February 2012
2 posts
You Can Reach Me at This Email Address
At some point my Gawker email address will be shut off so please start emailing me at newell.jim@gmail.com, with important inquiries!
December 2011
2 posts
Jim Newell: The Top Ten Albums By The Guy Who Made... →
maesaslaw:
jimnewell:
Top Ten Destroyer Albums:
1) Streethawk: A Seduction (2001)
Okay, yes.
2t) Thief (2000)
2t) City of Daughters (1998)
I’m glad I’m not alone in loving these, and I would agree that they belong together on this list because in a lot of ways I think they are the same record. I would probably move them down a notch.
4) This Night (2002)
Not #1, but definitely in...
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The Top Ten Albums By The Guy Who Made the Top...
It is my duty as a pathetic creature of the Internet to spend a December Saturday afternoon typing a meaningless top ten list. Since Destroyer’s Kaputt, like every Destroyer album, was the best album of the year — although I no longer listen to 100 new albums a year like I did as an even more pathetic person in college, so maybe I missed some things, but probably not — this is...
November 2010
1 post
April 2010
2 posts
George Meyer
BLVR: So what happened exactly? Did you just open a map and throw your finger down?
GM: Almost. I knew very little about Boulder, other than that it had a college and a few good record stores and bookstores. It was also close to Mile High Kennel Club, and I was really into dog racing at the time. Beyond that, I just wanted to get as far from the New York environment as I could. It was very...
“You simply came to Wall Street too late, and are in the strange position of a...”
– Michael Lewis, yelling at some kid back in 2008. Can we just let Michael Lewis run everything? He gets it.
March 2010
1 post
A comment from Frank Rich’s column, about Joe Stack:
If we are going to fight the corporate predators we have to do it together. I used to be a member of a professional association for computer scientists, and they still send me an email newsletter once a week. It is revealing what they think of as “news”. It’s not the decimation of my profession, the decline of wages, any issues related...
February 2010
3 posts
I'm Such A Shitty Senator
No, don’t try to talk me out of it. I’m definitely quitting this time. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with myself once I leave the Senate, though. I can’t go back to Montana, that’s for sure. Facing all those constituents I failed so badly day after day, year after year? I don’t think so. Maybe I’ll go to Maine instead. No one knows me there....
The Medium Lobster And FFNR Should Write More...
But when you start writing more often, there are more words, and a growing marginal ratio of anger words to good satire words.
Hello, five readers from May!
Here are many good satire words from a blog that does not force itself to shit new product words every 37-54 minutes.
Q: Is Iran a threat? A: Oh yes. Even as we speak Iran is potentially starting the beginnings of a very possibly quite...
May 2009
1 post
January 2009
3 posts
...So is this a B+ or a C-? →
This was a good thing.
For some reason we are remembering John McCain’s convention speech this morning, the morning when the Muslims officially take over your life. Maybe because we were reading about that John McCain roast thing at which Obama spoke last night. Anyway, the latter half of that speech was the most decent moment of McCain’s general election campaign. Strange, since it was about that...
December 2008
5 posts
Written in exception of the news.
This would make sense, in certain worlds, but here on planet Earth, “the media” as well as Liberals are giving Caroline Kennedy an avalanche of shit. “A few generations ago,” it concludes, “Democrats would have opposed Palin but appreciated her blue-collar story, and applauded a working mom who out-politicked entrenched and richer male elites. But now the new...
Oh, sad. →
A tiny post on Matt Yglesias’ blog about liberal think tanks was the biggest political news of the day, a day when I was not working. This is the best luck I’ve had in 2008. Hopefully America will heal by tomorrow morning.
