I admit it. I'm jealous of Gawker. Holy crap, talk about a skyrocket. For a couple years Elizabeth had a blog called Capital Influx, where she talked about Christopher Hitchens a lot and had about 42 readers. I was one of them, and she cracked me up even though I don't really care one way or another about Hitchens. (Plus, she and I are both blog-kids of Layne, so that made me like her right off the bat, even though I guess brothers and sisters are supposed to fight, so forget that analogy.) Then she and Nick Denton came up with Gawker, which was a stroke of genius. Find the overlap between two of the most self-obsessed groups on earth -- bloggers and New Yorkers -- give 'em a daily dose of punchy, catty gossip and other fun stuff, and watch the hits roll in. At first I didn't really know what to make of it. I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I didn't really get it. Once I got used to the Gawker "voice," though, I was hooked. Along with everybody else. Now Elizabeth is everywhere, and she deserves every bit of it, and I'm jealous as all hell.
On the Capital Influx blogroll, she had a category called "Funny Shit" and I was the only one in it. Which is nice, but if I'm so fucking funny, why do I have 500 readers a day (and plummeting) and I'm eating leftover rice for breakfast? WHAT ABOUT MEEEEEEEEE?!?!?
Okay, now I feel better. Nothing like a spot of name-dropping and self-aggrandizing petulance to liven up the afternoon.
Speaking of marketing efforts, things will probably be slow around here until the new site is up and running. Blogspot can eat a landfill of dicks. For the handful of people who can get to this page on the first try, I'll post an announcement when it's time. Soon, my friends... soon...