January 2010
December 2009
Moral dilemma
One colleague just convinced another to say “graveside bukkake” ten times fast, on video. To post or not to post? The speaker claims not to know what it means. Does that even matter anymore?
Hiring developers
In the new year, we have several openings for full-time regular tech jobs at BlackBook — to start, we need a systems engineer, a lead developer/architect, and a web producer (the latter will be trained up by others during a massive site redesign). The jobs are in New York. Obviously there are many particulars but if you think you might be suited for such, email me at cmohney@bbook.com.
rendit:
I will not ruin the ending for you but the issue of What If that Rudolph Delson just wrote for The Awl is so on point I cried.
Reblogged for rendit’s use of the “What If Conan the Barbarian were stranded in the 20th century?” cover, though here I replace that with the infamous Pimp Conan panel. NOTE: LEOPARD FOURTH WALL VIOLATION.
Sad coworker: “Meanwhile, my phone was stolen and some dominican is taking photos of his penis and posting them on my facebook.”
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“It was hot, but not ‘GI Jane’ hot.”
– Starbucks barista describing her reaction seeing Avatar this weekend.
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Off the rocker
Hat(s) off to Willa Paskin, our features editor — this week she took over day-to-day blog scheduling, relieving me to pursue the joy of administrative tasks that, though perhaps tedious at times, are nevertheless not chained directly to the endless hamster wheel of the internet news cycle. First time I’ve been off the daily blog grind in over one hundred billion years, or rather just...
Company Party: 10:37 AM, Morning After
skidder:
kateism:
fek:
There should be some kind of digital marathon clock above the elevator that just ticks away at the actual time. Our start time is 10:00 AM, and our CEO and his assistant are saying hello to everyone as they walk in. When I got here:
Sales Force: 0-4. Big win for them.
Interns: None. 0-at least 5. To be expected.
Editorial, including myself: 5-1. Shockingly. Our...
Nashville & Sundance Jobs
1. Still looking for a Nashville-based person to create city guide listings. Paid gig, so if you know an extra Mandrell sister who wants to get off the meth, have her drop me a line.
2. Also looking for someone going to Sundance who wants to blog about it. Also paid, though not paying your expenses (though we can help with credentials). Interested in a nonstandard person doing nonstandard...
Other Things Dan Smith Will Teach You
fuckingbookdeal:
ninety9:
I guess half of Tumblr doesn’t like my jokes. My tummy-blar-ity dropped 25% within minutes of using the word ‘stupid’ in a post. And it was like, sort of high.
You should see what happens when you mention Hitler.
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You can't kill Douchebag.
Douchebag kills you. How many generations of Gawker Media employees have to die before they understand?
4 Reasons The Douchebag Has Jumped The Shark Farewell, Douchebag Word of the Year: Still Not Twatwaffle Wrapping Up The Whole Douchebag Thing Douches: Time To Bag It?
4 Names I Like Speaking Aloud
1. Famke Janssen
2. Fairuza Balk
3. Vera Farmiga
4. Liev Schreiber
Best part of revelation-free OK! interview with...
Use of bracketed stage direction in response to a question: “[Indicates no.]” Even her negatives cannot be concretely described in words.
"Meta-enabling" is the "cheetah" of would-be meme...
