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Media Bubble: Ben Brantley Can't Find A Gay

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Big gay powerhouse Stuart Elliott reports that The Week will publish an online-only issue about the environment. The mag claims it's an attempt to spare trees; we see it as more of an admission that no one gives a shit about the environment enough to pay for a magazine about it. [NYT]

Stealth mogul, theater-owner and creationist Philip Anschutz needs to intelligently design a plan to keep himself off the witness stand. [LAT]

Larry King will live forever. [NYT]

Page Six speculates that "The Today Show" is losing viewers "because it has abandoned hard news." Yes, really, that's what they said. [NYP]

Crony of incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown named chairman of BBC. [Guardian]

Chicagoans really like the word "Chicago." You know what else they really like? Clogging their arteries with greasy food. Seriously, fuck Chicago. [CHICAGO Tribune, via]

Where's our damn Peabody? We thought that suicide post made us a lock. [LAT]

10:20 AM on Thu Apr 5 2007
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the third person at 09:52 AM on 04/05/07
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"What are we going to do?" wondered Elliot. "Beat them with the Sunday Times?"

I think the NYT may have just found a slogan for its first T-shirt.
JupiterPluvius at 10:21 AM on 04/05/07
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I had loved the idea of all the gay Times men hanging out with each other--Frank Bruni and Ben Brantley as reimagined by Tom of Finland, lounging around their workstations in leather chaps and jaunty Greek sailor hats--but Brantley had to go and ruin the whole illusion.

Sigh. Back to the Mitch McConnell/Dick Cheney slashfic, I guess.
marvel girl at 10:32 AM on 04/05/07
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woah... wheres this "fuck chicago" come from? I lived in Chicago for 17 years before I moved to New York, and I can honestly say that Chicago is WAY cooler of a place, if only because its devoid of pretentious assholes that think their city is the only one that matters in America. Even though half those assholes arent even FROM new york! you can "execute" me if you want, but I'm sorry, I'm gonna take this personally. Chi town for life motherfuckers!
rod townsend at 10:38 AM on 04/05/07
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Connectedness Index: 276

@marvel girl: how very chicago of you.

p.s. the only cool thing jean grey ever did was become dark phoenix and die
narnio at 11:06 AM on 04/05/07
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Yeah, fuck other cities! Right on! Greenpoint rules!
tammyfey at 11:31 AM on 04/05/07
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@marvel girl: Excuse me, we are pretentious assholes who know this city is the only one that matters in America.
marvel girl at 11:38 AM on 04/05/07
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@momo: how could you possibly say that? Jean Grey is THE most powerful mutant on this planet. how that isnt cool is beyond me.
marvel girl at 12:02 PM on 04/05/07
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scratch that. shes the most powerful superhero (maybe besides the sentry) on earth, shes saved wolverines life countless times, saved the world from the shi'ar empire, and has fucked both wolverine and cyclops, something i'm sure youve only dreamed of.
Eunice X at 12:23 PM on 04/05/07
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> [Jean Grey] has fucked both wolverine and cyclops,
> something i'm sure youve only dreamed of.

We're criticizing Momo for not sleeping with non-existent things? Because, you know, he hasn't done Pikachu, or Mayor Bloomberg's sense of style.
Brad Walsh at 12:34 PM on 04/05/07
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brantley looks like a mackerel
InsideOut at 01:13 PM on 04/05/07
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As a resident of the Flyover Zone myself, I'm curious, MarvelGirl, as to what made you move to NYC from Chicago.
narnio at 01:17 PM on 04/05/07
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I nominate everyone who is talking about video games and superheroes. In the comment section. On Gawker.