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Fly on the Wall : Jessica Coen speaks at the 92nd St Y

Ok, well, I’m not actually going.

Neither is anyone else. In an usual display of public humility, Coen cancelled her engagement at the 92nd St Y after discovering the rather exorbitant $25 admission fee. Coen-philes have probably already read her Gawker post, complete with the requisite Gawketeer comments and corny one-liners.

No matter, I wasn’t actually planning to attend. When Nick first approached me, I was all, yeah, sure, whateverthefuck. Then I caught the weather report, and it said wintery mix-and I said icky, and then I got a spot on the guest list of this magazine’s holiday party (what up, Katrina!) and so I was gonna bail on JCo and 92nd St Y and secretly write my “book report” in the same way I successfully completed my 20 page AP European History thesis on Joseph Goebbels: by citing my sources’ sources.

But now, since it’s cancelled anyway, I guess for all the glassy-eyed Gawketeers, starring in disbelief at the hole in their Thursday night agenda, I can present, with absolutely no flourish, highlights of JCo’s un-presentation at the 92nd St Y:

JCo on what is this “gawker”??
Gawker is your basic weblog…But unlike people who keep blogs as diaries or for personal use, Gawker is a business venture. We update around 24 times a day, have advertisers, and in October had around 6 million page views.

Worst Gawker experience?
The worst experiences have for the most part been personal. Having Fred Durst retract his lawsuit against us (we had “mistakenly” shown his sex tape, which caused severe emotional and ocular damage) was rather painful—I felt like a failure. If I can’t even get sued properly, what good am I?

How did it feel to become such a prominent figure so quickly?
Obviously, it’s a little weird and surreal—but, truthfully, I don’t really buy it. If sitting at home in my underwear, bitching and babbling as I please, makes me “prominent” (and not, as I believe, an utter lunatic), I can only blame you for paying attention to me.

Ok, ok, I’m just cutting and pasting at this point. Please, go read the whole interview here.

And remember, Ani veAtah Neshane et HaOlam!

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