firenickdouglas:

My work is done here.

This is absolutely bitchy of me, BUT OH MY GOD YES.

EDIT:

Actually, now I feel the need to qualify my dislike for Nick Dougas.

By no means do I hate him; actually, he kind of impresses me.  He went to college about thirty minutes from where I grew up (and currently an hour, if not less, from where I am now), and I’m assuming he grew up in the same general area, because really, who would travel vast distances to go to Grove City College, with their overt and creepy religiousity and “feet on the floor, shoe in the door” policy with regards to visitors of the opposite sex (which actually wouldn’t be an issue for me or my ilk, assuming I were able to find ilk).  So really, he does get some moderate to mad respect from me for escaping, intangling himself with Nick Denton, and you know, whatever else it is that he’s done.

HOWEVER, I do not like his writing, or perhaps more truthfully, what he writes about.  Probably, it’s a combination of both, or a wrong place at the wrong time sort of deal.  I can’t say that I read Valleywag much, or at all, during his stint there, but I feel as if I would have liked it.  He is, unquestionably, a nerd (or geek, I’ve never entirely understood the destinction between the two, except that one also means penis and the other one also means weed smoking), and that works at a site like Valleywag.  His humor is also blunt and occasionally condescending, sometimes like getting hit with a shovel!

While that works with techy nonsense, it doesn’t really translate to Gawker proper.  For as long as I’ve been reading it, Gawker’s humor has been mostly consistent, despite their frequent turnover.  It’s usually, to varying degrees, subtle and cutting, and at it’s best it is FUCKING AMAZING.  Though the focus has been gradually shifting towards the more mainstream, it’s continued in the original vein.

The problem with Nick?  He kept writing for Valleywag.