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ask tionna

"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
3,375 views, 49 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
18,545 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
13,617 views, 81 comments

Developing

Talk Show Host Randi Rhodes Assaulted

Reports are filtering in that Air America host Randi Rhodes was severely beaten Monday night while walking her dog on 39th and Park. "Rhodes was beaten up pretty badly, losing several teeth and will probably be off the air for at least the rest of the week," writes Talking Radio. Air America, when reached for comment on the listener call-in line, said, "We don't want to feed the inaccurate rumor mill. Also, we don't know." Though the attacks haven't been reported elsewhere, Rhodes' website does mention that she isn't feeling well and has gone as far as creating a little church sign to that effect. Sam Seder is filling in for her. Murky! more »

9:45 AM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY JOSH
9,350 views, 88 comments

Latest by VenusCloacina: @Mediahohoho: And don't forget your felafel! more »

gawker book club

James Lipton's 'Inside Inside': A Reconsideration

We're halfway through our journey into "Inside the Actor's Studio" host James Lipton's new book, Inside Inside. Mostly so far we found ourselves cringing at the beginning of each chapter. Each started with an epigraph of such epic pretension! We could write a poem about it:

First was Chaucer, then Shakespeare. What would come after?
Ah, old Kierkegaard, of course. We'll wait for "Aye, there's the rub."
We're on chapter four. Could it get any dafter?
We'll find out in this installment of the Gawker Book Club.

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4:30 PM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY JOSH
1,906 views, 26 comments

lifestyles of the poor and senseless

The Truth About Vegansexuals

There's been a tofu-load of articles out there about "vegansexuals," uptight eco-kids who ostensibly do not copulate (or whatever) with those who don't share their strict dietary standards—prompting a world of possible double entendres that we're just not going to go into here.
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4:10 PM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY SHEILA
6,454 views, 73 comments

altarcations

Sarah Jewett & Brian Smith Are Totally Out Of Steps

Every week, the New York Times' Weddings and Celebrations section lets you know which powerful, rich, famous, and/or attractive people are joining like in holy matrimony and the conspiracy to grind your hopes and dreams to dust. And every week, our Intern Alexis subjects the happy couples to her tough-but-fair rating system. more »

3:30 PM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY INTERN ALEXIS
10,776 views, 36 comments

dirty new york

The Dirty Plateau Of New York City

Exhibit 23 for our prosecution's theory that there's a rise of dirty in New York City: Last night's screening of "Caligula" on the site of one of the city's oldest gay sex clubs. The inaugural weekly Sunday salon series, hosted by Daniel Nardicio, had more than just the flick giving it filthy cred. Nude life-drawing of porn star and escort Dimitri Santiago [NSFW!], booths available for the sex, and a crowd that included Shortbus' P J Deboy did their part. Daniel and some of the event's other guests took some time in the bathroom with me and videoboy Alex Goldberg to assess the ups and downs of the last 20 years of sleeeeze.

2:10 PM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY CHOIRE
2,784 views, 20 comments

Latest by kenneth212: Is that Rod Townsend? I'm offended. more »

rupert murdoch tv

Five Minutes Of Fox Business Network Hotties

For all the industry analysis and hullabaloo over Fox Business Network's debut today (The market strategy! The innovation! The jargon-free-zone!), fact is? With this cast of Benetton hotties reading the news, ratings can't be too far behind, no matter what kind of news-network-as-revolution shtick their marketing team is putting out there. We found all these ladies in just five minutes of airtime. For those of you not interested in the Victoria's Secret Network, FBN offers you the spectacle of watching a 60-year-old anchor introduce a segment by welcoming his viewers thusly: "Glad you could join us on this, our first day. [To which Cheryl Casone pumps fist and actually says "Woohoo!"] Hopefully you'll come back and visit us over and over as we become this, like, family." Like, totally, Tom Sullivan. Woohoo!

1:40 PM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY MAGGIE
7,317 views, 24 comments

Latest by MadameEducatrix: Shibani Joshi = Financially Literate Minnie Driver more »

sidelines

Is Your Super Not Fixing The Bathroom Because He's Busy Making Softcore Porn?

Greenpoint's landmarked Astral apartment building looks great from the outside, but on the inside it's a bedbug-ridden toxic mold trap with actual mushrooms growing out of the waterlogged walls. Why is it so ill-maintained? Well, according to blogger Eefers, who just escaped the decrepit building, "I look out my kitchen window into the building's 'courtyard' and see the super accompanying a young woman dressed in stilettos and a bathrobe to the "work" shed. He is carrying a camera... Apparently the super runs an amateur pornography photo business. Apparently he also does this during business hours, when he could be fixing my bathroom." At least he displays some standards of professionalism in his sideline business, though! "If you are interested in working with me Please send me a message i will try my best to get back to you soon as possible. I DONT TURN DOWN TFP IF YOU GOT A LOOK I CANT REFUSE. (But my Rates are Reasonable) Models Must Arrive on Time,with Clean Hair and Nails Done. Please put your cell phone on vibrate during the shoot ..."

12:40 PM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY EMILY
3,101 views, 38 comments

Latest by : That guy just hangs out all day. When he's not hanging out in front of the Astral entrance on Frankling (with some guy who's always a crossing guard's vest), he's eating ham sandwiches and hanging out with teenagers at Franklin more »

the earl grey

Ivana Trump, The Raveonettes And Ivanka Trump

Since time immemorial, or since maybe 2004, we have received missives from a person called The Earl Grey, who is the greatest social documentarian of our time. As frequently as possible, we print these letters as a service to society. more »

11:40 AM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY CHOIRE
3,368 views, 15 comments

what's left of the dial

American Hero Don Imus To Make Glorious Return

Wealthy Connecticut cowboy and casual racist Don Imus is finally returning to the airwaves! WABC is going to pay the mean old man millions of dollars (or "a eight-figure, multiyear contract," according to DRUDGE) to bring his trademark blend of ethnic jokes and embarrassing appearances from fawning political journalists back to New York's morning drivetime. more »

11:10 AM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY PAREENE
1,657 views, 47 comments

the unethicist

Aw, Are Your Diamond Shoes Too Tight?

"The Ethicist" is Randy Cohen's long-running advice column in the New York Times. Each week, Gabriel Delahaye's "The Unethicist" will answer the same questions as "The Ethicist," with obvious differences.

This week, it's all New York all the time up in these letters, with questions about sexual prostitution, and shoes that cost more than writing for the internet pays in a month.

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10:00 AM ON MON OCT 15 2007
BY GABE
5,876 views, 20 comments

we get letters

World's Worst Person John Fitzgerald Page's "Official Response"

Know why we are special? Because while Atlantan internet-dating nightmare John Fitzgerald Page only saw fit to address you via an open letter on his website, he sent us a personal message with the subject line, "My official response." It has all the elements that made the original email to a woman who'd rejected his advances on Match.com so attention gettingly douchey, but instead of telling us how fat and ugly we must be because we don't want to date him, he explains to us that we're lucky he's not getting his "legal team involved." more »

5:00 PM ON FRI OCT 12 2007
BY EMILY
29,558 views, 261 comments

Latest by scroll_lock: @ElijahPollack: who's your buddy? Who's your pal? more »

glaring omissions

"NothingMore than an EmptyDiary of Words for the Vapid&Bored.;"

Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (it happens!) or by design (it happens more often, particularly in the case of ad hominem Internet biliousness). more »

4:40 PM ON FRI OCT 12 2007
BY CHOIRE
2,694 views, 48 comments

The Commies

Paging John Fitzgerald Page

Each week, our commenters blab and blab and blab. We used to reward them arbitrarily with a night in our Gold Star Motel. But that was just to get them to shut up. Who will listen to them? Who will care? Not us! But we know who cares: Crazed uber-commenter (and Gawker ad fella) LolCait cares! more »

4:12 PM ON FRI OCT 12 2007
BY SHEILA
5,535 views, 68 comments

Blue States Lose

Nightlife Of The Living Dumb

"In another version of its utility," wrote Susan Sontag in On Photography, "the camera record justifies. A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture." UNTIL NOW, lady! Here's your weekly roundup of amazing impossible photography from amazing impossible places, courtesy of your host Alex Blagg and the wonderful, horrible, horriful party photographers of Last Night's Party, Cobrasnake, and Ambrel! more »

3:25 PM ON FRI OCT 12 2007
BY ALEX BLAGG
7,068 views, 30 comments

Latest by : @shesaidwhat: #1. Menopausal Donna Summer? Post-op Jesus? Luscious McCourt? more »

WoW

A Note From "THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD"

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
20,749 views, 293 comments

Latest by suzyO: oh, PUHLEEZ. orphans can na has craf survise. more »