November 30, 2009
“ Nick may have been alone in building an entire company based on contract employees, but he’s certainly not alone in media. It’s the dirty little not-so-secret, isn’t it? The way that the New York Times “lays off” its (contract) news clerks every six months for two weeks so that they don’t become full-time employees and join the union and have to get health insurance. TimeWarner, Conde Nast, BusinessWeek, Viacom… I know, or have known, people at all of those companies who were “freelance” and yet, mysteriously had to go into an office every day from 10 to 6 or whatever and do the same jobs as people who were getting benefits. Funny, that! It’s no surprise that nobody has really written this story, because every media company I know of does it.
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I do not understand how America managed to take something awesome like Blackpool:



and turn it into something awful like Viva Laughlin:



But it makes me sad every time I listen to “The Boy with the Thorn in His Side.”

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November 19, 2009
I went in search of the next Twilight, and my desk bore the brunt of the load. (That Vampire Diaries paperback, by the way, is almost twenty years old…yeesh.)

I went in search of the next Twilight, and my desk bore the brunt of the load. (That Vampire Diaries paperback, by the way, is almost twenty years old…yeesh.)

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November 17, 2009
I have no idea what this means because I haven’t watched the screener yet, but clearly this week’s Fringe is gonna be awesome.

I have no idea what this means because I haven’t watched the screener yet, but clearly this week’s Fringe is gonna be awesome.

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November 15, 2009
The many, terrifying faces of Rudy Giuliani.

The many, terrifying faces of Rudy Giuliani.

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November 13, 2009
It’s funny…a few weeks ago I was watching O’Reilly at work and I noticed one of the odder sights I’d seen in a while. O’Reilly was showing a clip from CNN that YouTube news clip staple NewsPoliticsNews had pilfered. I took a screencap because, really? Fox didn’t have their own feed of the presser and couldn’t get ahold of a clean copy of CNN’s feed, so they used NPN? The logo overload cracked me up. (Glenn Beck, as well, has made use of NPN clips in the past.) So imagine my surprise to read that Fox themselves targeted NPN for a takedown. This is, in fact, NPN’s second takedown in recent memory. The person or persons behind NewsPoliticsNews is often a great debate topic in my office. We have our theories, ranging from 1) a platoon of dedicated video rippers, 2) one sad, lonely, basement-dwelling dude with too much time on his hands, 3) someone being paid off by HuffPo, the site that utilizes their content the most. Gawker says the mastermind is a DC-based doctor named John. I say, how does one person - a doctor, even - have time to watch and clip that much news, that fast, every day? And is the NewsPoliticsNews inversion channel, PoliticsNewsPolitics, a friend or foe to NPN? I like to think foe, that NewsPoliticsNews and PoliticsNewsPolitics are locked into some kind of epic battle. But that’s only because I spend way too much time thinking about this stuff. At any rate, NewsPoliticsNews has already risen from the ashes again, and will again, and again, and again…

It’s funny…a few weeks ago I was watching O’Reilly at work and I noticed one of the odder sights I’d seen in a while. O’Reilly was showing a clip from CNN that YouTube news clip staple NewsPoliticsNews had pilfered. I took a screencap because, really? Fox didn’t have their own feed of the presser and couldn’t get ahold of a clean copy of CNN’s feed, so they used NPN? The logo overload cracked me up. (Glenn Beck, as well, has made use of NPN clips in the past.)

So imagine my surprise to read that Fox themselves targeted NPN for a takedown. This is, in fact, NPN’s second takedown in recent memory.

The person or persons behind NewsPoliticsNews is often a great debate topic in my office. We have our theories, ranging from 1) a platoon of dedicated video rippers, 2) one sad, lonely, basement-dwelling dude with too much time on his hands, 3) someone being paid off by HuffPo, the site that utilizes their content the most. Gawker says the mastermind is a DC-based doctor named John. I say, how does one person - a doctor, even - have time to watch and clip that much news, that fast, every day? And is the NewsPoliticsNews inversion channel, PoliticsNewsPolitics, a friend or foe to NPN? I like to think foe, that NewsPoliticsNews and PoliticsNewsPolitics are locked into some kind of epic battle. But that’s only because I spend way too much time thinking about this stuff.

At any rate, NewsPoliticsNews has already risen from the ashes again, and will again, and again, and again…

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November 12, 2009
Oh, the weird shit you’ll find pasted to the old Roxy.

Oh, the weird shit you’ll find pasted to the old Roxy.

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November 5, 2009
Tempting, very tempting…

Tempting, very tempting…

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November 3, 2009
ihatemyparents: rillawafers: Octomum Nadya Suleman dresses as a pregnant nun for Halloween and all her kids as the devil? I want to arrest this woman. W. T. F.

ihatemyparents:

rillawafers:

Octomum Nadya Suleman dresses as a pregnant nun for Halloween

and all her kids as the devil?

I want to arrest this woman.

W. T. F.

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October 31, 2009

Has anybody seen my tambourine?

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October 26, 2009
Stephen King's First Comic Book

Stephen King is finally taking the plunge into comics with American Vampire. Its creator, Scott Snyder, speaks exclusively with The Daily Beast about the high-profile guest writer.

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Weirdass mural on 19th St.

Weirdass mural on 19th St.

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September 26, 2009
Filming the new Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlburg, Eva Mendes movie outside my office.

Filming the new Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlburg, Eva Mendes movie outside my office.

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September 21, 2009
This is what passes for intelligent pop culture discourse in my life.

This is what passes for intelligent pop culture discourse in my life.

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September 5, 2009
Thank you, spellcheck, for failing to pick up on a then/than error while simultaneously rendering a perfectly grammatical section into nonsense.

Thank you, spellcheck, for failing to pick up on a then/than error while simultaneously rendering a perfectly grammatical section into nonsense.

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