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Garrison Keillor's Stalker to Stand Down

Funnyish radio celeb Garrison Keillor, of Lake Woebegone fame, dropped a restraining order against his stalker after she said she wouldn't bother him again. "I guess he realized it was all just a big misunderstanding," the stalkette told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Right! The 43-year-old woman, Andrea Campbell, had been visiting his neighbor and sending "bizarre" gifts of a "petrified alligator's foot, dead beetles and poems," the Baker City Herald reports. Hey, what's one person's "stalkerish" is another person's "romantic." More »

12:10 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Sheila
1,204 views, 38 comments

Latest by The Authority: Why, oh why, can't these lithium-malnourished Doctor Who fans stalk Hannibal Lecter on fava bean Fridays? more »

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Malcolm Gladwell v. Adam Gopnik

Last night at Capitale, The Moth celebrated ten years of storytelling. Media polymath Kurt Andersen, Jewy comedian Andy Borowitz, Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, potter Jonathan Adler and Lili Taylor all sat at one table in the front. Harper's figurehead Lewis Lapham didn't show. The main event: The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik would engage in heated storytelling duel with co-worker Malcolm Gladwell. Real estate mini-mogul Adam Gordon sat at the same table as Garrison Keillor, who was there to receive the first-ever Moth Award Honoring the Art of the Raconteur. Keillor looks like Dwight Schrute from "The Office" and is much funnier in person than on his overly precious show. Also he spat chevre on my hands and I haven't washed them since. Nikola Tamindzic was there, drawn like a shutterbug to an event.
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12:10 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Joshua Stein
6,066 views, 22 comments

Latest by dweeb: I once attended an event where I was the only guest wearing a suit. Spotting me, and wanting to initiate conversation, Garrison Keillor inquired, "You are a theatrical producer?" Thus my fake career was born. more »

"Garrison Keillor has gotten a restraining order against a Georgia woman he claims has made telephone calls and sent him explicit e-mails and disturbing gifts, including a petrified alligator foot and dead beetles." [AP]

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Remainders: Garrison Keillor Hates The Gays

  • "The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men — sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers and go in for flamboyance now and then themselves. If they want to be accepted as couples and daddies, however, the flamboyance may have to be brought under control." [Salon]
  • The Times has invented another new way to charge money for things that used to be free: Times Reader will now cost $14.95/month. Revenue streams! Verticals! [Frank Barnako]
  • Angelina Jolie is one step closer to buying another child. [Us Weekly]
  • Tara Subkoff's new higher-priced fashion line "reflects a dark complacency, with a little bit of hope, of course." Of course! [WWD]
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    7:00 PM on Wed Mar 14 2007
    By Emily Gould
    3,605 views, 29 comments

    Latest by milovoo: It's only the dark hair that keeps that drawing from looking more like Andy Rooney than Keillor. Perhaps cloning science has been around longer than we knew. more »