This week’s New York magazine has a cover story on Gawker, called “The Age of Insolence.” It’s guaranteed to get your cocktail party started, especially if your cocktail party takes place in a fashionably messy and high-priced Brooklyn loft. Your Scanner writers, Sarah and Nicole, spent a little time this morning IM’ing about Gawker, and we wanted to share our thoughts. It struck us that this was fitting, since Gawker often runs IM exchanges between high-powered publishing types, and that is us, if by “high-powered” you mean “loves to get hiiiigh.” In the interest of full disclosure, we should mention that we both know Choire Sicha, one of the editors at Gawker, and consider him to be one of the funniest people with whom we have ever shared a smoke. Also, we must cop to a smidge of professional jealousy regarding Gawker’s popularity and influence. Also, we are wearing no underpants.
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