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LA Times: Defamer’s Mark Lisanti is a blog druggie

If you believe the LAT, Mark Lisanti sweats and quivers at his computer, tapping F5 every two minutes and counting the pennies dropped from on high by Ebenezer Denton.

“It’s almost exactly like crack addiction,” says the affable 31-year-old from his command station, a Sony computer in his home office — a modest Los Feliz apartment. He doesn’t have air conditioning or any pictures on the wall of his office save for a black-and-white publicity still of Ralph Macchio in the forgotten 1980s flick “Crossroads.”

Also, the worst analogy ever:

He says that if an item lies in his inbox, or his consciousness, for more than six hours, then it’s usually too old to get on the blog. “Who’s going to want to hear about six hours ago?” he posits, much like in another era when Hamlet asked “to be or not to be?”

The Times later compares him to Virgil before heading off on a “people are more celeb-obsessed these days” tangent. Then it’s back to Lisanti with a few lines like “contributors get paid a set fee of $2,500″ ($2,500 per what, LAT?), before a final wrangle over Lisanti’s existential angst.

Tags: Defamer, LATimes, MarkLisanti

This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Friday, July 29th, 2005 at 10:29 pm and is filed under Gawker Media, Mark Lisanti, Nick Denton. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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