History Is Written By The Winners; The Losers Get To Blog It
"Well, you're missing the huge swath of stuff that the editor at the publishing house cut about post-high-school gay friends Who Are Not Nick Denton. But I guess it doesn't occur to people (okay, you) that my editors--and other people generally--may find my Gawker tenure more interesting than I do."
—Elizabeth Spiers on something-something
Maybe it doesn't occur to Spiers--yet no one else--that her Gawker tenure is the only reason she gets asked to contribute to anything. If her "huge swath" of high school homo stuff was any good, it would have made the book. (Bleat bleat, no brakes!) Obviously, we're all "missing" it except the poor editors who had to read and cut it. Clearly they weren't impressed but they're not stupid. They wanted the Gawker mention/link that comes with her involvement and it was delivered on schedule* to help book sales.
But hey, let's skip the condescending to death, the thinly veiled sarcasm and particularly scathing metaphors - oh my! As a man from Sacramento plainly put it:
Previously: Spiers, The Southern Fired Chicken
*On schedule, unlike me. How did I miss this last week?? Oh yeah, Jew holiday.
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—Elizabeth Spiers on something-something
Maybe it doesn't occur to Spiers--yet no one else--that her Gawker tenure is the only reason she gets asked to contribute to anything. If her "huge swath" of high school homo stuff was any good, it would have made the book. (Bleat bleat, no brakes!) Obviously, we're all "missing" it except the poor editors who had to read and cut it. Clearly they weren't impressed but they're not stupid. They wanted the Gawker mention/link that comes with her involvement and it was delivered on schedule* to help book sales.
But hey, let's skip the condescending to death, the thinly veiled sarcasm and particularly scathing metaphors - oh my! As a man from Sacramento plainly put it:
She seemed very nice but I have yet to find one sentence of her writing even remotely entertaining, so I'm wondering about her influence. Is that why almost every blog sucks?Tonight, hear her tremble in person about the most non-illuminating gay man/straight woman relationship since Jim J. Bullock and Tammy Faye.
Previously: Spiers, The Southern Fired Chicken
*On schedule, unlike me. How did I miss this last week?? Oh yeah, Jew holiday.
Post Value: Second Prize In A Beauty Contest, Collect $10 But Go Back 6 Spaces.
