All of them are fantastic but the one with the African warlord's foot soldiers smiling over a copy of "trade light Buffett" helps to put it into perspective!...
Two Fridays ago, when I read a story posted on Gawker that seemed to senselessly out a nobody for soliciting a gay porn prostitute, I immediately thought someone should be fired.
I never thought it would be me.
To me, the story wasn’t out of character for Gawker, nor did I think it “vile” or any of the hyperbolic adjectives heaped upon it: It seemed perfectly in line with the aesthetic of this world of digital anarchy. And I thought that amidst a high stakes legal battle of Hulk Hogan versus Gawker in which the company was arguing that it was justified to post a sex tape because Hogan was a public figure, someone had made a grave error in demonstrating that that really didn’t matter, that if Gawker had to the goods – and the article was meticulous in documenting its nothingness with texts and screenshots of Fedex receipts – it would publish them.
The owner of Gawker took down the post, I guess the first time that was done in 13 years, and though at first I thought it a defensive move to symbolize the company’s journalistic creds, in reality behind the scenes it seemed the end of a long internal fight. The top editor in chief and the editor at Gawker resigned in protest, claiming that Nick Denton had done exactly what he had promised previously not to do in setting up an editorial staff to insulate him and “the business side.” The two editors who resigned were as impetuous as the owner in citing this and that reasons for why they had to go. The external shitstorm, the resignations, and then the internal drama left the staff in the lurch and without leadership and without even a clear mission. And just let me say: Though almost every article I have read since has captured Gawker’s rapid meltdown, I haven’t really seen one that captures fully what happened and why.
But here’s the truth: The goods on Geithner were so good, the story almost wrote itself. That’s exactly the same that I’ve experienced working for network television or the mainstream media and is commentary on our frenzied society. But it is not unique; not even to new media. And it all happened on a Friday afternoon, including the throat clearing and cowardly call I got telling me to take the buyout. So the next time the CIA or Pentagon puts out an unpleasant press release on a Friday, take pity: That’s how all institutions, old and “new” act. Now the Gawker management is trying to portray the corrective as some new Gawker – “20 percent nicer” or is it kinder or is it smarter, I forget – and hopefully the readers won’t notice or care and the advertisers and sponsors will return.
I'm not sick enough to hang that on the wall. But Moochella is. Should sell well to dykes. You're going to have to sell this online, natural law dictates market parameters.
#5 is a wall hanger except they should all be laughing, not just the first reader.
All of them are fantastic but the one with the African warlord's foot soldiers smiling over a copy of "trade light Buffett" helps to put it into perspective!...
Thanks a trillion B
#2 is beyond belief. Thats the one that will be an artifact 70 years from now.
Thats what I'm looking for.
Maestro
Just think, you can have an ice framed version of that hanging in your den: banzai7institute@gmail.com
Yes, please.
By the way, I love you, man. Not like lumberjack, but better than Dali.
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Where ever you are, whoever you are, shine 8/9.
Thats US
Condé Nast's CFO Tried To Pay $2,500 for a Night
With a Gay Porn Star
Jordan Sargent
Filed to: SEX 7/16/15 8:26pm
https://cryptome.org/2015/07/gawker-geithner.pdf
David Geithner, brother of ex-Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is currently the chief financial officer of
Condé Nast. This past weekend, he’d planned to go to Chicago—where he planned to meet a gay porn star and
escort for “2-3 hours” at a cost of $2,500.
But this would not be a simple sexual transaction. Geithner, it seems, fucked with the wrong escort. The escort—
who does not want to reveal his identity for professional reasons, but whom we will call Ryan—says he bailed on
the date with the married (to a woman) father of three because Geithner declined to use his influence to help with
a housing dispute.
The thwarted rendezvous began on July 4, when Geithner first contacted Ryan, whose phone number is available
on a number of Chicago-area escort websites, via text message. Geithner said that he was going to be in Chicago
exactly a week later, and would pay $2,500—plus airfare and hotel—for “2-3 hours” of Ryan’s services.
https://cryptome.org/2015/07/gawker-fires-arkin.htm
Dear Friends,
Two Fridays ago, when I read a story posted on Gawker that seemed to senselessly out a nobody for soliciting a gay porn prostitute, I immediately thought someone should be fired.
I never thought it would be me.
To me, the story wasn’t out of character for Gawker, nor did I think it “vile” or any of the hyperbolic adjectives heaped upon it: It seemed perfectly in line with the aesthetic of this world of digital anarchy. And I thought that amidst a high stakes legal battle of Hulk Hogan versus Gawker in which the company was arguing that it was justified to post a sex tape because Hogan was a public figure, someone had made a grave error in demonstrating that that really didn’t matter, that if Gawker had to the goods – and the article was meticulous in documenting its nothingness with texts and screenshots of Fedex receipts – it would publish them.
The owner of Gawker took down the post, I guess the first time that was done in 13 years, and though at first I thought it a defensive move to symbolize the company’s journalistic creds, in reality behind the scenes it seemed the end of a long internal fight. The top editor in chief and the editor at Gawker resigned in protest, claiming that Nick Denton had done exactly what he had promised previously not to do in setting up an editorial staff to insulate him and “the business side.” The two editors who resigned were as impetuous as the owner in citing this and that reasons for why they had to go. The external shitstorm, the resignations, and then the internal drama left the staff in the lurch and without leadership and without even a clear mission. And just let me say: Though almost every article I have read since has captured Gawker’s rapid meltdown, I haven’t really seen one that captures fully what happened and why.
But here’s the truth: The goods on Geithner were so good, the story almost wrote itself. That’s exactly the same that I’ve experienced working for network television or the mainstream media and is commentary on our frenzied society. But it is not unique; not even to new media. And it all happened on a Friday afternoon, including the throat clearing and cowardly call I got telling me to take the buyout. So the next time the CIA or Pentagon puts out an unpleasant press release on a Friday, take pity: That’s how all institutions, old and “new” act. Now the Gawker management is trying to portray the corrective as some new Gawker – “20 percent nicer” or is it kinder or is it smarter, I forget – and hopefully the readers won’t notice or care and the advertisers and sponsors will return.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-17/gawker-pulls-story-on-...
QUICK! Re-inflate that bubble! Look! Mega Maid (Yellen) has gone from "suck" to "blow!" (Courtesy of Spaceballs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7aeWQCF1jM
This Timey Different!
an amazing set!
ever think of portraying the non-rights of a child?
Lol, your chinese stock series are among the best.
Damn Banzai, this is really good shit! ;-)
Bravo! Success in creating a black hole here!
And, away we go.......
All these posters makes me want to break out into a rousing chorus of "Oceania, tis for thee..."
Nicely done, William.
Like. PPT needs to send Cramer over there. Problem solved.
Mad money indeed! Another splendid batch, WB!
And Cramer as Lenin is Visual Combat at it's best.
Onward Comrades! Buy The Fucking DIP!
Claw back that silly fuckers millons and put him in the same cell as Corzine and Obama.
I'm not sick enough to hang that on the wall. But Moochella is. Should sell well to dykes. You're going to have to sell this online, natural law dictates market parameters.
… they get Mad Magazine in China?