Well that certainly didn’t last long, did it?
Thanks to a nameless Denton staffer who obviously seeks to flout his/her overlord’s will in all things, I have been reinstated as a Gawker commenter after a downtime of approximately…until I checked hotmail.
Next time follow the proper procedures, people.
TO DO: read Dracula.
Welcome, the curious and unbanned.
Well it took them long enough.
On the other hand, it’s palpably quite a lot better for hits than NOT being banned, so I won’t complain too much. Yes, today Gawker, Defamer, Gridskipper, Consumerist, et al, al, in fact, of Nick Denton‘s bloggy empire, joined the illustrious ranks of … hell, what WAS the name of that fan board? Only Orlando Plus! that’s right, thanks to the editors of Gawker they now stand side by side with a defunct Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen fansite.
They have banned me.
I should probably be hurt by being called “stunningly unfunny” by the people who write TO DO, blog pet cuteness stakes, and Unsolicited, who are, as you can see from their posts, experts on the subject, but strangely, I am not. (I do cop to the ubiquity, though. Yep, they so totally nailed me there. ETA comma abuse: they didn’t even mention comma abuse!)
And today, I am up a significant percentage in hits. To the Twin Hermiones (and Balk) I say thank you. And good-bye.
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
(will miss Defamer though; that’s gonna hurt!)
PS: Update here. Being unbanned is nowhere near as good as being banned, hitwise. I’ll try to make the best of it.
From my homeboys, TBWA\Vancouver
whose sense of humour is so much like mine that I should probably be hitting them up for some copywriting work, rather than just helping their seasonal video go viral like this.
del.icio.us: a mistletoe moment
blinklist: a mistletoe moment
Digg it: a mistletoe moment
ma.gnolia: a mistletoe moment
Stumble it: a mistletoe moment
simpy: a mistletoe moment
newsvine: a mistletoe moment
reddit: a mistletoe moment
fark: a mistletoe moment
Technorati me!
or not, as the case may be. Here, from one of the United Kingdom‘s most respected papers, is as good a reason as any to ensure that your writing/copyediting team does not consist entirely of teh gheys.
A boy salvages an image of Jesus from the ruins of his home on the main Philippines island of Luzon following typhoon Durian Durian. Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP
del.icio.us: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
blinklist: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
Digg it: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
ma.gnolia: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
Stumble it: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
simpy: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
newsvine: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
reddit: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
fark: Typo o’ the Day: Guardian of Grammar
Technorati me!
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