QUICK, everyone, quick! Dan Baum is explaining, in real time on Twitter, how he got fired from the New Yorker! Update: Gah! He pulled a cliffhanger!
Friday, May 8, 2009
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Is he drinking in the afternoon, or something? This is magic.
RIGHT? I'm shocked and awed. In twelve different ways.
I feel like he might have second thoughts over the weekend. It's making me fret.
If he doesn't come back on Monday I'm going to Denver to forcibly dictate him.
I don't know if I find it discouraging or encouraging that it never gets easier even if you're a Staff Writer at the freakin' New Yorker.
Yes, Twitter is the perfect medium in which to tell a narrative like this. 140. Characters. At. A. Time.
For fuck's sake, dude, write an email or something.
STRONGLY AGREE. HEADACHE. NAUSEA.
heh heh:
"Quick note, since there seems to be some confusion: I was fired in 2007, and just telling the story now because people on my book tour ask."
Evidently Dan reads The Awl.
See how he worked a plug in there?
Tweet tease.
I loved the Jake Leg piece - that one stuck with me.
Um, someone broke the Twitter...
$3.40 a word sounds pretty terrific to me.
At that rate, this comment alone would pay $57.80.
Late to the game there but love the AIDS Walk advertising!
Couldn't find it in my heart to ask for money this year. Just donated a bunch to myself. Fucking recession.
Is this where we have FNFF?
We could. They go off and leave this place empty on the weekends, like Gawker in the old days. So it's a good opportunity for the lunatics to take over the asylum.
Yeah, I pretty much abandoned Gawker after they banned Smails. I see these guys need investment, and I wish I could help. I could help build them some technology, though.
I like technology!!!
Secretly I'm here all weekend at my desk, but don't tell Balk. Also I am going to catch up on like a month's worth of Lost and maybe take a road trip to glamorous Princeton!
He's back. And it's goooood.