Jesus Christ. Poor Vendela Vida didn’t get in her first answer until the 3:33 mark. Shut the hell up, Silverblatt.
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Kiran Desai Wins NBCC Award
Richard Grayson Hacks Gawker?
This morning, Richard Grayson put up a clearly fabricated ad on Craig’s List, seeking a “hipster intern.” Within hours, Gawker picked it up, asking for reader guesses. What’s more, Grayson posted this poem to provide clues. (Gawker, of course, didn’t observe that the poem was posted on March 8th, the same day as the Craig’s List ad.) But Grayson, being the good sport, revealed himself to be the author of the ad. So here’s the question (and perhaps Mr. Grayson might want to step in and answer): Was this a prank conducted by Grayson to see if he could get onto Gawker (and, concomitantly, this site)? An even bigger question: Are the Gawker writers so hard up (and we’re not just talking for material, but income to supplement the slave wages that Denton pays them) that they’ll troll Craig’s List in a desperate effort to find some inconsequential gossip item? Either way, Gawker got played big time.
Clumsy Editorial Assistants Now More Dangerous Than eBay Manuscript Poachers
BBC: “n unpublished novel by renowned author Jeanette Winterson has been found at an Underground station in south London….Martha Oster, 27, said she was ‘amazed’ when she found the 134-page manuscript lying on a bench at Balham station on Wednesday night.”
Hands-On Science
The Sun: “Masturbating an elephant in the cause of science isn’t an easy job – just ask wildlife expert Dr Thomas Hildebrandt. Just touching a jumbo penis – they measure more than 1.5metres when aroused – can have painful consequences as German scientist Dr Hildebrandt reveals. He said: ‘One guy I know got a black eye from being hit by an elephant’s penis.'”