Field Guide

Ken Sunshine Would Never Have Paris Hilton

Last week, PR man Ken Sunshine went on Anderson Cooper's little house of 360 right after Larry King's interview of Paris Hilton to help dissect it all. Sunshine was an interesting choice for the program, since Paris Hilton is just the kind of client Sunshine seems to avoid! more »

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 6:00 pm
BY DOREE
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decoding andrea peyser

'Post' Columnist Has Constructive Help For Virgin!

Andrea Peyser goes back to the well to milk one more column out of Herb Shaw, the bulky virgin from Yonkers who has probably kept Kleenex parent company Kimberly-Clark afloat single-handedly. (Hahaha, get it? We're saying he has to touch himself!) The new slimline Herb has yet to turn in his V-card, but not for lack of options: Herb, reports Andrea, has had a number of suitors, but, for whatever reason, "Herb has beaten them off." (Hahaha, get it? Now she's saying he jerks off a lot.) A disappointed Peyser offers some advice to the semi-buff virgin who clearly haunts her dreams. more »

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 5:40 pm
BY BALK
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Latest by Jay-C: By the looks of him, you would think his brother Earl would add him to his Karma list: "#108: Got more

show-shopping diplomats

Could Condoleezza Rice Be President?

In an otherwise decent New York Times Book Review appraisal of Twice As Good, a new biography about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland displays the tin ear so many of his compatriots (the Economist) have for the nuances of American politics. After an entire page describing the Secretary's control and discipline, which one might think would keep any sensible person from being enthralled by George W. Bush (apparently not), Freedland suggests that we're looking at a future occupant of the Oval Office. more »

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 5:20 pm
BY BALK
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les guerres burger Ever since management decided to make its restaurants feel less American, the French have been flocking to McDonald's for their ground up bits of cow viscera and labia. [NYS]

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burger wars If you're the kind of patriotic consumer who demands that your ground up bits of cow viscera and labia are purely American cow viscera and labia, you'll rush over to A&W;, whose ground up bits of cow viscera and labia are of 100% U.S. origin, as opposed to McDonald's, which gets its ground up bits of cow viscera and labia from all over the world. [NYP]

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news you can't use "Well, it finally happened. I farted during sex." [One D]

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GAWKER STALKER

Latest Gawker Stalker Sightings

  • Eliot Spitzer

    75 9th Ave
    Governor Eliot Spitzer!!! Saw him at Amy's Bread in Chelsea Market this morning at around 9:30, complete with security detail. He must be on to the fact that their coffee is amazing.

  • Angela Lansbury

    10 Columbus Cir
    Just saw Angela landsbury in the pasta aisle of Whole Foods @ Columbus Circle. She looks regal.

  • Adam Mesh

    E 77th St & 1st Ave
    Saw Adam Mesh from Average Joe at Canyon "Contaminated" Road. Told him he "wasn't average to me" and he said "thanks." Was hanging out with two girls, one of whom had a discount nosejob but an expensive bag.

  • Trey Macdougal

    7th Ave & 26th St
    Friday, 5:05pm. A slightly red-haired Kyle MacLachlan on 7th Avenue at 26th Street, turning into Brgr. Wearing plaid shorts and topsiders. Clearly he thinks he's Trey MacDougal.

why we don't watch c-span "It's not every day that Brian Lamb uses the expression "dickhead' on the air, or tells himself, 'You suck.'" [National Journal]

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high concepts

Douché Coiner Outdouches Other Bloggers With Book Deals

Good news for book publishing! Sometime Gawker hottie, Grub Street writer and heretofore-uncredited coiner of the term "douché" Daniel Maurer has sold his first literary work, Brocabulary, in what Publishers Marketplace would call a "very nice" deal (so between $50 and $100K.) What is this new addition to the canon, you ask? It's a man-i-festo of dude talk and a dictionary of manly mots! You know, like douché. Also like: Guidon't : 1. (n) a Guido-related faux-pas. 2. (exclamation) A command given to a Guido that he cease his Guido-related behavior. Or Doug Booty: A hail mary pass made at a woman despite the fact that your game is clearly about to be over. Or Power tool: Someone who has achieved power, wealth, or fame despite being a total tool. You get the idea.

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 6:52 pm
BY EMILY
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Latest by teamodell: What percentage of his advance is he going to send along to Sniglet's Rich Hall? more

stop sending richard belzer sightings We refuse to acknowledge that Richard Belzer of Law and Order is famous enough to be celebrity-sighted for the Stalker map. It's like saying "I saw the postman delivering my mail." If you live in Manhattan, you have seen Richard Belzer. You probably are Richard Belzer. We love you, but stop telling us.

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inchoate ponderings Is it any coincidence that the movie Ratatouille could, possibly, be pronounced "Ratatwee," and the film seems to have found special favor with a particular brand of anthropomorphism-loving hipster?

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gawker calendar

Get Nervy, Spree Love, Bum Rush Bryant Park

Click through for our community calendar. Got events that are driving you nuts? Send them to josh@gawker.com and they'll drive me nuts too! Yargh!

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 4:20 pm
BY JOSH
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Bridezillas

Why Brides Become Bridezillas

Say you want to have one of those low-stress, non-Bridezilla weddings. You know: Your high school pal serves as the rabbi, your fave gay whips up a nice chuppah, and everybody just shows up and has a ball. If you're Times deputy editor for online journalism Ariel Kaminer, you even hire a pal to do the catering—his very first wedding job! Except your caterer, one Montgomery Knott, the hipster-genius behind MonkeyTown in Williamsburg and member of Stars Like Fleas, went and got arrested on Friday, the day before the wedding. It was for a "bench warrant that shouldn't have been a bench warrant" said Mr. Knott this afternoon by phone, somewhat cryptically. "Apparently Brooklyn arrests more people than any other bureau." (Um, GOOD.) So he did his 20 hours—which plunged the wedding into the sort of chaos that forced Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni to bartend, with Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman as his bar back. Still the "candied bacon balls" were sorta tasty, guests said. They were like gobstoppers... made of bacon?

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 4:04 pm
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by cassandra: And then the rabbi replaced the previously circumcised foreskins of the male guests, chased his bacon cheeseburger with a shrimp more

celebrities we hate

Drew Barrymore Betrays The Women Of America With Zach Braff

We were never going to mention notorious cad Zach Braff again. But then, in today's mailbag: "On saturday night we were at beauty bar on 14th...zach braff and drew barrymore arrived and danced the night away while he continued to give her "sex eyes"...there was a lot of making out. what happened to spike jones?" AND! "Saw Drew Barrymore and Zach Braff sucking face on the dance floor late Saturday night/Sunday morning at Beauty Bar (14th and 3rd). Zach declined my offer for a shot of Jagermeister. The DJ declined my requests to play songs exclusively from the Wedding Singer and Garden State." Drew Barrymore: You have let us down for the last time. more »

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 3:40 pm
BY EMILY
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Latest by yourfriendandneighbor: I just figured out that Zach Braff is doing the voiceovers for Wendy's. more

Would You Fuck The New 'Jake'? [jezebel.com]

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regret the error

Anthony Bourdain Totally Not Dating Padma Lakshmi

Well, it was hot in our minds. But apparently Anthony Bourdain has like a real live wife and a new baby girl or something. (Mazel tov!) And therefore he is out of the running to be the next Padma-paramour. It's too bad. We do however stand by our comments about totally wanting to make out with the man most likely to be photographed with a half-smile, a great scarf and a cigarette. Though maybe now we won't put out.

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 3:20 pm
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by arirang: I'd sleep with him. more

new employee orientation

New 'Times' HQ Has "A Herd" Of Mice

There's an email circulating today among the ad sales people on the 19th floor of the new Times building—let's just say that it's a good thing it's summer and people aren't eating lunch at their desks as much! Or, you know... eek! Mice! The email follows. more »

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 3:00 pm
BY DOREE
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the only good thing we've ever done

Alyssa Shelasky Quits Blogging

"Maybe I'm just too good at being single. Maybe I'm just not ready for a relationship. Who knows, maybe I grew up watching too many soaps. These are things I ask myself when I wonder why, after all my relationships, hot dates and hookups, I'm still so single," wrote Glamour specialblogger Alyssa Shelasky in August of 2006. One year and several gallons of Cosmos and a thousand mockings from us later, she's no longer wondering—at least, not professionally. In response to our query, she writes, "Hey, Emily. It's true, I'm going to be working on other projects. The blog isn't going away, there's a guest blogger for the summer, so no worries, you'll have someone new to write about soon. Lucky them. xx." Uh, I just teared up a little?

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 2:40 pm
BY EMILY
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Latest by nigerienne: If those special projects include botox, some lip injections and long overdue rhino, then good luck! more

the sexes

New York's Single Women Actually Are Nuts

We keep walking by delis with their proudest countertop exhibit ever: Time Out's massive survey of single women in New York. Was it a subconscious aversion to the scary jungle of a single lady's psyche, or just the horrendously illustrated cover that turned us off? Perhaps we just couldn't handle the truth. Okay, Time Out. Lay it on us. more »

MON JUL 2 2007 AT 2:20 pm
BY JOSH
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