Jessica Cutler a babe? If babes are supposed to remind you of Ernest Borgnine, then I guess so. Can't say she's done much blogging this year either.
You'll be happy to note that Amanda Congdon's titties, profiled and in profile here, came in at number one.
I never knew much about snowflakes, until that day.
Posted by: Russ at December 28, 2006 01:23 AMLOL.
Posted by: Donnah at December 28, 2006 01:24 AMCutler is...well, my most lizard brain appreciates that she went nekkid, but, upon seeing it all, it certainly wasn't a special event. Since this is a "Gizmodo" list, which is a Nick Denton enterprise (secret? Flatter easily flatterable bloggers for tons of free links and attention), it isn't surprising that Wonkette's twat o' fame is on their list as Nick gave Coxie her site.
Posted by: marc at December 28, 2006 01:51 AMYes, as I was scrolling down Nick's list I knew I'd see she-who-must-not-be-named's mug sooner or later. But only because she's so desirable and all. A poor man's Tova Borgnine.
http://www.tiny.cc/Xaeek
An advantage from being a semi-famous blogger back in the day was getting all the Denton spam. That made it easier to filter out the nonsense when someone obviously responded to it begging for attention. Like, in an Insta-type of way.
Posted by: marc at December 28, 2006 02:06 AMI think he used to camp in her front yard serenading her with "Dreamweaver."
Posted by: Donnah at December 28, 2006 02:08 AMBah, no fair changing comments as I'm trying to formulate mine!
But the "Borgnine" stuff comes back to the, frankly, misogyny of Wonkette. Cutler is not an attractive person, but she's thin and ready to give it up to power. Not a very feminist message. The Wonkette of those days used whatever easy path -- including portraying young women as nothing more than objects to expose the weakness of powerful men -- to gather fame.
Posted by: marc at December 28, 2006 02:15 AMAnd it worked. What irked me was the disdain in which she held blogging (she clearly felt she was slumming), yet how the male bloggers would suck up to her because she talked about cooch.
http://www.florida-cracker.org/archives/001617.html
Cox (like Gillespie of "Reason") wrote for Suck.com, which was one of the first great attempts to bring 90s "Irony!" to the internets. They were all "rye-tohrs!", so have always been very skeptical and angry at bloggers. They were the supposed to be the ones who controlled sarcastic internet discussion, but the market both rejected them and showed there were a million pretenders who could be just as clever as them.
Cox's break was twofold: she has one hell of a rack, which will always bring attention, and she was more than happy to exploit sex and that her name was so much like "cock".
Posted by: marc at December 28, 2006 02:32 AMWell, I wasn't impressed but who am I to argue with the appeal of tits on a chair and constant references to sex.
Posted by: Donnah at December 28, 2006 02:51 AMMore pooches there than at the 'pound. And where's the founder of Webdiary?
Posted by: Habib at December 28, 2006 09:41 PMYes, where is Margoyle? Didn't she revolutionize news in Australia with her blog?
http://www.echonews.com/718/images/margo.jpg