Sam Rubin, one of the morning anchors at KTLA 5 in Los Angeles, was in the middle of a self-deprecating story about the time his wife asked him, "When did you become the fat one on that show?" when a reporter had to cut in to deliver a breaking totally sick burn.
War Journalism 2009: "Lauer and Roker will have the latest reporting from the war zone"
Oh, look, Jenna "Jenna Bush" Hager is on a morning television show, performing "journalism," for Americans. Finally!
TechCrunch lays out an exclusive spread of leaked Google Calendar screenshots. And it looks like...a calendar. Surprise! Calendar apps are about as distinguishable as Nickelback songs.
TC also hears "serious acquisition rumors" about PubSub after the news subscription company replaces its CEO. Who's buying? …
The Morning News' Choire Sicha (also of East/West) relates his attempt to convert an art-hating dot-commer to a Chelsea gallery gawker. The plan backfires and Choire gets converted: "I stood in the middle of the empty Mary Boone gallery, the most pristine money mill in the world, surrounded by a sold-out show of…
The Morning News, on the propriety of last year's men's fashions for this year's Spring and Summer: "Bowling or gas-station shirts are good for bowling or gas stations, or demonstrating the only known proof for the argument irony is dead. Did we mention Hawaiian shirts are now being shown in the Smithsonian? Leave…
The Morning News' "non-expert" answers the question on everyone's mind: "What would it take for you to have a threesome with me?" The first three criteria: certifiably drunk, not yet 25, single.
The non-expert: threesomes [TMN]
The industrious editors at the Morning News have been spending their time inventing things designed to meet the needs of the lucrative "New York" demographic. Among our favorites: the "Times Wiper," which takes all the "annoying blocks of text" out of the NYT, leaving readers with the comparatively pleasant ads; the…
The Morning News' Maggie Berry offers the definitive guide to dressing like a slut and enjoying it. "If you don't wear daring clothes because you worry about your cattier girlfriends snickering," she writes, "I suggest you lose those particular girlfriends and replace them with a buttery pair of understanding leather…
The Morning News' "Non-Expert" thinks he's found the perfect pick-up line. The caveats? "1) It works better in large cities, where women and men are more likely to be dressed up; 2) It does not work at the gym, unless you're gay; and 3) It will fail if you say it like you're telling a joke, or seem like you have no…
The Morning News offers handy suggestions on how to navigate Manhattan slush without ruining your shoes. Helpful advice: watch other people test their footholds and go unexpectedly diving into the slush. Avoid the same behavior. Or just stay home.
The non-expert: slush [TMN]
The Morning News takes on emergency response and V-day in one fell swoop. "Nothing s sexier than someone with a heightened state of awareness."
Love in the time of smallpox [TMN]
I think I was subconciously avoiding the dapper be-suited Messrs Baldwin (Rosecrans, The Morning News Editor) and Rojas (Pete, Gizmodo Editor and closet fashionista) because I was secretly afraid that their painful hipness would crush my painful non-hipness. I, by comparison, was complimented on my "very '80s" attire…
The Morning News's Sarah Hepola writes about interviewing celebrities and rightfully slams the "junket whores" who "famous around these parts, [were] journalists who leapfrogged from one movie to the next, from The Beach in Hawaii to Anastasia in Paris, traveling in packs, like wolves. Their endless arsenal of…
The Morning News analyzes the definition of "New York movie" and breaks the component parts into categories with appropriate examples. After all, it's hard to argue that NYC isn't the center of the world when you constantly see your backyard on the big screen.
An extremely incomplete taxonomy of cinematic New York…
Fiction writers may want to note the Morning News' article on the New Yorker's fiction policies with regard to unsolicited pieces under new fiction editor Deborah Teisman. Says Teisman, "Someone who s submitting themselves directly to the fiction editor probably isn t all that savvy about publishing and probably not…
The Morning News offers helpful tips for New Yorkers fighting the bitter cold. Tips include the usual tried-and-true techniques: setting random people on fire in Times Square (preferrably tourists) and eating lots of oysters.
The non-expert: freaking cold [TMN]
