August 2010
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Whatta town! Miami is the original fucknutsville
Miami minutia: when I reported last month that David Karsh, the flack for city commissioner Marc Sarnoff, was about to get a $27,000 PR contract with the community redevelopment agency his boss chairs, Karsh and Sarnoff were PISSSSSSED. So pissed Karsh actually showed up at the New Times lobby to dispute the story. I was confused - I thought he was just upset because I described him as ...
"Mr. President," I said, "I believe you carried this town in 1996."
"Yes, thank you very much," said Bill Clinton. "But I'm not quite sure about Dutchess County."
"Well, Franklin Roosevelt failed to carry either," I said.
"Oh no," Clinton said. "I believe he did carry the county once, in 1936."
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“Freelancing is having your mother send you a book called $ix-Figure Freelancing...”
– All writers must have the same mother. Earlier in the day The Awl ran a four sentence e-mail from an intern who quit a job at a well-known web site because she/he was tired of writing infographics and other bullshit. It was equal parts courageous, and stupid. This, from Richard Morgan, is the... 