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"Sometimes You Have To Do Things You Never Did To Get Things You Never Had"

Got ish? Our girl Tionna Tee Smalls, a noted blogger and author, is here to advise you. Ask away! This week, Tionna heard from some people who can't get over the past. more »

6:00 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY EMILY
3,123 views, 47 comments

america's next top blogger

A Star Is Born

So Rich from the blog Fourfour was forced to post a video recap of last week's episode of 'America's Next Top Model' because his computer crashed and, well! We so aren't just saying this because some of us want to have sex with Rich and others of us want to be his best friend-catsitter: the dude has mad skills and should be getting paid to be on television. Do they still pay people to be on television?

5:45 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY EMILY
2,657 views, 25 comments

Latest by LisaB: That was so damn funny! Spot on accurate as well. more »

freaking out martha

Joey Pants Cooks Up A Big Pot Of Sadness With Martha Stewart

FROM DEFAMER.COM: Today on Martha, daytime TV's new home of uncomfortable, tragedy-tinged moments: Actor Joe "Joey Pants" Pantoliano, lightly hypnotized by the calmingly repetitive motion of stirring up a pot of pasta putanesca, shares news of his recently diagnosed clinical depression, the suicide of a loved one,...

5:44 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
1,197 views, 2 comments

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The Age Of Indolence

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eating out "There are few social situations more awkward than the failed dinner party. The novelist at the table blathers on about his latest opus, to the adoration of the editorial assistant seated at his left and the eye-rolling of everyone else; the beef tenderloin is tough; someone repeatedly leaves to "take a call." That's Doree Shafrir in today's Observer. See the thing about blogging is we're all just too awkward to even attempt a dinner party (they aren't on Facebook) or even sentences with two semicolons! [NYO]

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ON THE SCENE

Meeting The CMJ Attendees: They Really Do Like Their M.I.A.

FROM IDOLATOR.COM: The annual clusterfuck of music, open bars, and drunk-with-power music bloggers known as CMJ kicked off today, and unsavory music-industry types from all over the world are making their way to downtown Manhattan, where they'll be treated to five full days of lines (the kind with people, you guys!)

5:34 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
573 views, 12 comments

prodigal sonuvabitch

Hardly Anyone Outraged by Imus Return

The Rutgers women's basketball team doesn't care if sad old coot Don Imus returns to the radio. Al Sharpton doesn't really care either (though he will be "monitoring"). So far, the people who seem to care about Don Imus' multi-million dollar WABC deal are the guy he'll be bumping to late morning and Joe Scarborough, professional carer-about-things (and the guy at Imus' old timeslot on MSNBC). more »

5:20 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY PAREENE
549 views, 11 comments

Stats Feed Today's most popular headlines are Lawyer Bridezilla Sues Florist For $400,000 In Wrong-Colored Hydrangea Damages (10,369 views today), How Not To Quit Your Job (9,709) and Talk Show Host Randi Rhodes Assaulted (7,810).

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Latest Gawker Stalker Sightings

Carrot Top
W 50th St & 5th Ave
Just saw Carrot Top at Saks, 50th and 5th. Was wearing a too-tight tank top, hair even messier than normal, think painted-on black eyebrows, and a ferocious scowl. He was even more jacked than in photos. Terrifying!
Tim Gunn
125 W 23rd St
Just spotted Tim Gunn (Project Runway and his own show, whatever that is called) on 23rd walking west between 7th and 6th. He was dressed impeccably just like you'd imagine in a grey pin striped suit. It looked like he was walking home from work.
Julianne Moore
Bleecker St & W 11 St
around 1:30 pm, tuesday the 16th, a very very tiny and absurdly young looking julianne moore walking down bleecker street, turned right on west 11th. uber pale, uber pretty, dressed all in black. the hair is no longer blonde, thankfully. was tempted to say hi neighbor, but she appeared surly.
Daphne Rubin-Vega
125 W 25th St
Just saw Daphne Rubin-Vega of Rent and Wild Things fame outside my building at work (25th between 6th & 7th) when I opened the door and almost smacked her toddler in the face with it. She had to snatch him out of the way ... but did so with a smile!

Catfights

'Radar' v. Richard Johnson: It Is So On!

"Emasculated? We'll See!" was the headline of the Page Six item this morning that basically told New York magazine's Vanessa Grigoriadis to watch what she said about that venerable gossip institution, because the males of Page Six would totally rape her... except maybe not because she's so darn hairy and ugly. Charming. Not to mention completely out of proportion! Grigoriadis's claim—that the column was "emasculated" after former Sixer Jared Paul Stern was accused of trying to blackmail supermarket magnate and (whatever, alleged) Radar investor Ron Burkle, wasn't even that controversial. And Richard Johnson's move to cover his ass by whipping out his dick, as it were, seems to have completely backfired. more »

4:56 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY EMILY
2,406 views, 34 comments

Latest by Ian Spiegelman: @Dusty in the Wind: "And if, on top of all that, you work for a fascist, right-wing, idiot-targeted propaganda rag, you're less than human." Dude, it's just a very, very silly paper that focuses mainly on fake cop/fireman heroics, second tier more »

beauty tips

Why Does Judith Regan Look So Good?

This afternoon I had the pleasure of going on former HarperCollins imprint-haver and If I Did It-making-happener Judith Regan's Sirius radio show. She's fun! By which I mean, she didn't hit me! And she confirmed that she couldn't stand the HarperCollins HR department. And also? She looks like a million bucks. She really does. (She is 54.) I didn't have time to ask her for beauty tips (we were too busy talking about how poorly I was dressed and why I want to defame people all the time and of course our book) but the internet provides some answers. I had thought perhaps it was a deal with Satan! But instead: It's coffee enemas with Howard Stern co-host Robin Quivers! more »

4:38 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY CHOIRE
1,997 views, 41 comments

Latest by atipofthehat: Then the personal assistant gets to drink it. more »

Lunch 2.0

Web geeks meet "hotty toddy" SoHoers

FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: DEEPEST SOHO, NEW YORK -- I'm at the offices of TheLadders, a sort of Monster.com for six-figure-salary types, and this tech consultant won't stop bending my ear. "I just went to a Lunch 2.0 in the Valley last week," he says. more »

4:30 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
1,443 views, 3 comments

The Revolving Door

'Time' Deputy M.E. Priscilla Painton Quits

According to this memo from Time magazine managing editor Rick Stengel, his deputy, Priscilla Painton, is headed out the door, in search of her "Act Two." Painton joined Time in 1989 and later edited the magazine's "Nation" section. Painton's exit marks yet another departure of a "Time/life-er," increasingly rare on the 23rd floor. But! Stengel promises champagne to the magazine's dwindling staffers—French, no less—to soften the blow. No word yet as to who will replace Painton, who was known (wait for it!) for her competence. more »

4:10 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY MAGGIE
1,033 views, 11 comments

Latest by mathnet: @DorothyMantooth: Haaaaaa more »

nevermind the pollacks

Neal Pollack, Unblock Me From Facebook Right This Minute!

I don't know about you but when I search Facebook for "Neal Pollack," I get two Neal Pollacks, neither of whom are the Neal Pollack that I want to find. (I'm looking for the Alternadad writer and blogger Neal Pollack who writes about his son so much!) But when I search from my friend's account, I get three Neal Pollacks, the last of whom is the Neal Pollack I want to find. How could we tell? Though we couldn't view his profile, we could view his friends. They include Timedouche columnist Joel Stein and his lovely wife, Cassandra Barry; Biblically-living author AJ Jacobs; Defamer editor Mark Lisanti; Gawker's once-upon-a-time editor Elizabeth Spiers; and Sloane Crosley, the indefatigable publicist. Come on, Neal! We want to poke you so hard!

3:55 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY JOSH
1,943 views, 62 comments

Latest by BoHan: Seeing as the New York Mag chick "fell in love" at Burning Man, I'm not sure she should be spreading drug usage rumors about anybody. I mean honey, we've all fallen in love at Burning Man - It's called E. more »

Animal Rescue Dept

Ellen DeGeneres's Scrappy Lapdog Meltdown

FROM DEFAMER.COM: There would be no dancing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today, not when the preternaturally upbeat talk show host offered a rare glimpse inside her tortured, pet-lover's soul: Through deep sobs, she relayed the shocking and sad story of Iggy, a Brussels Griffon mix she adopted from an unnamed local... more »

3:37 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
11,921 views, 41 comments

The Revolving Door Longtime (relatively speaking) New York Sun staff reporter Jill Gardiner, who covered City Hall for the paper for the last three years, is heading to New York real estate news magazine The Real Deal.

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today on gawker jobs Fun, Hands-On Marketing Internship - Drillteam, PT Finalcut Editor - Push/Pull Pictures, and more!

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who stole the soul? New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones is concerned that all the indie kids don't try to sound like black people anymore. He went to an Arcade Fire show and was totally bored! Do they even have a rhythm section? It's all shouting and French horns, isn't it? "But, in the past few years," says Sasha, "I've spent too many evenings at indie concerts waiting in vain for vigor, for rhythm, for a musical effect that could justify all the preciousness." Ok so he didn't he get there in time for LCD Soundsystem then? [New Yorker]

73 comments

Stats

The Gray Lady, now free, likes to get around

FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Looks like the New York Times's decision to kill off TimesSelect, its inexplicable subscription offering, is already paying off. A month after freeing its op-ed content and archives, the Opinion section reportedly doubled its readers since September 15, while NYTimes.com as a whole grew 10 percent. more »

3:06 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
695 views, Comment

Radar

Joy Behar Really Gets Radar, Whoopi and Sherri Offended

The on-again-off-again magazine Radar recently put out an issue. Surprising, we know! But there was more. The cover featured Rudy Giuliani, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama au natural in an homage to Vanity Fair's Tom Ford cover. Some of the ladies on 'The View' were offended. Others weren't. At one point Ms. Behar appeared to read from Sherri Shepherd's cue card. "Rudy looks like a pimp, Hillary looks like a ho and Barack is on the DL," she said, looking as if she had learned the line phonetically. A more accurate limn might be that Rudy is the well-dressed gay one, Hillary has the ability to rebound from clunkers (Domino, Healthcare plan) and Barack is the ingenue. But, of course, that would rob Behar of the Judith Butlerian thrill of appropriating the patois of sexual and racial minorities. That is fierce!

2:55 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY JOSH
2,200 views, 19 comments

Latest by spielarama: I am offended by this cover, but merely by the shotty photoshop artwork Radar continues to use to grace their covers. more »

gryffinwhore

Do We Want To Live In A World Where J. K. Rowling Has Wardrobe Malfunctions?

Oh noooo. Harry Potter author and revered nice person jillionaire J. K. Rowling's dress slid down during a reading, revealing a chaste white brassiere and the best Brit-cougar cleave this side of Helen Mirren, but we feel terrible—terrible!—for pointing this out. Also for opening the door to what are sure to be the worst puns ever made.

2:35 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY EMILY
4,195 views, 65 comments

biznass

Fox Business News: Where Are All The Hot, Semi-Fat Male Anchors?

FROM JEZEBEL.COM: All day long I've been watching Fox Business News, the new Rupert Murdoch-owned cable channel that is the big obsession of media industry types right now. more »

2:30 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
3,300 views, 25 comments

Developing

Was Talk Show Host Randi Rhodes Jumped By 14 Ketel Ones?

When it was reported that a couple of hoods had jumped Air America talk show host Randi Rhodes and knocked out some of her teeth, leftists and wobblies cried foul. "Right wing hate machine!" said John Elliot, a fellow host on AAR. Maybe there is one of those but Air America has retracted its claim that she was mugged at all. "On Sunday evening, October 14, Air America host Randi Rhodes experienced an unfortunate incident hindering her from hosting her show. The reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded." Poor Randi! But maybe, suggests a reader, it was an alcohol crime? more »

2:15 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY JOSH
17,900 views, 58 comments

Latest by Jim Treacher: @VenusCloacina: Links, please! more »

overshares

How Not To Quit Your Job

Should you find yourself (God be with you) working at a Los Angeles talent agency, and should you then have the good sense to quit after one week, try running your "Dear Ari" letter by a sober friend before you send it in. The career you save may be your own. Do note: This advice is applicable to many other places of employment, such as law firms, hedge funds, and Conde Nast. The letter follows.
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1:55 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY MAGGIE
13,444 views, 81 comments

twitter

On Twitter, the "Today Show" prefers to watch you

FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: There's nothing more hilarious than watching a broadcaster try to embrace one-to-one marketing. On the airwaves, NBC's "Today Show" gets more than 4 million viewers a day on average. But on Twitter? A scant 307 people have subscribed to its microblogging updates.

1:47 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
360 views, 1 comment