Wonkette

[dougo]

Some of my Dear Readers may remember Ana Marie Cox—one of you went to college with her, some might recall her Chugchanga-L posts, more will probably recognize her by her Suck.com pseudonym, Ann O'Tate. Anyway, now she's writing a Washington DC gossip column called Wonkette, and it's even syndicated here at LiveJournal: wonkette. Today's posts are mostly about this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner, where Al Franken apparently stalked her. (There's also her personal journal, theanticmuse, but it seems to be lying fallow.)

Comments

[jtemperance.livejournal.com]

I've been reading Wonkette since it started, but I had no idea she used to be on chug. I somehow didn't picture her in those terms. Wonkette can be entertaining but is also really annoying sometimes.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she was part of the early '90s Wicker Park/Baffler scene. And if I'm not totally mis-remembering, she used to date Seth Sanders, whom I believe is the only person banned from chugchanga-l for life. (Ironically when I googled for "seth sanders" "nest of ninnies" to make sure I was thinking of the right person, the first hit was an essay by AMC from 1995. Wait, that's not irony, is it?)

bingo

[lara7.livejournal.com]

>>Wonkette can be entertaining but is also really annoying sometimes.

that's a perfect description of Ms. Cox herself, actually. I know dougo met her, but I can't remember if you did?

Re: the video: it's nice to see that she looks less like a chipmunk now that she's hit 30.