October 2008
I was just skimming comments on Gawker — and I actually don’t mind the new comment system, makes skimming (i.e. skipping) even easier — when I noticed that my comment admin access has finally been rescinded. Sadly, I can no longer enact a tyrannical mass banning. Just like when I finally stopped getting the Gawker tips emails after six months of fruitless requests to shut them...
September 2008
“That shootout centered on a disagreement between moderate and radical pirates aboard the MV Faina, Mwangura said. The moderates wanted to surrender, but the radicals did not.” Later, spokesmen for both the moderate and radical pirate factions accused each other of needlessly politicizing the piracy process.
Observed fact about women protesting against Alec Baldwin — sorry ladies, but women can’t draw proper protest signs. All colored inks and overstuffed bubbly letters with cute slanty fill-in lines? Little cutout children in silhouette? I thought I’d stumbled on late sorority rush.
Unrelated (OR IS IT): in Union Square this afternoon, man on cell phone saying “If I can get...
The previous series of photos was taken during an East Village beer crawl Friday night; both the photos and beers were of relatively indifferent quality, though a couple of the bars were decent enough for a return, if one was in the neighborhood. Got home late enough and (because of the time spent in transit between venues) not particularly drunk. Which had me puzzled the next morning when it...
Editorial assistant job @ BlackBook
Entry level in truest sense of the phrase — but a for-real actual job with a salary and benefits and such. Concentration in online and guides. Email rez & links to writing samples to cmohney@bbook.com if innarested.
In response to the call for writers to avoid dating, I can only point out that the call has a long history of being sounded, and yet is rarely heeded.
