THIS WEEK IN READING PUNTE (TWIRP): I was fortunate enough to be tapped by Emil Steiner to contribute to The League, the NFL blog for a certain DC-area newspaper’s online presence. My first contribution to the blog can be read here; the piece is topped off with a headshot that’s been described as “rapey.”
Also this morning, I’ll be the guest du jour on On The DL. Dan Levy, Nick Tarnowski and run the gamut (gambit?) of nerdiness, seriousness, and the art of podcasting. It should be, as we say in the business, tits.
Do enjoy. And get your mailbag questions in before lunch. We won’t give away who’s doing the ‘sack this week, but expect generous portions of donkey penetration and Judith Light pining. Should be fun. For me, anyway.
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Ifyou look closely at Ape’s first post… you can just about see where his head asplodes real good.
Elyse Keaton was pretty good, but now she (Meredith Baxter-Burney) has been relegated to the Lifetime Network to do movies about breast cancer and spousal abuse. Erin Grey signs autographs for nerds at sci-fi conventions, but she’s still hot.
@Gino: Michael J. Fox disagrees vigorously.
Oh wait, the shaking is probably from the Parkinson’s.
Let’s just say that Michael J. Fox disagrees.
Joanna Kearns and Judith Light are pretty good, but Erin Grey is the money sit-com mom.
That’s fucking ridiculous, Punter. Everyone knows you go after Joanna Kearns wayyyy before Judith Light.
RE Christmas Ape Says:
“That’s why you gotta court lobbyists to come to your salons for access to your reporters and senior administration officials.”
I loved how they referred to them as “salons.” It’s nothing unsavory, just a casual meeting of the minds (with wine! and probably cheese!) between the paper’s staff and the people they are supposed to cover, with just a small charge for admission that will in no way affect the coverage of D.C. movers and shakers. News is really just PR, so what’s the problem?
The Washington Post has no journalistic integrity. No room for it in the budget anymore.
That’s why you gotta court lobbyists to come to your salons for access to your reporters and senior administration officials.
Didn’t you all hear? The Washington Post has no journalistic integrity. No room for it in the budget anymore.
I lost any respect I had for ESPN the first time I heard Stu Scott speak.
I mean, uh, nice headshot, Punte. Has Chris Hansen seen it yet?
Oh, the ironies.
Let’s not forget that your infamous post and this one both feature furries.
Hmmm.
@Christmas Ape
The ‘ironies’ ought to be the topic of next week’s “This week in F–k You”. “F–k you coworkers.”
Ohio State Fan? Fuck you. I feel cheated. I hope that MacGruff raped the shit out of you.
Hey Punter. Louis CK called. He wants his DNA back.
No “Jeez Punter that’s just wrong” tag?
Punter drinking with a furry dressed like a streaker. Nothing surprising there at all.
didn’t mcgruff get busted in that red-rocket sting?
“who’s doing the … donkey penetration and Judith Light …[?] Should be … me[.]”
Got it.
@ryno you love key west becasue its full of gays. classic case self loather
That McGruff picture is hillarious. Hopefully you didn’t get flagged for drinking on the sidewalk.
/hates stupid ass “Open Container” laws
//Loves Key West because the whole island is open to drinking anywhere
///gay ass open container laws should never apply to football tailgating parking lots.
So the WP fires Ape but publishes Punte. I’m not sure what to make of that.
Well said on the column, but publishing on WAPO is just wrong man. I mean are you banging Ape’s ex-girlfriend too?
/seriously, are you?
Jeez Punter, that’s just… really fucking unexpected.
McGruff: Easy fatso, I said take A bite out of crime.
First, The Ben turns out to be a rapist, then Punte gets a job for the WAPO. The World is ending
/fixed
A little over a year later, The Post solicits another, MORE OFFENSIVE AND IRREDEEMABLE HUMAN BEING from the same offending blog to contribute to one of its own blogs
Lesson learned — Ape should have included more dick jokes in his articles on DC suburbs.
I don’t think you look like a rapist in that picture.
More like a stalker who will end it all in a murder/suicide.
First, The Ben turns out to be a rapist, then Punte gets a job for the WAPO. Ape’s worst week ever.
BBR:
To recap:
- The Washington Post fires staffer for writing on a blog, the content of which the paper claims “discredits” its brand
- A little over a year later, The Post solicits another writer from the same offending blog to contribute to one of its own blogs
- That writer’s first piece is about another media outlet’s hypocrisy
Oh, the ironies.
So the WP fires Ape but publishes Punte. I’m not sure what to make of that.