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Photo of Britney Spears In Tiny Car Makes Us Wistful

We know it's been around the internet a couple times since yesterday, but we just find something so lovely and sad and telling about this photograph of a be-tube-topped Britney Spears, alone in a sea of asphalt, riding atop a tiny Escalade. Our Daytime Editor Alex Pareene says, "Here is your 21st century, America!" Here it is indeed. Puttering slowly in circles, bottled water clutched in hand, the hot sun beating down. Some days it feels as though we will do nothing else but form those lazy circles for the rest of time, until the day we all sigh, nod our heads, and disappear.

2:53 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Richard
10,706 views, 77 comments

Latest by VeganRampage: Should I shoot myself now or wait until I get home? Oh, I AM home. more »

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'TNR' Mocks Author, Goes on Forever

Novelist Nicholson Baker's new non-fiction tome, Human Smoke, details World War II through a series of wispy, "Gawker-like vignettes" of 100 to 200 words each. The New Republic's Anne Applebaum thinks that approach is crap. More »

11:20 AM on Sat May 10 2008
By ian spiegelman
2,564 views, 180 comments

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Britney Spears: Philosopher

I know you've been dying to know what Britney Spears has to say on the whole Heath Ledger hullabaloo. Well, she's finally weighed in and her statement is as sad, telling, and oddly beautiful as one could hope. When asked about the young actor's death she says, while sitting in her car and lighting a cigarette, in a strange British-ish accent, "He's still here. No one ever really dies." If you care to, it's about a minute into this TMZ clip. The rest of the video is pretty existential too. Sigh. [TMZ]

2:26 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Richard Lawson
4,335 views, 42 comments

Latest by clickable: @CodePink: I want a video of me, rich enough not to care that my hair is a greasy mess, smoking a cigarette in my baby pink Porsche, with my $8,000 black croc Kelly bag on the passenger seat next to me, more »

Fabian Basabe Asks: Fat Oprah or Wired Whoopi? Faded it-boy and friend to all races Fabian Basabe knows Oprah, good people, and he will not have you bad-mouthing her. From, ugh, his blog:

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"Corporate entities are now kind of accepted in a way that's made them almost invisible to our sense of objective awareness that they're corporate entities," said Late Capitalism and Its Discontents 101 TA 'While You Were Sleeping' star Bill Pullman. Um, so ... what was he doing at a party thrown in honor of Tommy Hilfiger again? [NYO]

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