F*$#% Everything, We’re Doing Four Screens
My first reaction upon seeing the GScreen dual-screen laptop was this old Onion classic “Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades.”
Indeed, they did finally do five blades. With that in mind…
30. December 2009
This Thing is (not) Like That Thing: Krasinskisberger Edition
Left: Ben Roethlisberger, unspeallably-named anchor of an elite team of performers in Pennsylvania.
Right: John Krasinski, unspeallably-named anchor of an elite team of performers in Pennsylvania.
(ALSO: John should make sure his agent is on top on any Big Ben Roethlisberger biopic news because, damn.)
Dr. Drew is Deep in… Diagnosis.
Left: Pillar of virtue and advice, Dr. Drew, with his wife.
Right: Probably not Dr. Drew’s wife.
Earlier: What do Other Doctors Think of Drew?
29. December 2009
28. December 2009
This Thing is Like That Thing: Tiger Beat Edition
Left: Ed Westwick, is being.
Right: Corey Fledma, has been.
This Thing is Like That Thing: Rocket Backpacks Edition
Left: The Rocketeer, a movie
Right: Darkvoid, a video game
Back to the Future: Apple Product Placement 2010
With Fantastic Mr. Fox and It’s Complicated, Apple is wrapping up a hell of a product placement year. But it’s not letting up.
I’ve already pointed out that February’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is an orgy of iPhone product placement. But what else do we have to look forward to from Apple onscreen in the coming year?
HIGH School certainly looks to contain an iMac.
The Spy Next Door is a vehicle for iPod.
And, after the jump, is that a Mac in Bounty Hunter and what about Toy Story 3?
26. December 2009
This Thing is Like That Thing: Motherless Sons Edition
Left: Elian Gonalez, a motherless boy many enraged Americans insisted not be returned to his real father.
Right: Sean Goldman, a motherless boy many enraged Americans insisted be returned to his real father.
23. December 2009
Emily Gould Star Commentor
“I think the short answer is that writers go back because Gawker Media sites and sites modeled after them spent the bulk of this past decade systematically obviating and destroying most all of writers’ other options for regular employment. We’ll all work at Gawker one day!”
Emily Gould on why writers return to Gawker (”Doree Returns (To Gawker)“)
I would also hazard that the “style” needed to be a good Gawker writer just does not translate well to any other medium. Magazines do not want shallowly-researched snark. Ditto, newspapers. Meanwhile, writers for other Gawker sites like Gizmodo and Deadspin have specialized knowledge bases that translate throughout targeted industries. That is to say, A Gizmodo writer could probably easily move to PC Magazine or wherever. What is a Gawker writer’s specialized knowledge base? Media? Only for a tiny few.
Not to say that Gawker writers cannot give magazines and other media the content they want, they just don’t excel at it any more than the glut of writers out there. And once they experience that, Gawker looks like a warmplace to return to flex what they are best at.