i feel like it’s been several hours since there’s been a papa john’s story. i need a fix. please help.

do you think lew wasserman looks as his kid and rolls over in his grave, or just is pretty chill with it?

he is working in a product line that is “routinely unique”

Golf is for villians. All participants were golfing. Therefore all were the villian of this piece.

deadspin’s untenable position on the NFL (and the NCAA,for that matter) continues. If you know then you know—this game kills people young after destroying their brains, and not because of “injuries” but because of “actually just playing the game.”

yes patrick, sure, you had me, and then you said “car companies have spent 100 years blahdiblah”

a family claim-to-shame is that my grandmother hired this loser’s father for his first magazine gig at Commentary. he was just a standard shitty cold war liberal back then, before he fucking invented fucking neo-conservatism and ruined the world.

i’ve done a lot of these types of deals. not putting a “floor” into the language means YOU WILL GET NOTHING EVERY TIME. the reality of this floor is that it’s what you will actually get.

this actually makes me want to try it. it’s a use case i can believe in!

this actually makes me want to try it. it’s a use case i can believe in!

It’s almost like this, coupled with this

I joined a group in LA in the late aughts called METAL—a technology and start-up focused group run by a guy named Ken Rutkowski. Nolan was a part of it as well, as was Brock Pierce I was later to find out. but before that happened, I went to a meeting/brunch with METAL. I invited my wife who wanted to pitch a start-up…

i’d like to see this league get ahead (!) of concussion syndrome, so let’s have all the players constantly taking IQ tests on the sidelines. possibly in the huddle. if the numbers drop, the players are subbed and replaced. each team would have about 150 players on the game day roster.

you could put together a top 100 fall songs list, and #100 and #1 would be interchangeably great.  i’m sure i saw you on fallnet back in the day. R.I. FUCKIN.P.

jesus people. you think that Cynthia Ward didn’t earn her apartment by all of her hard work? that she didn’t ALSO earn what’s outside her apartment by dint of her hard work? and that she didn’t earn the right to tell crips to fuck off because of all of her hard work? this woman has most likely...(checks linkedin)…

i am continually flummoxed by the BUSINESS argument for big, liberal, cities, having newspapers that do not reflect the makeup of their most obvious customers—city-dwelling liberals.

this is the rightest of all takes.

currently:

oh and once again, thanks so much for putting me back in the greys after years out of them on gawker. really lovely.

a) i know hillel a bit—he’s a good guy. i hope he succeeds. don’t see how he can.

not that it matters, now that i’m in the greys after years of not being so in gawker days, but: this is your periodic reminder that most football players are just as you remember them from high school—entitled overconfident pricks who have no regard for other people. that they do the things described here is OF COURSE…