thenerdybird
Jill Pantozzi
thenerdybird
Over 12 years in digital media. On-camera person, ex-radio DJ (94.3 The Point), my past work includes The Mary Sue, THR, IGN, HitFix, & more. Author: Womanthology, Chicks Dig Comics, IncrediBuilds.

This story needs like, at least ten more photos of Frankie, who sounds like a very good girl.

Splinter scratched an itch. Vox is pretty good. NYT and the WP are .. fine ... I guess.

It’s a damn shame.

I hope Spanfeller and co. come to regret this, but something tells me they wont. Between Splinter and Deadspin, these sites wont last much longer because we all see what they are doing: shutting down liberal mouth pieces that don’t talk about their glorious leader in the way he should be talked about. Splinter was my

The death of Splinter and Deadspin have really f’d me up; I still come here a few times a day, hoping one of the remaining sites will emerge with an interesting political voice. It’s becoming clear that that’s not going to happen. Aside from io9, I’m having a hard time finding much value on the network to speak of.

Splinter was good. Gawker was good. Deadspin was good, when it wasn’t sticking to sports.

Shutting down the only dedicated politics website in your portfolio right before the 2020 election, one of the most consequential of our lifetime, kicks into high gear. Essentially shutting down the second-most highly trafficked website in your portfolio because one out of every twenty five posts rankles you. I’m not

A question for the Funbag: why should I keep reading anything on this website after Jim Spanfeller and Paul Maidment went to the lengths of firing Barry, like cowards, for the dumbest of reasons?

I want to support the writers here—this is both the best website that exists, and has ever existed, and the best sports

Catching errors via the editing process is like shoveling manure - if you don’t have enough shovelers, you’ll never get all the manure.

As someone who was supposed to attend this con, lives in Baltimore, and was really looking forward to having something like this in my city, in the immortal words of Pootie Tang, “I’m gonna have to say the na no my brother.” They (Jamie included) knew very early on this wasn’t going to work, but instead of scaling