Congratulations are in order for two of my favorite gentlemen in the whole world and it feels appropriate to do it here since I'm terrified of their site's commenters: Will Leitch, who today leaves Deadspin.com in a flurry of loving tributes (like seriously, he's not dead) to be a contributing editor at New York Magazine, and A.J. Daulerio, who steps up to the plate (get it, the plate?) as the new editor of Deadspin. Even though they're too busy now, I will never get a strange phone call or IM or email that I don't automatically assume is the two of them playing a prank. The internet and, especially, online writers owe a lot (in many cases, writing careers) to those two wonderful, generous, brilliant guys. I love you Will and AJ!
This is my favorite photo I've ever been cropped out of.
Posted by: Aileen | June 27, 2008 at 03:55 PM
Greetings and salutations. Periodic visitor to your corner of the internet where I understand you are quite the big deal. Just wanted to say that I am thoroughly impressed that you personally know the deadspin folks. You are clearly the most successful person I know from high school. Name dropper. Continued success and cheers to you. Steven Henry
Posted by: Steven | July 09, 2008 at 08:41 PM