Mark Schmitt nails it; you'd have to be out of your mind to entrust campaign strategy to someone dumb enough to give up a rent controlled apartment in the Village. That's just silly and I'm not even a huge NYC fan.
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Enterprises Run by Idiots
11 Jul 2007 12:56 pm
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And speaking of enterprises run by idiots, Josh has finally let his publishing ambitions kill his blog.
I mean, seriously, it's perversely impressive that he's managed to fuck up the design so royally that it doesn't seem worthwhile to read his writings, which I've enjoyed for quite a long time.
A pretty sad day for the lefty blogosphere.
I like the new TPM design quite a bit.
One of the defects of the prior business model is that well over 50% of his blog posts were nothing more than links to interesting content from one of the companion sites. Now maybe there won't be a need for so much of that.
Seriously, Matt. He should have sublet the apartment---he probably could have made a tidy profit off it.
"One of the defects of the prior business model is that well over 50% of his blog posts were nothing more than links to interesting content from one of the companion sites. Now maybe there won't be a need for so much of that."
Yeah. I get the logic of how he got to this point.
But for a reader like me, who appreciates blogs for the authorial voice, (I'm not a fan of HuffPo, for example), the new design is a major loss.
Ridiculous move giving up the pad, agreed. But isn't the real news here that a top GOP advisor lives (lived) in Greenwich Village?
I thought only hippies, vegans, communists, 'the gays' and other Evil Liberal Stereotypes inhabited GV.
You can't sublet a stabilized apartment indefinitely -- I think you're only allowed one year before you have to move back. In practice, though, you can usually get away with a lot longer, so he probably could have run the campaign and still kept the place.
And the Village isn't all that lefty these days. It isn't even all that gay.
Almost as preposterous is Mark Schmitt's claim that the mistake of leaving a rent-controlled apartment in the Village is something that "just about anyone can relate to."
Almost as preposterous is Mark Schmitt's claim that the mistake of leaving a rent-controlled apartment in the Village is something that "just about anyone can relate to."
That was a joke.
So Matt, you don't like Boston, you don't like D.C., and you're not wild about New York. Where would you live if you could, Tuscon?
"In practice, though, you can usually get away with a lot longer"
Landlords have been cracking down like crazy the last few years. Rent control detective is a booming profession in Gotham.
Ugh. Gruber likes the TPM redesign. I hate when folks I like like things I don't like.
(I'd link you over to Daring Fireball, but I'm not allowed to post links. Gruber's fun to read.)
Fear not Petey, I am also not impressed with a half-inch wide content column in a sea of empty space and link peddling. And I am of impeccable taste.
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Rent-controlled or rent-stabilized?
Posted by Antid Oto | July 11, 2007 1:11 PM