ladyparts

Bikini Wax Disasters

Apparently, there's a downside to getting your cooch culled. The August issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases (what, you don't subscribe?) is scheduled to report on a deforesting gone awry.
In the days following her bikini wax, [the patient] came down with a fever, and had swelling and pain in the waxed region (along with a "copious vaginal discharge.") Still, she didn't seek medical attention for another week, when she was in really bad shape.
Not having a vagina we cannot speak with total authority on this one, but we'd kind of consider those symptoms to qualify us as being in "really bad shape." But it gets worse! Do not click through if you're eating, or easily-sickened. Or if you have or like vaginas. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 11:17 am
BY BALK
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Paris Hilton On Larry King


In HER FIRST TV INTERVIEW SINCE SHE GOT OUT OF JAIL, hotel heiress Paris Hilton sat down with CNN's Larry King for a very special Larry King Live last night. The articulate, multi-talented businesswoman appeared contrite, well-prepared, and -- ah, who are we kidding, it's Paris Hilton. Larry King nailed her on a Bible question. Here are some highlights.

WED JUN 27 2007 AT 11:39 pm
BY BALK
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Anderson Cooper Basically Called Paris Hilton A Painted Whore


In the wake of last night's Larry King interview, Anderson Cooper devoted most of "360" to rehashing the old man's feather-light Paris Hilton inquisition. While Anderson was visibly disgusted by having to cover the subject, hey, you know, ratings is ratings. Anyhow, here's Andy questioning P.R. legend Ken Sunshine as to whether or not Paris should be doing one-hour interviews at all; he's apparently disgusted by "that lip-glossed mouth of hers."

Earlier: Paris Hilton On Larry King

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 1:30 pm
BY BALK
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spinning out of control

Alyssa Shelasky's Body Is As Fit As Her Mind

Curious about what's going on in Glamour tardblogger Alyssa Shelasky's Hamptonsy lifestyle? Look no further than her latest work of blogcraft, which is about how she is focusing less on spinning and more on working her core. Omg, what?? Here's how it begins: "Tried a new workout today. It's called Core Fusion—and it focuses on, well, your core. At first I didn't like it. I was surrounded by a bunch of soccer moms (aka MILFS) and they made me a little uncomfortable. I missed the young, energized, eccentric spin crowd. But it got better. After a few stretches I could feel my muscles responding really positively. I've been spinning so much that it felt incredible to push other parts of my body. It also felt nice to exercise without absolutely killing myself. No matter how many spinning classes I take, I'm still in screaming pain during some of those climbs. With that said, another perk with freelancing is the ability to take care of myself like this. I'll never take that for granted." Are you sitting down? Cause that's not all. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 12:30 pm
BY EMILY
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the internet should be aborted

The Worst Couple In The World Wants You To Pay Them To Spawn

You know, a while ago we got all huffy about how passing the hat for donations from friends and family members toward your "sick" honeymoon on the internet was tacky. But hey, you know what's really tacky? Passing the hat for donations from random strangers on the internet for not aborting your pregnancy. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 10:16 am
BY EMILY
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Duh

Loser Girls Are Friends With Their Moms

Today, Times chronicler of our dumbassest life-minutia Stephanie Rosenbloom tries to figure out what's up with kind of girl who calls her mom four times a day to talk about the weather and what she ate and stuff. So, Stephanie, what gives? more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 11:07 am
BY EMILY
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how your hegemony gets made

Attention, Tinsley Mortimer: Your Frat Is Looking For You

In the constellation of collegiate societies—fraternities, sororities, eating clubs, finals clubs, and the like—few are more exclusive, and WASPy, as St. Anthony Hall, or St. A's as it is commonly known. Founded at Columbia University in 1847, today the organization has merely nine chapters, six of which are co-ed and three of which are all-male. At the university we attended, the St. A's chapter house was an imposing Tudor brick presence in the center of campus, with leaded-glass windows, a large side yard, and a stoop where the blond members would sit outside on nice days, drinking beer out of plastic cups. (They were still a frat, after all.) So perhaps it's not surprising that Tinsley Mortimer would've been a member. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 11:20 am
BY DOREE
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Moby Moving Back Downtown

Red alert for the Lower East Side! Vegan electronica gnome Moby just finished refurbishing the Central Park West apartment he bought two years ago. But now he's sent out an email to his friends about moving back downtown—according to our source, the Mobester is wracked by class guilt and "can't deal with living in a nicer place." more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 2:53 pm
BY JOSH
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This Week In Gawker Redundancies

We can't convict Lindsay. We can't kill Paris. So we're taking our anger out on our own commenters. Hey, slow news day, isn't it? more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 3:38 pm
BY BALK
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Hotties

We Will Find The Male Straight Hotties Of Book Publishing!

So it's summertime, and let's be honest, that means three things: everyone is wearing fewer items of apparel, which means everyone's kind of horny, and also everyone has summer half-day Fridays. Oh! Right. Except us. Hmm, but you know when I did used to have summer Fridays? Back in the halcyon days of, oh, 9 or so months ago when I worked in book publishing. Hey, that gives me an idea! Let's have you send me your nominations for who you think are the hottest straight guys who work in book publishing. I know, it's like shooting fish in a huge, huge barrel with not so very many fish in it. But that's why I need your help. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 4:40 pm
BY EMILY
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Cocaine

Celery Is The New Rolled-Up $100 Bill

Since parenthetical poet Melena Ryzik of the New York Times acknowledged the re-rise of coke in New York, we figured that soon artsy Brooklyn ski bums would combine the trendy worlds of epicureanism and recreational drug use. In the July issue of Gourmet, we learn of the existence of celery straws, hollow tubules of celery that are exactly nostril-size! Say farewell to that moment of hesitation when you ponder the hygienic implications of shoving a tightly-rolled bill up your nose. Now you can get your coke with just 15 calories and 2 grams of dietary fiber.

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 12:05 pm
BY JOSH
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'Cosmo' Ed Kate White Is A Secret Blonde Genius

It's the oldest trick in the book: disarm your enemies with faux-dumbness and then stab 'em in the back while they're making fun of you—and also rake in some cold hard cash while you're at it. Today's USA Today fluffernutter sandwich about 55-year-old Cosmo girl Kate White is an object lesson in how this is done. On the "dumb blonde" front: "Cover lines on Cosmo are paramount, because they help sell, in a good month, 2 million copies on newsstands alone. On the upcoming August cover, which she's still massaging, White points to one—'Erotic sex!'—that she says is a grabber. 'We've used the word 'sex' in a lot of combinations, but we've never said 'erotic sex' before. I like the idea of the reader going, 'Oooh, erotic sex,' 'White says, a gleam in her eye." Heh. But watch out! This lady is actually sharpening her knives when you think she's sharpening her eyeliner pencil. Oh: and sticking them into Bonnie Fuller. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 2:34 pm
BY EMILY
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writers write

Jennifer 8. Lee's Editor Lavishes Her With Praise

At first, we thought Jenny 8. Lee's oversharing was just on this side of adorable, if mildly grating. We're reconsidering our assessment in light of her latest blog post, which reproduces, in full, the gushing letter she received from her editor, Jon Karp, upon the submission of her first draft. We can't help but think that Jenny has just bought herself a one-way ticket on the Schadenfreude Express. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 1:50 pm
BY DOREE
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l.a. sucks

Leave New York, Get Fat

When New York and Rolling Stone writer Vanessa Grigoriadis got a boyfriend and went west a few years back, everyone despaired. People were really downright sniffy about it, as they should be. But everyone figured, well, she always did do a lot of yoga, and without that veneer of irony. Maybe some time on the non-smoking coast would do her good! And for the most part it seems like California treated her well. She didn't have that breakdown that looms before us all in the late early 30s. Yet. But you know what happened? Her hot boyfriend got fat. And he didn't care. And then last year she married him anyway. Of course it took the homo publicist in her boyfriend's office to set things right: "'Your boyfriend is getting fat,' he hissed." But any New York homosexual would have headed the fatness off at the pass months or even years earlier. Even the gays are lazily hissy in L.A.

My Fat Fiance [Women's Health] [Photo: Edon Gottlieb]

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 2:28 pm
BY CHOIRE
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how things work

Another Sulzberger Youngster Makes Good

Yesterday, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by a 24-year-old Brooklyn lad named Ben Dolnick, about his summer working at the Central Park Zoo. Dolnick's first novel, Zoology, was published last month, and it's about an 18-year-old boy from Chevy Chase, Md. (where Dolnick is from, too!) who goes to work at the Central Park Zoo. In a wee review, the New Yorker wrote that "Dolnick seems to share some of his protagonist's immaturity, but he demonstrates an engaging lightness of touch." The book seems to be—we haven't read it—a pretty slight coming-of-age novel in which the protagonist barely comes of age. (It's blurbed by Jonathan Safran Foer, but still! UPDATE: We have learned that they went to the same D.C. private school.) Dolnick's doing pretty well for himself! It probably helps that Dolnick's mom, Lynn Dolnick, is Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr.'s cousin. Also, she sits on the board of the New York Times Company. Not that the Times, which seems to get its panties in a bunch about conflicts of interest and disclosures and the like, mentioned that. But there's more of this web to untangle. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 4:46 pm
BY DOREE
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Cocaine

Froot Loops Are The New Celery Coke Straws

Earlier today we announced the astonishing trend (still to really take off!) of celery tubes replacing dollar bills as the vehicle of choice from coke mirror to brain. You responded en masse, celebrating the benefits of such a healthful and nutritious coke straw. But that was this morning. In the interim, we've discovered a tastier and more apt tool: Froot Loops Cereal Straws. more »

THU JUN 28 2007 AT 5:02 pm
BY JOSH
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ladies who suckerpunch

What Manhattan Lady Is A Notorious Vaginablocker?

Because "something you complained to your husband about" is now considered interchangeable with "something Arianna Huffington will pay you to write on the internet," Tatiana Boncompagni wrote a column today about someone who "vaginablocked" her access to a VIP at a recent bash, which we're thinking was Kate White's recent book ladylunch at Michael's. more »

WED JUN 27 2007 AT 4:27 pm
BY EMILY
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The Jewel Theatre

Rod Townsend (our commenter Momo), sometimes receives telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembers where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came to town.

"Hello?"

"I'm so hot and sticky, confetticrotch. I must smell like Jeff Stryker's trashcan."

"Ah, so the weather's as humid for The Past as it is for us. It's really been atrocious."

"The weather? Not really. I think it's maybe going to be 75 at most today. I'm not too sure. Willard Scott was babbling about birthdays as I got home, and I couldn't bear to wait for the forecast."

"So why so hot and sticky?"

"S.E.X., baby. I've been at The Jewel Theatre."

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THU JUN 28 2007 AT 3:40 pm
BY DOREE
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celebrity bloggers

Tina Brown Wants To Believe Paris Hilton Is Not Our Generation's Princess Di But She Is Wrong

After a three-week hiatus, Tina Brown is finally blogging over at Salon, and already it's like W. T. F. On why Paris Hilton is so emphatically not today's Princess Diana: "Ms. Hilton's defining moment was a webcam video of herself with a loomin [sic] phallus in her mouth, whereas Lady Diana Spencer at the age of 19 was beet-red-faced with embarrassment when a tabloid photographer snapped her with her infant charge outside a nursery school in a pose against the sunlight that revealed her shapely legs." Also! "Unlike Britney, Lindsay or any other of the pitiful starved waifs attached to hair weaves, she never acted out her private pain by throwing up in the backseat of a car, winding up in rehab or displaying her shaved pudenda to a stricken nation." She's fabulous and hilarious—waifs attached to hair weaves! Pudenda! But. Is she also totally incorrect?
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WED JUN 27 2007 AT 6:05 pm
BY EMILY
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Gossip Roundup

Laura "JT Leroy" Albert Wants To Pose For Playboy

  • Finally, we'll find out if "busty" Laura Albert's tits are as fake as her literary alter ego. [Page Six]
  • On Paris on Larry King: "Her outfit, a lacy, blousy concoction in a self-conscious shade of eggshell, was conspicuously dowdy." Nobody does it like you, Andrea Peyser. [NYP]
  • Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham is going to get knighted or ladied or whatever. [Cindy]
  • At Manny author Holly Peterson's book party, her billionaire dad called his daughter "the most egregious self-promoter in America." [Liz Smith]
  • "Friends of Brooke Astor are concerned about rumors that the beloved 105-year-old New York philanthropist is being treated for cancer." People. We've all gotta go sometime! [R&M;, last item]
  • Someone's stalking Brittany Murphy. Um, is it the ghost of her old face? [Gatecrasher]

    • THU JUN 28 2007 AT 10:17 am
    BY EMILY
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