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...publicity guru Nadine Johnson fetched Gawker publisher Nick Denton to have a word with the Roshan of Honor. As Nick and Maer leaned in for the showy “no hard feelings” talk, one of Johnson’s lackeys sent a pie flying at Denton’s head. The throw was a dud, however, merely grazing the blog queen’s hair. Denton’s response? Pouring his glass of wine on Roshan’s head.No word yet on how Johnson's assassin-for-hire managed to miss Nick's cereal box sized head - but nevertheless, expect a Page Six item, a movie-of-the-week, and a rash of imitation pie-ings (spurring a cream pie shortage) in the next several days.
UPDATE: Former Gothamist staffer Andrew Krucoff has leveled a startling charge - that his friend Chris Gage is writing the Gawkerist blog, and is being paid to do it! History in the making people! Probably best not to go to work today so you can watch as the news unfolds. UPDATE 2: The pie-ee has put up some pictures!
SCOOP SCOOP SCOOP: A picture has surfaced that appears to refute Nick's contention that he was just grazed by the pie. The picture appears to be genuine, and was forwarded to Gothamist by Marie from Four Corners Communications; photo-credit to PMc.
Update 3: Marie was nice enough to send over another picture, which details Nick post-pieing. Drudge and Radar have posted their own items!
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Does this fall in the any publicity is good publicity mindset?
Or is this the most irrelevant piece of news to rattle the internet since... Blogs.
Keep on eye on that Denton. He's a case-study in the wild. He heled elevate blogs to a new level, and now he's going to help make it an afterthought at best.
Okay so we have men and women fighting in Iraq. They are trying to keep from dying daily and there are morons such as yourselves throwing pies at eachother because of a (retarded/lame ass) blog site and a magazine? Hmmm... Yeah I think you all need a large dose of embalming fluid. Make it a double.
Um, totally! Because, y'know, there clearly aren't enough weblogs about Iraq.
innocent children are dying of diarrhea and yolanda is reading blogs.
I've just about had it with this circle jerk of overeducated media-obsessed twentysomethings.
Be strong, Gothamist. Look away from the light. Just do what you do best: provide your service. Jake Dobkin, you're an MBA now, so you know that's where the money will ultimately be...in sites/blogs that actually help people live their lives a little better.
And furthermore: will you please stop taking pictures of all these idiots? Don't you realize you're just enabling their narcissism?
What's a blog?
AMEN!
There isn't anyone involved in that imbroglio who isn't a complete moron. It's time to amputate the cancerous growth that is Gawker Media from the blogosphere. Blargh.
Cut it out, Gothamist. If I cared about this crap I'd go to other sites. But you're special. Please take the high road and leave these jackasses to their foodfights.
I read this story and don't even care about anything except that the person who threw the pie should be shot. For bad aim or moral reasons. I don't care.
Ha ha ha! The funniest thing in light of this new photo is how Nick Denton is such a damned whimp--and 'cheeky ponce' to use his vernacular--that he actually hypes the foodfight and downplays the pie throwing, yet it's clear that it happened. And not in the self-congratulatory way that Denton has presented it.
Thanks for posting this. There is no better example of the annoying smug vanity of the blog-o-sphere than the chain of events that ended up in all of this happening.
Oh God, this gay creaming and screaming and public flirting is sending homoerotic twitches up my ding-a-ling. Who organized this pink lovefest? Spongebob Squarepants?
There are women fighting in Iraq?
True this is trite, but there's a lesson to be learned from Gawker: something called "humor" exists out there and Jessica is absolutely hilarious. Plus she rips apart pop culture without discretion. I love her.