Drunk Blogger Staggers Into The Light

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THE WASHINGTON POST IS GAY
Published 4/17/2008 at With Leather
... With the sale of KSK to Uproxx, Tunison decided to reveal his identity, posting this photo from Super Bowl XL (over two years ago) and linking to his Facebook page and archive of stories written for the Washington Post's Metro section, where his useless, bumbling editor gave him insulting and degrading stories and treated him like shit because he's several thousand times more competent than she is.  In the post, he admits that he's "totally fucking hammered" but never writes out his name or "The Washington Post."  People would have ...

NFL blogger fired from real job for being drunk two years ago
Published 4/17/2008 at Shutdown Corner
If you read any NFL blogs at all, you're probably familiar with the work of a fellow named Michael Tunison, perhaps better known as Christmas Ape, who writes at a site called Kissing Suzy Kolber, which you should read every day if you enjoy things that are hilarious and filthy. Before Monday, he was known to the blogging community only as "Christmas Ape," but since someone decided to start paying the guys at Kissing Suzy Kolber, he decided to let the world know that he was a real person with a real job. He included this picture of himself. He's ...

The Washington Post Will Not Tolerate Its Employees Enjoying Themselves
Published 4/17/2008 by Chris Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... The Washington Post is about to have a blogger shirtstorm on their hands, and trust me, that is not something they want give a deuce about. Yes, WaPo fired one of our own — Christmas Ape of KSK fame — yesterday, two days after he outed himself as Post writer Michael Tunison. ...

Washington Post Fires Michael Tunison Over His Blogging at Kissing Suzy Kolber
Published 4/17/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... . Tunison says the Post told him he violated Post standards and discredited the paper by writing a blog post in which he identified himself as a Washington Post writer, linked to the paper three times, included a photo of himself drunk (above) and used profanity. I e-mailed an assistant managing editor at the Post for his side of the story; he replied to the e-mail but did not give any substantive response. ...

Dooced: To lose one’s job because of one’s website.
Published 4/17/2008 by CarlSpackler at perkisabeast.com Blog
... , decided to “out” himself in celebration of the blog’s upcoming revenue. Apparently his employers, the Washington Post, were not so enthused about being called a ...

KSK Blogger Disgraces Washington Post's Pristine Image [God Save The Washington Post]
Published 4/17/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... and a weekend editor at this here site. Earlier this week, these two worlds collided when Tunison shed his anonymity. In most cases, this turns out well for bloggers; heck, Jason McIntyre is getting freelance work now. It did not turn out well for Mr. Tunison. ...

WaPo Gives KSK’s Christmas Ape Lump Of Coal
Published 4/17/2008 by Matt Sussman at SPORTSbyBROOKS
The news is skittering all about the sports blogohedron about the WASHINGTON POST firing staff writer Michael Tunison after he publicized himself as being the notorious Christmas Ape of KISSING SUZY KOLBER, DEADSPIN, and THIS WEBSITE fame. Here’s a dramatization of the editors reading Tunison’s KSK posts for the first time: Woodward & Bernstein & Christmas Ape (They had to use the typewriter because Blogger.com isn’t cuneiform compatible.) On Monday afternoon, Tunison posted a 2-year-old picture at KSK at an indeterminate bar with some kind of parrot-looking ...

This story has nothing to do with the Redskins
Published 4/17/2008 by Skin Patrol <info@hogshaven.com> at Hogs Haven: Front Page Posts
... or semi-anonymously. If you don't want to read it, please don't. I curse a lot. Kissing Suzy Kolber is one of my favorite websites. Unsilent Majority aka Jack Kogod is one of my favoritest bloggers in all the internets, and he writes for KSK. He's also about as strong a Redskins fan as exists, anywhere, ever, in history. One of his blogging colleagues is Christmas Ape who also happened to be a real journalist for the Washington Post, up until he ousted himself as the kind of totally unprofessional immoral monster that would dare consume ...

When An International Media Giant Faces Off Against A Bunch Of Self-Righteous Dickheads, We All Lose
Published 4/18/2008 by Pulp at The Gil Meche Experience
... for a roundup), you would think Ape was fired merely for posting a drunk picture of himself and mentioning he worked for the Washington Post. Of course, you would have to be a fucking idiot to believe that, and judging by the plethora of posts stating that these are the facts, the internet is (of course) full of fucking morons. Let's check with the source of all this controversy, hm? ...

Double Standards At The Washington Post
Published 4/18/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
Washington Post employee Michael Tunison was asked to leave-and-never-return earlier this week, after outing himself as Kissing Suzy Kolber Ko-Konspirator Christmas Ape. Or perhaps it was the other way around. It’s hard to keep all of these pseudonymous pursuits straight. Though I ordinarily wouldn’t shed tears for this gentleman, Editor & Publisher cited the following provisions from the WaPo’s stylebook : We work for no one except The Washington Post without permission from supervisors. Many outside activities ...

Published 4/18/2008 by Aaron at AaronGleeman.com
... anyone who missed my column earlier this week about Liriano's first post-surgery start, you can check it out over at MinnPost. Elisha Cuthbert's comeback is going swimmingly, as she finally appears motivated after losing the Official Fantasy Girl of AG.com crown nearly two years ago. About 48 hours after Kissing Suzy Kolber blogger Michael Tunison decided to shed his anonymity by revealing himself as a Washington Post reporter, the newspaper fired him and had him ...

Smittblog Unveiled
Published 4/20/2008 by Luol Dang! at The Smittblog
... and then this week KSK's Christmas Ape came out. Before Ape came out, the outing of bloggers was celebrated. The guys from Fire Joe Morgan (one of whom writes for "The Office" and appears periodically on the show as Dwight's brother Mose Schrute) were all but electronically felated when they came out and Jason McIntyre of "The Big Lead" was featured in an ...

Last Week's Five Stars
Published 4/21/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... of conveying the consumption of alcohol in a blog than this particular way . By Dan Steinberg | April 21, 2008; 2:24 PM ET | Category: ...

Blogger Interviews: Christmas Ape
Published 4/22/2008 by The Big Picture at The Big Picture
... spend countless, thankless hours writing, so a little recognition from time to time is well warranted. Think of this as the blogger's version of a reach-around or something. Up today is Michael Tunison, known in the blogging daisy chain as Christmas Ape. Ape is one of the founding fathers of Kissing Suzy Kolber but also shows his face at Deadspin and SportsbyBrooks. A former Washington Post employee, Tunison was recently dismissed after revealing his true identity. So, yeah, don't be too hard on him... ...

"When Life Gives you Lemons you Paint that Sh*t Gold"
Published 4/24/2008 by iwatchthenba at My Swog is Phenomenal
... for naming your album with such a pertinent saying, I need it for this blog post! (Side note: got a BWD last Saturday, Blogging While Drunk. It was just a warning this time, but it can get you in some real trouble, ...

On blogging, sports and the struggle therein
Published 5/1/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... a few weeks back when he was fired (or "let go," take your pick) after revealing his identity and place of employment in a profanity-filled post on the frequently hysterical ...