I think it was probably the Erin Andrews story. I think Daulerio handled that well — people still think he hosted the video, or even linked to it, and he didn’t do either — but it felt gross to even mention that it was out there; the minute Deadspin wrote about it, it of course was going to turn into the national… Read more

He’s the best. Handsome. Virile. Dangerous.
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This is as easy as it was before. If you open up a park like that, and then go to it, you deserve to be eaten.
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Gawker has had so many commenting systems and so many CMS at this point that almost every post I wrote when I ran the site is now non-sensical. The field trips I did? To Stephen A. Smith’s old show, to hit off John Rocker, to Dennis Rodman’s book thing? The photos are all gone from those posts now. It’s almost like… Read more

So, so old. You know that Louis CK bit where he talks about the sound he used to make when he had an orgasm is now the sound he makes when he pees? That’s our future. That might be my present.
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I give 35 percent of my yearly salary to the Church of Scientology. I’m not a member. I just want to show my support.
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Grierson has been biting my shit since 1986, when he was the weird kid from the Catholic school in the honors program they bussed us to once a week. I’ve been carrying that guy my whole life.
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I think I answered this one, so I’ll come up with another answer this time: 1978.
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When I was at Deadspin, there weren’t any: I had so much autonomy, too much autonomy, that if I didn’t want to write about something, I just didn’t. Suffice it to say, that business model no longer works. But everything I wrote about Deadspin, I wanted to. Except the ad posts. I hated the ad posts.
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No:
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Deadspin. It’s the perfect name because, as Nick Denton said when he came up with it, “It’s two one-syllable words right next to one another. It’s short and easy to remember. It doesn’t mean anything. People will make fun of you for it for a couple of months, and then they’ll just accept it as the name and move on.”… Read more

Considering how many billable hours were used for commenting by Deadspin LLC — and how much money it sucked out of the American economy — I’d have to think you could buy a small island nation by now.
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Did it fall apart because you flexed? And it just tore apart on its own? I’ve always dreamed of that happening. (To me. Not to a 10-year-old boy.)
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Commenting was a site function that was forced upon me by Lockhart Steele as a Gawker Media initiative. (I hated those.) So we agreed that the only people who could comment on the site were people who were personally invited by me: I had to send them a link and everything. I required people to send me essays… Read more

He will be, but only for one night, and only to drink with his parents.
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For what it’s worth: I know nothing about wearables. (Obviously.)
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Oh, I wasn’t surprised by the performance itself. It’s just the character doesn’t seem to have a lot of depth written into it, but he finds it, out of nowhere, when you least expect it.
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It was actually THIS close. I loved just about every second of it. Honestly, my main problem with it was that it was too short.
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We each picked our top six. That was the one movie on both of our lists.
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I had been wondering why all this advice sounded so reasonable. (Seriously: This is all very good advice. Good advising, Samer.)
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