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:

(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 mascot, saying he was “totally f*cking hammered.” Read more…