New Guest Editors Invent Internet, Puppies
IvyGate has gone 27 seconds without new guest editors, but the children's parade will now march on. It's like a whole new Internet. Everyone loves the Internet.
I'm Jim Newell, Penn '07, s/w/m, survivor of 9-year-old muggers. In my sporting youth I was editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvanian's weekly magazine, 34th Street (what what). Those familiar with Street consider it either an arts, entertainment and culture alt-weekly or a 20-24 page penis joke. Always the compromiser, I see Street as an artful, entertaining, culturally astute penis joke. Did I mention I'm unemployed? Wokka wokka.
My greatest pleasure while editing Street was to check a set of blogs the morning of each issue to see whether we'd been made fun of. Problem was, people had other things to do, like I don't know, breathe. Even IvyGate overlooked us, although they had their plate full of minor lifestyle plagiarism scandals to face first, and we all enjoy those. But now that I half-run this interlink haberdashery, I'm excited to get criticized ruthlessly, and with all luck personally, in the comments. Bring the pain, as it were. For all you trusty myrmidons out there, however, send yer raciest tips and a-list Evites to ivygate.guest@gmail.com. I'll only crash your party if you crash mine.
And I'm Andrew Nusca, Columbia '08 and the fiercest defender of the losingest city in sports, which just so happens to be the location of Newell's alma mater. You might recognize my handle from some of journalism's more, um, esteemed outlets (what, IvyGate's not esteemed? There's a spilled cup of brew in the logo. C'mon.), including the Huffington Post, Men's Vogue, Popular Mechanics and the New York Daily News. For all you news hounds out there, I write the media criticism blog The Editorialiste, too. I live in Brooklyn and as a result get no sleep until I'm there, so it's a very real possibility that my late-night drivel will greet you with your saccharine cup of Fivebucks the next morning. Cheerio, fuckers!
So fear not, dear readers, for there is plenty of room for a real journalistic integrity 'round these interwebs. Consider IvyGate under my watch to be the Vanity Fair of the collegiate blogging world: Always classy, always trashy. It wouldn't be any other way. As Newell said above, send the good tips to ivygate.guest@gmail.com . Mmm, tasty.
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July 30th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Congrats, Jim — good luck!
July 30th, 2007 at 11:57 am
WTF unless you transferred for his senior year, I’m pretty sure that Andrew Nusca goes to NYU. Google it.
July 30th, 2007 at 11:59 am
‘08 from Columbia j-school
July 30th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Just had to write to say that the puppies are cute! A sign of good things to come, not joking : )
July 30th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I want a doggie monorail in my backyard!
July 30th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Jim asked for ruthless criticism, and so I will only say that I’m sure he’ll be fantastic.
Andrew did not, because he’s ugly, stupid, and will be the worst editor ivygate will ever have. Thank God it’s temporary.
July 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
I feel bad for Andrew b/c Jim is so obviously superior to him. Then again, I feel bad for Summers and Beam for the same reason. Allah/Jesus/Buddha too.
July 30th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
jim newell=best ever!
July 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
andrew went to my high school! go cards!
July 30th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
the last two were terribly mediocre. maybe these will do a little better
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Marry me Jimbo.