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Julia Allison's bestfriend, "handbag designer" Mary Rambin, has lost her dog in the Hamptons. He's escaped! No snark here! Have you seen how cute he is? Update: He's been found! (Wandering near the highway, yikes!) [Guest of a Guest]
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shut up, brooklyn
Is Dog-Walking While Vespa-Riding Bad? Probably.
Ruh roh! There's an quandary on Brooklyn Heights Blog about a dog-walker captured walking dogs... while simultaneously riding a Vespa. OK behavior? Egregious? What if they're also heading towards oncoming traffic? Click to judge. [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
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Jim McGreevey's Puppies!
A tipster—who insists in no uncertain terms that he is not "friends" with the former governor of New Jersey and noted Gay American—forwards us this adorable image of Jim McGreevey's brand-new puppies. Sooo cute! Unfortunately, Dina Matos will sell them all to a puppy fur-obsessed heiress and use the money to buy more helicopters. [Facebook]
monsters
Young Angelina Jolie's Greatest Sin (It's Not S&M or Heroin)
Heroin? S&M sex? BORING. The real nugget of sadism behind the unearthed video of actress-turned-self-righteous-humanitarian Angelina Jolie in the UK's Sun is her blasé confession about—whoops!—kind of killing her pets. She's worse than Paris Hilton, who got in trouble for neglecting her many chihuahuas—and worst of all, young Jolie, filmed rambling on in what the Sun calls a "drug den," thinks her forgetfulness is really cute, grinning sheepishly as she recounts the pets she's killed over the years: "I had a dog and I ended up beating him, and he got sick and... I've hurt so many—I am just not a good animal person... I had a rabbit that died, too... a cage fell on him..." More »
enough already
Please Stop Talking About Puppies
One of the things I never figured out about the internet is why certain sites have commenters, who those commenters are, and what compels them to do what they do. It's one thing to spend your time commenting on a site that has witty, engaging repartee, like this one. But some other places are inexplicable. Like one that came to my attention today: DailyPuppy.com. It exists to post puppy pictures. Okay, fine, I have nothing negative to say about that, dog Nazis. But do said puppy pictures require 90 comments just today, which all sound like this actual example: "Oh baby you are such a cutie-pie. A zillion biscuits and cuddles poppet and have a wonderful life. xxxxxxxxxxx." GOD. It really challenges your ability to even continue liking puppies. Below are some more of the deep thoughts on Chloe the Labrador Retriever, today's puppy (pictured). This dog can't read, you fools! More »
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Perez Hilton and Puppy Mills: He's Against Them!
Online gossip-monger Perez Hilton is speaking out against puppy mills, because they're bad and mean to doggies. But as Deceiver points out, he got his own puppy, purchased last fall, from a place they think sounds suspicious: "We typed in "small" "cute" and "smart" into Google and they popped up!" Perez wrote at the time. (Hey, that's not all that pops up when you type those words into Google! HEY OH!) Anyway, they like, mail the dog to you. But guess what? That pup (a "goldendoodle") is the cutest one in the world. And maybe the place they bought him from isn't so bad after all: "Our home is our kennel, and we have turned our home into a home for the dogs! We live in Palmdale California (LA County), on three acres of all usable land and we have a huge swimming pool, for people and dogs! The dogs also have their own plastic baby pools in the summer." Click to see Perez's dog OMG. More »
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Sad Martha Stewart's Dead-Dog Blogging is Trying to Break Our Heart
Who would have guessed that Martha Stewart's late dog Paws would look like this? We had her pegged as more of a Labrador person. But her doggie died, and she's grieving via a photoessay on her blog. It's a truly stark portrait of grief and the saddest thing ever. More »
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Doggies the Littlest Victims of Subprime Crisis
Subprime crisis, predatory lending mortgage catastophe affecting the poors and middle class, blah, blah. Wait... doggies? Finally, a reason to care about this devastating economic catastrophe! The Washington Post reports that due to an increasing number of foreclosures, animal shelters are overflowing with dogs whose owners had to give them away. More »
what the people want
The Only Five News Photos Everyone Ever Cares About
We know what the buzz is among the Drudge/Post/Times crowd, but what about normal Americans? We need some sort of automatic list just to keep tabs on them. Thankfully Yahoo has just such a list. As the most-viewed news site, Yahoo News is the news for tens of millions of normal Americans. The site's "Most e-mailed photos" list constantly cycles, but the photos always belong to these five genres: More »
"A New Jersey stockbroker and his wife maintained an animal house of horrors — a feces-filled mansion where they kept more than 100 malnourished and neglected dogs and cats... One dog's fur was so matted and caked in feces, rescuers couldn't figure which end was its head." [NYP]
restaurant tells
The French Bulldog
Restaurants, like poker players, have certain tells, minute signifiers that betray a whole constellation of facts. Restaurant Tells is your decoding ring to the restaurant scene. More »
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