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We Have Liftoff: Sister Site i09 Launches To Much (Girl Geek) Fanfare

Anxious about what the year 2008 will bring? What about 2070? Forward-focused Jezebels might want to head over to our new science-fiction sister blog, io9, which officially launches today. Described by editor Annalee Newitz as a pop-culture site in which she and her team of writers get to focus on "fantasies as well as realities in terms of what's going on in the future," the blog focuses on stuff we love — books, movies, Lost! — and stuff we don't, but might — space porn, "how to shit in space". And you gotta love that half-creepy, half-cute as a button girl-with-implant avatar.

What Is An io9? [io9]
Related: Gawker Blasts Into Sci-Fi With New Blog, I09 [Wired]
Gawker Media Gets Strung Out On Sci-Fi [NY Times]

10:00 AM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Anna
1,483 views, 73 comments

Latest by Rooo sez BISH PLZ: @helen: Threw things at the screen when he married Counselor Troi. Not that she doesn't deserve him, what with the professional empath and all. But STILL. I had a director in college who looked like him, who directed me in the more »

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Meet Anonymous Lobbyist, Your Substitute Hardened Cynic For The Next Two Weeks

Please welcome Wonkette's Anonymous Lobbyist. She'll be filling in for the next two weeks while Anna retreats to her undisclosed location — she says she's going to Australia, but I'm pretty sure that's how far I would have to say I was going to keep her from calling me on Saturday morning with some brilliant new scheme about how she wants to go get her hair saturated with formaldehyde just to see if she would die and can she get the company to expense that? Anyway, Anonymous Lobbyist first came to my attention when she started sending me old Crap emails, and then I started reading her weekly column about the government and had a realization: all of life is really just a series of immature, emotionally unavailable egotistical dudes. And that is why we blog. After the jump, Anonymous answers the pressing question of a certain blogger. And for the next two weeks you, too, can ask her your pressing questions if you email us. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Oct 26 2007
By Moe
4,329 views, 39 comments

Latest by metropolitan: oops my apologies, that comment was meant for another posting. more »

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We've Got A New Jezebel, And Her Name Is Jessica

We like to put shit on the pretty bitches of America — those women also known as Jessicas — but that didn't stop us from hiring one of them. Please welcome Jessica Grose, our new associate editor. Jessica comes to us via Radar (they steal one of ours, we steal one of theirs - it's only fair) and has written and reported for, among other publications, the New York Times, Salon, the Village Voice, Spin and the now-defunct Cocktail. (R.I.P lady lushes!) Her areas of interest include but are not limited to: Books, music, movies, and va-jay-jays, making her a perfect fit for the ever-expanding vagina dialogue that is Jezebel. Give her a big hello, and then commence with the hazing. More »

9:30 AM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Anna
5,197 views, 48 comments

Latest by Trackback: You And Me Baby We’re Nothing But Tappers So Let’s Gchat Like They Do On The Discovery Channel by Alex Carnevale Sometimes I accidentally say things that I don’t mean. Fortunately they usually come on gchat with Danish. more »

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Meet "Slut Machine": Jezebel Spiritual Leader, No Longer In Hiding

My friends have asked me for some time whether "Slut Machine" is my alter ego, and though careful readers would probably realize that's impossible, today is finally the day to dispel all the rumors and unveil the slut. Slut Machine is actually the nom de plume of one Tracie Egan. Tracie and I share a lot of things: lapsed Catholicism, alcoholism, maybe a sex partner... is that redundant? But rape fantasy, which she bravely wrote about in this month's Vice under her authentic name, is not one of them, not that there's anything wrong with that. Anyhow, not to sound like I'm giving some sort of warped wedding toast, but I think of Tracie as a sort of noble enabler. Like, only Tracie could get me to come over to her kitchen — in Brooklyn — on a Sunday night and get smeared with nine layers of makeup so as to authentically reenact the historic Lindsay Lohan/Vanessa Minillo knifeplay photos. (Which is why she looks like a self-described "old whore" in these photos, shot by the sadistic Nikola Tamindzic, to use her words.) More »

1:00 PM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Moe
36,097 views, 70 comments

Latest by drunkexpatwriter: Wow. You are hot. more »

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Everybody Say, "Hi Heather"

As some of you may have heard, Moe is in Israel for the next couple of days for a wedding so, in her place, we've secured a guest-blogger, "Heather", to provide us with her singular wit and wisdom from today through next Wednesday. Note: This "Heather" is not to be confused with last Friday's guest-blogger "Heather"; soon after that Heather's stint guest-blogging she smacked her inattentive boyfriend upside the head with his iPhone (we don't blame her!) and hasn't been heard from since. Anyway, we're sick of typing the word "Heather" so let's just get on with it, shall we?

9:30 AM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Anna
1,006 views, 14 comments

Latest by suckonthat: @sventurata: That's the stupidest question I have ever heard. Now here is a message board that self-destructed not because society doesn't care, but because the blog is society. Now that's deep... more »

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Please Welcome Heather!

Dear readers,
What's up? Anna is out today, and we've enlisted a guest blogger, Heather. To be honest, we don't know much about Heather. She wouldn't even send us a picture. We've heard rumors that she was in a west-coast astrophysics program when she decided she'd rather take a job tending Philip Seymour Hoffman's plants. Later she was on a trans-continental red-eye and met a flight attendant who had slept with Dennis Hopper and was looking for someone to ghostwrite her autobiography. The stewardess turned out to be a liar, but Heather stayed in New York to try her hand at blogging. Please welcome her to the coven of Jezebel!

9:35 AM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By Dodai
802 views, 11 comments

Latest by hellodarling!: @heathermylove: So do I! Except I don't actually know anyone named Heather (save for acquaintances back home), so I usually just get a blank stare. more »

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There's A New Beyotch In Town...

And then there were four! We've got a hot-off-the-celebrity-presses new Jezebel to introduce you to, Dodai Stewart, who will be blogging alongside Anna, Moe & Jenny starting, well, yesterday! (We didn't introduce her sooner cause, uh, we had some things to deal with!). Dodai comes to Jezebel via splashy teen entertainment mag J-14, where she served as executive editor, wrote, and conducted interviews with luminaries like Jessica Simpson; she has also written for Modern Bride, Jane (R.I.P.), YM (R.I.P! Do we see a pattern here?), among others. In addition to lending her carefully-calibrated meter for pop culture bullshit to the site, Dodai will be working on fashion stories for Jezebel and indulging in her obsession of magazines, mainstream and otherwise. We're thrilled to have wrested Dodai free from the cheap-ass shackles of Bauer Publishing in New Jersey to the cheap-ass shackles of, well, Gawker Media (and her 300-square foot Lower East Side apartment!) Please give her a warm welcome.

12:00 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Anna
4,961 views, 19 comments

Latest by Maulleigh: Welcome Dodai! more »