Gawker Media Overlord Nick Denton [see, context!] reminisces about his early days in New York:
I remember going to a party with a bunch of Broadway and film gays, and the one-liner one-upmanship felt like a scene from Will & Grace, which at the time was my lame yardstick for what passed for New York salon conversation. My HTML skills had improved in San Francisco, but I'd lost my edge. I thought I was being really witty, but at one point on a ski trip to Tahoe, it became clear that everyone thought I was just an asshole.I can't believe I'm typing this, and may God have mercy on my soul, but... I actually wanted more!
Jesus. Leave the writing to the amateurs.
I really like that you wrote this and posted that. I agree!
Here's the best thing on Gawker at the moment (so you don't have to look):
Colonel Mustard
3:33 PM This may be the funniest development yet in this whole teabagging ordeal. This schoolmarm snipping about propriety from FOX fucking News would be hilarious on its own, but the fact that they didn't even catch it until today?
You know what this is like? Imagine if you convinced your prudish mother that a giant vibrator was actually a hand massager. And then she walked around for a week, just whipping that dildo out at work and restaurants and things â€" whenever she had a hand cramp â€" before finally figuring out, to her embarrassment, that it isn't just a *coincidence* that her massager looks like a big, fat penis. And then she comes after you with the wrath of God, all, "Do you know how disrespectful this is?" and shaking her dildo in your face. And, of course, it's all you can do not to laugh even harder because your mom is shaking a dildo at you and it's even funnier and the more you laugh the angrier she gets, but you know that whatever the punishment will be is already totally worth it.
That.
If it had gone on for another paragraph, we would have learned about his snowboard named "Rosebud."
Whoa, I've been here longer than he has.
"I was being really witty, but at one point on a ski trip to Tahoe, it became clear that everyone thought I was just an asshole."
Some things never change.
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