Oh, Contrarian!
Well that was the easiest 500 Linden bucks I've ever made. I didn't even have to blow a shirtless squatty guy milling about an otherwise empty casino. Sac, 99 and I made a bet last week on where fired Gawker editor Chris Mohney would land next. Valleywag was the obvious choice and while I usually side against conventional wisdom, there was too much steam on this one to make it a clap-trap. Daulerio wouldn't even give us a line on it. (And yeah, I suggested the idea to Nick and Lock so maybe I had insider knowledge. Unethical? Probably. Legal? In all states but two.)
99 learned to gamble from instructional videos he bought in college. He prefers early season home dogs in non-conference match-ups, but still, I was a little surprised when he picked Menu Pages. I mean, sure, the Gridskipper experience is somewhat relevant and Mohney certainly knows a crow pie from baby stabbed-in-the-back ribs but his jaw-inspiring column ideas would never flourish in an a la carte environment. (i.e., The Pickler - daily stories of customers who couldn't order their way out of a wet Chinese carry-out bag.)
Sac gets credit for doing his research and plotting the publishing points-of-exit of past Gawkerites to come up with a regression analysis that suggested two possibilities for The Moan: a gig being Radosh's intern or reviving Low Culture. Don't rule these out completely.
99 learned to gamble from instructional videos he bought in college. He prefers early season home dogs in non-conference match-ups, but still, I was a little surprised when he picked Menu Pages. I mean, sure, the Gridskipper experience is somewhat relevant and Mohney certainly knows a crow pie from baby stabbed-in-the-back ribs but his jaw-inspiring column ideas would never flourish in an a la carte environment. (i.e., The Pickler - daily stories of customers who couldn't order their way out of a wet Chinese carry-out bag.)
Sac gets credit for doing his research and plotting the publishing points-of-exit of past Gawkerites to come up with a regression analysis that suggested two possibilities for The Moan: a gig being Radosh's intern or reviving Low Culture. Don't rule these out completely.
