Well, wrap us in a boa and call us Mediabistro, 'cause we sure do enjoy aggregating the best job listings for our fine, unemployed Gawker nation. Today, the infotainment industry is looking for fresh blood:
· In all of NYC's years, yesterday's heat and your love of A/C resulted in the second-highest demand for electricity ever — and yet your armpits were still irreparably damaged. [NYDN]
· Wait, blogs can get you fired? Fuck. Don't tell our boss we've got one, okay? [USA Today]
· Apparently, that Off Track Betting with the stinky crackheads jittering out front smells just as bad on the inside. [Oddjack]
· Be the Katie Holmes to his Tom Cruise, won't you? [Craigslist]
· If there's anyone who knows the ins and outs of a freak show, it's Stephen King. The master speaks on the ultimate freakfest, Michael Jackson and the media. [EW]
Contrary to popular belief, the hottest new resource for underpaid freelancers isn't MediaBistro or Gawker — it's jack-of-all-blogs Gothamist. From their "Ask Gothamist" feature:
Overheard in New York, the site that admirably attempts to chronicle the various absurdities one hears amongst our island's sweaty masses, perfectly articulates the New York market with three separate quotes from buyer's paradise:
So, uh... how're things going with that new, "slightly richer" design? Is Alex Bhattacharji just not as fun as Sarah Gray Miller?
How many of you are going to this summer's hottest ticket, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' 28th Annual Convention?
Hey! Are you listening to Air America right now? No? Oh. Well, you might as well try it out 'cause their days might be numbered.
MediaBistro's (Lying About Your) Salary Survey is here!
The New York Press may be hogging all the alt-weekly crisis news this week, but it looks like old man Village Voice might be having a little shake-up of its own soon.
In an attempt to shatter the barrier of silence surrounding the inevitable-but-taboo bowel movement at one's place of employment, Work magazine gives an anecdotal account:
The inventor of service journalism has been found. Finally, we know who to kill.
For this week's installment of "Rock and a Hard Place", The Black Table interviews Greg Gutfeld, editor of Maxim UK and the magazine industry's answer to "Puck" from Real World: San Francisco. With BT's A.J. Daulerio, Gutfeld discusses his bitch-titties, whether he really sent Radar s Maer Roshan a box of turd, and characterizes the competition:
A dispatch from CubicleVille, where every day is a roman clef in the making:
