August 2008
94 posts
“Author Jay McInerney may have John Edwards to thank for a likely influx of book...”
– CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Book sales based on Edwards’ mistress continue to soar « - Blogs from CNN.com
I lent my copy to Spencer. He’d better not lose it.
Tyra Mail!
lefindumonde:
I started temping today as an EA for this CEO on Wall Street…his girlfriend is Ms. Banks. That explains a lot.
Um… WHO?
[I mean, who’s the BF. Not who is Ms. Banks. Duh.]
The Reinvention of Kirsten Dunst
Irina did an amazing job on this story in this week’s Observer about Kirsten Dunst’s downtownphilia:
Ms. Dunst’s open courtship of the downtown scene has resulted in typically jaded New Yorkers’ own fascination with her. There she is! Among us! Just sort of there, hanging out!
“She hasn’t been around here in like a year, and then she was nowhere, and then she just shows up in New...
(The Smiths, “Please Please Please Let Me...
Question:
perpetua:
skeetonmischa:
Has the power of Don Draper made the whole world forget about the awesomeness of “The Wire”? Am I the only one excited that final season of “The Wire” has come out on DVD today?
Okay, this kinda goes back to something that Lane and Dan wrote on Vulture a little while back, but it goes like this: Even though a lot of people insist on watching television on dvds, these...
Katie Holmes's Jeans in Photos
We put together a slideshow of all the photos of Katie Holmes in boyfriend jeans.
For everyone who has a Jewish mother
This conversation will probably sound familiar!
An excerpt:
mom: IS THIS THE NEW GIRLFRIEND???? SHES CUTE
me: yes, it is
me: and she’s jewish!
mom: SHE LOOKS IT I WAS GOING TO ASK YAY. SHE LOOKS NICER THAN THE OTHER ONES…
me: MOM!
mom: OK PRETEND I DIDNT SAY THAT. I DONT EVEN WANT TO MEET HER BECAUSE YOULL JUST BREAK UP SOON ANYWAY
More Edwards mea culpas (sorta)
Loved Maggie’s post on this.
Proud Moments in Cycling
My chain fell off as I rode down Jay Street after coming off the Manhattan Bridge. Despite the two (delicious) greyhounds I drank with Tanene, I was able to reattach it and continue on my journey. I attribute my success in no small part to my extreme aversion to walking home from Jay and Tillary streets.
The Jonas Brothers OMG!!!!!
Now that I’m an editor, I get to do things like send my lovely reporters to events like the Jonas Brothers in the Hamptons. They love it! Really, they do. Anyway, for anyone who thought that the Jonas Brothers were strictly a Middle America phenomenon, I think that this $1500-a-person fundraiser at the Ross School in East Hampton proves otherwise. Read Lauren’s account here.
First Bernie Mac, now Issac Hayes
maura:
bg5000:
I don’t think Morgan Freeman is out of the woods yet.
I’d actually say that Samuel L. Jackson should head to his doctor tout de suite.
Um, I actually just got a PRESS RELEASE that began:
Doree: Yesterday, it was Bernie Mac. Today it was Isaac Hayes. Could Samuel Jackson be next?
I’m not even sure what the person who sent it to me is pushing. Besides the idea that bad...
“Whole Foods Market pulled fresh ground beef from all of its stores Friday,...”
– Whole Foods Recalls Beef Processed At Plant Long at Odds With USDA - washingtonpost.com
After I read Fast Food Nation a few years ago, I stopped eating ground beef for about six months. Bacon cheeseburgers lured me back, but now I’m reconsidering. I’ve been lulled into thinking that...
Horndogs
Last night we were standing outside of Sunny’s in Red Hook waiting for a car. There was this chick sitting on the bench outside with her dog; I think it was a Jack Russell. Anyway, the dog kept humping her leg. He would go at it for 30 seconds or so, stop for a minute or two, then go at it again. There were maybe five people standing around outside and we were all staring. The chick kind of...
How Rumors Get Started
So. Right after I left Gawker last September, but before they cut off my access to tips@gawker (heh), we got an anonymous tip that John Edwards was cheating on his wife. This is what the email said:
John Edwards is cheating on his wife. This news must be revealed. There was a blind item in Page Six recently… however: My sources come from inside J.E’s little production group that was...
“In a 1977 court hearing mobbed by the British press, Joyce McKinney said...”
– Cloned puppies may have exposed 31 - year mystery - NYTimes.com
Ummm…. that sure does sound like true love! This has been quite the week for people who’ve changed their identities: Clark Rockefeller, Rielle Hunter, Joyce McKinney… I guess that almost everything will eventually...
“Christian Gerhartsreiter had an air of superiority, his brother said. He would...”
– Rockefeller revelation: ’It seems you found my brother’ - BostonHerald.com
Never trust a man with a hyphen. 