New blog: Defamer

While I was busy creating and promoting Sue Me, Asshole, the Denton Weblog Empire people were busy launching a blog with a similar legal theme: Defamer. Yet another excellent Gawker Media blog, and, like the others, it does the one thing so many blogs (including this one) often forget to do: Bring on the funny.

This is how Defamer covers the WGA strike (we're on strike? nobody told me; I really should pay my dues one of these days):

I'm just visiting from Nebraska and spending the day at Universal Studios. How do I tell the writers and the producers apart?

When a writer asks you to park his car, he gets embarrassed about it, probably makes a joke that he should be parking your car, taps his watch to show that he's only letting you park his car because he's in a huge hurry, and then passive-aggressively tells you that it would be "super" if you didn't adjust the seats because he has an iffy back.

When a producer asks you to park his car, he tosses his keys at your chest and asks you if you wouldn't mind swinging by the dry cleaners on the way to pick up his kid from school. Also, producers have better coke. Always.

New Yorkish describes Defamer as "a gossip rag for semi-literate Hollywood execs and the mailroom slaves who aspire to be just like them." Alexandra at LA.COMfidential says it is "full of nasty Hollywood gossip that the tabazines and the trades are too afraid to publish." But it also looks like they're planning on some analysis of the business side of Hollywood as well.

I say to you that Defamer is to Hollywood as Michael Jackson is to the child home alone.

(Note: Except maybe he's not really a molester. Hard to resist the joke, though. Also, Al Gore said he invented the internet.)