1st ZOMG.

Hey, maybe it's about time I ranked this site's bookmark above that other site's bookmark. (No, not that site, the OTHER site.)

wow... To be frank with you.. I didn't know her.. but now I think she's honorabls..

Might want to ask Moe to double check her nether regions before coming to the office. I seem to recall she can get a little absent-minded where feminine (hello, feminism?) products are concerned.

Welcome, Moe. You are bound to catch a fair amount of ribbing, but my mind is open. We can get street smart together.

Now I will have to add this cite to my list. She was my favorite, I am going to miss her on Jezebel though. It is kind of like Rosie O'Donnell leaving the View.

Welcome, Moe!
To help ya feel more welcome: Rape! Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-HA-Ha-HA

Moe AND newtojezebel?!?! Oh Balk, you are good to us.

Radar should only hire alcoholic writers, then you can market yourselves as true throwbacks to journalism's golden age. I'll do the ad campaign for you, flat fee.

Oops. I got a little too excited reading this.

I can't wait to see which staffer she fucks on the sofa first!

Well, then. Registration is now necessary. I would not be able to do without epic-ass, loopy, clause laden yet grammatically correct sentences for very long. And somewhere along the line, everybody's gonna be pissed as hell at Moe. She'll need a defender to ask "What do you expect? Moe is always Moe."

Don't mind me. I'm mostly silent. Welcome, Moe.

Do you guys need a Curly?

I'm the anti-Curly, so probably.

Well damn, Jez has had all of my reader time up til now, but I see I will have to start reading this as well.
Congrats, Moe- if this means you leave Jez entirely, you will be sorely missed.

I've already made the jump from Jezebel. Glad to see Moe's done the same.

Excellent. I knew a Great Jezebel Bloodlet was in the works, and I'm glad to see Moe is the first to flee the sinking ship.

ug. i'm glad she's leaving Jezebel, her "unique style and voice" = half-baked pseudoanalysis of legitimate issues. she's pretty bad, at least as far as business/economy/politics is concerned.

Man, you're a tough sell. What DOES 1mpress you?

Quality impresses me. The ability to write a thoughtful, coherent post about a tough issue impresses me. Jez has plenty of quality contributors - Dodai's awesome, Megan's usually quite good. At very least, they are coherent. Moe's sloppy. The topics she choses to address are quality issues that merit attention, but her tone is childish and she just seems poorly informed - LOLZ I AM LIKE SO DRUNK ALSO BEN BERNANKE IS SOOO RETARDED CAN YOU BELIEVE HIM?? OMG!!!

Many Jez readers gave similar criticisms in the thread where Ana addressed "Thinking & Drinking".

Also, it's the elephant in the post, so I'll ask - was she encouraged to leave after the T&D debacle, or is the timing coincidental?

Fully-baked pseudoanalysis. With cream cheese.

I'm glad to see Moe here! And I found another great way to fill time at work and home.

As for the vitriol spilling over from Jezebel - The dead horse, U iz beating it wrong.

Congratulations Moe. I've always enjoyed your writing and this will surely be a better fit for you.

un1mpressed: No, this has been in the works for quite some time.

I like Moe so congrats. Please execute any commenter that says "totes" though. Be strong from the start.

My elephant is bigger than yours is! "Encouraged to leave" would require something resembling ladyballs, and I'm just not sure those assumed to do the encouraging are familiar with such cumbersome, swinging things.

i don't pay close enough attention to jezebel to be able to distinctly rate its individual contributors, but i know that moe has been major presence on the site and...ugh.

i will keep an open mind -- maybe moe's stuff here will be more in the radar mold. all i can say is, i miss the vintage gawker voice -- i'm not ready for this renaissance of earnestness, righteousness and *feelings* that jezebel represents. radar, i thought, was holding out pretty well against that surge.

please continue. please. i don't want to read 6 raw honest paragraphs about your passion for obama. i want the glib, whimsically cruel one-liners that i can relate to.

and in case you were courting female readers, well, i am. so there.

ok, whatever. /rant.

Really???

I used to read Jezebel, and I would think: "gosh, this Moe is terrible! Maybe they hired her without knowing how bad she'd be. I guess her inflammatory (note: controversial =/= quality) posts get a ton of pageviews and they're stuck with her now."

I quit reading Jezebel.

I used to read Radar, and I would think: "gosh, this site and magazine are great! The features are hilarious and high quality, and even the "Fresh Intelligence" is just that, intelligent. Radar is as snarkily hilarious as Gawker, with some real substance to back it up!"

I hope I don't have to quit reading Radar.

"No, this has been in the works for quite some time."
Posted by: Balk on July 22, 2008 12:48 PM

Amazing. Congratulations, Moe.

well, so what! she's not like ... tall.

Oh no.......and I loved Radar and will continue to do so until Aug 18. "un1mpressed" stated the reasons above, fairly and without any of the malice that Moe brings in her wake. Signed, Very Sad.

Goddamn, Balk - fire me twice and call me Sheila, you magnificent bastard. I don't think I have enough ice cold Gawker memes in the fridge for this. I might have to run to the store.

Wow, well my bookmarks are incredibly incestuous now. Ahh, journalism..such a large pool of voices.

I don't think Moe has ever met a run-on sentence she didn't like (and try to drink.) Won't be reading.

Ah, the memories. The reminders of what we had and lost.