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		<title>Watch This Bizarre Anti-Gawker Trailer For Abbe Diaz&#8217;s PX Me (Video)</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_212425" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 283px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-212425" href="http://www.observer.com/2012/01/watch-this-bizarre-anti-gawker-trailer-for-abbe-diazs-px-me-video/abbediaz/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-212425" title="abbediaz" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/abbediaz.jpg?w=400&h=270" alt="" width="273" height="184" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Abbe Diaz &#039;s (not pictured) <em>PX ME</em></p></div></p>
<p>If you are a hardcore fan of food industry gossip, you probably remember <strong>Abbe Diaz</strong>, the bootstrap socialite and ex-maître d' who spent a bit of time between 2004 and 2009 <a href="http://www.blackbookmag.com/good-night-mr-lewis-1.109/abbe-diaz-vs-gawker-1.30206">being one of Gawker's favorite micro-fameballing targets</a>. Ms. Diaz, whose website <a href="http://www.pxthis.com/">PXThis.com</a> was as confusing as it was juicy (we admit: we kind of miss the forums some days), managed to parlay her 15 minutes into a book deal in 2004, titled <em>PX This (How I Became a Published Author, Got Micro-Famous, and Married a Millionaire).</em> (Or just <a href="http://www.amazon.com/PX-This-diary-potted-plant/dp/0595319475"><em>PX This.: (diary of the potted plant)</em></a>.)</p>
<p>None of which does anything to explain <a href="http://www.pxthis.com/2012/01/px-me-watch-the-trailer/#more-6908">the book trailer she just released</a> for a follow-up to <em>PX This</em>. In fact, it might be better to go into this trailer without any knowledge of Ms. Diaz or her feuds with various media outlets at all. It's more fun that way.<br />
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<p>So what we're gathering from this trailer is a) Ms. Diaz is still mad with the writers of Gawker circa 2006 (watch out, <strong>Emily Gould!</strong>) and Nick Denton is an angry American toddler. Also, that <em>PX Me</em> will be a scathing(?) satire about a Gawker-ish employee whose employer makes him write mean things about Ms. Diaz.</p>
<p>We'd be sold even without the book's inevitable jacket quotes from no-less-esteemed a writer than <strong>Salman Rushdie</strong> that Ms. Diaz adds at the bottom of her video's post:</p>
<blockquote><p>"This writing stuff is HARD." – Salman Rushdie (to friends on Facebook®)</p>
<p>"If you think the writing is hard, wait ’til you try the selling part. Oh, wait…" – Abbe Diaz (in response to friend, Salman Rushdie, on Facebook®)</p></blockquote>
<p>Perfection.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_212425" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 283px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-212425" href="http://www.observer.com/2012/01/watch-this-bizarre-anti-gawker-trailer-for-abbe-diazs-px-me-video/abbediaz/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-212425" title="abbediaz" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/abbediaz.jpg?w=400&h=270" alt="" width="273" height="184" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Abbe Diaz &#039;s (not pictured) <em>PX ME</em></p></div></p>
<p>If you are a hardcore fan of food industry gossip, you probably remember <strong>Abbe Diaz</strong>, the bootstrap socialite and ex-maître d' who spent a bit of time between 2004 and 2009 <a href="http://www.blackbookmag.com/good-night-mr-lewis-1.109/abbe-diaz-vs-gawker-1.30206">being one of Gawker's favorite micro-fameballing targets</a>. Ms. Diaz, whose website <a href="http://www.pxthis.com/">PXThis.com</a> was as confusing as it was juicy (we admit: we kind of miss the forums some days), managed to parlay her 15 minutes into a book deal in 2004, titled <em>PX This (How I Became a Published Author, Got Micro-Famous, and Married a Millionaire).</em> (Or just <a href="http://www.amazon.com/PX-This-diary-potted-plant/dp/0595319475"><em>PX This.: (diary of the potted plant)</em></a>.)</p>
<p>None of which does anything to explain <a href="http://www.pxthis.com/2012/01/px-me-watch-the-trailer/#more-6908">the book trailer she just released</a> for a follow-up to <em>PX This</em>. In fact, it might be better to go into this trailer without any knowledge of Ms. Diaz or her feuds with various media outlets at all. It's more fun that way.<br />
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<p>So what we're gathering from this trailer is a) Ms. Diaz is still mad with the writers of Gawker circa 2006 (watch out, <strong>Emily Gould!</strong>) and Nick Denton is an angry American toddler. Also, that <em>PX Me</em> will be a scathing(?) satire about a Gawker-ish employee whose employer makes him write mean things about Ms. Diaz.</p>
<p>We'd be sold even without the book's inevitable jacket quotes from no-less-esteemed a writer than <strong>Salman Rushdie</strong> that Ms. Diaz adds at the bottom of her video's post:</p>
<blockquote><p>"This writing stuff is HARD." – Salman Rushdie (to friends on Facebook®)</p>
<p>"If you think the writing is hard, wait ’til you try the selling part. Oh, wait…" – Abbe Diaz (in response to friend, Salman Rushdie, on Facebook®)</p></blockquote>
<p>Perfection.</p>
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