SuicideGirls.com Lays Off Bloggers, Including Ensign Wesley Crusher

Posted by Bryan Christian

More indication of trouble in SuicideGirlLand, as SG blogger and former child star Wil Wheaton reports that he has been let go as a blogger by the embattled alt.porn site

Due to budget cuts at the Newswire, this will be the last Geek in Review. It’s been an awesome year, but all good things must come to an end, and I think the GiR will be very happy living on a farm where it can play with other columns all day long.

We have no idea what that means, but Boinkology reports that Wheaton isn't the only blogger to get the axe. Noted comics writer and weekend contributor Warren Ellis has also been given the heave-ho, along with "the bulk of [SG's] writing staff." Budget cuts are blamed all around, with our reaction to that being similar to Boinkology commenter "A": "More money for the lawyers..."

Previously: Suicide Girls Rated "F" by Better Business Bureau

[Via Fleshbot]


Comments

tartlet said:

"and I think the GiR will be very happy living on a farm where it can play with other columns all day long"

I'm guessing it's a play on the idea of a whole lot of columns being "put out to pasture."  Now I see why people never get my jokes either--a play on words is one thing, but a play on a phrase/cliche is just confusing...

January 3, 2008 3:26 PM

About Bryan Christian

Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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