asking for a...

Sep 9th

Um, Cajun, Maura and Mohney Blog About...

Guys, I could have made a shitty cloud diagram for you without asking for a password. If anyone on...

Sep 9th

josephweisenthal: I had to save that. Nominally related.

Sep 9th

It's hard our there for a prick.

Straw Man for Conservative Arguments circa 1950: Joe Stalin Straw Man for Conservative Arguments c....

Sep 9th

If we don’t stop with all this Dago talk, Balk will show up with stories about how he used to...

Sep 8th

youngmanhattanite: josephweisenthal: Shit! I psyched myself out. Cause I was thinking that...

Sep 8th

peterfeld: Ultracorrect pronunciation in any language can be annoying. For example, WNYC’s...

Sep 8th

For a socialist, Obama sures uses the first person singular a lot. WHAT IS IT PEOPLE? Cargo-cult...

Sep 8th

Two bloggers eager to teach us journalism jargon enter… two different posts leave! What next?...

Sep 8th

Maybe we can get a girl on girl sex tape between her and the cancer ‘survivor’ from the...

Sep 8th

The Way We Drink Now.

I used to have a bar like an adult. Now, in these more ‘compact’ times, I’ve...

Sep 8th

State of the art blogging, 2009 edition.

Exhibit A: Harvey Weinstein picking his nose. Brett, for the grace of God, etc.

Sep 8th

peterfeld: antikris: Sometimes….you just have to bite your tongue.  There are times when all of...

Sep 8th

Listen

Since I’ve previously posted “Plenty Tough and Union Made” and Billy Bragg’s...

Sep 7th

Mickey, I think the question is if ‘average’ readers of the NYT know what a truther is?...

Sep 7th

The things you learn in a day.

I did not know about @girlfriend’s spider fears. Being a big hippie, I take the natural order...

Sep 7th

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Presented as part of an epic never to be submitted Awl thought piece, and to alert everyone who...

Sep 7th

Though you can usually count on Ms. Nefler and Herr Kamer to four-wall* each and every one of their...

Sep 7th

Your monumental dick of the week story....

The Washington Racists sue 73-year old grandmother after she asked for a two year furlough from her...

Sep 7th

“In February, a Tabasco police official who had arrested a...”
— We can prattle about victims...

Sep 6th

youngmanhattanite: cajunboy: stephaniewei: He’s going...

Sep 6th

I do this theatre company thing, and we do plays in the park...

Sep 6th

Okay, this is pretty clever. Watching the Red Sox (vs White Sox) game. A new twitter button appeared...

Sep 6th

Secret note to Balk. @girlfriend has also never heard of WKRP in Cincinnati. Mark it: 11:56PM on...

Sep 6th

Lola meets Lee Friedlander.

Sep 5th

Local News can be so concise.

Sep 5th

YOU MUST CLICK ON THIS LINK NOW AND BE...

Sep 5th

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Huh. The things you learn from Wikipedia. Apparently I bought the SST Reissue of this on CD —...

Sep 5th

So yeah, those rumors about old code? Just installed the Android 4SQ app. I see Cronkite is...

Sep 5th

Dear Fructose Apologists: F U

spiers: brianvan: josephweisenthal: Look, I like peaches and all, and I like apples and all....

Sep 4th

Apple banning Google Voice. Now Microsoft is forcing a developer to charge for content they want to...

Sep 4th

youngmanhattanite: Now this is 99 bait. A comment just left on his old fixie post. All you’ve...

Sep 4th

Question: if I don’t want to eat potato chips out of someone’s ass, does that mean I...

Sep 4th

There’s a growth industry somewhere. I get calls every day about Cy Vance.

Sep 4th

Here's a chance for Keith to win the...

Sep 4th

Oh, and why hasn’t this joke been made? Choire, how my punctuation taste?

Sep 4th

youngmanhattanite: FUCK YEAH!!!! I was going for a ride last night and cruised past a caravan of...

Sep 4th

Best Entrepreneurship/VC Tumblr Blogs

funsize: benjaminpalmer: TUMBLR PARTY!  Adding the 1/2 of this list I wasn’t already following....

Sep 4th

We have lots of energy for parties that...

Is anyone interested in finding out what kind of help this couple needs? Because the probably need a...

Sep 4th

Fun facts from Wikipeida

discovered researching Yaffa Cafe (the TriBeCa location is closing — @girlfriend and I had a...

Sep 4th

I need to confirm two things:

(Entirely based on the phone booth ad near Bereket). 1. Chelsea (Handler) Lately is not Rebecca de...

Sep 4th

The UJC comes downtown for a little campaign malfeasance! Turns out FOYM Paul Newell is stumping for...

Sep 4th

natashavc: via!  TYPEFAIL. The closing quote marks are...

Sep 3rd

Seeing this makes me feel like Bluto in the scene when the...

Sep 3rd

All you can bowl Mondays & Tuesdays from 8PM to 1AM....

Sep 3rd

Jim “Fuck the Mob” Traficant is released from prison and sells 1,200 tickets to a...

Sep 3rd

I guess Rex is holding off on the ‘salary commensurate with experience’ qualifier in...

Sep 3rd

Stats question.

Since I’m no expert on stats or health care, this occurred to me doing some reading: do our...

Sep 2nd

Wired is right on top of the horrific Gmail outage yesterday that forced many of its editors to rely...

Sep 2nd

josephweisenthal: ninety9: johncarney: “…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd among all...

Sep 2nd

josephweisenthal: ninety9: johncarney: “…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd among all...

Sep 2nd

josephweisenthal: ninety9: johncarney: “…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd among all...

Sep 2nd

johncarney: “…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd among all developed nations. We spend more...

Sep 2nd

Here's some data for geneconomisty...

My sister and I last year together earned more money that the Social Security Administration reports...

Sep 2nd

peterfeld: Just in time for the total irrelevance of the nightly network newscast… ...

Sep 2nd

It's time to elect some new hacks!

Since y’all are mostly registered Dems, and since the machine is a creaky and impenetrable...

Sep 2nd

johncarney: “People, this is going to change your lives, going to change media, going to...

Sep 2nd

You can never see to much Romeo & Juliet, right? Right?...

Sep 2nd

Not only was this post produced in a facility that contains nuts, I was eating some while I was...

Sep 1st

It’s been like four minutes and no one has done a ‘Where where you when Gmail was...

Sep 1st

Already Over

Jokes about having a non-Gmail account now. Note: even when Gmail is down it’s better than an...

Sep 1st