This was a really nice piece, Diana Moskovitz. And I read the whole thing and loved it. And as a former journalist whose 3,000 word pieces were wittled down to an awesome 500 words, I support every word. Even though I hated them at the time. :)

If you replace every instance of “gaming” or “playing games” with “anal sex,” this entire article still makes perfect sense .

Because I wanted to let you know that you typed a bunch of shit for nothing.

You typed a whole bunch of stuff I never even read. Dismissed.

I don't hire pedents.

I'm just mostly irritated that you randomly called me stupid over a joke. It's unpleasant.

A car crash is interesting. I wouldn't hire it to talk to customers.

I’m pretty sure it’s at least lesson 1 of reality tv show casting, where “interesting” is a synonym for “severely unstable.”

I know that when I’m hiring someone for my own company, my first inquiry is not “are you competant? Are you qualified?” Instead it’s “are you interesting??”

That is definitely not the Eurthymics.

Thank you!!! I was just commenting on another thread that this sounded weirdly like a high school term paper.

This sounded like a high school term paper. Like it genuinely sounded like a copy/paste from Wikipedia by someone who herself didn't know what Kristallnacht was before writing this piece.

I’m ok with this. It sounds absurdly sexist, but he came up in a time when 99% of writers were male. And even that’s conservative. If 1% of writers are women and o.1% of writers are great, he may genuinely have never encountered a female writer who inspired him. The comment doesn’t indicate whether he thinks there are…

I’m really surprised by all the intelligent people who don’t understand the cue of “gee.” I can’t think of a sentence that starts with “gee” that wouldn’t be undermined by the “gee.”

Did they edit it?

I know you’re going to get (and are getting) reamed out for this, but I feel like it’s self-evident that you are in fact correct. People are frequently incurious about themselves, about the staid, the familiar, the routine. But there is an insatiable curiosity for “the other,” the alien, the unknowable, and frequently…

How fucking clever: a Hillary pantsuits post. Maybe you can follow that up with a fucking Obama TelePrompTer joke.

I assume someone walked in on him. And I think it’s definitely self-dick sucking, not scat. The description of “both unlikely and physiologically improbable” fits dick-sucking, but it’s not physiologically improbably to eat poop, but gastronomically improbable.

The important thing is: HE TRIED!

I think it’s obviously implied to be sucking his own dick.