February 2012
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“Choire: Honestly the website could use way more cat photos. Too many bear...”
– Shouldn’t this be the role of theawl.tumblr.com?
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theparisreview:
Need Advice? Send in your questions to our editors for this week’s column: advice@theparisreview.org
“Ask A Snooty Turophile.”
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"Illiterate"
rendit:
In that case, the Awl writer was so cheesed off she felt it not sufficient to say merely that Metro was destroying the nation. She wanted to say so even more emphatically, and so added “literally,” which seems vaguely illiterate.
The problem of conveying something on the whatever.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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January 2012
28 posts
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theawl:
maura:
Just what the world needed: MORE MANSPLAINING.
Things are getting ugly.
STOP
BEING
SO
FUCKING
EARNEST
WOMEN
"Brands should want to make new things with people... →
clarencerosario:
— Choire Sicha
Attention hip brands: Awl Commentators is seeking sponsorship.
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What? Change our template so that every single post ends with the signoff “— God bless, The Bionicman”? I would never do something so ridiculous!
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Other gay disasters:
H&M catches on fire
tumblr gif size limit reduced
Brunch cancelled
Gay-interest network launches new show
Restaurant has surcharge for paying with credit card
Czechoslovakia enacts decency law
Straight people find out the gay secrets we don’t want them to know
(#)
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Should the Awl be a moon vigilante? →
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I've Made a Terrible Mistake
catbawse:
I read the comments section of that Sauer thing. When someone pointed out to him that, actually, politicians LOOOOVE talking about abortion and (particularly on the right) have everything to gain and almost nothing to lose from it, Sauer wrote the stuff below. I am going to pick it apart piece by piece because not only is it wrong, it’s really wrong:
Well, sure. But what I noted was...
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WHY NO WHITE MAN SINGERS, POP MUSIC?
oh shit good point
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rich
dumb
sex tape
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awlcommentators:
awlcommentators:
When is the Hairpin going to run a “Women Smiling At Themselves In The Mirror” stock photo set?
awlcommentators:
December 2011
11 posts
“Let me tell you about the time I spilled coffee on myself in front of a hot guy.”
– there’s always Thought Catalog
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Edith Zimmerman on the Making of The Hairpin →
So who do you like on Tumblr these days?
There’s a blog called Awl Commentators, which is like holding a mirror up to a mirror. They just find funny things. They create weird little layers of inside jokes from the two-site zone. It made me feel really cool when I found it. I was like “Oh my God, there’s these people talking about talking about it!” Because they do stuff...
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"Nice tune, actually. It's funny how wrong people...
“Nice tune, actually. It’s funny how wrong people can be about their taste in music, literature, or art.”
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theawl:
Attn. Awl Commentators: We might have fixed comment spam? Or at least we have launched a new initiative in the war. Give it yer best shot, if you like—and report any bad happenings or untoward side effects, if you please.
RIP Comment Spam, you were often at least as unintentionally hilarious as Kim Jong-Il and far less threatening.