jun 16
2008
12 comments
Don't you think it's reasonable to think that the same people who read Fimoculous also read Gawker?<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Your site was a lot better when half the links weren't piggy-backing on Gawker items or Gawker articles.
posted by DC at 2008-06-16 13:44:46 
That is the most depressing comment ever.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> WRONG. WRONG. WRONG! I get to all those links first. Then they pick them up.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <em>Sigh</em>.<br /><br />
posted by Rex at 2008-06-16 13:47:29
I don't know, Gawker has their's time stamped 11:18, I don't think I had seen it here by that time.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> But I'll give you the benefit.
posted by DC at 2008-06-16 14:07:39
I take your larger point though. Since moving to NYC, this blog has become more media-focused. (And Gawker has become more cultural/techy. So the crossover is a little greater.) <br /><br /> <br /><br /> I've always said that Fimoc is just the stuff that's interesting to me at the moment, and right now it happens to be more annoying media crap. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> Point taken.<br /><br />
posted by Rex at 2008-06-16 14:13:54
Who the fuck is Spencer Pratt?
posted by sassypants at 2008-06-16 15:07:13
i don't read gawker. but then, i don't live in new york, or even like new york.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> i do however know who spencer pratt is, god help me.
posted by kittyholmes at 2008-06-16 15:50:26
Since you moved to NYC your blog (which I still consider required reading)is not just more media focused. That would be OK. It's more GawkerClusterfucky. Totally focused on Gawker-created celebs, hanging out with Gawker writers etc. If that's what you're interested in, that's cool, but the content definitely used to be more diverse.
posted by satellite at 2008-06-16 16:29:14
On the other hand, maybe it's the presence of your Twitter feed that makes it feel that way. I guess pre-Twitter we didn't have real-time updates of your social life.
posted by satellite at 2008-06-16 16:38:48
I suspect that's it. And Flickr/Facebook. I still link to people like Diablo Cody and Tay Zonday, my midwestern brethren, more than anything even remotely Gawker related. I feel like I made the mistake of doing one Julia post and have been paying the price ever since.
posted by Rex at 2008-06-16 16:40:12
wow, rough day in the neighborhood.
posted by km at 2008-06-16 21:35:31
thanks for the link.
posted by rico at 2008-06-17 00:48:17
I'd like to point out that I linked to <a href="http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-4452.cfm" target="_blank">this <em>Folio</em> story</a> about <em>The Atlantic</em> four days ago. Gawker <a href="http://gawker.com/tag/celebrity_industrial-complex/?i=5017152&t=atlantics-britney-cover-actually-noble-charitable-gesture" target="_blank">just linked to it</a>.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> SO THERE.
posted by Rex at 2008-06-17 12:26:14
