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- "Zoo managers have been forced to call in the FBI after their main switchboard was jammed with people calling asking to speak to 'Mr G Raff' and a host of other animal names." [Textually]
- "Tampa Bay's 10 talked to the assistant superintendent with the Pasco County School District who said it wasn't just the wizardry and that Picular had other performance issues...." [TampaBay's 10]
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"Nappy-Headed Ho's" porn DVD to benefit Don Imus. [TMZ]
Men don't make passes at girls who take classes. (Stephanie Rosenbloom strikes again!) [NYT]
Marc Jacobs does Vans. [Complex]
Rumsfeld meets with Penguin. [Galleycat]
Gossip blogger sued for copyright infringement again. [TSG]
Dude, Jordan Knight is 36 years old today. [Boi From Troy]
In the comments of this post are where you will vent about the physical changes on this site. (Yes, we promise to read them all and listen.) Then tomorrow we will all feel better and we can move on with our lives in the morning and totally make out and go get milkshakes together and hold hands! And talk trash about the Olsen Twins and what we watched on the T.V. last night! Okay? Okay! Call us every day you're our new best friend!
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Remembering Jerry Falwell in his own words. [Black Sheep]
Hamptons Jitney Brooklyn stops revealed! [Beach]
A developing list of who's taking the buyouts at the LA Times. [LAO]
There's that Falwell Wikipedia vandalism we were waiting for! [Wonkette]
Things we thought we'd never hear: "Sarah Silverman, 36, gives a revealing and sensitive interview in the June issue of Maxim." [Us]
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Synthol! Injectable oil that cures your gay body dysmorphia! [Times UK]
Tomorrow is your last day to get free nicotine patches from the city. [NYC]
Topshop and Kate Moss collection coming to New York! Three stores! [Sun UK]
Semiotician-guitarist Marc Ribot on gentrification. [JamBands]
12-year-old suing Chicago Board of Ed over "Brokeback Mountain." [Buzzsugar]
GOOD magazine explains the porn industry and internets. [YouTube]
Rating Keith McNally's bathrooms: Balthazar and Pastis win! [Grub St.]
This is how marketers invade your day and mind. [BusinessWeek]
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Cornell misspells "university" on spine of its yearbook. [IvyGate]
Messed-up collaborative news mad libs! [TMN]
Pinkberry not actually composed of the yogurt!!!11!!1! [Defamer]
Where went Mary-Kate Olsen's nose? Oh noooooeees! [Cityrag]
Top 5 Vegas meltdowns. [LAT]
Mies van der Rohe in song! [Core77]
Reading too much into New Yorker covers. [Letters...]
A day in the life of porn star Michael Lucas. It's a living! [Lucasblog]
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Microsoft sponsors giant U.K. email time capsule. [British Library]
Parsons class teaches graffiti, "urban interventions," illegal things, promises viral fame. [Parsons]
300+ pages of John Steinbeck up for auction in San Francisco; should hit half a mil. [Luxist]
Eating in Queens for under 10 bucks. (If you must.) [Gridskipper]
Fabiola Beracasa, social tour guide. [NY]
David Chang: "But chefs are not rock stars and are not cool. Restaurant openings are not movie premieres." Also is opening new restaurant, sort of. Also: "I'm the asshole who runs around and answers the phone and poses for photographs with Martha Stewart now." [Eater]
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Jane mag's website: pioneering women's health education, crusading citizen journalism, or homemade amateur porn site? Maybe all three! Boobs! NSFW and porny kind of but also not? [Jane]
More on the military restrictions on soldiers' blogs. [boing boing]
Red Hook ball fields open! [VV]
The Health Department gets Shalom Chai pizza too! [loho]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs shoot video in Brooklyn, blogging ensues. [TMA]
Apparently cars still get broken into in Brooklyn, but this person would like to make an agreement with future thief-types. [Curbed]
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Lindsay Lohan to attend Costume Institute Gala as guest of... Bally! [Fashionista]
What if Time Out NY had a video contest for a no-broker-fee apartment and nobody came? [Hunt Grunt]
Minneapolis Star Tribune to "disemploy" 145 employees "voluntarily," hire monkeys to retype AP reports, give up entirely on having thing that resembles "newspaper." [Star Trib]
Lou Dobbs, now a lifetime member of the Hispanic Journalists Association. Maybe he can be on the Immigrations Issues committee! [Think Progress]
Times Square Alliance claims the neighborhood earns more cash than the annual GDP of Bolivia and Panama. [Real Estate]
Isabella Blow, Alexander McQueen mentor, fashion editor, dead at 49. [FWD]
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Hey, who tagged our office? And what the heck does it say?
Community bedbug prevention efforts at the McKibbin Street Lofts in East Williamsburg (AKA West Bushwick.) [Curbed]
Gilmore Girls comes to an end. So long, hussies! [TMZ]
What will happen to CNBC's contract with Dow Jones (CNBC gets a lot of its business reporting from the WSJ, Barron's, etc.) if the Murdoch deal goes through? Fox News on CNBC, that's what! [MSNBC]
The New York Times sports magazine, Play, now has an e-mail newsletter. It pays its writers "significantly less" than a print article would. [NYO]
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Tommy Hilfiger goes on Oprah to say that he never sent that racist email everyone thinks he did. [TMZ]
Mr. Magazine, Samir Husni, points out that Victoria magazine had nearly 1 million readers when Hearst killed it. [MediaShift]
Robert Siestema, noted food pornographer: "A mouthful starts out damp and chewy, then resolves itself into a liquid gooeyness that resembles the aftermath of a blowjob." [VV]
Words of advice for potential Beard Award nominees for Best Chef: Become friends with the Beard Awards committee. [Grub Street]
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David Halberstam's Doonesbury appearance: He kissed Woodward and Bernstein's Guccis. [Slate]
The New York Times is all up on fixed gear bicycles. [Complex]
Harlem branch of Citarella begins accepting food stamps "to accommodate the vastness of the neighborhood" and the fact that it's across the street from a project. Fun with gentrification! [NYM]
The new owner of the Times Building, Lev Leviev, is the definition of a sketchy businessman. [Room Eight]
What it sounds like when a server drops bread at French Laundry: "The sound that poor young man made when that toasted piece of heaven hit the immaculate carpet was akin to the soft keening sigh one might make upon discovering that one's pet Siamese had passed from this earthly realm to the next." [gentlemen who dine]
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We love it when People Photoshops out those Us Weekly backgrounds behind Lindsay Lohan!
Atoosa Rubenstein at the Sassy party: "Alpha kitties are girls that are powerful, but they're also fun, and they want to be cute, and they don't feel like in order to be powerful you have to be super serious." [Mediabistro]
The Assimilated Negro interviews Lauren Williams, editor of the new Jossip blog for and/or about the black people, and asks for her "credentials as a black person." [The Assimilated Negro]
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's new fashion line, The Row, features $360 leggings and $1700 cashmere tuxedo jackets. Boho chic, why have you forsaken us? [Fashionologie]
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New York Social Diary will discover which (mostly aging) socialites have the best racks. (Ally Hilfiger! Where have you been?) [NYSD]
A Smith Street bar isn't hospitable to neighborhood newcomers, and boy are they pissed. [Brooklyn Record]
Andrew the Investment Banker's New York Post interview gets reevaluated: "Salary estimate: $190,000, including projected bonus (-2 for not lying)." [Leveraged Sellout]
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The rumor that Anderson Cooper showers in his underwear at the gym? Decidedly untrue. Anyway, who does that? That's crazy! The gym men would have been staring at him and pointing! [Towleroad]
Predator and Umbrager says that spring newspaper circ numbers are in the toilet. [E&P]
The Chumley's chimney comes down very, very slowly. [Curbed]
David Halberstam's final speech, given at Berkeley's J-school a couple days before he died, was about journalism and history. And recorded by a Business Week reporter, handily. [Business Week]
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