2008

All Creativity Bows

Live from the conference. This year we have air conditioning! Very promising.

Has anyone mentioned that we’re attending the Creativity Now conference courtesy of Matthew...

I don’t have permissions for Blottered. Besides, Manhattan is turning into such a fucking...

Layup: Brijit is a privately-held angel-financed online media startup with offices in Washington, DC...

guys, if this whole crimebeat thing is to continue, then i would recommend sparking up blottered...

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

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...

“My updates are protected.” Um, why does a tool that was designed as a name-checking,...

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...

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

So should I write the ‘is this the Big Sunday’ post, or would I be stepping all over...

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

And since some of us steadfastly refuse to pen ‘SEO’ headline writing...

I know it’s hard to knock some of you off the celebrity/pop culture treadmill, but take a...

Nobody reads these posts, but I don't care,...

Oh, and dude, I’ll be hiding behind my copy of Le Rire de la Meduse until the smoke clears...

Brownmiller would have gotten laughed out of Dana’s not alma mater (and was entirely unknown...

Dude, seriously? Where did you go to school, Patrick Henry College?

Another good data point to jam down throat those who argue the drop in crime is a result of...

For your infotainment, in college I decided to read ONE book on radical feminist thought in lieu of...

Fuck, I use commas like Spiegelman.

Sure, you went to Mormon school but, dude, if you know don’t know Dworkin, you are so far from...

I don’t think that’s going to play as big as the Tits headline.

Dispatched from the “Sweet Mother of God” department. When they announce the remake of...

What’s Wrong With Austria? The country is smaller than Maine and yet the entire country is...

No, I do not like the Lakers, aside from Big Chief Triangle, who was really effing hot back in the...

A: I know how to Wikipedia; this time, I actually read it top to bottom*, and I didn’t see...

I’m not much a fan of lots of street art (and look at us, using the dreading plural first...

Gentlemen, when you tear down 5pointz to put up condos, rest assured there will be “bodies on...

Oh, and for those keeping score, this morning I did shit blood. Maybe I should call Stevie Nicks and...

a. He’s a fucking Italian Argentine. b. I enjoy rooting for teams everyone else hates (eg, the...

Ahh, so you’re on board with letting those dudes get shackle-rammed in prison while Kelly gets...

A: Ginóbili is Argentine, and B: The Spurs? Them?

I’d blame all of this on the Kid, but he’s still got his nose pressed against the glass....

Of course Dana the Anarchist would prefer they’d be released from jail. It’s...

How Old Testament of you. I’d attribute that to Krucoff but I know he thinks that the...

“What upsets me, and I think the whole team, is that we made the same mistake again,”...

Maybe they’d feel 1/1000th of the pain they inflicted on that innocent woman? I’m...

Those men were clearly serial killers in the making. One of them tried to shiv his own attorney in...

So, do we want to “stop prison rape” in the case of those two deranged fucks?

Yeah, that’s finest with a capital ‘F’ as in ‘Go Fuck Yourself (with a...

DUNCAN PARKER GINOBILI COME ON YEAH!

Eli Valley & the Power and Fury Orchestra:...

Warning! Angry political post to follow: Romona Moore never had a chance because the NYPD...

YM Tumblr is now importing the main YM feed, starting with future posts, as links. Whitebar madness,...

My number one stalker? Krucoff.

Now, I don’t think I need to say, TAN, that so wasn’t me.

Didn’t Arthur Chien get fired for dropping the F-bomb? Is this a sign of the new Obama world...

I told you I’d do it for free, Krucoff.

Hmm, for the UK cover of Steve Coll’s The Bin Ladens, someone decided to give Osama the Tony...

I guess this means Emily Gould’s NYT magazine story is forthcoming. Sweet mercy, who...

This was me. It’s always me. Everything is me. -Dana

Interesting. This is one of two cartoons I’ve ever torn out of a New Yorker. (The other was...

There are now too many people on this blog that qualify for that statement that it can’t go...

Jesus Christmas, why do I do this to myself every Monday night? I’m amazed I’m not...

And a little bit of New York just died, part 2,112: Sue Simmons apologizes for dropping the f-bomb....

Toby Young Has A Book That Has A Movie...

Apologies for the lack of vitriol.  Deal with it.

I didn’t think it was possible without the masters of sound and light, but the unquit was even...

I think the alliances are going to be messier than a game of Risk. We should start a couple more...

I was hoping for Drama Queens vs. Everyone.

Great, it’s going to be WOPs vs. Heebs, isn’t it.

Quitting YM can be theatrical? Please, show us how it’s done. Not like we need you now that...

What, I posted like four cops are fascist tumblows this weekend. I may just quit just for theatrical...

That dude is too disturbing for your wisecrack to even be funny. I may hate the Jews but at least I...

Dana has a side Tumblog.

I would ask that you all go back to covering your usual beats (with linkage!) instead of the current...

OTOH, she loves it when we call her ‘precocious’. That’s because you’re 30 years older...

Three new followers today? It’s like getting upgraded to Don’t Buy.

Oh, and dude, first rule of bad movie reference club is no one actually reads bad movie reference...

OTOH, she loves it when we call her ‘precocious’.

You’re overdoing it with the compliments, kiddo. I just discovered that I’m 9 years your...

My brief Zionist dreams (now recalled) looked something like this.

Reblogging Nextbook: NYC’s only kosher soup kitchen is designed to look like a restaurant,...

I’m starting to feel like Val Kilmer in Real Genius.

Come to think of it, I probably did get that Blatz mp3 from Krucoff. I don’t even like most of...

Damn it, we need to get back to the early morning gmail staff meetings. Related: Kid, Ms. Bakes is...

And: fun idea! Let’s make it like the first day in a new school. No one post on the Show until...

Oh, and that wasn’t about The Kid, BTW.

Yeah, well the ones in my neighborhood are still fat, slouchy wops who have ignored some of the...

For the record, kid, I said just last night in an email to Krucoff: I like fek, btw. I think he has...

I saw one of these guys at my precinct, a handsome one at that, and I briefly thought I would let...

When everything you know about Hawaii’s government and institutions is gleaned from watching...

Well, the Wire was certainly right about the shitty lab work in b-more.

Hey, Dana, what do they teach gossip writers in college anyway? (via Balk, BTW, though it seems to...

Don’t forget to note that he’s expected to cover for our lazy asses, but that...

Holy crap, the Chinese (1, 2, 3) have discovered the Descendents! 10,000 downloads this month....

Fek has proven himself sufficiently knowledgable of the YM catechism: the art of blustery...

Hey, look, maybe a I could be cop after all! Related: apparently a cop is never wrong, even when his...

This is how you get an invite. Fek, who may have now earned the distinction of Younger Manhattanite...

I guess the Mailman doesn’t always deliver. Fun fact about Karl Malone: he’s a...

Hey, look! Karl Malone is a dad again! And sorry to undermine a cheap joke, but, um, allegedly...

I was like, finally, an administration that does something I can respect. But it turns out it was...

This is the most amazing scene shot by Robert Altman since he passed away.

Okay, now it’s really over.

Question: does anybody in media actually go to Blakeley’s Barnyard Media Meshfuck?

I hate to disturb your delicate logic flow, but that would have been a much different recap if we...

I don’t use that word so liberally. I said I’d take my lumps, but we are talking about...

Utah AG to polygamists: Hey, you guys lookin’ for a little strange?

At least I know his name. No wonder they all think I was you. You are even worse at typos than me.

I had no plans in the first place to attend last night’s gathering, so perhaps I’m a...

Please go here and fuck shit up…anonymously!

If you thought Gawker commenters were gay, get a load (whoa!) of the Tumblr crowd.

That crowd-parting Mamet reading from 2002 that Maud pointed to earlier this week? Sheer coincidence...

This assertion is useless without photos.

When Peggy Noonan starts making sense, duck (via TPM).

Maybe Hezbollah discovered tumblr.

I guess kudos to our newest follower for posting this, but I’m not sure it was done in the...

Sorry to interrupt the party, folks, but can we turn our attention to Lebanon? Muslims are killing...

You lazy, lame fuckers! We asked all to leave a month ago. And now you are bragging you got the...

That certainly addresses the ‘Whaa! I can’t follow them’ complaint effectively....

This is the best headline ever.

Well, points for the (un)follow through. Of course if he’s just being coy, this should be...

And that’s because you’re a drunk.

Woman is obviously angling for an invite. I’ll see what I can do.

Dude, that guy has con artist written all over him. And how much money does he owe, precisely? Two...

Do you think maybe this story is a joke of some kind? Read all the way to the end. Dude’s rent...

Yeah, that’s great and all, but 1) that’s not a particularly unusual occurrence, 2a)...

Hey, dude’s lucky. In Philly, you beat a suspect in cuffs, and your boss says ‘Well, you...

From the annals of the ‘The Goalposts just got pushed, in what direction we can’t really...

Since when did we start setting our sights so fucking low? I’m holding out for Boing Boing...

YM hits the bigtime.  And Dana dies a little inside.

We need to have that Syd Barrett viewing party at my apartment soon. It’s affecting my work....

Sheila totally punks us! Man, Nate needs to make an effigy of her out of fish entrails and a...

Also, Savannah-related drug stuff: Although I never did it, I have heard you could go...

My beard totally grows faster in the summer months. (I’m sure Ed’s gonna love that you...

I’m going do a ‘real’ tumbl here: most people that know me know that I’m a...

That was not me. I still want comps to Speed the Plow.

Remember the night when half of the audience at the Y walked out on David Mamet? Of course YOU...

Dude, you need to read all the way to the end. Schafer always has a little spin on his comments...

YMTum is definitely VB but is the comparison to VSL apt? Since when do we review DVDs?

Oh, and I always heard it referred to as roboing. Of course, I just read Salvia as Saliva, so you...

Wouldn’t that simply be Very Bad List?

I read most of the middle para (where the link dumps you, oddly) as Saliva, and thought it was all a...

I always thought of salvia as the drug you used when you couldn’t get your hands on Kools...

Query: is Young Manhattanite just a Very Bad Version of Very Short List?

Wait, so is JA a hipster because she’s making devil horns? Actually, I guess they’re...

You mean aside from the fact that they can probably figure out how to link directly to a story?...

For the second straight year, a third of the commerical bee population was wiped out (Kottke asks:...

is there an opinion to be had on the subject of the morning news?

Huh; we’ve become the bumblr. Not that that joke hasn’t been made twelve thousand...

Has to be Curt. Reference, please.

The question is really: how much of a loser do you have to be to get worked up over Julia Allison?

I’m linking to this and telling you to read the comments because it will surely annoy 99 and...

Oh nonsense.

You couldn’t explain to me why Passover is eight days and you are trying to expicate Orthodox...

Memo to Nate Hill: You’ve got competition - or a possible partner.

Huh? You thought all Orthodox Jews, Haredi or not, were the same and bound to one set of rules....

Um, if you’ll recall, Krucoff, I was the one who pointed out that some non-Haredi Orthodox are...

“Subject: Hi! New recordings and myspace for Scary River (baltimore indie pop)” - Yeah,...

Another note to Emily if she’s reading: you bet your blog-speckled ass that any of us would...

Can someone explain to Kottke what arbitrage is?

The Potsmokin’ Emily Gould discovers Asheville, NC has hippies. Ahh, to be young again. Quick,...

Man, I miss all the good emails. It was all about fucking with a hole in the sheet, wasn’t it?...

In about 10 minutes and 6 emails, I just taught Dana every nuance about Orthodox Judaism. Reprints...

Two things I hate in this world: reading about The Hills or Gossip Girls, and people who fucking eat...

Which one of you is reading the Habitats column? Is someone angling to work for the Dark Lord? No...