Cajun Boy

Jul 5

I spent the 4th of July on Coney Island with the beautiful and talented Erin Siegal covering the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest for Deadspin/Gawker. A gallery of pics with commentary is here.

Tonight, Sarah Palin threatened to sue everyone on the internet. In other news, Sarah Palin is officially insane.

With that said, I think I can speak on behalf of the entire internet when I say this…You and your lawyer with his dumb letter can eat our asshole Sarah. Fuck you!

(pic via zoee)

Jun 30

This clip of Billy Mays ordering breakfast at McDonalds pretty much validates the conclusions of his autopsy.

(via skidder & crzymew22)

Perfectly normal. Nothing not normal about this.

(via mollylambert)

Jun 25

Meet Harvii, the kid with the yellow rose who was so horribly shunned by Megan Fox

Jun 24

A little something...

For all the Owen Thomas haters on Tumblr. This is just sick.

Jun 23

“I will tell you this about iLiver 2.0: It’s nanoengineered, and it kicks ass. I wake up every morning feeling like Shaft, Superfly, James Bond and Kung Fu all put together. I’m bench-pressing twice my body weight, and I am so friggin ready to kick some low-rent tabloid hack wannabe ass that’s it not even funny. So bring it, Brad Stone and you other jealous, sanctimonious gits at the New York Times. Seriously. Bring your A game, you clueless, classless motherfriggers. I will be alive long after every one of you is dead. I know this makes you crazy, but it’s the truth. I’m back, bitches. Deal with it.” Fake Steve Jobs is back. Awesome.
(via hellofriend)

Another Episode of Daily Alison (Now With More Cajun Boy)!

(via reimer)

Jun 21

“We don’t seek to do good. We may inadvertently do good. We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention.” Nick Denton to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Later in the piece Kurtz goes on to highlight a headline I wrote as proof that “Gawker hasn’t exactly mellowed,” but then slighted me by crediting another writer with breaking a story that I broke. But hey, whatever.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Paris (Aeroplane Remix) by Friendly Fires

Such a sexy song. Makes me wish I was in, well, Paris.

Jun 20

Steve Jobs Recently Had a Liver Transplant

Jun 14

tanya77:

“Facebook URL destroys friendship”

Jun 13

Truly remarkable events unfolding in Iran today. The government there has now gone so far and to shut down cell phones, Facebook and YouTube in an attempt to stem the revolution.

Jun 12

“The only real difference is that I have more people reading me now. When I was writing for ESPN in 2001 or 2002, I remember thinking that 200,000 people was an absolutely staggering number of readers for a column. Now I might have 1.2 or 1.3 million readers for some of the bigger columns—and not people who flipped through it in a magazine and may or may not have even read a single line, but people who willingly clicked on the link to get there and almost definitely read it. That’s kind of incredible. I grew up dreaming of writing for the Boston Globe and I think the Globe has a circulation of 400,000 households total, and of those people, how many of them even check the sports page? That’s the one thing I will never get used to: just how many people read ESPN.com. Every time I think about leaving to start my own site some day, I always remember those times when something gigantic happens—like, say, Manny’s steroid suspension recently—and I have two to three hours to write a reaction knowing that it could potentially be read by a million-plus people. What’s better than that? I live for those ten to twelve times a year when I have to come up with a unique angle, write the shit out of it, hand it in, and hope it turned out O.K. The day that something like the Manny story breaks and I say to myself, ‘Screw it, I’ll sit this one out, I can’t come up with anything’ is the day I will quit.” Bill Simmons (via beekeeperssociety)

May 31

Well, here's your clip of the night from the MTV Movie Awards...

Bruno descends from the ceiling bare-assed to land on Eminem’s face.