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David Kamp Invents Entire New Form Of Writing!

There's something new in ideas, at last, announces Salon: "First there was Horace. Then there was Juvenal. Now there is David Kamp." My goodness! You see, this fellow has invented the "aspirational satire" with his new book, "The Food Snob's Dictionary." Except then Salon goes on to say he sorta didn't? "By targeting two distinct kinds of readers—those who read one of the Snob's Dictionaries to learn the information it contains, and those who read it to congratulate themselves that they already know it—Kamp is following a trail blazed by his fellow Spy magazine alum Lisa Birnbach. Birnbach's 1980 'The Official Preppy Handbook' is the ur-document of aspirational satire." Mmm, take-backs.

Snobbery Rules [Salon]

10:20 AM ON TUE OCT 9 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Daily Show

North Korea's Daily Show

A real missed opportunity on this lightweight, predictable satire from The Daily Show, presenting the bizarro world North Korean version of the program. Worth it, however, for the punchiline riff on the "Moment of Zen."

4:20 PM ON WED JUL 12 2006
BY CHRIS MOHNEY
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Giant Magazine

'Giant' Founder: Kicked in the Smartass

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Michael Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg, King of the World?

Can't quite figure out why Bloomberg's top political aide is going around making plans for a presidential bid but Bloomberg himself keeps saying he's not interested? Could it be a strategic denial from Mike? Perhaps. But Bloomberg's ad team has a different theory, as The Politicker notes. They think what the guy really wants is to run for king. The clip is from Saturday night's Inner Circle dinner, and it's pretty funny -- perhaps because it's true? more »

3:37 PM ON TUE MAR 14 2006
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Fake Writer Day

Fake Writer Day, Cont'd: Judith Regan Leaves No Publicity Opportunity Unexploited

The good people at The Book Standard pass along this press release, just issued. They assure us it's for real, though, sadly, they did not also send along barf bags: more »

4:37 PM ON MON FEB 27 2006
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Colin Farrell

Remainders: Colin Farrell's Manliness Can Never Be Fully Contained

• Colin Farrell's lawyer's beat up on poor little Jossip, but Jossip lives to tale the tale. [Jossip]
• Which is not to say Farrell's lawyers have caught up with all the cock pix quite yet. [Totally Joshness]
• Freygate forces Oprah to make a drastic move with her Book Club. [Storms Illustration via Emdashes]
• Naturally, the one time the English and the Germans successfully cooperate on something, it's a hideous line-dancing song you haven't been able to forget nearly a decade later. [Silver Jacket]
• Just in: Scientists have identified the four ur-Jewish mothers, from whom 40 percent of all Ashkenazim are descended. Reply the mothers, "What, so now you finally decide to write?" [Reuters via Yahoo!]
• We can't relieve believe we're mentioning this, but, as what's apparently Diabetes Appreciation Week continues, you can finally get away from the pictures of unfortunate, obese, poor people the Times has been foisting on us all and instead tune into CNBC Sunday night as -- we kid you not -- Poison's Bret Michaels "talks candidly about partying with diabetes." [dLife]

4:59 PM ON FRI JAN 13 2006
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Yankee Pot Roast

'Tis The Season to Mercilessly Gut Beautiful Women

The delightful deviants over at Yankee Pot Roast have unveiled a story that is sure to become as sacred a holiday tale as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Behold author Mick Stingley's An American Psycho Christmas in all its Batemansian glory: more »

4:25 PM ON WED DEC 21 2005
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Vanity Fair

'VF' Picks on Li'l Ole Gawker

If we ever bothered to fight our way through the monthly perfume sampler also known as Vanity Fair, we would have discovered this earlier and mounted a more appropriate counteroffensive. As it is, it's far too late on a Friday for us to do much more than just point it out: VF tore a precious editorial page away from coverage of minor European royalty this month and instead devoted it to making fun of us. (At right. Click on it to enlarge.) more »

4:38 PM ON FRI DEC 9 2005
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The Onion

Satiric Newspaper's Satiric Use of Presidential Seal Is -- if You're Uncertain -- Satiric

Newsweek reports in today's edition that part of the reason the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination is going so badly -- in addition to the obvious fact that it's because she's blatantly unqualified -- is that the White House Counsel's office, which she heads, and which gathers information to support the president's court nominations, is just too overloaded right now. "They really should have just said, 'We have too much on our plate,'" a former White House official told the mag. more »

3:52 PM ON MON OCT 24 2005
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Media

It's Funny Because It's True

The Onion isn't publishing this week, which makes it even harder to tell: A headline from the Onion archives, or a headline from CNN.com today? more »

4:38 PM ON WED JUL 13 2005
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Media

Thomas Pynchon Ignores Me

(In Jess s absence, I thought we might branch out a bit.)

Lindsayism: Hey Tommy, when does your next book come out?
Lindsayism: You so have to invite me to the launch party. I ll bring the powdered refreshment.
Pynchyheartsbritney49: I am away from my computer right now.
Lindsayism: Come on! This is for Gawker! Do you know who I am? I m the one-day guest co-editor, dammit!
Pynchyheartsbritney49: I am away from my computer right now.
Lindsayism: Luddite! more »

2:38 PM ON MON MAY 9 2005
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