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Whittling Down the Reasons Sarah Palin Quit Governing Alaska
It has been days since Empress Sarah Palin quit Alaska, forever. And no one yet knows why! Her "explanation" lacked, uh, actual coherent reasons. But there are theories.
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Listicle
Alanis Morissette and Five Other Singers Who Should Act More
Alanis Morissette—angry/thoughtful lady-pop voice of the 90s—sometimes acts. She showed up as God in Dogma and a bisexual on Sex and the City. And now she's appearing on Weeds for seven episodes. And we're pretty happy about it. More » -
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The Light Cigarettes That Defined Us
The Senate has just passed a sweeping bill that essentially bans light cigarettes, as they're marketed as healthier when, really, they're not. So no more of your favorite iconic brands, which are mostly smoked by the youngs. Brands like: More »
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breakdowns
The 5 Types of American Idol Watchers
Junk-haus auteur Quentin Tarantino is a guest judge on American Idol tonight, for the second time. He's an unabashed, earnest fan of the show. It got us thinking. What kind of people watch Idol? More » -
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Most Humiliating Moments in Vanity Fair's Arthur Sulzberger Profile
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. cancelled plans to cooperate with Mark Bowden's profile of him for Vanity Fair. Didn't matter: Bowden's piece is embarrassing enough as a write-around.
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By Ryan TateComment by Tweezergal: I haven't read the piece yet, but if this is ALL there is to the embarrassing tidbits, who cares? Are... 9 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity science
Peaches Geldof Goes 'Lesbian' In Latest Lindsay Lohan Imitation
Peaches Geldof just made headlines in the London tabloids for announcing on Facebook she has "married" her lady DJ friend. It's a joke/publicity stunt, of course, but it did get us thinking: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by mladen: Pete Townshend admitted that he had accessed a website that had kidporn on it and looked at one page on... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
Who We Talk About When We Talk About Gossip
Now that Liz Smith has been put out to stud, we need to reevaluate our idea of "gossip." (Probably needed to do this anyway). Who's worth gossiping about anymore? Well, not Paris Hilton. More »
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Top Ten Moments of the Oscars
An on-stage musical extravaganza. Two epic gay rights speeches. Sean Penn's upset win for Milk. The 2009 Oscars were easily the gayest yet. More » -
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Slurring Japan Finance Minister Only Latest Panic Casualty
Japan's finance minister resigned over this video of him sleeping and slurring at a G-7 meeting in Rome. If he was drunk, he wouldn't be the first to buckle under economic stress. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Too sad for a bacon joke: Geir Haarde? Like Geirhardt from 30 Rock?! Awesome. more » | Other threads
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holidays
Things To Do On Valentine's Day When You're Lonely and Miserable
Valentine's Day is approaching, and that's bad news for singles in New York. Restaurants are all crowded and mostly expensive prix fixe menus and there are kissing jerks everywhere. So what should singletons do? More »
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Comment by TheExperience: You forgot "Realize Valentine's Day isn't a real day of any significance and do what you would do on any... 11 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
Four Theories On the Rihanna-Chris Brown Blowup
Following Chris Brown's alleged attack on girlfriend Rihanna, the rumors flew: Brown tried to kill her; he bit her fingers; Rihanna is in hiding. But what sparked the whole incident? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Ms. Givings: This can't be the first time there was violence in their relationship physical or otherwise. Doesn't it tend to build... 24 Responses | Other threads
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obamarahma
All of the Obama Scandals (So Far)
What happened to No-Drama Obama? As the blithe candidate of hope, he led a leakproof, gaffe-resistant campaign. Ever since the election, he's been exploding with scandal and gossip. Fantastic! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: um, shit happened, he dealt with it unlike the previous occupant, who just lied harder see the difference? 5 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
Five Possible Boardgame-to-Movie Adaptations
Universal announced today that they're planning a live-action movie version of the game Candy Land. You read that right. Ridley Scott's working on a Monopoly movie. So what boardgames could be next? Let's speculate. More »
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clips
Top Super Bowl Moments
Between the Steelers' 100-yard intercept touchdown and The Boss' halftime show camera crotch-slam, the Super Bowl was bundles of fun before the second half even started. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by leonleonleon: Bahahaha, that Hulu commercial is the best ad so far. Alec Baldwin wins again 4 Responses | Other threads
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video listicle
The Movies of Old, Violent New York
The media seems to be pining for the crime-fueled depravity of New York in the 1970's and 80's. It was so gritty and exciting. Wasn't it? Or have they just seen too many movies? More »
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Comment by Pepé Le Douche: You are also forgetting: "Autumn in New York" with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder. Cause watching Richard Gere pretend to romance Winona... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
Five Possible Movie Roles for Olivia Palermo
Aw, that's cute. Reality stain Olivia Palermo—the bitchy also-ran on The City—wants to be a "serious actress". What kind of roles could she play? Let's speculate after the jump. More » -
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List Proves Thomas Friedman Still Important
Oh, good, Forbes has listed all the important liberals, in order of importance. God bless this new Obama era of paying attention to Times columnists again! More »
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By PareeneComment by saythatscool: The mustache says "I'm cheap" but the folded hands say "I'm intense." Wait does Pope Peeps sport a 'stache? The... 10 Responses | Other threads
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Obamanaugural
Top Ten Moments of Obama's Inauguration
Would you like a day's worth of American Promise and Democracy summed up in ten brief internet videos? Yes you can click and watch the top ten moments of the Inauguration! More »
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By PareeneComment by banmojo: once you nObama lovers get tired of sucking on his schlong long enough to look around and realize that he's... 18 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The Top Ten People Who Should Be Unemployed in a Just 2009
Obviously we live in a cruel and absurd universe of well-rewarded idiocy and undeserved second chances, but if we didn't, these are the ten people you'd meet in the nu-depression's breadlines. More »
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By PareeneComment by CodePink: Those women in the LIPSTICK BUNGLE picture really have shiny legs. Holy crap, those are shiny. Are my legs supposed... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The 5 Types Of New Year's Eve Parties
New Year's Eve—the most important drinking night of the year—is almost upon us! What kind of party are you going to? Only five types exist, which I will detail for you after the jump. More »
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Comment by kityglitr: Wow. It's rather obvious that you people are NYC types. I grew up in a city, but I live in... 11 Responses | Other threads
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terror
Nearly 200 Dead in India's Worst Terror Attack of All Time Ever
We don't know about you, but where we come from a "Thanksgiving massacre" is what happens to the Detroit Lions, not a disturbing, well-coordinated terrorist attack in the world's fifth-largest city, involving anywhere from two dozen to 50 terrorists, many of whom haven't been caught, who had no demands but death and destruction, leaving 170 dead so far. Here is your amusing Weekend Gawker listicle: our top four favorite horrific descriptions of the violence in Mumbai this week! More »
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By PareeneComment by flossy: I suppose it depends on how you define terrorism, but 200 dead is a drop in the bloody bucket of... 40 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
Who Will Replace Our Retiring Movie Stars?
Every movie star everywhere is quitting! In today's case of old Clint Eastwood it makes sense, because he's, y'know, old and his directing career has been a lot more illustrious than his acting career has for the past decade or so. But the once-promising, now-squandered Joaquin Phoenix? Baby mill Angelina Jolie? Nicole Kidman?? If they leave, then what are we to do? Find new movie stars, I guess. Trouble is, there aren't really any good, young understudies waiting in the wings. But there might be some! We'll take a look at who could replace these four retiring (or maybe semi-retiring) actors after the jump. More » -
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Television for News Junkies Who Are Tired of Watching the News
So the election is over! What good news for us and what terrible news for... um, news. All the CNN and MSNBC and Fox junkies who were glued to the tube while the election Wehrmacht rolled its ruinous iron wheels over the land will now be leaving the news behind and returning to their regularly scheduled shitty programming. Or at least the people in charge of that shitty programming hope so! It's kind of a crock theory because news nets' ratings weren't that high that they seemed to be distracting a huge amount of TV watchers, and regular television was in a decline long before people started caring about politics anyway. But there must be some folks who traded their CSI for their POTUS and would now like an inroad back to the glorious world of primetime entertainment TV, hopefully with a methadone-dash of politics thrown in to add a bit of spice. And we've got a guide to Politics-related television for them, after the jump! How handy! More » -
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A Gawker Guide to the Most Awesomest Election Ever
It's over! It's all over! Tomorrow the campaign will be done! No more caring about what crazy things John McCain and his bitchy friend said on the news, no more feeling bad for him despite yourself, no more checking 538 (sorry Nate Silver, you're obsolete now!), no more forwarded YouTube clips from your mom, or your coworker, or some lunatic internet person. Boy, if we were assholes, we'd write something about how this was "the YouTube election." But instead we will just post the YouTubes themselves, from 2004 through the never-ending primaries, through the finally ending general election. All your favorites are here! Come pal around with crying Hillary the Senator, stare deep into Mike Gravel's eyes, and don't look your opponent in the eyes, after the jump. More »
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video listicle
Five Celebrities In The Tank For Sanctimonious Politics
As AlleyInsider notes today, little online video clips have helped shape the election. And you know who else has helped? Celebrities!! Yes the rich and frivolous famous folks who would like to gay marry the sound of their own voices have been out in force, most supporting a Arab man who drives a fancy Volvo full of explosives named Barack Obama. Though John McCain has had some vocal supporters too, most notably the braying little marmot named The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck. After the jump we'll take a look at Ms. Hasselbeck and several other celebs who have lent their questionable names to their candidates' causes. More »
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Comment by PrincessKashmir: Richard, you're never lacking in the awesome turn-of-phrase department, but "braying little marmot" is the best thing ever. 7 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The 5 Costumes You Meet At A Halloween Party
Tomorrow is Halloween! It's a sacred holiday for children, what with the heaping mounds (if you do not feel like a nut) of candy and the fun, scaaarryyy costumes. The costume aspect also makes it something of an important day for adults because, to paraphrase the Dead Kennedys, you get a night of being someone else before you step back into your mold the next day. But really, you're always you and one can tell a lot about a person from their choice of Halloween attire. Really, there are five types of costumes (and only five types of people!), and we'll dissect them—and what they say about their wearer—after the jump.
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economic dystopia
Novelists Write Our Way Out of The Financial Crisis
Economic analysts on the right and left continue to openly suggest that we may not have hit bottom yet. If you want hope, don't talk to an economist, ask a novelist. Fiction writers tend to have a more optimistic view: once they've thrust characters into a financial abyss, they are forced to script a path out of it. What have our finest authors found to redeem us from this depression? More »
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Comment by BadUncle: Why not just stick to Steinbeck? "The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
Five Real 2008 Election Winners
The "voting" bit of the endless 2008 election has not yet happened, but honestly the winner of that particular contest is of little concern to anyone but plumbers and unemployed auto workers and ladies who want their precious "abortions." No, from here, two weeks out from Election Day, with Obama suspending his campaign and John McCain abandoning swing states, we can already plainly see who's really come out on top over these last couple months. Media whores! And, you know, media people who we actually like and wouldn't therefore call "whores." After the jump, the five real winners of the 2008 elections.
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By PareeneComment by lobstr: Dunno, despite the funny three minutes of Fey-does-Palin, SNL as a whole is still horribly unfunny and unwatchable. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
'Haaretz' Lists Jews Who Control America
Well isn't this handy! Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz has produced a list of the 36(!) Jews "who have shaped the 2008 U.S. election." That is a lot of them! It really takes so many to run the world? This is not even all the Jews involved in deciding who will next lead this glorious Christian nation! "But the Jewish vote remains a key element in battleground states, and, playing a wide variety of roles, Jews have helped to shape the campaigns. Thirty-six of them are mentioned below. This list is by no means all-inclusive, and, for considerations of space, many Jews who have played active parts in the campaigns do not appear," Haaretz explains. Still, it is nice of them to provide in one convenient location all the people who the crazies will blame for stealing the election next month. Streisand! (Listed: the original Lehman brother who is long dead. Not listed: all the other evil Wall Street people who burned all the money.) [Haaretz]
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racism
The Racist Anti-Obama GOP Newsletter Listicle!
Boy, there are some real wackos out there, right? And this election, whoo, it really brings out the worst in the crazies. Stuffed monkeys with Obama stickers, shouts of "kill him," insane email forwards, there are countless examples from this miserable election of outright racism. But those are just fringe losers—bunch of racist nobodies, right? That's why it's fun that this week's three worst examples of outright bullshit hate-mongering all come from professional, official Republican party staffers!
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By PareeneComment by SwissMister: Is it wrong to hope the people who made these things get ass cancer? 12 Responses | Other threads
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jim cramer
Jim Cramer's Erratic Year
Jim Cramer has changed his mind! Just last week, you may recall, the shouty CNBC stock picker appeared close to tears as he begged Americans to pull all the cash they'd need for the next five years out of the crippled stock market. Well, whatever, that was last week. Now he says that we've already reached "the beginning of the end of the crisis." That sure was fast! This, of course, is in line with his (physical and intellectual) penchant for wild gesticulation. Let's take a brief look back at Mr. Cramer's unpredictable recent past, shall we? More »
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Listicle
5 Celebrities Who Really Hate the Paparazzi
Actor Tobey Maguire has had another confrontation with the ever-dogged paparazzi, this incident ending in bloodshed. Apparently, his friend punched some photographer and was hauled off to jail. This is the second such outburst for the Spider-Man star, but he's not the only one to lash out at the wicked, prying photogs and their gaggle of flashing lights and inane questions. After the jump take a took at five other celebrities who have stood up and barked "No!" at the insidious rabble. More »
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Comment by KarenUhOh: I've met the kid in the Dillon video. He's a pud. A well-spoken, energetic little rascal. But a pud. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
Cosmo Elects Johnny Depp Sexiest Man in the World
Cosmopolitan (I'm assuming the British version because Gordon fucking Ramsey made the list too) says that 21 Jump Street star Johnny Depp—who's also in movies—is the hottest male on earth. Usual suspect George Clooney is runner up. And (what?!) Jake Gyllenhaal comes in third place. Gyllenhaal? Like, from Bubble Boy? The rest of the list after the jump. Spoiler alert: Manshark Michael Phelps didn't make the cut. More »
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take a chill pill
Today In Cindy McCain's Chills
- MC: Did you get a chill?
CM: I did. I got a chill, and I also was very poignantly reminded of just how strong my husband is, how tough and determined. -Cindy McCain to Marie Claire on visiting her husbands former hospital in Vietnam. - "The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote to not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body let me tell you.” -Cindy McCain in Pennsylvania today.
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By PareeneComment by Chocolate Sex Bunny: Hmmm...I wonder if this gives her a chill: Some cavalier, rich, trust fund baby slut being the willing mistress to a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
Beauty Tricks Of The Candidates
Remember when John Edwards got a couple of $400 haircuts and everyone made fun of him and called him a spendthrift pretty boy? Rush Limbaugh said he might be the "first woman president"! Har har! (And, remember, when Edwards slept with that lady and maybe had a love child and how the hair didn't seem like such a big deal after all?) Well, Edwards, in truth, isn't the only of the recent candidates to undergo special, fancy, or expensive cosmetic treatment. Sarah Palin maybe has lip tattoos! John McCain has the same makeup artist as Clay Aiken! Joe Biden maybe gets Botox! And Barack Obama... um... covers up his gray hair? Indeed. If you're curious to know more, we've put together a little compendium of these bits of cosmetic detritus for you, after the jump.
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theories
What Killed The Viral Video?
Recently Videogum did a little deep dive into the world of viral videos, and came back with some interesting findings. It seems that 2006 was the peak year for dumb mashups, terrible singers, heartwarming lion hugs, and all manner of other popular YouTube crap (basically all those people that got killed on that one episode of South Park). So what's happened since then? Where have all the virals gone? Well, we think they're kinda dead, and after the jump we'll tell you why.
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5 Reasons This Depression Really Is Going To Be Fun!
We're not even officially in a recession, and already the culture czars over at New York have dubbed the economic crisis precipitated by our financial system's collapse The Greatest Depression! Such hyperbole, I know! So what makes the tag feel so goddamn right? Other than the fact that I think it is really great I don't have to write about subprime celebrities anymore? I found five things that are basically all the same thing and formed a little listicle!
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By MoeComment by Smitros: The algorithm sentence in Point 4 is brilliant. It's like people learned nothing from the failures of the Black-Scholes model and... 12 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The Many (Rumored) Loves of Anderson Cooper
Dreamy Silver Fox Anderson Cooper may have a new boyfriend. Village Voice gossip Michael Musto is doing some whispering about a strapping young lad named Jonathan Chase who may or may not be canoodling with the esteemed CNN anchor. Cute! We care not because we're pointing fingers at a gay person, but because it's as newsworthy (or, at least, gossipworthy) as who Kate Hudson or Leonardo DiCaprio is dating. We're, um, orientation blind. After the jump, we've provided a small listicle (because why the hell not) detailing some of the Coop's previous romantic dalliances.
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5 Of Gossip Girl's Product Placement-iest Moments
My distinguished colleagues at Daily Intel are in something of a snit today over some recent cameo-casting news from the cruel temptresses at Gossip Girl. On an upcoming episode of the unpopular teen soap will be, of course, a party. And at that party will be two editors from In Style magazine, making cameos as themselves. Also making cameos will be dozens of brand-name products. Then all of that will be tied up in a nice little bundle and covered in the magazine as a "real event." Whee for awkward, product placement synergy! But it's not the first time it's happened on the show. After the jump, we'll take a look at four other cameos, of people and things, that have appeared on the show and rate their Product Placement-ness, on scale from one to ten. More »
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Listicle
Best Cities for Singles: Forbes' Wrongest List Ever
Aways handy with a dubious listicle, Forbes magazine is presenting us with its ranking of America's "Best Cities For Singles." Could Atlanta really be No. 1? Maybe! Dallas at No. 3? Perhaps! But there is no way in hell New York City should come in 8th place. Why? For the same reason this list ranks NYC as number one in the "Cool" category. More »
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Comment by wholenuther: Didn't Marie Claire recently pick Milwaukee as America's coolest city? These lists are all made by New Yorkers who know... 12 Responses | Other threads
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