the bard sublime
Bard College, the liberal arts school located 120 miles north in Annandale-on-Hudson, "puts the 'liberal' in 'liberal arts,'" according to the 'Princeton Review.' It has a 600-acre campus and nearly 1500 undergrads. This is their story—as told by a student who would like to be known as Stephan K. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
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great moments in public relations
FROM
VALLEYWAG.COM:
This morning, we reported on a Facebook employee who allegedly looked up a user's password, logged into her account, and changed her profile picture to a graphic image. When a tipster wrote in to name the employee, I contacted the accused, Jordan Moncharmont, for comment.
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taking a stand
AdAge features and blogs editor Ken Wheaton, is
easy on the eyes and perhaps a tad overexcited about the possibility of the New Republic hitting the skids. It seems that in the wake of the
"Baghdad Diarist" scandal,
Wheaton reported today, "Military bloggers and bloggers from the right are calling for a boycott of marketers who advertise in The New Republic. Of course, the news here is that The New Republic still had advertisers!" Aww, mean. So far, these "military bloggers and bloggers from the right" are actually Pajamas Media blogger, Bob Owens, who's campaigning over at
Confederate Yankee against
TNR advertisers and industry titans like Microsoft, Freddie Mac, GM, HBO and Warner Brothers. We tease, but Owens
has the attention of Weekly Standard writer Michael Goldfarb, who was among the first to be suspicious of the 'Diarist' column, is sending traffic Owens' way. Stay tuned.
6:01 PM ON MON OCT 29 2007
BY MAGGIE
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altarcations
Do you believe in love? Perhaps you do! But you totally definitely believe in money. Because it's very hard to love when you have no money and you're hungry! The Weddings and Celebrations section of the 'New York Times' is where money and love meet, and where our Intern Alexis finds that in the mix, someone always comes out the winner.
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not so latent racism
Dear Cindy Adams, OMG, we just adooore your column! We just want you to know it's such a relief that not everyone is taking this whole PC craze so seriously. Like, in your column today? In the Post? Where you're talking about some Hamptons shindig? You know? It's just so refreshing to know you're still using the word "Oriental" to describe people, not just antiques or hotels. It reminds us of the last time you stood against the tide of progress and cultural evolution? When you described Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong as an "Oriental beauty"? I mean, we totally didn't care that you spelled her name "Mae," either. Now don't you go changing, Cin. Love, Your Fans.
tropes of the slope
From the first MenuPages review of Park Slope Restaurant, a diner in that oft-caricatured neighborhood: "Thankfully a dying breed. Ever since buying my brownstone here a year ago and becoming a resident of Park Slope, I've been put off by the type of greasy spoon this place represents. Thankfully, month by month, these types of places are being pushed out to make way for more refined establishments more suitable for the next gen of Park Slope: educated, affluent and discerning. No thanks, I don't need burned toast, mushy bread, manufactured pasta in red sauce and other tired dishes just because the're [sic] cheap. I want to pay a lot for my food and get a lot for what I've spent. When my broker said 'Park Slope is the next Chelsea," and I said "but what about the Park Slope Restaurant?' she waved her and dismissively and said 'the days of that place and the cheesy dollar stores that go along with it are numbered.' I hope so. I'm growing impatient." Even if this is parody, it's still chilling.
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5:20 PM ON MON OCT 29 2007
BY JOSH
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GAWKER STALKER
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Prince St & Broadway
Broadway b/t Prince and Houston. Cisco Adler in an ugly earth-toned striped top and scraggly hair, with a friend. The friend was saying something that began with "dude!" about having to go to Sweden. Is someone actually paying his band to perform?
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Prince St & Broadway
12:45, on his way into Dean and Deluca on Prince and Broadway, saw Brett Ratner all alone, wearing a black puffy jacket and talking on his iPhone.
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Perry St & Hudson St
Corner of Hudson & Perry: speaking french, having tea with a friend. Wearing a navy & white striped long sleeve shirt, green sweatpants and oversized eyeglasses. All I could think about was the Wicked Game video (and I'm a straight girl).
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555 Madison Ave
At eleven o'clock this morning, I spotted a late, lost and alone Rep. Rahm Emmanuel. He was clearly confused and when he noticed that I was smirking at his spinning around, he pretended like he was looking for someone, waved at no one at all and then did a textbook scurry across the street...
Media
FROM
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Ever wonder what goes into Washingtonian’s Power 150: People Who Make Things Happen? Is it total bullshit, or just partly? We asked a former Washingtonian editor for an inside peek. And TIME 100 it is not. After the jump, an insider tells all.
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flack of a job
5W, the world's greatest ever PR firm in the history of PR firms (headed by
hot bachelor Ronn Torossian) would like to pitch you the best damn disaster and recovery expert working (or "consulting") today:
former FEMA director Michael "Brownie" Brown, the man who single-handedly saved New Orleans. In the dark days of Hurricane Katrina, as various black people looted things and Alex Chilton went missing, America stood as one with our President in praising Brownie's "heck of a job." And Ronn has not forgotten!
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5:00 PM ON MON OCT 29 2007
BY PAREENE
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Latest by Conbon: @PandoraSpocks: I enjoyed the implication that pulling off the Great 2000 Election Caper qualifies you to manage natural disasters. I read it as deftly subtle, but maybe it was more obvious to others.
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what did you do during the war?
Top: Sandi Garcia and her Golden Retriever Holly play at Commons Park in Denver, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007. Just before dinner on Garcia's first holiday with Holly, the Golden Retriever threw up an entire turkey dinner that Garcia had given the dog minutes before, in front of Garcia's dinner guests. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey) Bottom: A man walks past human remains laid out in a morgue in Baqouba, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007. The remains of 17 unidentified bodies were found by the Iraqi army on the outskirts of Baqouba Saturday. (AP Photo)
light bulb moments
Remember how deposed Regan Books tyrant Judith Regan used to torment her company's human resources department by
mocking their tragicomic emails? Now that she's gone, their evil flourishes unchecked. Their latest bit of sadness follows.
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on language
Times trend queen Stephanie Rosenbloom totally blows up the spot on the hottest word out there right now for vaginas: Vajayjays. What makes Ms. Rosenbloom so sure the word has arrived? Well, after its use on "Grey's Anatomy" the word has "found its way into electronic dictionaries like Urban Dictionary, Word Spy and Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary. It was uttered on the television series '30 Rock.'" Oprah says it! "It was used on the Web site of 'the Tyra Banks Show. Jimmy Kimmel said it in a monologue." Also, Gloria Steinem left "a reporter" a voicemail about it. So clearly, vajayjay has entered into the cultural lexicon. It's only a matter of time before obstetricians can be heard screaming, "We need a bilateral oophorectomy on this lady's vajayjay to remove the ovoom-vooms, STAT, or else we're gonna have to perform a conization on her cerveevee and her utay-tay might fall out!"
What Did You Call It? [NYT]
4:10 PM ON MON OCT 29 2007
BY JOSH
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Good Things
Actually! You know what's really great? The story in this week's New York mag about the crew who works at Trader Joe's on 14th Street. "Today's crew includes a filmmaker, an actor, two fashion students, two painters, a film-production intern, and a martial artist. They're mostly college graduates—University of Washington, New York University, the University of Maine—here with dreams of making it in the city's bourgeois bohemia, but currently stuck serving it hummus." The whole thing is awesome. [NY]
obvious answers
24 hour party person Melena Ryzik asks in the Times Style section: Is the Box is still edgy? Nicely put: "Originally billed as a Moulin Rouge-style theater of the extreme, the Box has mostly settled into its role as a purveyor of kitschy, Las Vegas-style exotica and extremely pricey drinks." [NYT]
bizarre endeavors
CNN is opening up a new bureau! And a j-school! Larry King will teach! Weekly news meetings will be run by CNN staffers! Oh, except, all of these things will be happening in alleged virtual world
Second Life. Beginning next week,
says MediaWeek, CNN will open up shop in the 3-D virtual world, allowing its residents to submit i-Reports on "news" happening in Second Life, learn tricks of the trade from leading CNN personalities, and get their news from virtual newsstands throughout the network. "I love that we don't have to take things from the real world and force them in," Susan Grant, executive VP of CNN News Services, told MediaWeek.
We love the total insanity of that rationale.
black like me
Both
Page Six magazine and
New York magazine tell the tragic tales of affluent whites being ousted from their homes. It's like the Dust Bowl all over again, except with your parents living in a sprawling split-level in Bridgeport. To be fair, the
Bushwick hipsters, who were given ten hours to vacate their building at 17-17 Troutman Street, were pretty screwed over. (Though, what do you think happens when you move into a commercial warehouse?) But the real victims here are Chris and Jennifer Gandin Le, the newlyweds—and they make nearly $100,000 a year.
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3:20 PM ON MON OCT 29 2007
BY JOSH
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hires
FROM
VALLEYWAG.COM:
Can Google build up a hard-charging, Glengarry Glen Ross-style sales team? Somehow, I doubt it. The culture clash between Google's fact-driven, soft-spoken engineers and the raw-meat eaters it needs to get Madison Avenue's dollars seems insurmountable.
Scandal
Radar has named David Armstrong Jones, Viscount Linley (12th in line to the throne!), as the victim of England's new tabloid blackmail obsession. Apparently, two dudes wanted £50,000 (that is three million U.S. dollars, give or take) for a videotape in which Linley's assistant talks about having sex with him and does coke from an envelope with Linley's name on it. (Um, weak!) The most hilarious part of the whole thing is how the Daily Mail can't name Linley, due to a judge's order, but basically finds 200 ways to say "JUST GOOGLE IT ALREADY." Bonus Wikipedia-provided fun fact: "At the age of three, his prominent ears were pinned back surgically."
Meet the Royal in the Sex, Coke Scandal [Radar]
3:00 PM ON MON OCT 29 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Yoga
Already all burnt out on your Christoga DVD? Newly Netflixable today is "Yoga For Indie Rockers," featuring an instructor named "Chaos" and "songs from Kevin Devine, Paulson, Jet Lag Gemini, Roses Are Red, the Bruises, Two Lone Swordsmen, House of Fools, Dillinger Escape Plan, Crash Romeo and many others." [Netflix via Lindsayism]
blind item guessing game
Yesterday's Page Six asks, "WHICH big TV star who dabbles in nightlife enterprise took his drunkeness to the next level? He was spotted sucking face with another guy in his car while hammered." Hmm! "Nightlife enterprise?" Well, we took a stab at it, now it's your turn.
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do-gooders
Columbia Student and "independent filmmaker" Chaim Lazaros
founded "Superheroes Anonymous" in order to collect and exploit a disparate group of costumed do-gooders from across the country. Unlike "real" superheroes, who often have extraordinary powers and act as violent vigilantes, flying in the face of the law, these people mostly put on funny capes, meet one another on MySpace, and then go pick up trash in Times Square.
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