MisterHippity
April 2010
“… despite clearly being comfortable in almost any type of crowd (though I suppose Tea Partyers might give him pause), the president apparently considers himself only black.”
Yes, DESPITE that …. because clearly, “being comfortable in almost any type of crowd” is inconsistent with being black.
(via alexbalk)
It’s also appeared in The New Yorker (the online version at least), thanks to this mention by Lauren Collins last month:
“While we’re at it, I should say how much I’ve been enjoying The Awl, whose editors also have an interest in Knifecrime Island (and its tabloids), and sort of like the wet stuff.”
Here are a few of my favorite comments from last week’s Top Chef Masters live blog. (Join us for the next one tonight! The post will go up on Gawker at 9 pm Eastern, and the show starts on Bravo at 10.)
robina: The Real Housewives of Orange County want something they can easily purge later.
son of spam: @robina: Husbands?
Jessizca: I would serve them a slice of avocado and a vicodin on the plate. Winner!
katekate is squared: Rick Moonen is creeping me out this episode. He’s a little Taxi Driver.
MisterHippity: Rick says he’s gonna “cook his brains out.” Sounds appetizing.
Jessizca: @MisterHippity: In some countries, Rick Moonen brains are considered a delicacy.
robina: Ludo, we’ll like you better if you stop acting like a smoking hot whiny baby.
DahlELama: Oh Ludo, you can put your love in my dish any day.
robina: I just want to say to him, “I need you to shut up, cook, feed me, and look pretty.”
unclevanya: Wylie made a Jew?
son of spam: @unclevanya: A delicious Jew.
DahlELama: @son of spam: You rang?
one forty plus.: Twitter Isn’t “Over”, I’m Over It.
And if there’s anyone who knows a thing or two about lionizing and demonizing, it’s John Mayer. Seems like he’s had more than his share of both over the years.
How many of the 1,200-plus comments on the Times’ website did you read?
E.G.: Zero. No, actually, the Times gave me the chance to respond, so my ex-boss from Gawker, Choire Sicha, went through all of them and picked a handful.
So that’s how Emily ended up answering my question (about Joni Mitchell) in the Times online … It was one of the ones Choire picked!
Choire, you are quite the friend to Emily to have slogged through those hundreds of (often-nasty) questions so you could pick out a “handful” for her to answer.
If the White House press office had to consider Garrett Graff a journalist on the basis that he worked for a news organization supported primarily by ad revenue (the White House’s criteria for whether one qualifies as “press”) I’m not sure how anyone can make an argument that the people working…
But if you’re referring to Gizomodo’s Jason Chen, I don’t think anyone from government or law enforcement ever claimed that he wasn’t a journalist. Not publicly at least. Not yet.
Nick Denton was the one who framed the search justification that way, in this tweet. But R.E.A.C.T. may argue that Chen’s journalist status is moot, since (in their view) he participated in a crime.
UPDATE: A Google spokesperson responded with the following statement: “The blog in question was mistakenly taken down by our automated system. As soon as we became aware of this, we immediately reinstated it. We have reached out to the user and apologized for the inconvenience.”
At 10:22 p.m. Eastern time, however, the blog was still not back up. Gevinson, reached at her home, said she hasn’t received any apologetic communications yet from Google, but admitted it might be because she hasn’t yet checked all three of her email accounts. “I can’t do it now, cuz my dad’s on the computer,” she said.
