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Nightmare online dater and "no fat chicks" policy-haver John Fitzgerald Page has updated his website. "Stalin. Hitler. Bin Laden. John Fitzgerald Page. Somehow, I am ranked at #1. My crime - murder? treason? pedophilia? rape? No, worse. A woman winked at me on the internet. I sent her an introdutory email. She tried to rescind her initial wink by saying we weren't a "personality" match . She ascertained that from my first email without ever speaking to me. Here is my crime. Instead of just letting her float away, I let her know that I feel that if you approach me, you should meet my standards and listed facts about myself." IT GOES ON: "The public hanging of me is making many of you happy. The catch-22 for you is that no publicity is bad publicity. I am getting offers for things - movies, books, TV shows. I have turned down every request." DO READ IT.
A Note From "THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD" [John Fitzgerald Page]
2:10 PM ON FRI OCT 12 2007
BY EMILY
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In this occasional column, one of the authors of The Underminer or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life refracts the news of the day through a bile-green lens. This week: the New Yorker Festival and also Internet pervs!
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chappaquiddick skyline
Pickled Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy
is in the hospital, where doctors are searching for what is blocking his carotid artery. Overconsumption of alcohol and grease over decades is probably the root of the pesky clog, but several other suggestions came to mind. Stray mud from Chappaquiddick Island? The answers to the 1952 Harvard ethics exam? Check stubs related to various family-related sexual assaults and extramarital affairs? Rules and regs for the
Waitress Sandwich game? The key to Camelot? In any event, we wish him a speedy recovery.
1:30 PM ON FRI OCT 12 2007
BY MAGGIE
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the most important movie ever shot in new york
Cynthia Nixon's hair explicated! "So, yes. Sex and the City is filming in front of the Bryant Park Hotel. Complete clusterfuck, especially for those of us who couldn't care less. Cynthia Nixon's hair is styled to look like some sort of ski slope, and Sarah Jessica Parker couldn't be less attractive. They seem to be filming the wedding reception scene since SJP is tromping around in that hideous veil....."
kunkeled
Seriously, what will happen if our number-one obsession, the world's most important literary magazine n+1, writes a piece about this here bilious website? Will time and ass-space collide? Anyway, we hear the piece is done for the new issue, but this is first we heard about it, because essayists don't report, ya know! (Who's a journalist now, bitches?)
insolent lesbians
Last night labor leader Randi Weingarten, head of the United Federation of Teachers, was all, "Dude I've always been a lesbian, I've never hidden who I am." Right, except she's never once talked about it and it's never been written about before. Jodie Foster was more out than Randi Weingarten! [NYO]
GAWKER STALKER
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Waverly Pl & Washington Square E
Saw Kiefer Sutherland walking on Waverly Pl. with an anonymous Brunette. Tall, tan and much skinnier in person than I would have expected. Seemed very laid back and relaxed.
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2960 Broadway
Jack Nicholson is outside of Columbia University, chillin outside of the main library, just thought you'd like to know...
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Grove St & S Bleeker St Mt Vernon
Riding shotgun in a crossover suv in Greenwich Village. It was really strange to see him traveling so meagerly- but i am certain it was him- I was crossing the street on my way to work and was less than a foot in front of him.
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40 W 40th St
Cast of Sex and The City (SJP, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis) in front of the Bryant Park hotel in a black limo filming a scene from their up coming blockbuster movie while Chris Noth (laid back and handsome as ever) looks on. SJP in all black and hot motorcycle boots.
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the skin trade
The second issue of the new
SuicideGirls Magazine is out, and it's just as high-minded as the first, starting with the subtitle: "Anthology of model-annotated pinup photography and conversations with notable thinkers, artists and authors excerpted from the pioneering website of the same name." No, we are not making this up. Let's peek inside!
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beauty lessons
When we
last saw Donald Trump, it was at the Bridgehampton Polo Club. A stream of long thin bilious beauty queens trailed behind him. They were shooting a show for MTV called
Pageant Place. In it, Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and former coke-loving party girl Tara Conner, ex-Miss USA, learn to live, love and learn together. Well, learn not so much. It's kind of like 'The Hills' meets 'Gossip Girl' meets 'Kid Nation.' In this scene, Miss Universe is aghast to learn that you need photo ID to get on an airplane. Good thing she brought her sash! [Video by
Slut Machine]
acting out
Local blogger and young Yale grad Josh Drimmer spent the day nekkid in Times Square yesterday. Why not? He's just a bilious young man of the old school! And so off to Bellevue he went. Let that be a lesson to you.
Welcome to Times 'Bare' [NY Post]
t.v. nation
"Ok, some kind of crazy shit is up with Time Warner Cable. Last night my DVR completely wiped itself, causing me to lose the latest 'America's Next Top Model' AND 'Gossip Girl.' A cursory survey tells me that the same inexplicable DVR-wiping occurred to other friends at different points in the week. Other friends say their boxes (heh) have been stuttering and stopping, which mine did before the great DVR incident of 10/11/07. WATCH THE IMPORTANT SHIT ON YOUR DVRs PEOPLE. Conspiracy is afoot." Everyone is so bilious today!
the most important movie ever shot in new york
"Cast of Sex and The City (SJP, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis) in front of the Bryant Park hotel in a black limo filming a scene from their upcoming blockbuster movie while Chris Noth (laid back and handsome as ever) looks on. SJP in all black and hot motorcycle boots. P.S. What was up with Cynthia's hair?" Don't know! You tell us! Is it particularly sapphic today???
from the mailbag
"All the emergency lights are flashing on at least the newsroom floors of the New York Times. An announcement said there has been some kind of problem, and they are investigating the cause. The security system seemed totally messed up when people were coming in this morning. It doesn't seem all that serious though." THE FALCON CANNOT HEAR THE FALCONER, RENZO PIANO. Update: An announcement! "The alarm is false. Please resume normal activities. There is no need for evacuation."
this thing looks like that thing
Nobel peace prize winner Al Gore (right!) has started to eerily resemble drunken National Book Award finalist Christopher Hitchens! What happened to Gore's face? "Too many porkchops with David Remnick," suggests a reader. We already know what happened to Hitchens' face: Booze and bile and sexism are murder on the jowls.
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Previously: Kockless
11:00 AM ON FRI OCT 12 2007
BY CHOIRE
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gawker book club
James Lipton, host of Bravo's Inside The Actor's Studio, has a book! It's called Inside Inside and we got our copy today. It's 492 pages long and costs $27.95. If the first two pages are any indication, it might be the most gloriously horrendous book ever written. You have to love a man who starts the memoir of his middle-brow career with an epigraph by Chaucer, from 'The Canterbury Tales': "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche." Nearly as trenchant as Dostoevsky's "Raskolnikov seemed offended." (Crime and Punishment, pg 144.) Or Faulkner's immortal words, "'Such good beer,' she said." (Sanctuary, pg 140.) Except with the added benefit that Chaucer is a) in Middle English and b) in the prologue. Let's face it, Lipton only has time for prologues. He's a busy guy and can barely read. But can he write? You decide.
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eating out
Eater predicts that in 18 months Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar, as well as Jack Lamb's sushi spot Jewel Bako and his stab at French cuisine, Degustation, will all be dead and gone. Are these the waning days of East Village's restaurateur boy-king Jack Lamb's empire? If so, bring on the dormice and vomitoria! It's time to party.
crisis at columbia day three
Last night, an anti-Jew word was found scrawled in a bathroom at Columbia University! When will this epidemic of hatred end? First the noose on the black professor's door and then the ceiling fell in at the psych library and now they're after the Jews? WHO WILL BE NEXT? (Our guess: the gays.)
Silicon Alley Insider
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For the record, j'adore le Peter Kafka, managing editor of Silicon Alley Insider, the New York-based tech blog from disgraced stock analyst Henry Blodget. But seriously, girlfriend needs to loosen up.
Developing
From the mailbag, regarding Ivy League alum and douchey online dater John Fitzgerald Page: "I talked to John Page for 3 hours last night. So I called him.....a couple of times (and yes that is all it took). I don't know where to go with the information I have now after talking to him for seriously 3 HOURS. I will send you a copy of my phone bill a) if ATT has put it up yet b) you tell me where to send it, to prove what I am saying.... What do I do with 3 hours of information from the most hated/loved/entertaining/douchey guy on the internet today?"
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