November 2009
4 posts
October 2009
1 post
Larry Summers ROBBED
And WHERE THE F IS BOB RUBIN!??!! Oh, but inclusive of you guys to invite Ralph Nader, Vanity Fair.
Alt-F also disappointingly went red at “Ayn” and “Hayek” and “Joe Gregory” but you’ll be happy to know chav culture, Jacob the Jeweler and Barney Frank are rubbing tramp-stamps with the Community Reinvestment Act on here.
That said there is no better list...
June 2009
17 posts
Today's crap email is a return to the classic...
But it is just me or is it at least kind of decent that he admits that likening his girlfriend to his controlling parents is a “whole lot of barely-veiled denial”?
"But both do put their finger on a post-sexual...
You mean to tell me careerism and romantic excess aren’t basically the same thing anymore? I bet that is because of how no one gets drunk these days.
"You already had a full tank of love in the... →
The State has the actual e-mails between Gov. Sanford and his Argentinian lover. Sanford writes to Maria, “The rarest of all commodities in this world is love… . You already had a full tank of love in the emotional bank account.” All the (sic)’s the newspaper inserted are pretty biting.
"it began very innocently as I suspect these...
another good reason to check dudes’ email.
What I Text About When I Send "Minor"* Text...
Somewhat on the subject of emails and text messages: I was cleaning out my custom word list in my BlackBerry so that it would stop prefering some of my frequent typos to actual words: “wheee” instead of “where”, etc. And the list of words I’ve “taught” my phone in the last year was pretty telling. Send me your cell phone custom word lists and I will...
Your Favorite Go-To Spot For All Things Myanmar Is...
Megan relauched Crappy Hour even thought it is kind of a hassle simply because it is less depressing than writing a fucking linkdump every morning and I was like, oh sure, I will lend my free labor as long it never gets more than four thousand pageviews and fucks with the “NEITHER BANAL *OR* FORMULIAC ENOUGH AND LEARN TO PUNCUTATE YOUR RUN ON SENTENCES MOE KTHANKSBAI” element of the...
Crap Email from A Dude, continued. (April and...
April emailed us to give a little more background, claiming that there weren’t “that many more lulz to be had from the story” of Todd, who came in his pants twice—but see what you think.
After double-cumming his pants, Todd went right to sleep in the wet jeans (Which, one assumes, could give you all kinds of unpleasant, STD-like problems.)
He had brought a condom with him, which Todd proudly...
"As a man, I can tell you that sometimes when we...
this metaphor might make more sense if we had all the money, and you got a 10% commission, and the rest went to various counterparties of AIG
On "Self-Control" Etc.
So today’s Multiple Premature Orgasm dude is a piece of work. In the original email he bolded the headline of his little essay, presumably to differentiate it from the subhead, and I almost thought for a second he had just copied the thing from Psychology Today, but then I read it and it was pretty clear English wasn’t his first language, except that we asked and it is, so whatever.
I...
"He ran into financial troubles and applied for...
If Crap Email were like fantasy sports, which it is not of course because that is for dudes but if it were, I think I know who I would pick for “Crap Email Containing The Words Inter Alia’ slot.
Reflections of Jess, the recipient of the very...
which is up right now!
i don’t hate men, but it would be really nice if someone held them accountable for anything ever. i feel like (based on a very small sample size, of course) men are just giant babies because nobody ever tells them they have to grow up and women don’t want them to grow up, they want to feel like they’re taking care of someone. this is only based on me and...
Weev Agrees Andrew Sullivan's Abortion Stories Are...
My suspicion that Andrew Sullivan’s reader-submitted abortion stories were submitted by trolls is shared by the preeminent troll Weev! Although he thinks that one lady’s family really did want her to carry a baby to term in her Fallopian tubes:
ectopic pregnancy girl’s experience is real. her family didn’t understand the risks of ectopic pregnancy and it was in their eyes...
Crap Emails From Pretend Babykillers
I cannot be sure of this but my impression about Andrew Sullivan is that he has not ever knocked a girl up. So he can be excused in the aftermath of the Tiller tragedy for posting “reader” emails like this:
I married late, at age 40, and my husband and I had no plans for children. As we were waiting for his vasectomy to “kick in”, using condoms, I somehow became pregnant. Ultrasound...
Conflicts, Interest
skybarn:
craptheblog:
You can’t write a review an ex-boyfriend’s novel: the ethics of serious criticism get in the way—clear conflict of interest, etc. But is this a rich, overlooked area in literary discourse?
I still think the review should never have been published. It opens the door—especially because so many people think it’s so great—for Ad Hominem attacks on every novel, movie and...
Conflicts, Interest
You can’t review an ex-boyfriend’s novel: the ethics of serious criticism get in the way—clear conflict of interest, etc. But is this a rich, overlooked area in literary discourse?
I now wonder after reading Katie Crouch’s take on the novel her boyfriend was writing while they lived together (she fully discloses her connection, don’t worry). As you’d expect, she...
Crap Email Critical Readings: Notes On Jared And...
At first glance Jared’s Crap Email to Tom, the co-worker of his former lover Maggie, is a somewhat generic — albeit rather distinctively stilted — example of the “subtle temperature taker,” which is to say, the studiously non-confrontational attempt to gauge the amenability of a former paramour to renewing sexual relations, a once-rich genre that has been glutted with...
Crap Email Lasts Forever
Today Georgia Cool and I are re-launching the much-beloved Crap Email From A Dude feature on Jezebel. Georgia and I have spent many months poring over Crap Emails I never had time to post when I was working at Jezebel, to the point that we began thinking we’d gleaned some actual insight — into gender roles and the limitations of language and the impact of Moore’s Law on human...
