martha stewart

Are the Terrorists Winning? Martha Stewart Hijacks Borat's Spaceship, F Train

martha%20and%20transportation.JPGThe national housewife superego has lady feelings? Yes, maybe. Via the Post, the AP reports that Former Inmate 55170-0549 might soon become Mrs. Martha Helen Kostrya Stewart Simonyi (evidently, WASPiness works by the one-drop rule). Her omnibeing notwithstanding, Martha is currently in Kazakhstan to cheer on and/or get married to her space-tourist manfriend, who's set to blast off today. Unfortunately, he is not Lance Bass. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Post, and half a world away, a New York City subway car yesterday was attacked and transformed into "a cozy living room with curtains, flowers, throw pillows and rugs" in a "guerrilla installation, dubbed 'No Train Like Home.'" No signs indicate that these heinous transportation/decoration acts are related, but that's because Martha Stewart is a evil genius, like Marilyn vos Savant without the ILF part. more »

9:00 PM ON SAT APR 7 2007
BY GAWKER
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Latest by Maulleigh: In answer to your question: the terrorists have definitely won. I'm sick of all this Brooklyn-bound-F-train-centered liberal B.S. No one re-decorates the Bronx 6 train. All we get is Mariachi bands and kids selling candy bars. more »

remainders

Remainders: Who Owns This Town?

  • The undercover cop who fired 31 shots at Sean Bell in Queens had previously worked undercover at Bungalow 8, where "it was clear to everyone who knew him that he was doing more than just drinking." [Radar]
  • Mario Batali thismuch closer to being allowed to remain in the Del Posto space. [NYM]
  • Does the "Borat Slept Here--NOT" package at the Wellington Hotel include a weekend of endless movie references? [NewYorkology]
  • R.I.P., Astroland. But what'll happen to Shoot the Freak? [Gowanus Lounge]
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    11:40 PM ON WED NOV 29 2006
    BY DOREE
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    Latest by momo: Call me old school, but I don't care how undercover you are as a cop, you should not have eyebrows that are that shaped. more »

    books

    Borat Book Deal Not So Niiiice After All?

    We hear from a scout (remember what those are?) that the Borat book sold at auction, with the Bruno book, for a cool $4 million, but the agency (Trident) won't say to whom. This isn't particularly fishy: sometimes deals aren't announced for weeks (or even months) for strategic or making-them-think-we-have-a-strategy reasons. But this particular bout of tight lippedness makes us think twice, in part because of a suspicion an agent planted in our heads. We thought he was totally crazypants at the time -- and still kind of do -- when he responded to our post about the book's putative megadeal with a cryptic email: "check Rush&Molloy; of Nov. 1st." But we did as we were told: more »

    10:55 PM ON MON NOV 27 2006
    BY EMILY
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    Latest by raincoaster: So Borat is doing Madonna's Sex 2.0? Sexytime! more »

    thursgay

    Kazakh Ministry of Damage Control Continues to Work Overtime

    Thursgay traveleved outside its usual domestic milieu yesterday to bring us news of a Fashion Week taking place in an exotic land far beyond our ken: Kazakhstan. "Where have I heard of that country before?," you're probably not wondering. Well, in case you're a Borat fan who's still not clear on the distinction between fact and fiction, the Times wants to inform you, again, that Kazakh ladies aren't strapped to plows or trapped in cages -- really. No, they're dealing with a much classier brand of indignity: the humiliation of showing up at a party in the same Dior dress someone else is wearing. The solution? Turning to indigenous Kazakh designers, whose work is comparable to anything Gucci and Donna Karan can turn out, but with a twist. Why, just listen to this enticing description:
    This year there are 40 shows, among them 28 Kazakh designers. One is Kuralai, a brand that incorporates ethnic Kazakh themes into its beaded evening gowns, sequined culottes and paisley turbans.
    Oh, wow! Now that we're totally sure we're not going to be forced to become #5 prostitute as soon as we get off the plane, we're totally headed right over there to pick up some sequined culottes. Psych. more »

    1:30 PM ON FRI NOV 24 2006
    BY EMILY
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    Latest by genevieve: you know, i think that any use of the word "psych" requires the employment of an exclamation point after it for maximum comedic effect. just sayin'. more »

    media

    Media Bubble: Private Parts

  • Guy who told Murdoch to buy MySpace quits. [Guardian]
  • Private equity firms love them some media conglomerates. Latest example: ClearChannel, the company that has spent the last decade making sure radio sucks, which was snapped up for a kajillion dollars yesterday. [NYT]
  • Energetic new media entrepreneur out at AOL. [Valleywag]
  • WSJ employees will not be allowed to wear shorts no matter how much they piss and moan about it. [NYP]
  • Those who aren't getting fired by NBC are leaving voluntarily. [NYT]
  • Marketwatch rewrites Jack Shafer's Digg story a scant five months later. [Marketwatch]
  • Dave Zinczenko, whose name will forever be associated with subpar oral sex, rides the Borat wave. [NYP]
  • The English: "paedophiles, drunkards and hooligans." Sorry, this is news to whom? [Guardian]
  • Why can't the Times be fun like the Drudge Report? If you guessed Jon Friedman, you read this feature way too often. [Marketwatch]
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    2:10 PM ON FRI NOV 17 2006
    BY BALK
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    neil strauss

    Neil Strauss: Being More Boratty = Catnip to the Ladies

    Apparently, Neil Strauss's Rolling Stone interview with Sasha Baron Cohen -- the first that Borat's creator has shucked his moustache and fictitious persona for -- isn't half bad. But the lessons he learned from the interview -- and promptly shared with his mailing list of desperate ugly wannabe Pick Up Artists -- show us why he's so beloved of Judith "OJ Profiteer" Regan.
    In the email, he tells of adopting an alter ego who sounds very familiar:
    He would be a slow-talking, ultra-suave, super-cheesy lady's man. His name: Manwhore. His nationality: a little island off the coast of wherever you'd like him to be from . . . because it was a little silly, I even invented appropriate tongue-in-cheek lines to go with it.
    Strauss goes on to tell his acolytes that, if they do Manwhore-style stuff, it'll help them "to approach groups, to improve [their] posture, to be more sexual, to alter [their] style of dress, to think of [themselves] as someone quality people want to be around." And why not? After all, it worked for Borat! And for Neil. Wait, did it? more »

    10:10 PM ON WED NOV 15 2006
    BY EMILY
    2,794 views 6 comments

    Latest by astralgirl01: Wait, is he serious with those ear projectiles??!?! And he's a ladies man? No, let me rephrase that.... women actually slept with this douche? If so, I am soooo glad I am single in New York City. Yikes. more »

    borat

    Publisher's Marketplace to Eventually Report Borat Book Selling in a "Niiiiice" Deal

    borat.jpgPublishing a Borat book is clearly a totally genius idea. After all, people will still be just as feverishly enthusiastic about Borat a year from now, right? And Borat's accent-based humor seems like it would translate to the printed page really, really well. (Borat voice:) NAAHHT! (Yeah, see how funny that was?) more »

    7:55 PM ON WED NOV 15 2006
    BY EMILY
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    borat

    Random City Resident Speaks For Many in Borat Beatdown

    The UK Sun brings word of a recent altercation:
    BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego. He approached the man and said: "I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it."But the bystander didn't see the joke. He took one look at Cohen and punched him in the face.The funnyman -- known for his Borat catchphrase "Jagshemash!" -- yelled for help but was slugged again and again. He was rescued by actor pal Hugh Laurie who had been on his way to a New York bar with Cohen.
    Certain editors here at Gawker have been resistant to seeing the film because of its massive hype and ludicrous insistence that all press be done in character, but we would have paid full price plus the Fandango service fee to have watched this. Anonymous New Yorker, you're our new hero. more »

    9:25 PM ON MON NOV 13 2006
    BY BALK
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    Latest by raincoaster: Wow, rescued by Hugh Laurie? I'd like to think I'd do better than to need rescuing by Jeeves. more »

    borat

    Stop Quoting Borat, Or We Will Never Make Sexytime To You Again

    Like many of you, we saw Borat on Friday evening. We enjoyed it. We even tolerated the man behind us who insisted on imitating every Borat-ism as it appeared on-screen, if only because we, too, were sharing in hilarious communion. And after the movie, we, ourselves, admittedly participated in a few "high five!"s. We might have even said "niiiiice" one or two times. more »

    6:45 PM ON TUE NOV 7 2006
    BY DOREE
    3,419 views 55 comments

    slate

    'Slate' Sets The Record Straight Re: Borat

    Slate scribe Eric Weiner has a vested interest in clearing up Sascha Baron Cohen's misrepresentations: he just adopted a Kazakh baby. So just in case you missed Kazakhstan's 4-page NYT ad and/or have no sense of humor or ability to discern fact from fiction, guess what: Kazakh women can vote and drive and Kazakh horses can't, "khrum" is not the word for testicles, and Kazakh wine isn't made from fermented horse urine ("It just tastes like it.") Outside the realm of duh, though, the article's best mythbust has to be this one:
    Sports
    In Borat's Kazakhstan, popular sports include cow punching and "shurik, where we take dogs, shoot them in a field and then have a party." In reality, Kazakhs, like most of the world, prefer soccer. But they also like horsemanship, wrestling, and, occasionally, buzkashi (literally "grabbing the dead goat"). In this popular game (a precursor to polo), players on horseback try to control the "ball"--the headless carcass of a goat or sheep.

    We'd close this by saying, like, "niiiice" or something but we don't want to be one of those people.
    The Real Kazakhstan [Slate]

    9:25 PM ON MON NOV 6 2006
    BY EMILY
    84 views 7 comments

    Latest by Bob Loblaw: Along these same lines, don't forget the 21 year-old Kazakh who went Borat myth-busting with the Daily News this weekend: 'The scene featuring a butt-naked fight in a hotel room between Borat and his producer Azamat also was lost on more »

    katie couric

    Remainders: Katie Couric, Overachieving Blogger

    • Katie Couric's first week is accompanied by her first blog, a rambling, 10000-word treatment on the importance of being perky, complete with Karen Carpenter lyrics. Congrats, Katie. You're really done something. [Couric & Co.]
    • Kazakhastan is now denying that Borat will be a topic during meetings with the U.S. This is just fantastic, isn't it? An international debate on whether or not a fictional character will be discussed at a diplomatic summit. No wonder the terrorists hate us. [The Blotter]
    • If JK Rowling has to give up the manuscript for the final Harry Potter book, then the terrorists really have won. [BBC]
    • Fashion Week is all about luxurious balls. [Coutorture]
    • Lydia Hearst fashion porn: scary, and yet we can't look away. [Bastardly]
    • Path to 9/11 producers depict American Airways personnel cheerfully letting Mohammad Atta on the plane; it was actually cheerful US Airways personnel who did so, and it's going to cost ABC some advertising dollars. [Consumerist]
    • Jay McInerney has yet to master the art of walking while tipsy. You'd think, but you'd be wrong. [Belle in the Big Apple]
    • Sure is hard to make friends in this town. [NYP]
    • Watching a blogger get his first death threat is like watching your child take his first steps. He's not our baby, but we're still proud of him. [Goldenfiddle]
    • Read the New Yorker and live to be 102. Yay, ancient people! Yay, Conde Nast! [EmDashes]
    • Critics still really, RILLY love The Wire. [Test Pattern]
    • Drinking = money. No, really. Rejoice! [AP]

    11:00 PM ON THU SEP 14 2006
    721 views 6 comments

    Latest by Bon Jour, Pee Wee: Is Katie trying to be ironic with the statement: 'how hip am I?', for quoting The Carpenters? more »

    whitney houston

    Remainders: Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown End the Dream

    • Whitney Houston files for divorce from her husband Bobby Brown, citing irreconciable differences over crack consumption and constipation relief. [Access Hollywood]
    • Atoosa Rubenstein, editor of Seventeen and beautiful orchid lady, wears sunglasses because she's an urban warrior. You know, like Mel Gibson in Mad Max. Mel, Atoosa. Atoosa, Mel. [Slate]
    • On 9/11, tragedy strikes Fashion Week as a Proenza Schouler mannequin falls. Don't bother with the tower metaphor, please. [Yahoo]
    • You just know this guy is fucking Patrick McDonald [NYM]
    • Meet CBS' new "wireless hostess," who will guide you through the CBS digital environment and, once you're done with that, help you rub one out. [TV.com]
    • Anna Nicole Smith's son definitely did not die of a heart attack, but the coroner's going to cocktease this one as much as possible. [TMZ]
    • W. schedules meeting to discuss crisis in Darfur and Borat threat. [Daily Mail]
    • In other news from yesterday's primary, State Senator Ada Smith appears to have lost her bid for re-election. We'd stay out of Starbucks for the next couple weeks. [NYT]
    • Media "would like a do-over" on its WMD reporting. Our dead and limbless soldiers presumably feel the same way. [On the Media]
    • Paris Hilton skanks down the Heatherette runway. Not content to assault just your eyes, she did so to her own music, too. [Animal]

    11:00 PM ON WED SEP 13 2006
    190 views 4 comments

    Latest by kenneth212: Didn't they almost have it all? more »

    movies

    Humorless Scolding: Is Nice!

    Continuing today's ethnic humor theme, and coming to a sharpie-defaced poster near you: Borat backlash. Because satirically clueless, inbred, rural characters are only appropriate when targeting American hillbillies. more »

    8:00 PM ON TUE JUL 25 2006
    BY CHRIS MOHNEY
    70 views 15 comments