Young Manhattanite

Our fucking masthead. Do I have to explain my point? And Morey Amsterdam died in 1996. Not even a...

Apr 1st

I’m standing pat on my 34 seconds of internet research. But dude’s a theater geek, so I...

Apr 1st

Sylvester? Either I’m illiterate or you are smoking crack.

Apr 1st

Still on the masthead? Yeah, so is Nick Sylvester and Morey Amsterdam. So fucking what?

Apr 1st

Apologize? I’m trying to save him from endless springing for Bud Lights and awkwardly crashing...

Apr 1st

He’s still on the masthead, and I really don’t think he’s the GM version of Hunter...

Apr 1st

This looks the worst: not getting the memo. Mohney no longer works at Gridskipper. He runs Black...

Apr 1st

I don’t know what looks worst here: that people don’t identify Gridskipper as GM blog;...

Apr 1st

That was 99, btw.

Mar 31st

And I’m the good-looking one.

Mar 31st

Huh, boss, you are right. It’s endlessly necessary to point out there are more than one of us....

Mar 31st

Better meds, then dead. Here’s a band worth your noodling time.

Mar 31st

That’s probably a little too much god for the afternoon. Sorry.

Mar 31st

Oh, god, we are adding followers. And they are being dispatched directly from douchebag central.

Mar 31st

Good god, […]— it’s finding out if he bleaches his Upper Intenstine (edited for...

Mar 31st

Given how half assed our main blog posting is, shouldn’t we swap the columns?

Mar 31st

I’m starting the Burying People Drinks Fund. When are we getting your Denton kiss off? Or is...

Mar 31st

Sac went to Burning Man last year and hell, even I saw the Dead at RFK once. She stays.

Mar 31st

I asked for a list. You did nothing besides brag about the fact that Jessica Cutler once emailed...

Mar 31st

Whoa whoa whoa. The girl who named her blog after a Dead song gets a free pass just because...

Mar 31st

Hey, I actually know and like Chet! (This is gonna be tougher on me than I thought. I might have to...

Mar 31st

Tumblr formatting is just turd.

Mar 31st

Start with this: These are my curious clippings & comments mostly reflecting a viewpoint on how...

Mar 31st

This should go without saying but females under 25 are granted unquestioning immunity. That’s...

Mar 31st

Did you see, someone finally figured out what was wrong with Second Life? Yeah, because it’s...

Mar 31st

My son just expressed his displeasure with my having to work all day by proclaiming: “The...

Mar 31st

And since we’re on the subject, my friends and I have always been big Mogwai song title fans.

Mar 31st

Who said there are no good stalkery features on Tumblr? Look, a cheery wave from stranded...

Mar 31st

That was Jim, btw.

Mar 31st

Mark Mothersbaugh is teaching my son to draw as I type this.

Mar 31st

I’m telling you, that Facebook thing is fucking freaky. Today: Spiers (again), Lindsay...

Mar 31st

I’m pretty sure this feinsodville character does not qualify for any of the Boss’s...

Mar 31st

There’s still some vestige of blogebrity? Isn’t that a Mohney operation?

Mar 31st

Before I get going, we’re going to need the standard list from the boss: who he wants to fuck,...

Mar 31st

Let’s go about this systematically: Rudeboy7969, please stop following us. Among other things,...

Mar 31st

Bloglines? A dying service. Smells like a Dana Observation. Check the Google Reader (Google it)...

Mar 31st

Dude, I’m one our bloglines subsribers and I haven’t been on that site in over two...

Mar 31st

We’re hemorrhaging Bloglines subscribers too. Somehow this mix of piety, sanctimony and early...

Mar 31st

Also, on the offchance that you hate low culture…

Mar 31st

File This Under Things For Which There Are Surely Historic Parallels Of Some Sort Or Another.

Mar 31st

How fucking small is the media rolodex in this town? Oh, sorry, Facebook group. Whatever. I’m...

Mar 31st

So who did we manage to alienate today? Tumblr lacks any really interesting stalkery features.

Mar 31st

Wonder to other twee fuckers about the fact that he was angling towards Pedro the Lion Xtain-indie...

Mar 31st

what are the rules on liking sufjan stevens?  please advise.

Mar 31st

More like rode hard and put away wet. I’m back from Vegas, where the racks are better and no...

Mar 30th

Looks like Julia beat Emily. I was giving backstory (tiresomely) to a friend in a cab earlier, and I...

Mar 30th

Why stop at sundown? Always with the jew thing. I think we lost more than one, but also gained some....

Mar 30th

What? We only lost ONE follower today?? Jesus. Guess who. Yep, Nikola. I anus you, YM.

Mar 29th

That $5K enables one Palestinian teen to bunk with a Jewish peer at Summer Peace Camp in Maine. See,...

Mar 29th

Damn, you got suckered into giving somone five grand because you think they can make people like...

Mar 29th

We should assign people we specifically want to stop. Nikola’s only following us because I...

Mar 29th

If the number of people “following” us hasn’t halved by sundown, there is...

Mar 29th

Actually, if you read closely (you didn’t), I bought a $5,000 ticket. Remind me some time to...

Mar 29th

What, you bought a $100 ticket for an event that will spend $70 on the food? And wait, it’s...

Mar 29th

Also, you’re a “working man” and never accept my invitations to drink during the...

Mar 29th

Hey, I’m babysitting in Westchester right now. Are you down the block?

Mar 29th

Here’s your idea that will drive dozens of mediocre ‘thought pieces’: the reason...

Mar 29th

The Kush gets no pass from me. Not until he makes a major donation to Seeds of Peace or shows up at...

Mar 29th

“How low can you go?” apology-baiting: hey, that Jared Kushner is a complete fucking...

Mar 29th

This was 99, btw. I never alienated Maud. Fuck, I’m not even on Facebook.

Mar 29th

by the way, in case you needed another reason to be happy you attended community college, here it...

Mar 29th

Spitzer’s is not 2004? Good Christ. But you know this works — you ask, I say no, cause I...

Mar 29th

my bad re last night.  i was under the weather and crashed early.  let me make it up tonight....

Mar 29th

Is there an RSS feed for our dashboard? Because that would be handy.

Mar 29th

I just farted. Where does that net out on the Carney/YM off-off-offset calculation? Someone call...

Mar 29th

Huh. Wait ‘till you figure out that ‘reblog’ feature. And you were the one who was...

Mar 29th

Facebook has a new feature! People who may hate you: I logged in for the first time in a while....

Mar 29th

And how can you not find our followers? What, are you using Mosiac or something? Turd.

Mar 29th

That has to be Curt — our embarassing weak link on the tech nerdiery front. I was posting in...

Mar 29th

NOW I get why Carney’s and Balk’s posts show up in our Tumblr dashboard. Someone here...

Mar 29th

This is good.

Mar 29th

The internet never sleeps.

Mar 29th

Oh my, are we updating this thingamajob during sacred weekend hours? Just as well, who are we to...

Mar 29th

In the spirit of Carney’s contrarian carbon-offset- offset, I’m engaging in a blogging...

Mar 29th

How to speak hip.  Funny (or not) circa the 1950’s.

Mar 29th

Was that Berhle? Because boy was that effective. But now we have like four new people to alienate....

Mar 29th

You’re welcome.

Mar 29th

Ha, way to “sac” up, dude. Thanks, we appreciate you faking one for the team. But the YM...

Mar 28th

Feh. Someone is already building a tool that sifts through your iPhone and picks the songs that have...

Mar 28th

I, for one, continue to enjoy it. (We need color coded posts or something to keep track.)

Mar 28th

I guess it’s the vichybar now.

Mar 28th

Speaking of Alex Blagg, I just clicked on his Muxtape thing and holee shit, do I disagree with his...

Mar 28th

Boss Speaks: Do I win the office pool? I’m chiming in exactly when I thought I would. I would...

Mar 28th

Is anyone else tired of Chan Marshall’s ‘I just drank a glass of paint thinner’...

Mar 28th

Countdown to the Boss covering his ass by saying it wasn’t him who wrote that begins now....

Mar 28th

I lied, you’ll also get this: From what I can tell, I don’t like 99% of the 26 people...

Mar 28th

Christ, it’s all go here today. I’m buried in work, so this pithy observation is all...

Mar 28th

Ah, this is an interesting gambit: when you are bad at two distinct things, you can call yourself an...

Mar 28th

Is it me, or just Firefox just fucking suck with the new version of Gmail?

Mar 28th

Wow, they launched that new racktastic CNN comedy thing fast! It’s an impressive debut: CNN...

Mar 28th

Countdown to Kottke claiming he already thought of this begins now.

Mar 28th

If you are Nick Douglas, do this: come up with a clever name for the obsessive need of...

Mar 28th

And it looks like shit.

Mar 28th

I can't decide whether to piss or drink...

Balk must have mixed up his LiveJournal and Tumblr logins. Mostly I did this to see how it looks in...

Mar 28th

Damn, Will wasn’t making that shit up.

Mar 28th

Didn’t Leon bust that one out?

Mar 28th

Web 2.0/Blogging: High school for ugly people.

Mar 28th

Being a known associate of a known ‘Internet personality’ and part of a music blog means...

Mar 28th

According to this, Balk’s biggest fan is this girl. Didn’t she fuck Brian Van after a...

Mar 27th

Hey, at least I only swung it in a YM staff email. Shit, I need a link now, right? Oooh, my roommate...

Mar 26th

Don’t be penisy.

Mar 26th

A friend of mine once emailed me — along with big portion of his address book — about an...

Mar 26th

Hey, lookie: Spiers is back at Dealbreaker! How else to explain the argument that zero growth in the...

Mar 26th

No wonder they keep saying Chelsea is off limits — she can’t handle the most obvious...

Mar 26th

YM’s NBS predates everything, again.

Mar 26th

Muxtape

Mar 26th

Ira Kaplan saves me 20 minutes of writing a less cogent description of south by.

Mar 25th

Appellate court hands Obama the best negative campaign story evah: curious about how Hillary will...

Mar 25th

From a gayish Jewish screenplay I’m working on with Eli Valley: I’m just afraid...

Mar 25th

Why am I supposed to care about anything Alterman writes? Does his wife even like him?

Mar 24th

BREAKING:

The internet is bad for you. Also, Eric Alterman doing a nice about-face in the New Yorker today re...

Mar 24th

And people wonder why print is dying, Part 1317: Joe Queenan is writing op-eds for the LA Times....

Mar 24th

Oh Dallas, you shine with an evil light… (But is he running on the Dem or Rep ticket?)

Mar 22nd

Thank god The Blacks have john carney around to explain to them why they’re wrong to think...

Mar 21st

UPDATE: When you cross the brain streams of Rex Sorgatz and Nick Douglas, you get something like...

Mar 20th

The Guardian has a cute little article on the “rickroll” phenomenon. (Just kidding:...

Mar 20th

I thought I was the art fag.

Mar 19th

Hey, it’s the art fag, not the Jew. That building is an architectural ABORTION.

Mar 19th

Um, actually it is. I’m a big fan. Just because Jews aren’t involved, doesn’t mean...

Mar 19th

One of NYC’s most important mid-20th-century skyscrapers? Where the fuck is 99 when you need...

Mar 19th

curt here.  im swinging by the housing works for a drink tonight.  ak et al, any interest in...

Mar 19th

The Police State, Cali Ed: San Diego maybe needs to up the training required for a cops, cuz one...

Mar 19th

Something else White People Like: setting straight why the blacks get it wrong on race. John might...

Mar 19th

Bucky reminds me YM is a music and Jew blog. (In case you forgot.) He offers this: a limited edition...

Mar 19th

99 is currently in Los Angeles, where the Internet is still in its storyboard stage, far away from...

Mar 19th

New York is now officially a Swing State. Thank you.

Mar 18th

Is there some new Gawker edict to fawn over New York magazine? Who’s Denton planning on...

Mar 18th

Start using headphones! I’m disappointed they didn’t make the obvious “sword...

Mar 17th

You want to know my idea of a fun St. Patrick’s Day? Wearing an orange coat on the  7 local....

Mar 17th

The YM tipline is lighting up. Apparently this Gawker post was deleted. Anyone have details? Please...

Mar 14th

Now that’s a beard. I hope no one has registered the Detainee 061 Tumblr yet.

Mar 14th

Huh, someone sounds like his hero. For the record, I was the first to dream up  eating orange...

Mar 13th

Clooney got the memo. MY MEMO.

Mar 13th

Given the dearth of new things to speculate about in the quickly dwindling Whoregate scandal,...

Mar 13th

Your state gubmen still hard at work! While Spitzer was talking bringing down the government, the...

Mar 13th

Just a reminder, we’re a music blog: Big Boys/Dicks, Live at Raul’s Club split LP

Mar 12th

Queen Age FBI: Tim Gunn’s dad worked for J. Edgar Hoover.

Mar 12th

Kwame Kilpatrick is, has been, and always will be the awesomest mayor in America. He could assert...

Mar 12th

Oh, I see. It’s the stupidbar now.

Mar 12th

Carney’s conversation with Power raises an interesting point, namely: how well does the...

Mar 12th

See, in some parts of our country, we still politicians who aren’t — what’s the...

Mar 12th

I was hoping that was some really elaborate rickroll. It may well be, but you can’t wait that...

Mar 12th

I have a management seminar prereq. It is a profound waste of my time. My professor, who is not a...

Mar 12th

Quiz, was it Carrie Brownstein or YM’s own Dana #1HS who said: “You know, my hesitation...

Mar 12th

Today, YM is likely to resign itself to working for the weekend. (If you’re a female who is at...

Mar 12th

My view on Spitzer? He’s the same as every other crusading politician: a living embodiment of...

Mar 11th

My mom just texted: “I want to know your views on Spitzer. Has YM no opinion?” I dunno,...

Mar 11th

And, in these times of the New Thoroughness, there is this: Reporting was contributed by Jennifer...

Mar 11th

I’ll wait for our Jew in residence to give proper rationalization, but am I the only person...

Mar 11th

From Crotch-key to us to Maura to Pareene, to God, I don’t know what is more important than...

Mar 10th

Is this something I would need a TV to know about? [Alternately: iTunes hack!]

Mar 10th

Been on Twitter since 2006 and I still can’t think of anything to say.

Mar 10th

Bloggers self-aggrandizing? Nah. Exhibit X: Navel gazing mistaken for tipping point.

Mar 9th

Do people link to Tyler Cowen obsessively to demonstrate their ‘intellectual’ chops?...

Mar 7th

99, I presume? Don’t look now (you’re behind and probably can’t see straight at...

Mar 7th

Shit. Now I like Nick. A little. Also, I was out drinking for 10 hours last night. Where the fuck...

Mar 7th

“There may be a later announcement … But we don’t claim this honor yet.” -...

Mar 7th

drinks tonight.  but where?  not the magician.  suggestions?

Mar 7th

1. I’m too fat to tuck in my shirt. 2. Who’s up for tossing Tina Brown’s sweater...

Mar 7th

Krucoff, tuck your shirt in, for chrissakes. You’re the public face of YM (and by YM I mean...

Mar 7th

Douglas didn’t write that? Ain’t that some shit.

Mar 7th

Not that this attenuates the idoicy, but Douglas didn’t write that post.

Mar 7th

I can’t remember who we’re prohibited from slagging this week (but I guess I’ll...

Mar 7th

Dude, if you’re going to send the 45th Keyboard Infantry to your friend’s blog, at least...

Mar 7th

So, in this photo, are you convincing a socialite to add you to her Dodgeball friends?

Mar 7th

Getting penisy is the only reason I blog! (Thus, my lack of getting any actual pussy.) But look,...

Mar 7th

Great, kid.  Don’t get penisy.

Mar 7th

When I’m not at The Magician, you can usually find me at Elaine’s keeping Pete...

Mar 6th

Denton raves about a reproduction of an old travel print. We have the exact same one hanging in our...

Mar 6th

While Denton was busy inveighing against his former employee (a 2,000-word philippic best summed up...

Mar 6th

Yeah Krucoff, relax, go sing a fuckin’ song.

Mar 6th

It’s me, Krucoff.

Mar 6th

It couldn’t say “Two Palestinian Gunmen killed after slaughtering students in west...

Mar 6th

Yeah, but I read about the 8 first, with nice big headlines, and now this happens, so of course the...

Mar 6th

Sorry, my Zionist blood is boiling at this headline: Two Palestinians killed in west Jerusalem...

Mar 6th

Fuck, I was going to link to this, and I still am, but in a different way now that I noticed...

Mar 6th

Hey, Williamsburg: stay off your fixie today. Or, you know, don’t. Actually, don’t....

Mar 6th

Huh. Blogging gets you laid. Or maybe she’s a hostage.

Mar 6th

Do I get to make the first “3/6” joke? Cool. Also: as funny as ‘The Idea of...

Mar 6th

When I see Denton’s byline and the post doesn’t include “send tips,” I...

Mar 5th

And yet I watched all of it. The problem here, around the 8:45 mark, is that the dude is playing...

Mar 5th

Krotchke could not have done a better job of choosing a guest editor. This guy is hilarious. I...

Mar 5th

Hey look, the biggest bank in the world is free! (and, to follow the new pronouncements, your Goobar...

Mar 5th

Read the laughably ignorant and borderline racist comments in this Gawker post and ask yourself...

Mar 5th

Awesome, let’s see how many hornets’ nests we can poke today.

Mar 5th

Mohney spends the past week revisiting his blog posts from 2005 on his Tumblr. Hooray.

Mar 5th

Is it just me or does Eli Valley look like Speed Levitch?

Mar 4th

Agnostic Bar Mitzvah Kid Tells It Like It Is. Take notes, people.

Mar 4th

Since apparently we’re posting photos of ourselves at our least attractive, here’s one...

Mar 4th

I thought we’re ad-free — meaning no fucking links into Bezos pocket.

Mar 4th

New rule, though I thought this would be obvious and maybe I’ve said it before: Every YM Tum...

Mar 4th

Huh, apparently there is a house style at thesitethatshallnotbenamed.org that requires even guest...

Mar 4th

Public Health Warning: Like this guy, I was tempted by sugar-free Twizzlers and paid dearly for it....

Mar 4th

Oh, and dude, if email is so 20th century, why didn’t you ask me via Pownce for the graphics...

Mar 4th

You know, considering the other McGrath not mentioned in all of this is the go to guy for all things...

Mar 4th

After reading about a certain book release party for what has to be the most fatuous and unnecessary...

Mar 4th

hey 99, any interest in doing a quick photoshop job?  not for profit, that is.  i’ll be you...

Mar 4th

From the Department of Impossibly Conceived Dates Ending with a Handshake: As undergrads, Robert...

Mar 3rd

Huh. I didn’t even know Stereogum still published. Aren’t they owned by AOL? Or is that...

Mar 3rd

Uh oh, Krucoff, better get your paperwork in order.

Mar 2nd

Never doubt the creativity inherent in redneck ideology.

Mar 1st