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    gramercypoliceGawker Staff
    7/31/15 4:42pm

    How did this not get included? Max was featured in NY Daily News’s ‘celebrity photos’:

    Not that he gives a shit, but tell Max a lot of people miss him, me included. I was mad about ‘that post’ like a lot of people, but I wish he had stuck around. And I would say that even if he hadn’t un-banned me and been nice about it, to boot. I’m not saying I deserved it, but it was nice of him to do it. Plus, even over the past two weeks it’s clear that virtually everybody who knows the guy likes him personally or thinks really highly of him professionally, and lots of people do both. May sound sappy and contrary to the tone of this post, but it’s true so ban me for it if you want.

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      Owl is lostgramercypolice
      7/31/15 4:45pm

      That post was awful but I will definitely miss Max.

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      You might be wrong.gramercypolice
      7/31/15 4:52pm

      I do like that you’ve managed to link him to a domestic abuser.

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    Hamilton NolanGawker Staff
    7/31/15 5:13pm

    One time Max asked us all if he should buy a specific pair of Nike running shoes. I asked him if he was gonna go running in them.

    “Of course not,” he said. “Do I look like someone who goes running?”

    He doesn’t.

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      Gaying Mantis TobogganHamilton Nolan
      8/01/15 12:44pm

      Then you guys got lucky! It first starts with them asking everybody to wear the same running shoes. Then everybody needs to wear the same purple track suit while you earn $92.40 an hour at home designing shitty web sites. Then it’s everybody drinking Jamestown brand Kool Aid like drink followed by Nick Denton placing a black velvet cloth encrusted with his semen atop your lifeless heads. You guys really dodges a bullet!

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    Lacey DonohueGawker Staff
    7/31/15 4:28pm

    Max called me in 2013 and told me how to blog for Gawker. According to my notebook, these were his only instructions:

    ————-MAX

    don’t be boring

    don’t want Nick to say “why didn’t we have this”

    “hey guys,…” don’t do this. nothing should sound like that.

    you can do anything you want at night

    nick loves photo galleries

    i mean, as long as its larger than 640px wide, you’re fine

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      Jordan SargentGawker Staff
      7/31/15 4:35pm
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        Sam BiddleGawker Staff
        7/31/15 4:21pm

        who is this about

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          Dayna EvansSam Biddle
          7/31/15 4:24pm

          who?

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          Sammy Davis Jr.'s Glass EyeSam Biddle
          7/31/15 4:25pm

          The greatest EIC in the history of Gawker.

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        wellheytherepartnerGawker Staff
        7/31/15 4:19pm

        Max Read is Denton’s Reichstag fire.

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          gramercypolicewellheytherepartner
          7/31/15 4:32pm

          Or maybe vice versa. Maybe Denton is Rechstag fire’s Max.

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          Medieval Knievelgramercypolice
          7/31/15 4:42pm

          Denton Reichstag fires everyone in the end.

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        Kate DriesGawker Staff
        7/31/15 4:50pm

        Max in a woman’s hat.

        Hat courtesy Madeleine Davies

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          Gaying Mantis TobogganKate Dries
          8/01/15 12:35pm

          You heteronormative antediluvian knuckle dragging autochthon.

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        Emma CarmichaelGawker Staff
        7/31/15 4:56pm

        I almost fired Max Read.

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          Gaying Mantis TobogganEmma Carmichael
          8/01/15 12:39pm

          I almost set fire to Max Read but that was a really bad trip from an ill advised mixture of Fleeka Fleeka, Flocka Flocka, a fleet of Fleet enemas for but chugging morphine and some nasty home cooked Rafalca Rafalca. The drug, not the horse.

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        Owl is lostGawker Staff
        7/31/15 4:23pm

        He's not really gone though is he? He'll be back for the next season of GoT, right?

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          DarthPumpkinOwl is lost
          7/31/15 4:34pm

          I dunno. Didn’t they shoot his body towards the Genesis Planet?

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          Owl is lostDarthPumpkin
          7/31/15 4:47pm

          You know nothing, Darth Pumpkin.

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        A Media DudeGawker Staff
        7/31/15 4:29pm

        “Max Read refuses to capitalize the f in BuzzFeed.”

        Max Read is correct.

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          Gaying Mantis TobogganA Media Dude
          8/01/15 12:32pm

          People should also refuse to all cap Fox.

          ABC is the American Broadcasting Corporation. NBC is the National Broadcasting Corporation. FOX does not stand for anything, which I think is the perfect metaphor for exactly what Fox news offers its viewers: ignorance and rage when people point out that ignorance.

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