Glaring Omissions: Sniffapalooza '07
Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (it happens!) or by design (it happens more often).
- "imaginary sightings—Doesn't anyone attempt to verify these alleged sightings? People.com has a photo of Jessica Simpson& John Mayer, in Australia!! Bit of a distance away from NYC wouldn't you say! John is there for concerts until April 12th. Why do you have the gall to tell people that their responses to gawker info has to be approved, as if it's some kind of a dumba** club to belong to, and you post imaginary sightings as if their real. The people you give access to make comments spend more time trying to "out inane" each other than actually having anything relevant or funny to say. If you want to set yourself apart from the masses you have to actually be original and broad minded. Deciding who's opinions YOU think are interesting is pathetic."
- "manhattan asshats wouldn't go to fette sau or old town bar if you guys didn't tell people not to. you're drawing attention to it and yes, you—and we all know you'd never want to admit it—once you post something, have designated something newsworthy (read: a trend). deal. if old town continues to goes to shit as it's been going to shit, you're going to learn that lesson the hard way."
- "I attended the Sniffapalooza perfume event at Bergdorf Goodman and Henri Bendel last weekend with my girlfriend (what you do for love right?). You wouldn't believe how hardcore these people are-I'm a sports, lets dig some trenches in the mud type, and here I was in the basement of Bergdorf at 10am last Saturday getting perfume samples sprayed on the inside of my wrist. Funny? Scary? Let me know-I have other ideas. Can I submit a write-up about it? I'm an "aspiring journalist" who loves Gawker. I also have photos of the event."
- "I wrote Imo's Pizza, asked then permission to self-publish a book about my sleazy life of crime, with the title, "I, Mos." Mos is my nickname. I received an abrupt response declining my request. That's what I get by trying to do things the right way. Can I legally publish it anyway, not that you give a sh—?"
- "how do i get in touch with the today show? i dont like that ann curry she touchs her guests so much! i wouldnt let her put her hands all over me like that! i hear theyre all like that my sisters son goes to ny school and says there are many asian girls there and they are looking for american husbands! my dad used to like that conny chung but she was better behaved and didnt show off her chest like this one. mom couldnt harly tell. but that's how it is with all tpeople, they say they hate us but all they want to do is come to america and marry away our white men and alls that left is the homosexculs. and thats another thing you have too much gay in your news. some of them on tv are funny to look at but do you have to show they off every day????? anyway i want to email tot the today show. thank you"
- "Where did you get the idea that manhattan is the center of the universe? Most of the rest of the world lives in the real world."
- "can i use the image of the obese kid?—hi i my name is gurdat singh and i am a student from chorlton high school. I am doing a i.t project on fitness and i want to useth image of the obese kid to show the audience what will happen if ou don't excercise.Please contact me back asap. Thank you."
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[Message clipped] - "so i was in mexico last week and one of the local papers had a blurb that the taipei times was reporting that angelina jolie was in the process of adopting a taiwanese baby, which made absolutely no sense to me since, unlike all the other countries from which she's adopted babies, taiwan is nowhere near a third world country. i relay this story to a friend, who checks the taipei times web site and reports back that it must be an april fools joke, since the story was published on april 1 and the adoption agency mentioned in the story is named, april's premier adoption agency. so now that i'm back in new york, i check the taipei times site to see if they've highlighted the story as an april fool's joke, which they apparently have not. i do a search on google under "angeline jolie adoption taiwan" to see if anyone else has written about it, but only the taipei times article comes up. strange, i think, but even stranger is the sponsored link that appears in the search page results—Adopt a Baby from Taiwan, reads the title, with a *Google Checkout* icon below it. if you click on the link, you realize that the checkout icon refers to payment of the adoption processing fees, but still, this is pretty bizarre/hilarious. does this come up for all google adoption searches? if so, they may want to reconsider the usage of the Google Checkout icon..."
