Secrets of the City

Rex FTA: “I’m particularly averse to having people talking about me when I’m not around.”

Um. Kthxbai.

ugh. The NY Observer were the douchebags who stole my photos from Flickr without following my creative commons license. i have nothing good to say about them.

Apparently Rex is too big to be contained by the NY Observer. Their servers are officially wanged.

I’m always tempted to ask him, “as a straight man, how can you justify that scarf and those glasses?”

Didn’t people ever tell him not to go around breakin’ young girls’ hearts? Especially Tumblr girls’?

Rex FTA: “I’m particularly averse to having people talking about me when I’m not around.”

I’m particularly NOT averse to having people talking about when I’m not around. I like hearing about all of the fabulously hideous things I’ve been doing.

Napoleon, ND was better when Rex was there.

Maybe the scarf is a holdover from a childhood in windy NoDak, and Rex doesn’t feel comfortable sporting a neck-beard like Klosterman.

It’s hard to be microfamous without a little microgossip.

I’m particularly averse to having people talking about me when I’m not around.

If people talk about you when you are not around, it’s like it never happened.

WebGuide? I wager $750.00 that there is either no such thing, or there’s no way he got that sum for it. I lived at the Pillsbury house for a few months. We all rented – he did not own it. It’s funny this guy wants to be in media. He’s pathalogical! Tons of lies!

I’m always tempted to ask him, “as a straight man, how can you justify that scarf and those glasses?”

Especially since he’s not Chuck Bass.

WebGuide? I wager $750.00 that there is either no such thing, or there’s no way he got that sum for it.

What a curious amount to wager.

Really, I just want to hear what Gawker and/or Emily Gould have to say about this.

And Chuck Bass. But I can already tell he doesn’t approve.

Maybe the scarf is a holdover from a childhood in windy NoDak

Or maybe Rex is trying to channel Eric Eskola?

Hey, anonymous. Journalists get things wrong all the time. Doesn’t necessarily follow that Rex lied.

“Maybe the scarf is a holdover from a childhood in windy NoDak”

What’s the excuse for the glasses?

I only saw “Eric” on the front page and for a minute I thought you were talking about Eric Van Der Woodsen, which made me laugh. Thanks for the disappointment, noodleman.

But I was quickly undisappointed when I googled the correct spelling of Van Der Woodsen and found this.

Actually, I’m just confused now.

Alexis tweeted that Rex doesn’t have nephews, he has nieces. So I assume there were a few factual errors in the piece. Still, pretty interesting stuff.

I’m less interested in whether Rex is sleeping with women in New York than in the terrific work Chuck has done to recreate the MN Stories page.

Why is a 35-year-old man who acts like a sixth-grade girl a hot item ANYWHERE?

“Alexis tweeted that Rex doesn’t have nephews”

At least none that he knows about.

Oh god, you want an error count? Too many!

With Chuck’s encouragement, I tried to upload a little video one of my co-workers made on MN Stories.

Alas, a complete failure.

It’s a fun site, tho, and I am happy it is back in a new format.

What’s the excuse for the glasses?

I’m going to go with a decidedly Rat-like answer and say, "probably vision problems."

The idea was to start a small media company that would turn into something big, put him in line to be the next media big shot, like NBC Universal honcho Jeff Zucker.

I wonder how that’s working out for him…

Not very well!

Mr Bartel,

I don’t want to trash the guy, but who’s fault is it if we just tolerate a bunch of crazy lying from a media person (Jayson Blair calls to mind)?

You’re a journalist, right? — here’s a challenge for you:

Ask Rex if a) he sold something called “The Guide” for $750,000 and
b) If he received a cut of $100,000 from sale of the High Plains Reader.
c) if he owned a condo in the Pillsbury mansion.

Then cross check it with Mr. Spencer Morgan’s notes. I wager that none of those three statements is true.

“…but who’s fault is it if we just tolerate a bunch of crazy lying from a media person.”

Watch it, Anonymous. Some of us like Jason DeRusha.

Is it enough not to care about the answers to any of those questions?

That’s right, spells. There’s no excuse.

Wait, Spencer Morgan is involved in this article?

This could be the story that brings down the entire New York media establishment that was featured on that short-lived reality show about the media on Bravo.

Regardless, Jayson Blair’s lies were more creative and that shattered glass guy took the time to make a faux website.

I give Spencer Morgan an E+ for effort if he is trying to make stuff up. If not, I give him an A+ in unintentionally looking like he’s doing a bad job making stuff up.

He’s out micro-faming Chuck in these comments anyway. Just wanted to say: Nice work Chuck!

Well since Chuck is a micro-celebrity how come no one busts his balls? I thought that was the way this handled all micro-celebrities, from Diablo Cody’s ex-husband to that band that bitched because there were no sausage vendors on Nicollet Avenue like there are in Copenhagen.

Ditto on Chuck. I had the chance to sit down and drink/talk with Chuck a couple of times last month, and I was again struck by what a talented and interesting guy he is. I’m glad he calls Minnesota home.

Bad form – this should have been two separate topics. Grouping Rex and Chuck together is probably incredibly offensive to….one of them. And maybe the other one, too.

Agree with crz… Chuck deserves to be Macrofamous. Hang in there guy!

I think that no one busts his balls better than Chuck himself. He has a great sence of humor (just look at his Twitter wallpaper).

The man always promotes his work (as he must), but never himself.

Bixby, that IS confusing. All those popped collars! It hurts to see.

Jane, Bixby I think the “media person” they were referring to is Rex

I’ll be honest; I kind of mix up Rex and Chuck, since I’ve never met either, or read/seen anything by either one (as far as I know).

Let’s see…one of them lives in NY and writes stuff on the internet, possibly about media or celebrities.

The other one lives here and has a lot to do with that cool site that puts up short local films all the time.

If it is fine with all of you, I’m going to keep mixing them up. I have a lot on my mind and there’s limited room for new information. Thanks.

Oh wait, justplainbob and Max both seem to like Chuck. I like Bob and Max, so I’ll just think whatever they think.

Grouping Rex and Chuck together is probably incredibly offensive

Only if both are wearing Speedos, crz.

I knew I should have stayed silent.

True story, jane: The first time I met Rex, I was sitting next to Wanda Wisdom, the podcasting Drag Queen, who is also an interesting local talent.

Not sure when Chuck and I first met in the flesh, but it was he who found my (now defunct) ALAMN blog and did a MNSpeak post on it.

Saw this comment on the observer site…
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This is a huge pack of lies. He did not start the High Plains reader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Plains_Reader) he didn’t get any sort of mention for a fucking pulitizer prize (my dad works at the GF Herald)

Rex was part of the team that put out the newspapers during the flood.

Who’s your dad, Brett?

I don’t remember when the HP Reader came out, but I’m pretty sure Rex was part of it early on, too. I wouldn’t look at the Wiki article as authoritative. I’ve lost touch with Ian but see Len on Facebook. Maybe I’ll ask him to trot on over here and straighten this out.

He is mentioned in the story that won the Pulitzer. I’ve read the article and Rex is mentioned by name as someone who had to climb out windows to get away from the flood.

Hold on…it’s now NOT mildly cool to have a t-shirt company?

Sigh.

I, personally, did not get a mention for a Pulitzer. I said that the website, which I ran, did.

I was co-editor of the HPR, with Ian. I started… maybe a month after it was launched. I lived in the crawl space above the photo lab for a winter. It was miserable.

@jane: I’m the one written about here: Such mopey, wide-eyed vulnerability—whether real or an act—would prove to be catnip to New York women.

Crap – wait, no, that’s Rex all over. That beautiful bastard. I’m just wondering why nobody has uncovered his real name?

Okay, back to tech support for justplainbob. It’s easy to upload videos to MN Stories, I swear!

Do you maintain that your cut was $100K for the sale of the HP reader?

Which one of you has the glasses? Which one has the beard? Has Chuck ever climbed out a window to escape a natural disaster?

As I remember it, Rex was actually escaping the fire.

Has Chuck ever climbed out a window to escape a natural disaster?

That depends. Does Lori’s tofu meatloaf count as a “natural disaster?”

The RNC was a man-made disaster, right?

Indeed it was, Chuck. It was a partisan plague of locusts.

I have a lot on my mind and there’s limited room for new information. Thanks.

Jane should be microfamous for the genius of that comment.

If I hadn’t slept with both Rex and Chuck, at the same time… I would have believed every word of that story.

Rex’s real name is Mike

Chuck spends weeks and months putting MN Stories back online. He doesn’t make any money off it; the site is a labor of love. And it’s a genuine public service. And whether or not Rex is a douchebag gets linked back to by Gawker, Jezebel, and City Pages?

Great priorities, media.

Gawker mentioned MNspeak in a new article. Have we made it? I’m not sure…

Here’s a link to the Gawker article alliecat speaks of.

and here is the City Pages article Max cited.

And here’s what they are saying now about Chuck. So sad

From the Gawker comments: I question his very Minnesotanism. Minnesotans don’t draw attention to themselves. In fact, I’m deleting my profile right now.

LOL

Nood, I only read Gawker for the comments. I saw that this morning and lol’d too!

See this Gawker article from yesterday, too? The Last Hurrah of Microcelebrity.

just sayin’

You left out the image of the guy in the corner eating his own shit

And now we have Rex Sorgatz’s Exaggeration.

Re: Max’s most recent comment.

Perhaps you should have split the post into separate topics before you greenlit it?

And it’s Gawker and Jezebel (Gawker’s annoying, emo, overly PC little sister), have you read them lately? Not being linked there is a good thing for Chuck.

Re: Max’s most recent comment.

Perhaps you should have split the post into separate topics before you greenlit it?

And it’s Gawker and Jezebel (Gawker’s annoying, emo, overly PC little sister), have you read them lately? Not being linked there is a good thing for Chuck.