It can now be told: I’ve only read The Professional — not really known as his greatest book, though Hemingway loved it, which is only sort of an endorsement. And I’d just read it a few weeks earlier. If that question is asked by Buzz a month earlier, it’s possible that show turns out a lot different.
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I had no plan. I honestly just wanted to write a funny site that was different than other sites I read. Everything that has happened after I left has been a step forward in ambition and execution. They do things here I never could have fathomed. Do I like all of it? No, because I am an individual human being with my… Read more

It suppose I should have seen that coming. It’s a small evolutionary hop from “Kyle Orton with Jack Daniels pouring down his shirt” to “Athlete Penis in the Background of a Live Shot.”
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Never got a one. I think our capacity for public outrage was lessened back then. When someone cheated, you thought, “Yep, that’s what you do. They’re surely all doing it.” I don’t think people are any more privately outraged now than they were. We just like to be all performative about morals we don’t actually believe… Read more

BACK IN MY DAY, the paper cost 25 cents. Now they give it away like it’s Your Local Shopper or something.
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Not really. One of my major failings as a journalist is that I never got that cathartic kick from being “first” on a story. I’d rather wait a few hours and try to get some perspective on it. (This is probably why I was gonna have to eventually leave Deadspin.)
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I was never put up for a vote — no former editor ever should, in my opinion, with the possible (certain) exception of Clay Travis — but if called, I will serve.
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This actually happened at South by Southwest the one year I went: Read more

That book is so old now that I wouldn’t even know I even got royalties at this point. So library away! (Just look out for Carl Monday.)
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I miss the Pants Parties. I love the idea of an NCAA Preview edition — which we actually had made into a printable PDF! Because it was 2007! — written entirely by unpaid readers, with no actual connection to the games themselves. If I would have thought to have put a price on it, I could have come up with the original… Read more

Blame Gawker CMS. That video was actually taken in my old Brooklyn apartment by Brett Michael Dykes, the EIC of Uproxx. Maybe he still has the original copy?
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It evaporates the need for my famously awkward transitions that traditionally drive my editors crazy.
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I wouldn’t say I was “proud” of any particular piece: I just like the work. Some of them are good, some of them aren’t, you just do you best and shut up and make another one of them. I subscribe to the Woody Allen theory of production: “I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who… Read more

True story: Life as a Loser, because it was published by a tiny publishing house that’s now out of business, was once, like, 46 bucks on Amazon. Then, one day, they all dropped to about three bucks. I found out later it was because my dad saw the Amazon market and sold a bunch of the 100 or so of them I had been… Read more

It’s the whiskers.
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Man, Jose Lima’s wife. I had completely forgotten about that. Daulerio actually interviewed her:
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I think the disgusting baseball chin thing is pretty hilarious. And if someone can resist an accidental Weather Map penis, they are a stronger person than I am.
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Yikes.
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We play tennis every week. He’s very good.
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