2008

May

This Girl Was The Best Part Of Last...

katiebakes: This morning’s email: a young girl confronts her demons while seeking information....
May 16th

Lions Laying With Lambs

I added a twitter feed to my tumblr. Now all Rex’s girlfriends will love me too. 
May 16th
“I’ve become a little bit of a snob. Sometimes I’m like, I...”
— John Carney is judging you and...
May 16th
“Carney: “How do I check in with Twitter?” Me:...”
— Twitter / fimoculous
May 16th
Team Kearney-Carney-Caroline went to a party last night. The...
May 15th
“Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it...”
— I always suspected there was...
May 14th
Settle for less in love
May 14th
Pocket Sized Social Calendar, Circa May 2005. 
May 14th
“Preppy with an air of prostitute.” That’s how one of the girls in the office...
May 14th

This Is Totally Why I Don't Employ...

Friends say Miss Foster has refused to employ household staff for fear that details of her home life...
May 14th
O Noez! Teenage unicorn is dead.
May 14th
Warch Watch
Walk Of No Shame
May 13th
Gavin’s new website is like the best of Vice without...
May 13th
Last night one of my friends told me he’s only going to date girls with dogs. The idea is that after...
May 13th
Is it just me, or does Bob Barr look a lot like Thurgood...
May 13th
“McCain also promised to bring pressure on China and India to...”
— Making fun of natural...
May 12th
“On Mother’s Day, it’s hard to get a brunch...”
— Steve Sailer
May 12th
 I saw this and thought, wait. How is this possible? It’s raining outside. And then I...
May 9th
Babbo has this reputation for being hard to get tables....
May 9th
Warch Watch
May 9th

American Psycho: Sometimes Penis Envy Is...

This belongs on DealBreaker but we’re having technical issues that are preventing us from...
May 9th
Like everyone else in NYC, I’m pretty much a sucker...
May 9th

Bloggers? Media Types? They All Look The...

This is a great description of last night’s mess. I’ll just add my own apologies to...
May 9th
fek: ughgh. oh, fuck me, jesus christ. you people are a bunch of savage alchoholics. never again.
May 9th
Warch Watch
I’m bringing goofy back.  (via Vimeo)
May 8th
Citi Never Sleeps: The Ad Campaign
May 7th

Now You Can Tell The Ron Paul Supporters...

The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and...
May 7th
For the last time, I’m not going to use the superwall application.
May 7th

Momentary Bout Of Sincerity

Not to get all emotional on you but every now and then it’s important to say certain things. ...
May 7th

Brian Van Is Getting Dangerously Good At...

brianvan: jessicalouise: I know you’ve noticed What is it with the women on tumblr being vastly...
May 7th
I’ve never seen Mad Men, despite being told over and...
May 7th

Welcome to New York City, Lady

jessicalouise: What is it with the women on tumblr being vastly more attractive looking than...
May 6th
Warch Watch
Two years ago I was inventing YouTube writing about YouTube for the New York Times and I wrote to...
May 6th
“I’m probably just hate-following you.”
— Alex Blagg.
May 6th

The Original Recipe For A Bloody Mary

Raspberry leaf tablets are recommended to speed up a woman’s time in labour, while a cure for...
May 6th

No, PostCards, I Still Won't Read You...

postcardsfromyomomma: Yesterday on the bus I saw this old Asian guy with 2(((25 lb.) bags of rice. ...
May 5th

A Much Better Question

Do you think that once you fuck someone, you ever really stop fucking them? (via juliaallison)
May 5th

Loathesome Hills

I haven’t watched television in several weeks. I accidentally caught a few minutes of the...
May 2nd

Jet Lag Means Drinking A Bottle Of Wine...

My body thinks it’s 1 am, so it’s perfectly fine. See?
May 2nd

The Last Bar I Was Tossed Out Of

brianvan: Well, here’s what I was wrong about: not only did I go to Welcome To The Johnson’s last...
May 2nd

Restless Leg Syndrome: The Latest STD

It’s been forever since we had a new sexually transmitted disease, so I’m proposing...
May 2nd
Did Merry Ramblings invent those Moe bags? They are all over...
May 2nd
Warch Watch
Parkour has taken over YouTube for the day. This video, of the girls getting over, through, and...
May 2nd

I'm Bringing Meat Packing Back

Isn’t it time we find a really great bar in the Meat Packing district and make it ours? I...
May 2nd

Apr

Kryptonite

Not sure how I managed to for get mentioning Kryptonite, the signature drink of Angkor What....
Apr 26th

Quick Thoughts From Cambodia

I’m just about to curl up with a nice bottle of rice whiskey and a cigar that would be...
Apr 26th

Thailand, Laos and Cambodia

Have I mentioned that I’m going to be out of town for a few weeks. You are all on your own....
Apr 17th

Best. Theory. Yet.

caro: I’m starting to think that Fake Nick Denton is Real Nick Denton.
Apr 4th
Warch Watch
Key Food Killer Shares The Ethics of Bono and Vice Magazine
Apr 4th
I’m going to go with “the one and only, famous...
Apr 2nd
I know all the lasses are using this map to explain why they...
Apr 2nd

Guest Bloggers For Tumblr

Anyone want to take over my tumblr when I’m gone? There are dozens of people who can’t...
Apr 2nd
Apparently, I live exactly where United Flight 826 went...
Apr 1st

Krucoff & Co Have Broken Tumblr

followingym: youngmanhattanite: Why can’t we reblog ourselves? Our reblogs, our reselves. Anyway,...
Apr 1st

I'm Not Big On April Fool's Day

but if I ran YouTube, I would have made every video a rickroll today. Related: this is probably why...
Apr 1st
“The article says, “Naming a favorite book or author...”
— It Usually Ends With Ayn Rand...
Apr 1st

Books Are Stupid Because

6. You’re illiterate. I’ll let you visit me so you can experience the awesomeness of...
Apr 1st

That's it. I'm done with this. Finally...

postcardsfromyomomma: Joined weight watchers last nightcounting today-gym 5 times this week—expect...
Apr 1st
OMG. If the band Merry Ramblings hadn’t noticed this,...
Apr 1st

I secretly want in on the Young...

youngmanhattanite: Still on the masthead? Yeah, so is Nick Sylvester and Morey Amsterdam. So...
Apr 1st

Mar

To Explain, There Is A Small Group Of...

As improbable as that may be. Back on the streets of B’more, he was known as...
Mar 31st
How To Be A Japanese Girl (underwater).  pop17: Featured...
Mar 31st
“Take a moment and step into the world of Steele Luxury...”
— Got this in my inbox today....
Mar 31st
I'm Judging You By My Books
Mar 31st

I Think DealBreaker Is Two Years Old...

But our archives are too slow for me to check. Maybe I’ll declare Tuesday or Wednesday the...
Mar 31st
Caroline communes with her homeplanet.
Mar 31st
Warch Watch
I’m not going to print my immediate reaction to Lindsay Campbell’s first question in...
Mar 31st

This both delights and terrifies me.

I’m claiming credit for all of this, of course. I invented Katie Bakes.  cajunboy: ...
Mar 31st
brianvan: I now realize this may all be my fault. I...
Mar 30th
Warch Watch
Guaranteed to make you miss the old bulgarian bar.
Mar 30th

Sweating Out The Hour of Power

Whoa. I’m only about half-way through the Hour of Power and man is my apartment hot. I had to...
Mar 30th
Lights Out: Earth Hour at 8 p.m. Tonight
Mar 29th

I'm Off-Setting Your Carbon Footprint...

You people need to stop attempting to reduce your carbon footprints. Anytime I hear someone is...
Mar 29th
Warch Watch
The pefect description of every hungover day.
Mar 28th
Warch Watch
Watching grass grow. This is what today feels like. 
Mar 28th
“Although the world’s climate is on a warming trend, there is...”
— Alex Cockurn, my favorite...
Mar 28th
Warch Watch
The Team. The Tower. The Transmitter.
Mar 28th

Here's the messiah you've been waiting...

The first position is already taken by a young thing named Bourbon.  alexbalk: In the last couple...
Mar 27th

Horseman Pass By

For the record, I am against anyone who tries to turn Balk into a do-gooder. Stay golden, pony boy....
Mar 27th
Listen Listen
Saw this coming from a mile away.  alexbalk: davidcho: David Cho - ‘99 Problems’ I lost a bet...
Mar 27th
Okay. So this just made my day. Julia Allison wing-woman Moe...
Mar 27th
Warch Watch
Hillary makes her big push to re-capture the internet from the Obamaniacs.
Mar 27th

The Anti-Emo Rioting May Be A Backlash...

“Televisa has a near stranglehold on the music business in Mexico: among the company’s...
Mar 27th
emo kids are being attacked & beaten in...
Mar 27th

I Think I First Saw This Dance At The...

youngmanhattanite: Hey, at least I only swung it in a YM staff email. Shit, I need a link now,...
Mar 26th
“Most scholars believe that what Shakespeare knew about...”
— Hath Shakespeare been a...
Mar 26th
Must-reads in a Web 2.0 world - DealBreaker
Mar 25th
WTF Is Twitter?
Mar 25th
Warch Watch
It occurs to me that some of you probably don’t know enough about Tim Armstrong. Now you...
Mar 25th
Warch Watch
One Eastern Morn. 
Mar 25th
YouTube clip wins Austrian monks record deal...
Mar 25th

We're Always Have Paris

Somebody should make Alex Balk live blog episodes of the Hills.
Mar 25th
Warch Watch
This totally isn’t fair. Everyone knows Clinton is a congenital liar. It’s an old story....
Mar 25th
Governor Paterson: Cocaine Pioneer
Mar 25th
Warch Watch
These guys are the worst thing going on YouTube. Unfortunately, they seem to have mastered the...
Mar 25th
There must be something wrong with me because I’m not...
Mar 25th

I've Lived Park Slope For Six Weeks

And I’m still buried in boxes. Today, for the first time, I started cracking open the boxes...
Mar 22nd
Even CFA prep books have good jokes. katiebakes: ...
Mar 22nd
“I can’t vote for him. He is an honest-to-God lefty. He...”
— An endorsement of that big...
Mar 22nd

Is WallStrip Degrading To Women?

That’s what the inventor of RocketBoom says.  Hilarious 
Mar 22nd
The Wall Street Journal's Web site is already...
Mar 22nd
“When we were in Chicago during the Republican convention,...”
— I admire Gore Vidal’s...
Mar 21st

Coming Soon On Stuff White People Like

doree: From Page Six: WE HEAR… THAT Alex Benepe, son of Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, is...
Mar 21st
Carney: Hey, did you see this about Mary Ramblin’s...
Mar 21st

Gladwell Shockingly Honest

Let me see if I have this story right. It’s now a scandal that Malcolm Gladwell might have...
Mar 21st

Liberals Don't Like Stuff White People...

“Me, personally, I can’t stand the thing. That’s not to say I think SWPL is...
Mar 21st
See It’s totally not my fault I tried to make a panini...
Mar 21st
Time Out Endorses Dressing Like Sasha...
Mar 21st
Why Smart Liberals Aren't Comfortable With...
Mar 21st

We Live In The Future

This reminds me of a short story I once wrote called “We Live In The Future.” The main...
Mar 21st
Warch Watch
The hottest thing on YouTube right now: ♥♡HOW TO BE A JAPANESE GIRL♡♥. Everyone’s doing...
Mar 21st
Fed Chairmen: They're Just Like Us!*
Mar 21st

March Madness

I’m vaguely disapointed that I cannot muster any enthusiasm at all for college basketball. ...
Mar 21st

Time Off For Bad Behavior?

One of these days I’m just going to have to face up to the fact that I am simply terrible at...
Mar 21st
It's Frightening How The Republicans Actually...
Mar 21st
“It’s only Wednesday, which means it’s too early in the week...”
— Staying out late, late on a...
Mar 21st

File Under: I Probably Should Have...

Me: Look! (showing her [some url])
Amelia: Wait! ... That's the DVD player you just bought? I thought that was a George Foreman!
Mar 21st
Bringing the girl up right.
Mar 21st
I’ll take credit for us ending up down on the perfect...
Mar 21st
Warch Watch
See. I told you people there wouldn’t be any fighting. caro: The Karp-Frommer Green Day Duet....
Mar 20th
Nerdfight: Will blogger finally get to...
Mar 19th
Barack Obama: New York Still Baffled By...
Mar 19th

The two text messages I woke up to at...

Is it possible for something to be unsettlingly reassuring? Because that phrase—unsettlingly...
Mar 18th
Crap. Half the girls in NYC already think I’m that...
Mar 17th
Is Eliot Spitzer's 'Kristen' Actually 32?
Mar 13th
Apparently I am more predictable than I...
Mar 12th

From Now On I'm Calling Her Katie Zee

katiebakes: David Paterson will be the first lieutenant governor to ascend to the role of governor...
Mar 12th
Dealbreaker Hosts A Wake For Eliot Spitzer’s...
Mar 12th

Gone, Baby, Gone

Spitzer started telling folks that he will step down today. Members of his camp are leaking to...
Mar 12th

The Best Death Metal Band In Denton,...

How many punk bands have already been formed with the name “Client # 9?”
Mar 12th
This is pretty much perfect. Via Lindsay, who notes: Ha ha...
Mar 11th

Spitzer's Corner

I’m thinking that maybe DealBreaker should throw a drink-up there sometime this week.
Mar 11th
Aide: Spitzer May Defy Calls To Step Down -...
Mar 11th

Whores Wanted

I’d really like to get a call girl with experience working with powerful men to write about it...
Mar 11th
“In