Is SPIN really circling the drain?

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so too short and manny ramirez basically

glad you guys like the magazine

xp the strangest doubles tennis team ever

remember when sarahel posted something on ILX that wasn;t about me or the Admin Log?

― what's a goon to garbus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 2, 2012 12:31 PM (6 minutes ago)

i think that says more about what you pay attention to than what i post about tbrr w/u

force her to come up with insane technicalities like 'i post about in a DIFFERENT part of ILX' or 'i post about DAVE COOL not whiney'

yeah whiney it should have been "remember when sarahel posted something on ILX that didn't end in a question mark"

break it up ya mugs

thread is just getting good

Is forks really stirring the pot?

'tumblr whites' has got to go places

this phrase totally sticks in my head, though i don't really have any context for it. only tumblr i've ever followed is/was mosurock's "still single". he's probably white?

xp but good for WHO
think outside the bun mon frere

xp - he's white. it was just his birthday last week.

sarahel_whos_white.xls

if that's gonna be a new Spin feature, you gotta pay me something

i think reaching out to a white audience is a good change for spin

i still don't know what a tumblr white is

that requires a question mark

the tumblr white....is you sarah...it's been you all along

it's me
it's me
it's all for me
do you tell me all the time?

tmblr whites is a really good turn of phrase but its meaning is too stuff white people like for it to be truly profound, I do tho totally support using spin as a sticky catch phrase incubating platform viral something something

the reason "tumblr whites" is classic is because it's such a horribly clueless continuation of the Why do white people criticize one another for being white? bullshit people as smart as whiney should've gotten over a no;;opm uears agp

"a no;;opm uears agp" is the way they say "a million years ago" in the future btw

woah, Esperanto

pinterest esperanto

i know you all jealous of my futuristic keyboard

typepad blax

3o;;oE is an ascii portrait of our futuristic spider overlord iirc

what kind of future-future are you in where you have to remember correctly things not scheduled to happen for another hundred years??

don't call me whitey, whitey

I'm so lost

Is it cuz I'm black?

well SOMETHING is holding you back

hm, some of the 'observations' made in that Lana piece - on the distance between her and her image, and the focus on the visual, and things speaking 'through' here - feel a little familiar to me.

at last count there were roughly 1.5 million monkeys at typewriters banging out Lana Del Rey thinkpieces so there's bound to be some reoccurring themes

i just had to search "tumblr whites" because somehow i missed its glory until now.

That phrase always made me sorta IA and sounds so stupid and meaningless

just to make clear, the glory i'm referring to is its absurdity and irony

da croupier and some dude steady doing their part to make sure white people aren't treated in a reductive fashion on the internet.

http://www.sdarc.org/Portals/0/RealHeroesLogo_2011_FINAL_email.jpg

oh stop it you baby

it's not happening that blindly in this case, some dude, but I'll leave it at that

god, remember lana del rey!? man, those were simpler times. january was a long month.

the second the word came that she sold well it's like she stopped being an issue with bloggers

i wrote a grand total of two reviews for spin and they were both totally horrible experiences (i was not a professional writer or journalist), and once i told an editor there that i should really have my own column - cuz i was drunk and my job at the beer store in philly afforded me plenty of time to not give a fuck - and he said: why is it always people like YOU that asks for a column? i didn't know what to say to that but i kinda wanted the names of the people like me cuz i was lonely at the time and would have totally hung with people like me. he also called me at the beer store once - all in the name of one completely forgettable 300 word review - and ended up yelling into the phone IS YOUR LIFE SO MUCH BETTER AND COOLER THAN MINE???!!! - and at that moment i was hungover and poor and staring at a drunk who wanted to pay for his 40 oz in pennies and i was like no dude i doubt it.

I value whiney's contributions to ilx, now more than ever

omg @ 'sars'

whiney i bought a copy of the new spin i hope yr happy

thread locked down, only ppl who buy last copy allowed to post

da croupier and some dude steady doing their part to make sure white people aren't treated in a reductive fashion on the internet.

laughing at a white dude who's on the internet 24/7 for sneering at "tumblr whites" isn't a plea for someone to please be fair to the white people, fyi

picked this up in the aiport yesterday, definitely looked really cool

Picked mine up as well... Is this seriously 308% or whatever heavier than the last issues? It's about 308% heavier than a supermarket circular. It's very, very nice though. I will definitely be subscribing and I really hope people latch on to this.

love how the guy who spends 80 percent of his time on the internet slinging his "lol corny indie fuxx" act at pretty much every rock band is like "sure i can take a couple minor critiques of spin as long as you say some positive things as well"