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Dealbreaker

Yeah, fuck if we know… "The market bitch slaps you one down day after five years of offering up its fake breasts for you to snort the toxic lines of cocaine that is shit debt like Tony Montana and you get your undescended testicles in bind and go crying to the paradoxically named Chris Cox." [Dealbreaker]

jobs

The Employment Shuffle

John Carney, editor of the readable financial news and gossip site Dealbreaker (founded by original Gawker Elizabeth Spiers), is leaving to edit a new, similar site from Silicon Alley Insider called "ClusterStock." Caroline Waxler, formerly at MainStreet.com, will be heading up fellow SAI blog the Business Sheet. SAI itself is losing its managing editor Peter Kafka, who will be starting a new media and advertising blog for AllThingsD. And wrestling champ Alex "Blue States Lose" Blagg is leaving his blogging gig at BestWeekEver. See, jobs exist!

boys will be boys

'Times' Shocked By Fratty I-Banker's Take On Skirts!

Despite having written about it a couple of weeks ago, we continue to receive emails about that self-described "articulate and classy" young woman who put her neck out there on Craigslist, flung caution and etiquette to the wind and flat-out asked if anyone could help her nab a guy with a salary of at least a half-million a year. Okay, so Jane Austen might have been just slightly more subtle, but this (alleged!) lady's tactics have captured the interest of many, including the New York Times, which today ran a piece about the idiot i-banker whose pissy response to our little gold digger included his JPMorgan Chase signature. More »

remainders

Remainders: Larry Birkhead Is Our Daddy Too

  • When is Jason Pomeranc's new hotel opening? No one really knows! [HotelChatter]
  • A new Axe commercial is rather grossly incestuous. [HSI via Adrants]
  • Court TV cancels the Catherine Crier Show because the network is trying to appeal to "'Real Engagers,' who like action-based reality shows." [B&C]
  • An update on the Solango v. Dealbreaker hedge fund dust-up. [Gary Weiss]
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    remainders

    Remainders: The W Nanny Diaries

  • W gets called out for bemoaning the difficulty of finding good help these days. [GlossedOver]
  • Arcade Fire ticket scalping is making people all crazy. [Craigslist]
  • Is someone wanting to buy those Avenue D projects? [Curbed]
  • Paul Rudd and Michael Showalter reenact Lily Tomlin and David O. Russell's curse word bonanza. Dreamy! [BWE]
  • The hedge fund Solegno Capital is seeking a court order to prevent DealBreaker from including its marketing brochure in their reporting, maybe because they've got something to hide! Remember, if you can't make yourself pay attention to this stuff, you're doomed to always remain poor. [DealBreaker]
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    finance

    What Rich Guy You've Never Heard Of Is Banging Some Broad Off The Tube?

    Dealbreaker posts the following "blind" item query:
    Which former head of Global Wealth Management at a major New York bank is leaving his wife and two kids for a talking head on a major financial news network?
    Admitting up front that we know nothing about finance save that Joey Ramone once wrote a song about Maria Bartiromo, we're gonna say, uh, whoever this dude that they mentioned in the Post this morning is: More »

    party crash

    Team Party Crash: Dealbreaker.com Launch Party


    Elizabeth Spiers stiffens as lit agent Kate Lee goes straight for her wallet. More »

    elizabeth spiers

    It's Here, It's Here! Dealbreaker Is Here!


    After two long, dry months of waiting, our thirst has been quenched: Gawker alum Elizabeth Spiers launches Dealbreaker, her Wall Street blog, today. The initial report? Morning roundups, amusing eBay finds, Scientology, a columnist named Muffie — the usual. It's expectedly witty in a financial sort of way (knowing little to nothing about finance, we're just assuming that "sort of way" exists). More »

    media bubble

    Media Bubble: There Is No News About Katie, and Yet Still She Is News

    • Will Katie go to CBS? We continue to not really have any idea. [USAT]
    • What did Bonnie Fuller learn from getting fired from Conde Nast? "Blatant disloyalty is never the smart course of action." Who knew? [NYT]
    • Kurt Andersen thinks — hopes! — that the celebrity moment might finally be over. [NYM]
    Elizabeth Spiers is starting a blog about Wall Street. Also, she used to work here. [IWantMedia]
    Esquire has a funny spoof in its new issue written by — who else? — a Foer brother, in this case champion memorizer Joshua. [WP]
    • Simon Dumenco isn't sure newspapers will survive, and he can't believe it took the Times until now to get rid of the printed stock tables. [Ad Age]
    • Jim Surowiecki thinks newspapers will survive, and he can't believe it took them until now to get rid of printed stock tables. [NYer]
    WWD media reporter Jeff Bercovici breakfasts on spelt toast with almond butter and a home-brewed cappuccino. [Jossip]
    • Syd Schanberg quit his job as the Village Voice's Press Clips columnist just after the New Times deal closed, feeling that the company was no longer interested in media criticism. Friday he won an award for his Voice media criticism. [VV]