OMG Why Must I Do This To Myself?

Matt wrote a Gawker post

OMG OMG! Sorry ladies, he’s taken.  ;)

Cocktails & New Media Dreams

Good on Rachelle Hruska of the Guest of a Guest blog for a fun NYT Styles writeup. However, the lesson here is not the obvious one the article espouses– “You, too, can move to NYC and start your own successful blog and blog for a living,” providing you find the right niche (according to Lockhart Steele, the go-to guy for any Internet-themed Times trend piece)–but rather, if you have the right hubris, you, too, can convince many coddled twentysomethings to work for your blog for free! [continued at ASSME…]

Dee-Dee Ramone's ghost haunting Varvatos in a friendly way

Did you read Dee Dee’s three books? Chelsea Horror Hotel & his autobiography? Totally entertaining, if pure fiction. I personally like the part where he describes how his teenage girlfriend and him killed a man in Norway. You can just feel him breaking with reality.

mattharvey:

[Vera Ramone King, Dee-Dee’s widow] tells me what finally convinced her to write a Ramones memoir after all these years: Dee Dee speaking from the grave.With a spooky intensity, she says, “He asked me to write this book.” Given how he comes across in the book— like a violent, rage-filled perpetual adolescent—his ghost might be having second thoughts.

Damn, I missed the prom again. Just like in high school!

What do dreams about your teeth falling out mean?

I finally figured it out! (But only told ASSME.)

this was stressing me out so I promptly picked up the phone, started a fight with someone, and then turned off the ringer. I think that was the mature way to handle it.

Matt Harvey & I have a new column

It is called “Lady and the Hack.” It is:

“a series of short scenes of the conversations and ad hominem media critiques between two underemployed creative-underclass types when they think no one else is listening, a.k.a. “Did you see this week’s article in Harper’s? You know I thought of that first, right?”

It can be found on the Association of Shitcanned Media Elites blog.

If You Don't Buy His Former Secretary's New Jewelry Designs...

…Madoff Will Have Won.

The Cluelessness of Time Out

Hey, Kensington is the hot new Brooklyn “nabe”! NOT:

“But a questioning email came back from my editor: where are the boutiques, cafes and charming restaurants? My answer, that there weren’t any, didn’t cut it with him.” [The Exiled]

omg I worked today.

My many important thoughts and feelings about Miss California, in particular, ” a sexual sub-class of women that are kept separate from the rest of the society in order to avoid contaminating the others.”