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    Cherith CutestoryGawker Staff
    12/26/13 9:54am

    Jonathan Franzen.

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep…

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      pickwickianfireCherith Cutestory
      12/26/13 11:25am

      No.

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      Cherith Cutestorypickwickianfire
      12/26/13 11:46am

      Yes.

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    goytuGawker Staff
    12/26/13 9:16am

    I don't get all the Richard Cohen hate. He lacks nuance sometimes, but he makes some pretty good arguments about the most important issues of the day.

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      Freddie DeBoergoytu
      12/26/13 9:23am

      "People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. "

      - Richard Cohen, lacking nuance and shit

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      DennyCranegoytu
      12/26/13 9:39am

      No. No, he does not.

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    klemjohansenGawker Staff
    12/26/13 9:13am

    Malcolm Gladwell's best quote "No, no no. I meant 'die, Bart, die.' It's German." I love that guy! Oh, wait.

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      Cherith Cutestoryklemjohansen
      12/26/13 9:19am

      Yeah, what is Gawker's problem no one who speaks German could be evil!

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      Keisertrollklemjohansen
      12/26/13 9:26am
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    SuffersfoolsgladlyGawker Staff
    12/26/13 12:19pm

    Out of all this, which I totally enjoyed, I must say..what I took away was the sex-lady describing grabbing hair and "stroking eyelashes". How might one accomplish this? I mean, ever.. not only when someone has their head buried in one's nether regions?

    I'm pretty sure this has never occurred to me as a gesture, of either passion or affection, and if it did, the gentleman in possession of the eyelashes would have seen himself out in record time.

    BUT!

    Just last night I saw on Tv that Maybelline has a new Mascara that not only gives one lush lashes, but leaves them"soft to the touch!".

    So, this is now a Thing, and I am scared.

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      rmric0.wedding.photographerSuffersfoolsgladly
      12/26/13 12:27pm

      I am trying to think of the context in which "stroking eyelashes" can be seen as sexy, and I'm failing.

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      Suffersfoolsgladlyrmric0.wedding.photographer
      12/26/13 12:30pm

      It is something Kristen Wigg would do, as her character with the tiny hands and big forehead.

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    Iwona BurgundaGawker Staff
    12/26/13 9:10am

    Well done avoiding a bunch of "really it's you HamNo/Gawker!" comments with the first on the list.

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      KeisertrollIwona Burgunda
      12/26/13 9:25am

      To be fair, by naming Matthew Yglesias they have Hamilton Nolan on the list twice.

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      cepalgKeisertroll
      12/26/13 12:46pm

      Which raises the important question: which one of them is the evil alter ego of the other? Does HamNo become Yglesias when injected with a potent concoction mixed from Potomac water and Gucci shoe-polish? Or on nights when the moon is full and the whiskey is strong and an editor has told him "hey uh Matt it's a solid first draft but could you be a little more obsequious, we might get letters otherwise" a fully-formed HamNo rips his way out of that egg-shaped void crying the terrible song of his people. "REREGULATION! SQUATS!"

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    MisterHippityGawker Staff
    12/26/13 9:26am

    Why does Cat Marnell merit only a "Less important than" mention? She should have been on the main list.

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      DennyCraneMisterHippity
      12/26/13 9:29am

      Once you hit the HOF, you don't have to be mentioned every year?

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      MisterHippityDennyCrane
      12/26/13 9:38am

      But she didn't make last year's list either.
      The 50 Least Important Writers of 2012 The 50 Least Important Writers of 2012 The 50 Least Important Writers of 2012

      With our profuse apologies, we now present to you, in no particular order, the 50 least important… Read more Read more

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    DoctorWhoGawker Staff
    12/26/13 11:00am

    What, no Amanda Peyser, Nolan's Catwoman?

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      amgarreDoctorWho
      12/26/13 11:27am

      And they missed another favorite target of his, Frank Bruni! HamNo must have been off the day they compiled the list.

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      Yukon KizmiazDoctorWho
      12/26/13 4:18pm

      Or Andrea Peyser, even.

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    j99iferGawker Staff
    12/26/13 10:28am

    More like Clozaril Nation

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      Blanksheetj99ifer
      12/26/13 3:20pm

      Yeah, that face is surprising. Cheeseburger Nation also works.

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      BlanksheetBlanksheet
      12/26/13 4:02pm

      For the record, I also reside in that country. I don't care; you shouldn't be ashamed by it. Vanity and other peoples negative opinions are stupid. I was just merely remarking on how her face has changed.

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    raincoasterGawker Staff
    12/27/13 2:07am

    That traffic graph Sullivan posted "Our Traffic Is Strong Like Tractor" (I may be paraphrasing slightly) employs the oldest trick in the book, leaving off the numbers, and actually indicates a very low rate of engagement. People come, they see something, they leave. They don't come, click to the home page, read something else, then leave. Telling.

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      DennyCraneGawker Staff
      12/26/13 9:29am

      Shouldn't it be all the writers of Gawker Media?

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