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#goodbye
Sometimes, the Best Decisions Are the Ones That Are Made for You
Here's my last round of layoff horror stories: my own! So, let me just say, as I eeeease out of the office: About a month ago, worried for some reason I couldn't place... More » -
#vice
OMG! Are You Worried About Third-Hand Smoke?
We love to ingest smoke the old-fashioned way: straight into our lungs. Second-hand smoke will do in a pinch. But third-hand smoke? What kind of smoking hysteria is that? More » -
#books
Holocaust Memoir Cancelled to Save Oprah's Heart
The maybe-fake Holocaust memoir we told you about—by Herman Rosenblat, who says he married the girl who tossed him apples over the fence when he was a boy in a concentration camp—has been cancelled. More » -
#politics
How Many Times Can Caroline Kennedy Say 'You Know' in Under a Minute?
Aspiring senator Caroline Kennedy might want to hire a vocal coach in addition to her PR help. Today's NYT headline reads "As a Candidate, Kennedy Is Eloquent but Elusive," but the accompanying audio clip says:
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#magazines
Radar: The Final Insult
Radar magazine died a particularly gruesome death in its third iteration: bought by AMI, its website was gutted and replaced by a terrible Zombie Radar. Now, print mag subscribers received one last insult via postcard: More » -
#weekinreview
The Week We Got Thee Behind Us, Santa
Even Christmas was a disappointment this year. Can we move on to 2009 already? This week, it was the holi-daze! More » -
#tv
Sopranos Actor Commits Suicide
Sadly, suicides (and pet deaths) rise during the holidays. John Costelloe, the actor best known for playing Johnny Cakes on the Sopranos, was found dead in from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. More » -
#obama
How Obama (and the Paparazzi) Spent His Christmas Vacation
Obama attended a private memorial service for the grandmother who helped raise him, Madelyn Dunham, in Hawaii. He and family members scattered her ashes in the Pacific. They weren't alone: the trusty paparazzi came along, too!
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#christmas
Merry Christmas from a Prehistoric LOLCat
That's it from us today. We're taking tomorrow off and will be back up and running on Friday. Have a wonderful Christmas/FourthFifthDay of Hannukah/Thursday. More » -
#theinternet
Great, Now We're Going to Have to Use Facebook
When you get laid off, you have to give people a new way to get in touch with you. Now we're regretting that, unlike Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici, we never became an "accidental Facebook slut." More »
