Dan Lyons Says Kiss My Ass and Quits Blogging: “Jordan Golson from the Industry Standard reports that Dan told him “that he is hanging up his personal blog as RealDanLyons.com after his Newsweek bosses made him yank his post where Lyons (rightly) called Yahoo’s PR staff ‘lying sacks of shit’.
Dan then takes down the talking heads.
Banned from CNBC for life, now that’s gotta hurt. (Not.) This FakeSteve thing took the life of some Forbes reporter and whapped him on the head like a bolt of lightning … he became a writing fool, and his touch was perfect.
Folks please read the entire article. It’s a gem. Except the parts where Woz says the company has changed and we put too much emphasis on making products look cool. That part you can skip right over.
See also From Gruber To Dan to Pillar To Post, So Dan Lyons Calls, the inspirational Freetards: Boom or Bust , and the memorable Speaking Truth To Crackers.
Perhaps this has already occured to you, Dan. If not, let me be the first … pleeeze: You have become FakeSteve. And the Lord rested, and said, It Is Good.
So. Since you are out of a job—again—well, even you can see what karma’s sayin’. The way of the genius is difficult, but you got no choice, and I have server space …
So Yoko Calls …
