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Like a waffling yard sale lady who, push come to shove, simply couldn’t part with her prized collection of People “Sexiest Man Alives,” Nick Denton has succumbed to a crippling case of seller’s remorse.

As a result, Defamer is being absorbed into the company’s power-crazed flagship title. Defamer posts will now appear under http://defamer.com/, while simultaneously feeding into the Gawker homepage.

Gawker’s managing editor Gabriel Snyder, a former West Coaster who covered Hollywood for Variety and W, will oversee the transition. As for your trusty Defamer team, we’ve opted to explore new horizons. Stv, Kyle, the McCluskey Twins, and myself will be here through the remainder of the week. Watch this space for exciting announcements on what’s to come.

Questions? Observations? Muffled sobs? Leave them in the comments. Media inquiries: Ask Mr. Denton directly. (Read his take here.) Gawker is hiring someone to cover Hollywood gossip. Applications, and all other matters, to Gabriel.

there are some bloggers you simply cannot replace.

this appears to be evidence that mark lisanti, with all due respect to the others, was everything.

still, it baffles me how a site generating 1 million unique visitors a month can’t be profitable.

one thing they dont tell you about lcd and plasma hd tvs, if you dont get an hd signal from the network or if the program isnt shot that way, then your tv will give you a horrible 480i image that is not just bad, its really bad.

it hurts to watch.

thus, when i discovered that abc 7 here in LA, kabc, is broadcasting the red carpet arrivals in hd, i said buh bye to e-crest and now i can see the glitz as if it were indeed 2009.

thats not a countdown to the oscars,

thats a countdown to time the celebs will walk the red carpet

basically, a countdown to seacrest.

they hooked me up to the ALYX machine that separates the platelets plasma from the blood and then pumps the platelets plasma back into your bod

theres a cool metallic flavor that infuses your tongue when the platelets plasma get back in ya.

then they give you snacks.

udate: apparently i was too light headed to realize what was being pumped out and pumped back into me. ha!

if you could possibly have any questions left

and you only want to ask a guy named tony, this would be the perfect opportunity

photos from new york fashion week by kk+

that is because she is an adult, as is her audience. almost all of her posts are interesting and creative and funny and edgy. that is because she is special. you dont know what posts are true what posts are false, what posts are stolen from shakespeare or tolstoy, and thats because she otherworldly.

for several years she won the highest award in blogging, the busblog’s very own award, given to a handful of people each year, the Anna, named after my former girlfriend, Anna Kournikova.

this year there will, again, be a handful of recipients of the 2008 Anna Award, and xTx is the first winner. but when you read her posts, we all become winners.

even though this doesnt count for 2008, who cares, heres what she wrote yesterday:

You are big. Very big. So big with your girth. Your infinite waistline. Your head that hits the sky. I cannot comprehend you as a whole, just pieces: fingers, knee, shirt sleeve.

I am tiny. Very tiny. So tiny with my shortness. My baby legs. My head skimming undersides of coffee tables. You could put me into your mouth and I could live there.

It comes at me fast. You catch my side with your foot. I fly. I fly up into the sky; past your head, past the roof, past the T in the telephone pole, over the courthouse, over the church steeple. The ground blurs and the sky is in my mouth. My side hurts with broken ribs and a crushed lung, but I ignore the pain because I am flying. Flying! Just like every bird I’ve ever chased!

I land in a deep well and die. My one working lung fills with brackish water. You find me like a kite runner. You call my name. It echoes against the old stones and settles in my dead ears. Your tears rain down, useless. You cannot even try to save me as your size dwarfs the mouth of the well, open and laughing at your loss.

I float upwards. Becoming.

The angels giggle and put me into their pockets. They tie me to their wings.

congratulations xTx on what must be your 78th Anna, all of which were deserved, especially this one because the competition was stiffer than ever.

and this was the worst song of the night.

so old that “bachelor” should have a ye olde in front of it

a couple of days ago some of my married friends were over at my house, and i guess they hadnt been in my room for a while because they stared at the wall with photos of scantily dressed cheerleaders, and dvds that didnt have elmo on the cover, and baseball cards laying about, and video games on the shelves, and the occasional cocktail napkin with a phone number scrawled on it, and they said “now this is the Den thats missing in my house.”

you know what else theyre missing?

baby mops.

(and asian nannys)

former LAist sports editor Adam Rose actually made the jump from LAist before i did. he ran the USC all things trojan blog and when i was hired and the ucla blogger stepped down, i assigned adam to run both blogs. when the sports desk demonstrated what great bloggers they were on the Olympic blog and later the Fabulous Forum blog it was decided that the sports writers could handle the two colleges and adam could spend more time doing something that he is even more talented at: shooting videos. above you will see an quick scene from this weekend’s all star weekend. apparently there was an NBA mascot halftime show out in zona and as adam describes “Rufus, the Charlotte Bobcats’ mascot, tossed a basketball backwards, over his head, and off the groin of Bango, the Milwaukee Bucks’ mascot” and into the hole. the video has been up less than a day and its gotten lots of views on the Times site and over 200k on youtube.

speaking of covering this city in blog form, our local blog LA Now has a nice new redesign for you. a bigger video player, lots of pertinent aggregation, easier to read headlines, an interesting quote box, traffic and weather together, and even a cool widget on the homepage to show off the last five headlines. something tells me LA Now will soon be the #1 blog in our blogroll (it’s currently #2).

remember when your pal created the Neighborhood Project in the summer of 2007? one thing we noticed was even though there were signs everywhere telling you what neighborhood you were entering, no one really truly knew the exact boundaries of most of the hoods in LA – not even the politicians elected (and paid handsomely) to lord over those regions. totally unrelated to me, and magically, the LA Times special projects team has now drawn the line in the asphalt and today presents the neighborhoods of los angeles.

now take on the day.