About three weeks ago, Gawker made the unusual move of switching from a gossip-blog format to full-time coverage of Maer Roshan's soon-to-be-launched Radar magazine. While some die-hard Gawker fans seemed enthralled by the minute-by-minute Radar coverage, many others were mystified. However, as usual, Denton's nefarious strategy appears to have paid off. After weeks of skirmishes, and some recent back-and-forth, the feud exploded last night at the Radar launch party:
...publicity guru Nadine Johnson fetched Gawker publisher Nick Denton to have a word with the Roshan of Honor. As Nick and Maer leaned in for the showy “no hard feelings” talk, one of Johnson’s lackeys sent a pie flying at Denton’s head. The throw was a dud, however, merely grazing the blog queen’s hair. Denton’s response? Pouring his glass of wine on Roshan’s head.
No word yet on how Johnson's assassin-for-hire managed to miss Nick's cereal box sized head - but nevertheless, expect a Page Six item, a movie-of-the-week, and a rash of imitation pie-ings (spurring a cream pie shortage) in the next several days.
UPDATE: Former Gothamist staffer Andrew Krucoff has leveled a startling charge - that his friend Chris Gage is writing the Gawkerist blog, and is being paid to do it! History in the making people! Probably best not to go to work today so you can watch as the news unfolds. UPDATE 2: The pie-ee has put up some pictures!
SCOOP SCOOP SCOOP: A picture has surfaced that appears to refute Nick's contention that he was just grazed by the pie. The picture appears to be genuine, and was forwarded to Gothamist by Marie from Four Corners Communications; photo-credit to PMc.
Update 3: Marie was nice enough to send over another picture, which details Nick post-pieing. Drudge and Radar have posted their own items!
