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Gawker graybeard/Awl contributor Alex Pareene is leaving that site and heading for the relative calm and efficiency of Salon.
Gawker graybeard/Awl contributor Alex Pareene is leaving that site and heading for the relative calm and efficiency of Salon.
Word has it his resignation notice was simply My god, it's full of stars.
Are the electrodes still dangling from his skull?
We're doomed.
You never know, he must just …. COME BACK one day.
been known to happen.
I love that they refer to him as "Mr. Pareene" alongside a photo of him when he was just a wee fledgling of a 12-year-old blogger.
Huh! I wrote that without having read Mr. Balk's (THIS IS GOING TO BE MY NEW THING, OKAY??) hidden headline. Nice!
I'm looking forward to his ghosting "Dear Prudence".
That's Slate.
Salon's advice columnist is Cary Tennis, about whose prose and advice, the less said the better.
God DAMN, Pareene.
OMG, I can finally stop reading Gawker!
BRING _________ BACK! ETC!
Now I won't suspect I may have missed something on Gawker.
OMG, I can finally start reading Salon again!
Suck it, Denton!
The funniest part is that the Observer says Pareene is 24, which can't possibly be true.
(WTF???)
No, he really is. It's astounding.
Nope. Wunderkind.
He's like a wise old man in a young man's body … a blogging Benjamin Button, if you will.
I "guest edited" a couple of times on Wonkette when Alex was in charge, and he was a lot of fun to work with. But, yeah, it's true: he was startlingly young, like 20 at the time.
Gawker's loss is Salon's gain.
Finding out I was born in a different decade that this dude (congrats AP!) is going to make the prune juice taste especially bitter tonight.
Will he be allowed to use sweary words at Salon? Because he does that so well.
He's going to need some white loafers.
Check Williamsburg. >Bad-ump-bump<.
*leaves room*
I recall reading that Pareene was ready to quit over a year ago, but Gabriel Snyder went out of his way to coax into staying (including letting him work part time).
I wonder if that priority went away somehow after Remy Stern took over?
I continue to be surprised that Salon is doing well enough to hire anyone away from anything. The prominence of often atrociously-written "OpenSalon" on the front page had be thinking that the waves were finally crashing over the deck of their long-sinking ship.
Was it the BigBen/Eli Roth cockfight that put the final stamp in his Gawker passport? I bet that was it.
Actually, I'd love it if Gawker let the snark flag fly at full mast and plunged into vintage Mad Magazine/Esquire/National Lampoon territory. The potential's there but it's yet to be realized.
That's a thought!