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    Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta

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    Image of Bunsy Bunsy
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I LOVE Susan Mendik, I don't know why.

    She seems very cool. Plus, the golf thing -- plus 10.
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I just read Bess Rattray Vogue piece on her adoption of her baby in some article that was admonishing Madonna for her adoption of her children from a country that doe snot meet Bess's standards. She has some fucking nerve with all that is known about Ethiopia as a corrupt nation and adoptions in particular. There have been many reports about the specific problem of adoptions in Ethiopia. The State Department spoke about Ethiopia specifically in their address on World Adoption Day last week. She picks the worst but easiest country to adopt from but she criticizes Madonna for doing the same thing in a much harder environment. Madonna could have picked up a kid in Ethiopia in 5 seconds flat, but she fought long and hard for the baby girl that she connected with in Malawi and for that this woman decides to bring up Madge's $800 haircuts and celebrity? How many points can we deduct for hypocrisy ?

    [www.vogue.com]

    [www.cbc.ca]
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/23/09

    @adiam7: I'm an adoptive parent and I've often heard that about certain Ethiopian situations as well.

    But frankly, neither of them get a gold star from me. There are kids right here who need homes too. Think global but act locally.
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/23/09

    @Charlotte Rae's Web: Congratulations on being an adoptive parent! I gree totally on kids in America or in Madge's case England that need homes. Madge seems to be involved in a large scale in helping the situation in Malawi so that's where my gold star for her comes from. If you help anyone anywhere it counts for something right? Ethiopia is such an incredibly corrupt nation, they get billions for food aid and are now -again- facing famine but they sell hectares of farm land to India , China and Saudi Arabia. The land is always in the Oromo region, where those people are opposed to the government and are being systematically killed. I was under the impression that Ethiopia was arid and drought prone, thus their frequent famine problems. I was shocked to learn how much farm land they had.

    [farmlandgrab.org]

    [www.ethiopianreview.com]
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Methinks Bess Rattray is a crafty wench. Grew up on the beach, descended from whalers, and then suddenly needs a sailing lesson in Maine? Something tells me that had there been a corpulent Mainah instead of a laconic Welshman lounging dockside, she would have sailed that boat just fine by herself.
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    Image of karion karion
    11/22/09

    @Tammany_Fall: I heart this comment so hard.

    Sofa king good, Phyllis.
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/22/09

    @Tammany_Fall: Loves it!
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    That rap is hilarious. I loved the name Rainbow Corcoran, normally I would also give her points for the Universal Life minister but since discovering The Alliance of Divine Love & The Church of Spiritual Humanism in last week's announcements the Universal Life ministers have lost their allure. Erika Savage is " an in-house counsel at Interscope Geffen A&M Records in Los Angeles" by day but "founder of PhemPhat Productions, an entertainment company in Toronto that promotes women in hip-hop and produces the annual Honey Jam concert, also in Toronto" by night. Susan Mendik looks AMAZING as a contrast I am offering the 25 years-old Margaret Bruton. I learned something new this week from the Sari Scheer- Samuel Kopel union. I had no idea that a synagogue could be named after a contemporary person .The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue- who knew?
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I refuse to follow links from this column, as much as I love it (it's like a cat that jumps into your lap every Sunday and then pukes the worst of East Coast establishment entitlement into your lap!), so a public must know: does 'below the waste [sic]' mean the peen is, um, something that rhymes with 'een' signifying 'not functioning'?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/22/09

    @ninety_nine: Shit, that reminds me that I meant to include this servicey link:

    [www.google.com]

    PS: meow!
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    11/22/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: "yes and no also, it depends upon portion where he has got attack. Most of the times he is able to have it. And after some days of medication, massaging you can recover some of strength in attacked portion"

    How is babby formed indeed!
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Re: the "copy editing error in the lede of the Times piece" for Mark + Mia:

    "One ride ended in a car crash, leaving him a paralyzed in his senior year in high school.

    What did I win?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/22/09

    @snugbug: dingdingding! My theory is that it originally said "a quadripeligic" but then they changed it (because the article notes that he later regained use of his upper body).

    It's probably dick of me to point that out given all the errors I have in these things every week, but that's the Internet for ya!
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    11/22/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: Maybe they meant to say "a partially paralyzed quadriplegic"?

    We should keep an eye out for the future corrections. Those are sometimes as much fun as the articles themselves! And no need to apologize for errors on a blog--it's not like there are 10 people reviewing your copy before it goes live, as it is the case with the NYT print copy..
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Oo, 'laconic Welshman' is the new 'cellar door.'
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    Hey, God? I would like to look like that sixty-year-old woman as a gift for my upcoming twenty-sixth birthday. Thanks.

    Also, this is the most I have ever liked couples in Altarcations, ever. Except for the happy lesbians who made me cry.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    I want what she's having, even if what she's having is minimally invasive. Ditto! He's four years younger than her, but he looks 20+ years older. If that's surgery, hers is the best I've ever seen, and if it's genetics, more power to her. (If it's clean living too, I may also stand a chance.)

    Really interesting & amusing post.
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    Image of loseroftheyear loseroftheyear
    11/22/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Check out another extremely young looking 60something in today's Business section: [www.nytimes.com]

    It's a trend?
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/22/09

    @loseroftheyear: My Mom is 64 and looks much younger, although she refuses any surgical intervention. As I said, more power to these women.

    #tips
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11/22/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
    If I ever start up a band, I think I'll name it "Farhad Manjoo."
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    Image of DevilsAvocadoRedux DevilsAvocadoRedux
    11/22/09

    @MisterHippity:

    Man jus?
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/15/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings and Their First Wedding Conspiracy Trend
    This was an entertaining read, as ever, Phyllis!. Yet I'm surprised that you awarded +2 points to groom Jesse Weinraub solely because his dad covered presidential politics and the movie business for the NYT for decades.

    If anything, that kind of meta masturbation deserves a -2 score. Lest we forget, Weinraub Père was guilty of romancing studio head Amy Pascal during his "extremely objectively bad-ass" reporting tenure in Hollywood, and also, subsequently, of unleashing upon the world a LAME-ASS play called "The Accomplices."

    Sins of the parents fall upon the children and all that, right?

    That being said, best wishes to the bride & groom.. #weddings
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    11/15/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings and Their First Wedding Conspiracy Trend
    Kay Bailey Hutchinson really needs to stop voting to restrict abortion and start making out with Kathleen Sebelius in a slow, deliberate way that gradually crescendos into Delibes' "The Flower Duet" but with sex.

    Unrelatedly, the fact that your picture of Heinz horseradish is really blurry somehow makes this post even better; kind of adds a spicy tang. #weddings
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/16/09

    @shostakobitch: It's really an important personal victory that one of my columns inspired Kay Bailey Hutchinson / Kathleen Sebelius slashfic and I am being totally sincere about that. #weddings
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    11/15/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings and Their First Wedding Conspiracy Trend
    After last week I actually checked on my horseradish, and it was so past its expiration. Horse-sad-ish, if you won't. #weddings
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    11/15/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings and Their First Wedding Conspiracy Trend
    Brava, as usual, Phyllis.

    Is it revealing that when I read "a delicious addition to the Bloody Mary you are drinking right now, an important part of Passover" I assumed the antecedent to "part" was the Bloody Mary, not the horseradish, and therefore assumed you meant to type "hangover," not "Passover"? #weddings
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    11/15/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings and Their First Wedding Conspiracy Trend
    The real change in this year's Weddings and Celebrations is that people are fooling around (or married) when they meet their soon-to-be significant other. Then they announce this fact to the NYT reporter during the phone interview.

    I have noticed this change because of your insightful summaries, Phyllis. And truly do believe that this fact shows a significant change in the American mentality.

    Everyone cheats or is tempted to cheat, but now the Grey Lady says it's OKAY, because this is how you meet Mr/Ms Wonderful.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/15/09

    @smithhimself: Yeah I mean, it's not so much that I'm even judging -- I realize these things are often fluid; in this case, he had been separated for some time -- but it's just the way they compose the articles I feel like I always make it two or three paragraphs away from the end and then get flicked in the ear with some cleverly-worded little aside about someone's divorce becoming final and I do one of those Scooby-Doo whaaa? head shakes and end up having to re-read the entire piece to see if I missed something crucial.
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    Edited by Phyllis Nefler at 11/15/09 3:34 PM Phyllis Nefler was starred Phyllis Nefler was unstarred
    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    11/15/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: I've thought about asking you to marry me (and yes, we would be in the NY Times with a photograph of the ceremony).

    But my ex-wife would be at the wedding with a large knife and that would ruin your perfect day...
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    Edited by smithhimself at 11/15/09 3:59 PM smithhimself was starred smithhimself was unstarred
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