Though I realize it puts me at risk of sounding like I revel in the misfortunes of those more talented or successful than me, I simply can't resist posting the following item.

Gawker chieftain Nick Denton was spotted at San Francisco watering hole The House of Shields this past Friday evening. And according to my sources, his shirt wasn't the only thing that got watered! He also had something to drink!

An anonymous tipster revealed to me that Denton and a handful of trusted deputies, including the '80s TV PI-nomered Lockhart Steele, were holding court for a bevy of the Bay Area blogscene's most-enthusiastic bung-tonguers, when someone treated Denton to a drink... right on his hairy anglochest! No one knows who the drinksassin was, though there is certainly no shortage of suspects among the thousands unlucky, unhip, or badly-dressed enough to have fallen into the crosshairs of any of his stable of underpaid hatchetmen. One can only hope that the ever-generous Denton kept enough of the surely remarkable Yahoo distribution windfall to cover his dry-cleaning. Because, for once, the drinks really are on Denton.


Denton, above right, explains to eager onlookers how Yahoo distribution of Gawker will legitimize blogging, and how that legitimacy will trickle down to the blogetariat.


Nick Denton, looking every bit the mogul above, finds himself in the glaring flash of the paparazzi.

Analogcabin @ 7:59 AM
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