the traffic game If you want to write an article that gets the people talking, one good way is to just start classifying women in random groups, related to age and hot sexxx. Hot sexxxy cheetah ladies cannot resist this delicious media bait!...The headline of this story should be, "I Really Hope Many People Get Very Vocally Mad About This Story, And Talk About Sexism, Because Then It Would Be Funny How Seriously They Took This Story." -- Gawker's Hamilton Nolan responds to Spencer Morgan's piece in today's New York Observer. (more...)

Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just sensitive because last year, NYO writer Spencer Morgan featured me in a piece about how awesome it was for a 36-year-old guy to nail 23-year-old girls, until he realized that when it was time to be responsible and settle down he needed a boring old 36 year old....who was so boring that she drove him back to 23 year olds. Or maybe it's that Morgan wrote that piece for a series called "Men of Manhattan," which celebrated one-half of the population of city full of vibrant, successful, interesting people. There was no corresponding column. Or maybe it's that I'm turning 37 next week and am already getting tired of the "cougar" comments. I already know that I should be fearful and scared I'll never find a husband — I read that in the Observer, too. Or maybe it's that I can't read a New York Observer piece about dating and mating and sex in New York City that does not make me want to PUNCH A FREAKING WALL. (more...)

Regardless of the practical money decisions that went into the shuttering of Gourmet earlier this month the loss of Ruth Reichl is a hard blow to the magazine world. Someone quick give this woman a Web enterprise to run! Doesn't Eater need a super-duper, extra-special, featured, guest columnist or something. (more...)

Mere hours after Condé Nast announced that the venerable Gourmet was among the four titles to be shut down in the wake of their McKinsey evaluation, Curbed Media's Eater blog, which recently went national, was already picking at the bones. Their cheeky proposal: if you were on contract for an unpublished feature meant for Gourmet, they'll pay you $100 to take it off your hands and run it in full on their site. (more...)

Yesterday Eater, Lockhart Steele's Curbed Media food blog, expanded its reach with the launch of a national site, Eater National. And, in order to make coast-to-coast domination a little easier, the site is paying anybody with a food blog $25 to hang it up and post an Eater ad (left) as their final piece of content. (more...)