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Foster Kamer

Team Dany, Still.

We’ve never seen a character like Dany or a character turn as great or surprising as her torching of King’s Landing before. She tapped…

5 min readMay 14, 2019

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Team Dany, Still.

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Why People Buy $30 Power Cords Against All Reason

An informed theory

8 min readMar 7, 2019

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Why People Buy $30 Power Cords Against All Reason

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The White House Correspondents Dinner Is an Awful Clown Show of Bullshit.

I’ve never been inside the White House Correspondents Dinner, but I have covered it, exactly once, as a media reporter. It was one of the…

8 min readMay 1, 2018

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The White House Correspondents Dinner Is an Awful Clown Show of Bullshit.

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Notes on the End of mental_floss (Magazine)

So, some news: mental_floss, after a 15-year run, is ending print publication. The November-December 2016 issue will be our last.

9 min readSep 30, 2016

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Notes on the End of mental_floss (Magazine)

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Obligatory Gawker Eulogy Thing, Pt 1

9 min readAug 10, 2016

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Obligatory Gawker Eulogy Thing, Pt 1

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Obligatory Gawker Eulogy Post, Pt. 2

All that’s a long way of saying: My ten months at Gawker were and are one of the most formative moments of my life. I’d be so, so much…

7 min readAug 10, 2016

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On the Shaun King Mess, and The Editor in the Age of Churn

So, finally, the story so many of us were waiting on is here: Firebrand columnist Shaun King’s editor at the New York Daily News, Jotham…

4 min readApr 21, 2016

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On the Shaun King Mess, and The Editor in the Age of Churn

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Vice and Mollification

People seem to like to talk about media these days in a way they were never really interested in doing so before. And, truly: Normal…

6 min readMar 11, 2016

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Vice and Mollification

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All the Hard Ways: A Native Son of Vegas, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal

The earliest memory I’ve got of anybody ever being proud of me has to do, directly, with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It’s a weekday…

9 min readDec 24, 2015

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All the Hard Ways: A Native Son of Vegas, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Why And How to Protest The MTA’s 2015 Fare Hike

The MTA is about to screw New Yorkers again, by making the subway more expensive. Here’s what we can (and should) do about it.

7 min readJan 23, 2015

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Why And How to Protest The MTA’s 2015 Fare Hike

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Foster Kamer

Foster Kamer

Hired gun. Contributor—NYT, First We Feast, Gossamer. Priors: Mental Floss, Village Voice, Gawker, Esquire, etc. Est. Las Vegas, 1984. fosterkamer@gmail.com.

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