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'Times' Quote of the Day: Women!
The guys out there know what the New York Times is talking about, right? Old ladies just don't know when to quit! Sheesh.
Cat Ladies the New Manbabies
Remember the manbabies? Now we have something even better: cat ladies! Christ, is this going to be one of those tumblr-to-book things? [Cat Ladies]
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The Times Exposes 'Girly Gawker'
Aww, our adorable li'l sister site Jezebel is almost a year old and is being celebrated with its very own Times feature. Yay! "Like a digital-age upgrade of Sassy, the 1990s-era indie-feminist teenage magazine, Jezebel appeals to a young, urban demographic, with a roster of editors whose strong voices inspire loyal followings. Ms. [Tracie 'Slut Machine'] Egan shares details of her intimate life that are not safe for work. Maureen Tkacik, the site’s features editor, who is known as Moe, gravitates toward politics and speaks out against what she calls the 'idiocracy.' Dodai Stewart, the senior editor, pokes fun at magazines and catalogs; in a feature called LOLVogue, she writes satirical captions for fashion spreads." And then come the commenters... More »
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Breaking: Girls Wear Girl Clothes
We were going to hate on this prototypically obvious Thursgay Styles piece about how some women wear dresses even though shockingly unfeminine "trousers" are the next big thing (Katharine Hepburn could not be reached for comment) but we ended up being kinda charmed by it because basically it's Spring and it's getting nice out and Guy Trebay quotes that bit in Citizen Kane where Mr. Bernstein talks about the girl on the ferry. Are we going soft? If it helps, the piece on how men are wearing patterns that clash on purpose suitably annoyed us. Anyway: pants! On girls! That'll be the day! [NYT]
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Spiers, Cox Get New Titles For Same Jobs
Wonkette founding editor Ana Marie Cox is a permalancer! She broke the news on Facebook and Twitter, natch. She's not leaving Time, where she's currently the Washington Editor for Time.com, but she's now a contractor instead of a staffer. She'll still blog it up for them at Swampland, as most Gawker Media alums are generally forced to do, but she now has "more freedom to write in other print outlets," according to Time. AMC says the change was her suggestion. Oh, and Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers is now a contributor to Fortune. This news was broken properly, in a newspaper column, and not on an Internet thingy. (Spiers has a column in this week's Fortune about inflation and the price of steak. It's probably good and smart but we didn't understand any of it except the steak bit.)
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HuffPo Blogger Wonders Where the Ladies Are
According to her bio, Jessica Wakeman is "an associate blog editor at Huffington Post." We are not really sure what that means except that she writes totally adorable blog posts about media and all the people in media who she loves, like a little Rachel Sklar. Last time we checked in, she was distraught to learn that to "make it" in New York, "you need a strategy." Her mentor Vanessa Grigoriadis told her! Gosh! Wakeman decided she better stick with the web, a safe space for earnest and sincere young women, where Wakeman can work on writing about important cultural things, like her idol Vanessa or "Ariel Levy or Emily Nussbaum." Today, Wakeman is a little bit upset at her favoritest magazine ever! More »
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Who are The Desperate Women in Hollywood?
Two crazy stories about crazy ladies who try to get what the want.- First, from the Mirror: "Which Hollywood actress is stalking a British reality TV star to the point pals have confiscated her mobile to stop her calling the lowlife?" Ohh, is someone stalking Bear Grylls?
- The next is from Crazy Days and Nights: "This B/C list television actress who was one of the stars of a very long running hit show is on a new show now. She has made it very clear to producers that she is willing to do anything to stay on the show longer and is already dropping hints about how she is going to make sure she is the main focus of the show." I hate it when people try to keep their job.
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Two Minutes of Probably Bad Show
There's a promo clip on YouTube for 12 Miles of Bad Road, the comedy series that HBO recently let go. It seems to be about an obscenely wealthy clan of drinkin', fightin', and screwin' Texans. It doesn't look all that funny or new, but I do love that it stars Lily Tomlin and Mary Kay Place. Maybe if the show never goes anywhere (though, six episodes have already been filmed) Mary Kay can get Lily a recurring role on Big Love. There's always room for more wives! Clip after the jump. More »
How To Trick People Into Reading Your University Press Book
"When people talk about 'hooking up,' they're referring to a subculture with a complex set of rules and expectations. Not surprisingly, most of what they know about student 'hookup' culture comes from alarmist news reports of 'risky sex' and movies like American Pie 3, not serious scholarship. In her new book, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (New York University Press, 2008), Bogle wields the tools of the sociologist, employing in-depth interviews with students and graduates from two unnamed universities — one a large East Coast public university, the other a smaller Roman Catholic institution in the Northeast — and placing the culture of hooking up in a historical context." [Inside Higher Ed]
"When people talk about 'hooking up,' they're referring to a subculture with a complex set of rules and expectations. Not surprisingly, most of what they know about student 'hookup' culture comes from alarmist news reports of 'risky sex' and movies like American Pie 3, not serious scholarship. In her new book, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (New York University Press, 2008), Bogle wields the tools of the sociologist, employing in-depth interviews with students and graduates from two unnamed universities — one a large East Coast public university, the other a smaller Roman Catholic institution in the Northeast — and placing the culture of hooking up in a historical context." [Inside Higher Ed]
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NY Jr. League: Chauncey, Don't You DARE Email That 'NYTimes' Story!
Hilarity ensues over at the New York Times' City Room blog, where you can learn all about a slapfest going on at the Junior League, the women's charity-cum-country-club. It seems the Junyeah League is all a-twitter over some missing cash and dreary financials, which the Times wrote about yesterday. Their big priority now? Making sure the paper doesn't get a whole bunch of pageviews off it. Catty! Muffy too! The board is issuing email reprimands like this one: "Please DO NOT under any circumstances e-mail the article to your committee volunteers, friends, etc. The Times tracks the “most popular” hits and we don’t need any more exposure than we already have." Ah, yes, the city Junior League, driver of national traffic, bold supporter of boardroom disclosure. This probably means we'll never get in, doesn't it. Damn.
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'Times' Stops Just Short Of Calling Ivanka Trump A Strumpet
To be clear, of all the Trumps, Ivanka is our favorite, Her dad has a big face and is just really horrible. Of her two brothers, Donald Jr. is a joke and Eric, well, Eric is pretty much an unknown. Hell, he might be as great at Ivanka and probably he wouldn't have been called shameless scheming Delilah by Times-lady Ruth La Ferla. No such luck for toothsome Ivanka; today's Thursday Styles piece is lady-dismissive in a complicated way. More »
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'All My Children' "Star" Matthew Alan Goldman To Have The Worst Party Of All Time
Way too many people have received an invitation to the birthday party of Matthew Alan Goldman tonight at Tonic. But then again, maybe Matthew Alan Goldman, who sometimes goes by MAG, has a lot of friends. Surely you've seen his work. He's not only a "star" of the soap opera All My Children but also New York City's Newest Top Model. That's according to the invitation sent out by a party promoter named Don Carlo IV. What Don Carlo IV lacks in terms of... lots of things, he makes up for in hyperbole and unmitigated enthusiasm. More »
"Joe Mode is seeking single gay professional males 25 - 50 years old to be participants at a tv show taping of the new Lifetime show, MATT TITUS- MATCHMAKER. If you are interested please send an email to wayoutworld@yahoo.com to confirm. You will be attending a mixer where Matt will be talking with an interview prospect dates for his client on this episode. Just show up by 7pm at the Stitch lounge. There will be hors d'oevours served." (Really, can no one spell hors d'oeuvres any more?) [Sponge Cell]
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller finished War & Peace yesterday! Which means he read he the whole thing in a week, while gallivanting around Iowa following Presidential campaigns and comparing all the candidates to doomed Tolstoy figures and imaging old Leo "tut-tutting from the press section" at all the idiot Iowans foolish enough to believe that the suit they nominate will have any power to affect the inexorable march of history. ['War and Peace' on the Campaign Trail [NYT]
"President Bush, right, smiles after presenting author Harper Lee, left, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony for the 2007 Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, in the East Room at the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)"
emily and michelle
This video of Emily and Michelle's potluck dinner for potential roommates will be the primary source material regarding what it meant to be alive in New York in the first decade of this century. Sociologists of the future will be as confused about why eight people actually came to the random potluck in Astoria—people who answered an ad for a roommate on Craigslist and suddenly found themselves sitting on a couch listening to Emily freestyle on her acoustic guitar. Only later on will the people of the future think to question what "Wonderwall" might have meant. (Quality disclaimer: We certainly did not shoot this video. Nor have we ever met these people.)
The Great Astoria Potluck Video
This video of Emily and Michelle's potluck dinner for potential roommates will be the primary source material regarding what it meant to be alive in New York in the first decade of this century. Sociologists of the future will be as confused about why eight people actually came to the random potluck in Astoria—people who answered an ad for a roommate on Craigslist and suddenly found themselves sitting on a couch listening to Emily freestyle on her acoustic guitar. Only later on will the people of the future think to question what "Wonderwall" might have meant. (Quality disclaimer: We certainly did not shoot this video. Nor have we ever met these people.)
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