All Aboard The Manhattan-Montauk Express

Jesse Oxfeld's "I'm a Jewish liberal New Yorker in media!" pose. (Hey, he provided the picture for his Young Manhattanite Interview.)

I can resist no more than Jacko in a crowded bathroom at a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party. I'm breaking my "No Gawker Media" posting policy halfway through week 2 (yes Lock, painful irony) but dammit, the Oxfeld era has stormed Manhattan like those retarded, but amazingly special-effected, Brobdingnagian tidal waves in The Day After Tomorrow. I will withhold serious evaluation until a sufficient sample of posts can be collected from The Jesseca Sim-dum Show; but boy-oh-boyardee, they sure didn't wait long to break out the school cafeteria sporks and feast on his old employer, Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby, on Day 3. "Pretty snarky, sis!"

Still, I'm a little confused why they keep disclosing that current Mediabistro editor-in-chief (MBEIC) Elizabeth Spiers was the founding editor of Gawker but not remind everyone in the same relevant posts that Jesse once held the glorious MBEIC position which ended rather nastily, reported by Gawker no less.

[To illustrate for my brother Peter: this situation is comparable to the O's getting Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling from Boston for Mike Boddicker in '88, only to trade Schilling two and a half years later with Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch to Houston for Glenn Davis who Enola Gayed in Baltimore. Cap it with Schilling eventually landing back in Boston last year to help them win the World Series and it's obvious to see...this has absolutely no goddamn similarity to the aforementioned media editor flip-flop but fuckin' hell, Baltimore really got the wide end of a fungo bat up their ass with the worst trade of all-time!!]

Anyway, I propose a small tweak to the Gawker logo that will surely close the distance in future posts.

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