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Hi, What Have You Guys Been Up To?
Oh hey everyone. What have you been up to? We were away for a little while but Big Google says we're allowed to be on the Internet now and did we miss anything? Did anyone get fired from her job for complaining about something at a conference or anything?
You, Balk, Frye, and Shankman should have sang "You Don't Own Me" like in The First Wives Club to Google. Here's the clip in case you've forgotten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJmRAieU9AI
Did the bad people take away your left margins?
@GiovanniGF
LOL, that's a good one.
In internet years, The Awl is Mel Gibson in Forever Young.
North Korea's aim was a little off?
@Clarence Rosario I spent the day under my desk regardless.
But what if the bad men come back?
I was imagining what you all were doing while the site was down. I came up with:
Choire: Hurling cats at John Shankman's face
Balk: Crying (too easy)
John Shankman: Fending off cat attacks and shaving Balk into the makings of a hairshirt to wear for the next 40 days
Carrie: Catching up on her canning & pickling
Edith: Carving vegetables into terrifying, but still rather charming, looking human forms
Nicole: Equestria
Logan: Eating an apple, looking out the window
Mike: Something disgusting and responsible (Logan's taxes maybe?)
Frucci: Drugs
@jolie Well we all know YOU were just off scrubbing something… window sills maybe? Baseboards?
@AlliNYC I'm literally doing my laundry and waiting for Edith to come meet me for wine with ice.
@jolie I was trawling Twitter for Awl and Choire updates, the way you wander the halls of your apartment building during a blackout, looking for someone with their door open and playing WNYC on an old transistor radio. (Ah, the magical blackout of 2003.)
I just assumed Sauer pulled a Falling Down on y'all
Extinguishing candles with my furry little paw. You?
At lunch today I was reading, like, regular websites.
Q: ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, AN ATTACK SITE?
A: Only when it comes to Laurel Touby, gurl
I for one enjoyed the giant red screen warnings Chrome flung at me, it added a little dangerzone spice to my day. Proceed anyway, motherfucker.
I liked the list of other sites you'd infected. It was like an STD registry.
BTW, thanks for totally fucking up my brackets. I was in urgent need of Choire's March Madness Picks.
(yeah, I know, it would turn out to be a LWC with "It Must Be Love" inexplicably at #1…)
Out, out, brief candle!
My awl is so smart but I was worried about my Awl.
@carpetblogger : Neeeeever gets old, would thumbs-up again.
Oh thank you you're back! there's only so many times I can wait for vinecats to load.
Upside: creative class productivity shot up like 3% yesterday.
Despite what Big Google may have told Choire, it is still posting "This site may harm your computer" warnings next to its search-result links from any Awl sites. And when you click those links, it still redirects you to one of those Warning pages.
Check it out: http://www.google.com/search?as_sitesearch=theawl.com
@MisterHippity Google told me that The Awl "got a girl that way."
All I am saying is I better get 180 seconds of morning blast tomorrow. And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPaed8I3V1A
I instantly blamed AJ Daulerio