This is a very sad story about the top three wonks in New York City: Jefrey Pollock, Howard Wolfson and Josh Isay, all campaign ops super-spooks. Oh, they were friends, and then not friends, and then friends again, and sometimes their wives worked out together, and they were very young and now less young, and some of them got weird and now only eat salads and don't talk to people much, and some of them were already weird and phobic and just got weirder and more phobic, and sometimes Howard was making $40,000 a month (like right now!) to manage the talking points for the hotly-contested (kidding!) Bloomberg mayoral campaign. (Note to all of you with your sub-$40K a month income: you're doing it wrong.) This is the perfect primer for those looking to understand how New York City politics works now, but you are warned, you won't feel happy when you know.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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1. Your contextual ads are all Bloombergy now.
2. Howard is kind of hot.
Choire, do you remember the time you scolded Joshua David So Very Full Of Himself With The Three Names Stein for playing F/M/K? OH WHAT WE'RE NOT MEANT TO BE FAMILIAR WITH YOUR ENTIRE BODY OF WORK WHAT? (?)(!)
OMG I do!
I've lightened up since then.
Also there should be a word for like, the DOUBLE CALLBACK you just pulled off. I am impressed.
A German word, perhaps? (I'M SORRY I CANNOT STOP WITH THE RECALL OF THE SICHANALIA!)
M, F and then K the guy who makes $40K a month. what? I'm old-fashioned.
If we were looking at anything resembling a contested seat, Wolfson would be working like 100 hours a week. I'd guess he's clocking about 35, though.
Whatevs, I'm playing The Top Three NYC Wanks down here:
Pollock: The Mathnet Multitaskerbator
Wolfson: The Sunshower
Isay: The 99
Insidery!