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Every day, I'm going to reblog one of these, all submitted 5-10 months ago, and all of which I didn't see until this week when I made the mistake of checking Formspring.
(Unsubscribe now, please.)
And: deal with the gauche, but I have only vague ideas who wrote each one. But! This shall be... penance?
You have your Yom Kippur, I have mine. And you know what? Mine is is pretty sincere. -
Oops, guess I shouldn't have waited 5 months to check Formspring, because this has missed opportunity written all over it.
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Both.
The entire idea of our show was to make it as easy as possible, while still keeping the quality sustainable. People like to say this dilemma -- cost vs. quality -- is the conundrum that network tv currently faces. I actually disagree: I think it's the conundrum that internet video faces, to a much greater degree.
(How many economically sustainable internet video shows can you name?)
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I finished it!
I'm still gathering my thoughts on what to say about it. I promised to sit on it for a while, but I think I can say this: The first thing that most people will notice is how much it leaves the media drama off the table. There's notably little about Gawker, Gessen isn't ever actually mentioned, the NYT Mag article is discussed only in passing, not a word about Julia. This was initially disappointing, but it's actually much better this way. In a weird way, it probably took courage to leave that stuff alone. And it gives Emily a much better chance at having a long-term writing career.
I feel like reviewing it, but I'm not sure where? -
No, but I invented responding irresponsibly to negative comments!
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How did you guess my New Years resolution?
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This is a feature, not a bug!
You can: a) search or b) click on the category links. Otherwise.... yeah, I know, it's stupid. -
If anything, probably the opposite, right? The success of a product can be gauged by how quickly it spawns competitors.
But I suspect this little format dies off for everyone pretty fast. I mean, remember Omegle.com? -
I added Newsweek, because they became a client. I dropped The Atlantic, because I stopped caring. So now my list is:
Newsweek
Spin
Sunday New York Times
Monocle
The Believer
Metropolis
Rolling Stone
Blackbook
GQ
Harper's
Entertainment Weekly
Time Out NYC
Esquire
New York Mag
Wired
Technology Review
New Yorker
Vanity Fair
Details
Playboy
Men's Health
(The last three are things that just started showing up that I never subscribed to. I read *almost* everything in all of them.)
Some other things that I might start subscribing to:
The Economist
Ad Age
Foreign Affairs
Paper
Nylon (seriously! I buy nearly every issue on the newsstand) -
JUST SHUT UP, I WANT MY FUCKING COTTON CANDY, JUST GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
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I follow exactly zero people on Tumblr. For me, it clutters the interface too much.
I have dozens of Tumblrs in my rss reader though. -
Yikes!
I suspect people would talk more about how good of a writer she is.
I really, really mean this! She had some of the best scoops last year. She's on a different (and I would argue, more important) beat than most of this media-saturated scene cares about, so a lot of people here overlook her writing. But look closely: she doesn't pull punches, even though she knows everyone. (She's not afraid to criticize Twitter or Foursquare or Facebook.) Caro is one of those people I try to flash-forward 10 years into the future and try to imagine what she's doing.
Unless by "attention" you mean YM praise. In that case, no. -
Mitch Hedberg.
Btw, did you know that Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man and The Fly?
(And the funnest thing about answering these is guessing who wrote them. Hi Steve Marsh?) -
No, but I found out last night that my girlfriend wrote two of them, and two other people confessed to writing them via email. Which is a little like learning that Santa Claus is your mom.
The rest are Brian Van, I presume. -
I would stop the match and let Tumblarity decide the victor.
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"More of a dystopian" is an interesting phrase. It suggests two things at once:
1) A person who thinks of the future in terms that are more classically dystopic than another person.
2) A future that is, literally, worse than another.
I'd say Sterling is more of an authentic dystopian, but I'd much rather live in his future than Keen's. -
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Thanks!
I really think that had a chance at succeeding too. It was just starting to develop a decent audience.
The only problem was that it was everyone's third job, so getting together to actually film eps became increasingly difficult. (Now, one of the girls lives in LA, another lives in Australia, and the third is contemplating moving too.)
I learned a ton about what's involved in producing a show though. I originally moved to NYC to start an online video company (totally different than everything that's out there), and if the advertising economy shows any signs of recovery, I'll look to start it again in 2010. -
Ooooh, good fucking question.
I used to say I lived in New York because I wanted to figure it out. This is generally true. Even though I came to town several times a year, I always felt like I never understood the city: what drives people, where power emanates, how it ticks. And when I thought about New York in that context, you know what I thought of? Fucking "Sex and the City." (I'd like to write something about the difference of watching that show from Minneapolis a decade ago to watching reruns of it now in NYC. It's like a completely different show, even if the episodes are locked in time.)
I feel a great advantage in having moved here in my '30s. I would be so much more cynical if I had been here at 23.
It's been two years now, and I have a pretty good grasp on how this city ticks. So now the question becomes: Why do I *still* live in New York?
To this, I have no great answer. I suspect that I'll stay another year and then head back to the west coast. I feel the same way about LA right now that I once felt about NYC, except instead of "Sex and the City," I think of "Entourage." Clearly, this needs to be addressed.
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I think the most interesting thing about Julia Allison is actually Julia Allison, the person.
I mean: not the perception, not the way she is in social settings, not how she interacts with people. (Was it Mohney who called her "disarming"? That's the perfect word for her.) I mean: actually talking to her, you see someone who is painfully self-aware, understands perfectly how she's perceived, and yet deeply wants to be liked. It's sad, because she's like so many people that I know, just a tinch more extreme in certain areas.
I honestly get sad every time I talk to her. She's a Balzac character come to life.
(Don't mistake this as suggesting you should feel sympathy, because I could care less. And I think people generally deserve the reputation they project, and if they fuck up, they are the only ones to blame. Like, FOR INSTANCE, if someone were asked to be profile by a newspaper, and they said a bunch of retarded things!)
When I saw her at Sklar's party, I immediately asked what she's been up to. "Trying to get out of town," she said.
So yeah, Julia the person is pretty interesting to me; Julia the show, isn't. And yes, disentangling these is impossible -- and that impossibility is what somehow makes her compelling/hated.
Also: I read neither Nonsociety nor Reblogging Julia. I don't understand how people can have such distaste for something that's so easy to ignore. Do people cruise the upper channels of their cable dial looking for shows on Lifetime to bitch about on their blog? Why is it that everything on the internet makes people think it's WRITTEN JUST FOR THEM? Every other medium understands the idea of segmented audience.
(Cross-reference this with Spiers' chatter lately about "engaging" culture with "meanness." There's something very interesting there that explains so much, so quickly. But oooooh, so complex, right?)
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