Humane Trafficking: Vespers at the 500 Club
When I heard on Friday that big news - bigger than a waste basket! - in the blog world was forthcoming, I took small comfort - smaller than a drunk's hunch? - that I was in San Francisco where Internet culture is kept afloat by patriarchal smirks, fey traders talking at parties using their insider voice and fecund trans-partisans looking for top surgery in an economy feeding on bottom fever. I limited my contact to the outside world to email, even with the people I was visiting.
I suppose my position at an American Airlines gate this morning, on the verge of boarding an uncanceled and on-time flight back to New York, was as good as any to read the news of Gawker Media unloading excess baggage. I immediately texted Jackson West of Valleywag. I thought I left dirty socks in his apartment. Later, I sent him this response when it was safe to assume that Gothamist would not require my self-services.
It was the 2nd day after we launched Gridskipper when I heard Denton and Lock clink thumbscrews while setting a timetable for Denton's funding of Curbed and eventual paper transfer of the newborn travel blog to Lock. They'll deny it, maybe even for good reason (I frey-bricated 45% of the previous statement) but if none of this means Lock will finally get his ad team on task to make Bloghaüs a reality then I don't want to hear news of another New York blog shake up unless it involves milking mustache rides at naked Tumblr parties.
And while everyone is feeling piss-pot warm and fuzzy-knuckled that Papa Denton found homes for these ad-aberrations from the Gawker norm, the man doesn't like his porridge cold. How long will he play protector of the remaining blogs without the bite of additional lay-offs? I dunno, some of those mastheads are mighty meaty and the week of April 15 is a helluva time to be nursing a hibernation hangover.
Video: Ex-Valleywag correspondent Megan McCarthy walks the fine line between something and clever in Dolores Park after claiming she will "never work again" at her 30th birthday party.
Previously: Circus Lupus "Tightrope Walker"
I suppose my position at an American Airlines gate this morning, on the verge of boarding an uncanceled and on-time flight back to New York, was as good as any to read the news of Gawker Media unloading excess baggage. I immediately texted Jackson West of Valleywag. I thought I left dirty socks in his apartment. Later, I sent him this response when it was safe to assume that Gothamist would not require my self-services.
It was the 2nd day after we launched Gridskipper when I heard Denton and Lock clink thumbscrews while setting a timetable for Denton's funding of Curbed and eventual paper transfer of the newborn travel blog to Lock. They'll deny it, maybe even for good reason (I frey-bricated 45% of the previous statement) but if none of this means Lock will finally get his ad team on task to make Bloghaüs a reality then I don't want to hear news of another New York blog shake up unless it involves milking mustache rides at naked Tumblr parties.
And while everyone is feeling piss-pot warm and fuzzy-knuckled that Papa Denton found homes for these ad-aberrations from the Gawker norm, the man doesn't like his porridge cold. How long will he play protector of the remaining blogs without the bite of additional lay-offs? I dunno, some of those mastheads are mighty meaty and the week of April 15 is a helluva time to be nursing a hibernation hangover.
Video: Ex-Valleywag correspondent Megan McCarthy walks the fine line between something and clever in Dolores Park after claiming she will "never work again" at her 30th birthday party.
Previously: Circus Lupus "Tightrope Walker"
