This is not an answer, either, but at the last holiday party, I heard that one of the Gawker tech folks really wanted to meet Drew. I bring Drew over to her and make introductions, whereupon she launches excitedly into an ode to his work, his humor, his everything. After a few minutes of this, as I'm congratulating… Read more

We're in a product freeze, as far as I know, which means that tech is spending its time these days improving the foundation rather than doing the old Gawker Media thing of adding new wings and dormer windows and solar panels and carports and shit without bothering to address the mold colonies in the basement. Read more

I read three-fourths of "Mating" and loved the hell out of it, but I had to set the thing because it rendered me totally incapable of writing. Some writers do that to me—it's as if they've exhausted the language. Read more

Apathy. I don't read Barstool, and I don't think any of my fellow Deadspinners do, either. I've had a few exchanges with Portnoy, though, and he seems to labor under the misapprehension that we are locked in some long, twilight struggle for shitbag-sports-blog supremacy. Read more

Darren and I knew each other in college, and we'll exchange awkward pleasantries whenever we run into each other now. I last saw him in the press box at the Belmont a few weeks back. I think I opened with something like, "We've been coming pretty hard at you, haven't we?" (We'd just published this.) He explained that… Read more

Montage of children the world over, singing "The Internationale." Read more

Be really smart about something and don't be stupid about anything. Read more

You haven't hung out with many journalists, have you? Read more

Probably the Bellagio. Read more

Soon. Read more

Testing something. Testing testing testing. Read more

This isn't so much about this comment as about your body of work: chill out a little, OK? If you really loathe Deadspin and its writers as much as your commenting history suggests, then maybe we're not the site for you. Read more

Your post was deleted because it was a stupid criticism that inspired an even stupider discussion. Don't be stupid. Read more

I love Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry is president-for-life of the America in my soul. I think Chuck Berry is 10 times the writer that Springsteen is (and I would say that even if Springsteen really were the grease-monkey Dos Passos he's made out to be). But for my money there is no bigger groaner of a sports lyric than…

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OK, if you say so, but I've sat at an antique computer in the newsroom of a literate-world newspaper and watched AP stories go through the same sort of breaking-news peristalsis. First an alert, then just a sentence, then a garbled half-English approximation of what happened, then a cleaner version with errors… Read more

This isn't any different from mainstream outlets. AP write-thrus work the same way, give or take a "holy shit." Read more

Matt: David's trying to get in touch with you. Could you email me at [email protected]? Read more

Agreed. "Somebody better speak to Mary about this shit" still makes me smile. Read more

Ctrl+f "Whitlock isn't a Tom" Read more