Now What?

"Nick may have been alone in building an entire company based on contract employees, but he’s..."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:54:03 -0500

“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.”

- The Doree Chronicles (via soupsoup)

I do not understand how America managed to take something awesome like Blackpool: and turn it...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:04:10 -0500

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.”

I went in search of the next Twilight, and my desk bore the...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:17:00 -0500

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 have no idea what this means because I haven’t watched...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:50:34 -0500

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.

The many, terrifying faces of Rudy Giuliani.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:55:45 -0500

The many, terrifying faces of Rudy Giuliani.

It’s funny…a few weeks ago I was watching...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00:50 -0500

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…

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

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:16:16 -0500

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

Tempting, very tempting…

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:43:42 -0500

Tempting, very tempting…

ihatemyparents: rillawafers: Octomum Nadya Suleman dresses as...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:34:09 -0500

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.

Has anybody seen my tambourine?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:20:25 -0400

Has anybody seen my tambourine?

Stephen King's First Comic Book

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:27:52 -0400

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.

Weirdass mural on 19th St.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:13:03 -0400

Weirdass mural on 19th St.

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

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:36:16 -0400

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

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

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:38:58 -0400

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

Thank you, spellcheck, for failing to pick up on a then/than...

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:42:15 -0400

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

Fox, your lameass Fringe “tweetpeat” is messing with...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:42:04 -0400

Fox, your lameass Fringe “tweetpeat” is messing with my enjoyment of the fine acting skills of Pacey. Boo.

“52 others”? Guess it’s safe to say the...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:02:45 -0400

“52 others”? Guess it’s safe to say the Foursquare crowd heavily overlaps with the Obliterati crowd.

Sex on the Kindle

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:17:24 -0400

Sex on the Kindle:

This morning, Sony unveiled its new e-reader into a market that’s red-hot—in part, thanks to closet fans of cheesy romance novels and tween lit who don’t want you to see what they’re reading.

Yes, please. Farmville, your Facebook feed ass is grass, too.

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:52:33 -0400

Yes, please. Farmville, your Facebook feed ass is grass, too.

soupsoup: Never put cupcakes in front of Sen. Mitch McConnell.

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:10:04 -0400

soupsoup:

Never put cupcakes in front of Sen. Mitch McConnell.