Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: June 2008

It's been an interesting few weeks here at YM HQ, especially on the whitebar: everyone on the Tumblr was fired. I was finally taken off probation. Other Tumblrs were spawned. 99 more or less deleted everything he's ever posted on this here site (an archive-cum-sidebar is currently in the works). There was a short-lived Dadaist revolution. Tempers have flared. Asses have been fisted. The family is broken up. We made Page Six. We got penisy. And the word "pussy" was thrown around quite a bit.

Clearly, this month has been nothing short of superlative. Thus, your monthly stat dose, as promised, over a week late. We'll affix the typical warning to this kind of thing: I'm terrible at math and can't actually count past 14 reliably, so you're going to have to just go with it. Next time, if we remember, we'll plan for this kind of thing better. Onward.

YM Dramaspora: Day 21†.

Number of Posts: 25* (-15 from May 2008)
Number of Tumbls: 492 (+137 from May 2008)
Average number of Tumbls per day: 16.4

The "Who's self-employed, again?" Count:

99: 8*
Krucoff: 6
Dana: 3
Dash: 3
Natel: 2
Curt, Fek, and Sac each knocked one in.

Krucoff Twitter Followers: 78/100 (+18 from May 2008)

Number of Tumblrs birthed from The Dramaspora: 3 (Dana, 99, Andrew)
Number of YM Tumblr email/password changes: 2
Number of YM Tumblr followers: 125
Number of Tumblrs YM is following: 0

Number of Tumbls containing the words "Malcom Gladwell": 33
Number of Tumbls containing the words "Malcom Gladwell" and "Brian Van": One.
Score in YM vs. BV: BV 0, YM -2
Brian Van Girl Pickup Success Rate In Front Of More Than 3 YMers at The Magician: 0%

Dana's paying rate: $2.75/Page
Going rate for 99's "UWS Verde Diablo Weed": $200/Quarter-Ounce
Cost for a lifetime subscription to N+1 Magazine: $200
Amount of pages transcribed for Dana it would take to earn a bag of said "Devil Weed": 72.72
Going rate for the "Chronic" of astro-turf, "Liberty Elite": $4.45/Sq. Foot
Size of an average New York City square block above 14th Street^: 278,784 Sq. Feet
Cost for four city blocks/one square block of astro-turf as per On Deck Sports: $1,240,588.80

Stats that were too hard to come up with this month:

- Number of Backchannel Emails.
- Emails giving consideration to "blacklisting" people.
- Emails giving consideration to "gat-ing" people (as in "Pass the 'Gat").
- Rate at which astro-turf burns.
- Something about the monetary value of "Old Man" Keith Gessen's pussy-expertise.
- Number of unaccounted and/or unreported clinical diagnoses of "Rex Rage" in New York.

Stats that technically belong in July, but that we're too lazy to hold onto until the end of the month:

- Number of Google Hits for the word "pussy": 77,200,000.
- Number of interoffice emails containing the word "pussy" in them: 11.
- Number of Tumbls containing the word "pussy" in them: 3.
- Number of Keith Gessens: 1.

†The YM Dramaspora ends when 99 and Dana have both posted to the either the Tumblr or blog again. I will meanwhile refuse to shut the fuck up about this until it happens.

*As previously mentioned, 99 "unpublished" all of his posts, except for those which he had help on - that's five for this month. The count listed is the total count for the month pre-unpublishing, going on bylines.

^For the sake of math, we're going to use one New York City square block: two east/west, two north/south. We know this isn't the exact size of the "four city blocks" needed for said party, but said point is illustrated: smoking astro-turf is far more difficult and expensive than you could possibly imagine, though it doesn't go without saying that we were willing to give it a shot.

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