Uuhhh...I don't get why people are mad. Unless it really is just that they misread 'pantry' for 'party'.

It must be irritating to do anything that's publicly viewed.

Hey look, it could be worse. You could be a producer for the Tyra Banks show trolling for Katrina victims:

Tyra Banks

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Reply to: see below

Date: 2005-09-01, 6:00PM CDT

If you or your family have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, or if you know anyone who would like to get help & discuss their experience with Tyra Banks' new show, please call me immediately at 1-888-569-1546. My name is Dani; I'm a producer, and would like to hear your story.

I'm satisfied with the action that was taken on that post. They realized it was in poor taste, took it down, and issued an apology.

What more do you people want? Yes gotham-ass, please take your surfing elsewhere. No one wants to read your dickheaded comments anyway.

The focus of this post should be to bring help to the victims of this disaster, not with the content of the original post. Please move on people

Gothamist, you apologize like Pat Roberts.

If anyone has links NYC blogs with better heads on their shoulders I would love to hear about them, and take my surfing elsewhere.

just to be clear on the facts:

- the original post contained a link to relief support

- the post was pulled soon after it was put up and replaced with an even more prominent link to relief support (the 5th post this week that linked to relief charities)

- vittles apologized for any misunderstanding (above), i explained the situation (above)

that, i believe, is enough-- you can disagree- but we've consistently tried to do the right thing-- just as we've always done.

I think Gothamist should issue a full apology as well. This posting was really awful before it was edited. Not only was it shockingly innapropriate, it was also dead wrong. Cherry fucking soda, pizza and knishes for hurricane survival? Just because your are a blog, and supposedly exempt for such things as standards, class, accuracy, etc., does not mean than you are outside the realm of responsibility.

So Jack isn't politicizing a natural disaster, he is speaking for the poor and oppressed! Nice try, you phony. Some people just can't comment on an event without trying to score political points.

Vittles Vamp and Gothamist -- I submit that your apology would appear a lot more genuine if it was front and center on your blog, and not buried in a comments field that disgusted readers might not have taken the trouble to look at.

My foot is in my mouth on the 'deleting comments' comment. Something weird happened. G'night!

Jake, deleting comments including your own apology?

Some things never change.

Quite lame all around. Especially since the site has gotten better in many ways.

Pugsley, the word troll comes to mind. If you care to know I will be dontating funds tonight. And even before that I donated blood on saturday without needing much of anyone to tell me to do so before the hurricane even hit.

To quote Minor Threat, "What the f--k have you done?"

PS: If you have some personal issue with me pugsley go to my site and contact me directly. At least I'm open with who I am and how to contact me. What's your excuse?

During this time of national tragedy jack has posted comical photographs of squirrels on his website. Why the f--k is it so hard for jack to show anything but a twee-yuppish sanctimony tone towards this tragedy? While the world's focused on helping the survivors Jack is tinkering with squirrell photographs.

"let's keep our eyes on the ball here-- rather than pile on vittlesvamp for the post, let's direct that energy where it can actually help someone-- take the five minutes it will take you to leave a comment and email your friends asking them to give as much as they can to the redcross or one of the other charities. or give yourself-- that's what i'm doing."

Jake we've tussled in the past, and I've personally gotten past that. I genuinely think Gothamist has matured in many good ways over the years.

But how can you implore people to donate when your own site (ie: Gothamist) is currently filled with self-promotional ads for your own personal street art site and other branches of [city-name-here]ist? Seems quite hypocritical to say the least.

"Jack - If you "really hate politicizing tragedies" then maybe you shouldn't."

Sorry. In the great scheme of things, if I'm given the choice between being sensitive to the fragile ego of writers/bloggers or the plight of people who truly are f--ked (ie: victims of Katrina), the people who are really in harms way are the ones who win.

If that upsets you my deepest apologies. I'm sure the people in New Orleans who have lost their homes, families and even their own lives could really care.

Hey, you know the Superdome was rendered uninhabitable due to the inordinate amounts of 'human waste' (ie: sh-t) and dead bodies? I guess fans of urban decay might have a field day there! Woo hoo!

Nice to see the apology after the fact. But it's a dubious claim it was filed waaay in advace due to the original reference to the tragedy itself. But you know what. If Gothamist can spend inordinate amounts of space reporting in the murder outside of Teany--simply because Teany is Moby's place--they could spend a fraction of that energy to truly review what they post. It's as simple as that.

Perhaps Moby should have been airlifted to the Superdome so people could really pay attention?

Bono! Bob Geldoff! Moby! WIthout your guidance how can the hipster masses decide how to react.

Sorry for the sarcasm and slight venom. I've actually tried to be less critical of Gothamist since it has gotten lots better in many ways. But if the original piece were as flippant to the 9-11 tragedy as it was to the havoc of Katrina I think some of the New York centric masses would have a 'clarifying moment' and finally understand the response of readers.

PS: And for those who only pay attention when celebrities are involved, nobody knows what's happened to Fats Domino in the middle of all the wreckage. Is he alive? Dead? Nobody knows.

I actually wrote the original item well in advance of Katrina hitting the U.S.'s shores. All of Gothamist's food-related stories are actually filed in advance. Once Katrina hit the South, I asked my editor if it could be edited, and something added about making donations to Second Harvest. She agreed with those changes. And, in retrospect the item solely should have concentrated on food bank donations from the start. My sincere apologies.

Gothamist being lame as usual . Stupid ass hipsters . I hope your office gets flooded . This Blog has gone to shit . Where do you find these people who write these little stories . Dumbasses !

I don't understand why all the sanctimonious attacking of the vittles vamp. I find the vittles vamp delicious and nuitrition filled.

Everyone makes mistakes, but maybe VittlesVamp should just apologize instead of having daddy flack for her.

Rather weak apology by the way.

"[w]e understand how it might have been perceived."

Is it so hard to admit you were insensitive? Guess so.

i hesitate to post b/c i'm sure everyone has already made up their minds-- but i feel compelled to register my own opinion. gothamist's writers are some of the most generous, open-hearted people i've met-- i can't tell you how many "donate to the red cross" emails I've received this week already. we've run a number of posts asking people to consider donating, and we've given personally to the charities that we support.

let's keep our eyes on the ball here-- rather than pile on vittlesvamp for the post, let's direct that energy where it can actually help someone-- take the five minutes it will take you to leave a comment and email your friends asking them to give as much as they can to the redcross or one of the other charities. or give yourself-- that's what i'm doing.