Young Manhattanite

I don’t have permissions for Blottered. Besides, Manhattan is turning into such a fucking police state, it may as well be the new Blottered.

Layup: Brijit is a privately-held angel-financed online media startup with offices in Washington, DC and Sunnyvale, CA. We save people time by aggregating great content and summarizing, reviewing, and rating it in 100 words or fewer. We do this by combining the efforts of a global network of smart readers and writers with an internal team of editors.

Punchline: Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we’ve run out of money, and can no longer afford to pursue our vision of adapting great long-form content for a short-form world, at least not as a stand-alone company. As recently as yesterday morning, we thought we had the funding in place to continue our work together. But as it turns out, we don’t.

guys, if this whole crimebeat thing is to continue, then i would recommend sparking up blottered again. and if you have any doubts about, just remember that peter rojas owns an apartment on the lower east side.

Your Daily Dose of Psychopathic Cop Rage: off duty officer beats Traffic Enforcement Officer, who is then arrested.

9ish.

Latery? Meaning, not right now.

Drinks?

Awww. Would you look at that: when investment banks fire people, they do it like jerks. I find I’m too lazy for payoff lines this morning, so, you know, water wet, etc.

“My updates are protected.” Um, why does a tool that was designed as a name-checking, look at the drunk tech party comment I just made loser fest provide people with secrecy?

» Don't Shoot the Canary

Seeds of Peace Gala Dinner at The Plaza review: CBS’s Harry Smith is a good talk, Yoko Ono and US UN Ambassador not shabby either. I met a bunch of kids from Afghanistan and one incredibly eloquent and beautiful Palestinian. (Me: I assume your career trajectory involves becoming the Queen Rania of Palestine. Her: Where’s my King??) The guy who I asked, “Excuse me, are you Bruce Wasserstein?” said no. Unexpectedly ran into a co-worker. There was cake.

Wow, did you know that too much Pepto-Bismol does this to your tongue? I do now! I guess it’s better than shitting blood, but Jesus.

So should I write the ‘is this the Big Sunday’ post, or would I be stepping all over your menu and program transcription from the big to do last night?

Oh, and I just realized: why is it the house style for the YM crew to have a FB profile photo holding a martini?

And since some of us steadfastly refuse to pen ‘SEO’ headline writing (actually,that’s all of us, right?), can you get the gnomes who did the feed mashup to enable some sort of excerpting? I mean, it’s not like we’re going to get the people posting cupcake photos to worry about something other than their toejam, but you never know.