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budding auteurs
Things That Are Self-Evidently Not Worth Reading: Ryan Adams Edition
As soon as you're done not reading Judith Warner's stink piece on the Presidential torso, don't go read Ryan Adam's new book Hello Sunshine, now on pre-order, which comes with a signed bonus chapbook. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by Smitros: One assumes that neither book nor chapbook includes fashion tips. 4 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Why Ryan Adams Quit New York
Apparently Ryan Adams lives in Los Angeles forever now? The whiny singer blames his departure from New York on a mean, vicious publication—That's not a filthy blog like the one you're reading: a newspaper.
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By Ryan TateComment by contains_hot_liquid: "I fought like hell for the city when people left for Brooklyn..." Thanks, bro! 8 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Ryan Adams' Engagement Was Not Blogged
So Ryan Adams is now engaged to Mandy Moore. Not that you'd know it from his website; we had to read Us Weekly's report. Discretion: yet another way Moore has reformed her man. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by mathnet: Help a dude while you're dating--be the person he believes will love him even after she knows about what he... 4 Responses | Other threads
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engagements
Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams engaged to be married. [Us]
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gossip roundup
Madonna Demands to Be Less Domineering
Everyone is trying calm down before the weekend. Courtenay Semel totally made up for setting Casey Johnson's head on fire. Madonna tried to not be a demanding, terrible ball-buster constantly. More »
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kanye west
Kanye West Follows Fellow Celebrities Into Fashion Internship
You may not know that Kanye West—the eclectic business mogul best known for his muppet shows, model wrangling, blogging, and MacBook stress-testing—is also a bit of a fashionista. He loves the clothes and whatnot! So much so that he wants to take time off from his other ventures and go intern in a fashion house. Celebrity fashion-related intern trend now officially official! More »
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Comment by ♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: kanye borrowed the idea for those pioneering specks from Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, in 'Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon'. and... 6 Responses | Other threads
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wtf
Why Won't Ryan Adams Intern for Us?
It isn't fair: if we had known that musician and experimental blogger Ryan Adams would be willing to intern for random media companies in exchange for a little publicity for his upcoming album, we would have called him first. Unfortunately, Blackbook beat us to it. Anyway, Ryan, if you're still looking for work, I've got a variety of projects—I need to schedule a bunch of shrink appointments, and have someone file my collection of kung fu movies. Please direct your resume to sheila@gawker.com. (Remember when celeb hockey player Sean Avery interned for Vogue? That seemed to work out pretty well for him.) [Blackbook]
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By SheilaComment by Beausoleil: Ryan, I need you to help me release 11 mediocre alt-country albums in the next two months. Let's brainstorm titles: "Woah,... 2 Responses | Other threads
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books
Omg
This is the cover of the upcoming book from New York's favorite scruffy musician and flâneur, Ryan Adams. It's called Infinity Blues. Can somebody at Akashic send me the galleys of this please?! Thanks.
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Does Ryan Adams Want Mandy Moore Back?
Our own Tipster Amy, who keeps a very close eye on the odd website of musician/oversharer Ryan Adams, is wondering if perhaps Adams isn't missing his former recent ex-girlfriend Mandy Moore. First clue: The shaggy guitarist's homepage now carries the words "Wild Wild Hope" across the top, recalling the name of Moore's most recent album, "Wild Hope." Also: The supposed smelly narcissist made a list of things he would do if he were to desire to behave in a gentlemanly fashion. They include, "Say you are sorry while you still have the chance," which is kind of funny because it assumes a fuckup. The rest of Adams' tips are after the jump. You might learn something, cads! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by dressyslacks_cutetop: Oh, Ryan's okay. Really. I've known him since he was wee (for about 20 years) and he's always... more » | Other threads
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Ryan Adams' Newest 'Baby?'
Shaggy musician Ryan Adams recently announced his breakup with young singer Mandy Moore. But the temperamental blogger has nothing against ladies of a certain age, having once apparently hooked up with Courtney Love, 10 years his senior. So it's entirely plausible that Adams was being more than flirty with a certain British visual artist when, at some point this week, he posted to his mysterious Web server a page in the path "tracy_emin/this_ones_for_you_baby.html" and containing a piece of cosmic art involving a whole pizza pie. (It was attached the home page via a link entitled simply "Pizza.") Adams, after all, has been known to dedicate the song "Rip Off" to her. Only time — and photos — will tell. Adams himself, who has a track record of misleading the press about such things, most certainly will not. UPDATE: A hearty "thank you" to tipster Amy who emailed this in. (Photo by Piers Allardyce) [Ryan Adams]
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By Ryan TateComment by JuliaJolie: That's art? That's just taking the piss. more » | Other threads
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Ryan Adams Doesn't Know What Courtney Love Is Talking About
A couple of weeks ago, singer and serenity guru Courtney Love posted to her Myspace a long rant entitled "Ryan Adams you fucking weasel. deal with it.858,00$." No one knows exactly what Love said in the missive, precisely, but the scholarly consensus at this point is that it involved Adams using Love's American Express card and checkbook to pay for record expenses well above and beyond what Love felt had been authorized, possibly while Adams and Love were sexing one another. Also, Adams was supposedly spending money intended for Love's 15-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. Now Adams has linked, from a strange box in the upper-right corner of his Web homepage, something of a response. Or at least it seems that way. He could be talking about some other "reality-challenged" person accusing him of "fictonal crime against innocents." But probably not! An excerpt: More » -
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Courtney Love Addresses 'You Gawker People'
I'm not sure what you guys wrote in the comments section of yesterday's item about Courtney Love's attack on Ryan Adams regarding all that money someone stole from her. But Ms. Love sure noticed. On her Myspace page today, she remarks, "I had a very heavy evening but since we are becoming terrifyingly great, I'm happy to oblige you Gawker people for about oh one more millisecond." Her full message after the jump. More »
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Courtney Love Would Like Her Money Back, Ryan Adams
Sober rocker Courtney Love posted an open letter to her myspace page last night, in which she charges that fellow musical mess Ryan Adams had something to do with stealing "858,00$" from her—and from daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Let's all try to make sense of it together, shall we? More » -
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Ryan Adams, the Book
The musician/experimental blogger is already publishing a book of poetry, and today's Page Six says he's "signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books" for a "collection of prose." Is it the same poetry book they're referring to—or a separate one? (Our e-mail to Adams asking for elaboration bounced.) [Page Six]
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By SheilaComment by overunderover: Sheila, you know where he's recording this week, why not just go over there and ask.... more » | Other threads
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independence day
The Day I Met Ryan Adams and Didn't Blog About It
Last Sunday, while walking down St. Mark's towards the Holiday Lounge (their awesome old bartender clearly hates all customers and sort of flings your drink from five feet away), I saw this website's favorite scruffy musician/experimental blogger, Ryan Adams—who we've been teasing ever since he sent us a poem intended for his ex-girlfriend Jessica Joffe. So I said hello! We went to have tea and proceeded to talk about heartbreak and believing in love, because, seriously. More » -
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Ryan Adams is Being Inappropriate With the Wrong Person
Scruffy musician and noted poet-blogger Ryan Adams has denied dating singer Mandy Moore before, on his blog (which is down again, but it's like the weather—just wait a few hours.) But now he's totally feeling her up in a comic book store. Whatever. [More »
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By SheilaComment by WorldWarYou: The whole going on a date to a comic book store really wouldn't work with any other comic book store... more » | Other threads
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In Brief
It's True!
Musician and noted blogger Ryan Adams is publishing a book of poetry. "If Jewel can do it..." he writes in his blog that's constantly being taken down.
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By SheilaComment by ChicagoSaphique: The following are my guesses on the repeated thematic elements within Ryan's future published poetry. -Ryan Adams-Metal-Sobriety-Ryan Adams more » | Other threads
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bloglash
Ryan Adams Flaked Or Tumblr Hacked?
The picture above is what you see if you try to go to shaggy-haired singer Ryan Adams' Tumblr. It was like that pretty much all last night. Adams is non-commital about blogging, so this could be him. But also Tumblr kind of sucks at security lately, so maybe this isn't Adams' fault at all. I mean, the word "hijack" is involved, after all. But given that no one has emailed us about Adams' latest outage, maybe he doesn't have any readers left. Except Sheila, of course! -
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Ryan Adams Has Blue Hair But Still Loves Women
In the greatest non-sequitur of our time, the scruffy-bloggy New York musician Ryan Adams writes in his best friend, his daily blog: "My hair looked like this until the dye really set and now it's fucking weird electric blue. But still, I love women, I love the shape of their bodies, and I love how they talk and how they are able to separate sentimentality from being in the now..." More »
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By SheilaComment by NeverEnough: Kindly refer to me as "NeverEnough, Spirit Warrior" from now on, 'k? more » | Other threads
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relax, internet
Ryan Adams Could Never Say Goodbye To Us
Poor Sheila. The week she chose to frolic abroad, her internet boyfriend, the musician Ryan Adams, seemingly shut down his blog. But even on vacation, she couldn't tear herself away from her work, nay, her love. When news of the shut down came in, she commented, "why is this genuinely upsetting me that his tumblr is gone, even though i am on vacation and should not even be reading gawker?" Well, Sheila, there's some good news and there's some bad news. The good news is that Ryan Adams's blog is back. The bad news is you're missing the story. Upon his return, RyRy admitted to being as obsessed with you as you are with him. More » -
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Why Did Ryan Adams Leave The Internet This Time?
Ryan Adams has an on-again, off-again love affair with internet self expression. He had a YouTube page, then decided to take it down. Then the scruffy musician made a Tumblr blog, but tonight it seems he has taken that down too! (You can stop emailing!) He's been writing a lot of poetry the past few days, including one entry involving the words "whore," "slut" and "asshole." You can still read most of his entries in the Google cache, from page 1, page 2 and page 3 of his blog. And you can also rest assured that, before it died, Adams' blog at least made peace with the singer's frighteningly self-bleached hair: More » -
celebrity science
Ryan Adams Liveblogs His Hair-Bleaching Disaster
Ryan Adams tends to overshare on the internet, but his blogging of an apparently botched dye job tonight is, indisputably, an appropriate use of the Web. In fact, it seems like exactly the sort of thing Tumblr was invented for in the first place. The topic is a little intimate, because it's about his feelings on an important part of his body, but not too intimate or oversharey because, duh, it's just hair. Plus it's just the sort of thing that will deeply impact the lives of Adams' obsessed fans. Disclaimer: I'm assuming it was a "disaster" because of the quote above and another photo captioned "melting," but sometimes these things turn out for the best. Or so I've heard. Here's the evolution of Adams' hair, and the musician's feelings toward it, as told by Adams himself: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by lolatheshowgirl: I just want to have wild, dirty sex with him, but something tells me he'd start crying in the middle... more » | Other threads
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herogram
Why We Love Ryan Adams's Crazy Tumblr
Why do I get the feeling that if I don't stop reblogging Ryan Adams, I might get stabbed en route to the Beatrice? (Or get stabbed inside, when Emily Brill shows up.) Young Manhattanite and former Gawker mastcot Andrew Krucoff concedes that Ryan Adams's music is kind of great: "Up to that point, I only knew him as the loose-boarded alt-country-whatever musician." But? "Now - NOW - he ups and quits his precocious-for-a-33-yr-old Tumblr??" More » -
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Chelsea Horror Hotel
It's been a bad trip for the legendary bohemian Chelsea Hotel ever since longtime kooky owner Stanley Bard was kicked out as manager last year. As the Observer reports, Bard re-appeared to shoot an interview in the lobby of the hotel recently, and the following anecdote illustrates perfectly how the new corporate management are just complete tightasses: "The new management comes running out of the back and is like, 'You can't shoot that here!' said the writer Ed Hamilton, a 13-year resident of the iconic lodge on West 23rd Street. 'He tried to charge Stanley $600 to film in the lobby.'" [NY Observer] There are also several new books out or forthcoming about the Chelsea Hotel: More » -
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By Ryan TateComment by WorldWarYou: I'm so sad... Pete Wentz almost really killed himself (damn, so close) and Ryan Adams is dating Mandy Slore, I... more » | Other threads
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critical stalker
Parker Posey's Dog Has Its Own Ryan Adams Song!
Writes a tipster, "Just an FYI about Parker Posey's vicious dog — After she (Parker, not the dog) broke up with [chronic internet-oversharing musician] Ryan Adams, Parker kept the dog (Gracie) they owned together. Ryan, as is his pattern, wrote [an unreleased] song "Hello, Gracie," about it... seemed to give the dog a bit more credit than it was due." Oh, yes: click for the lyrics. They're actually really cute, just like Ryan. More »
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By SheilaComment by zapfdingbatme: @Calitri: You should hear the song the nihilist's ferret wrote about the Dude. more » | Other threads
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critical stalker
Ryan Adams Just Answered Our Prayers
He's back on the web! You might know the scruffster for his music (Love Is Hell), but you might also know him from his entertaining oversharey Internet exploits! Exhibit 1: sending us a poem for ex-girlfriend, writer Jessica Joffe, after she blocked his email. Exhibit 2: Making multiple YouTube videos about said breakup. Now that he's back, we hope to read his delightfully unedited thoughts for a long, long time. To wit: "If only I had the lack of self respect to just bury myself in some nagging bosom in the bowels of the Beatrice Inn." Oh, yeah? Also, his "mega-talented thespian pal Park" gave him a drum. More »
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By SheilaComment by TallulahSkankhead: Lulz, he said "eleventy" twice (twicety?). more » | Other threads
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In Brief
Dear Ryan Adams: re-open your YouTube account right this instant!
We think you closed it right after we made fun of your Fashion Week video commentaries, but that doesn't mean we didn't like them. Horion74, please re-consider!
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By SheilaComment by kimmystixxx: Agreed (@ title)! I need something fresh to keep my time-killing streak at work alive. And what better than some... more » | Other threads
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fashion week
Ryan Adams's Fashion Week: "Pretty Sweet"
OK, who let Ryan Adams into Fashion Week? Apparently it's a "come one, come all" sort of affair these days? Because now the scruffy musician/ex Jessica Joffe dater is offering commentary via YouTube and totally diluting the Fashion Week brand. We'd tell you what he said, but it's hard to concentrate on the words when you realize how totally adorable he is while wearing glasses and struggling to pronounce "Shiseido." -
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Six Degrees Of Separation Between George W Bush and Parker Posey
It's so confusing. Luminescent scribe Jessica Joffe split up with scruffy musician Ryan Adams, who used to date Winona Ryder and Parker Posey and Alanis Morissette. (Ryan's been making inappropriate YouTube breakup videos for the past few days now, plus he sent us a poem). But did you know that George W. Bush, Open City editor Thomas Beller, big-time developer Roland Betts, and the secret society Skull and Bones also connect back to this sundered couple? Hunh? We need a diagram! (Click to enlarge.) -
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Dear Ryan Adams: You'll Get Over This Soon, Babe
Don't you sometimes wish that somewhere out there, somebody is obsessively creating and editing videos about you? Seriously, it's creepily romantic. On that note, indie-ish musician Ryan Adams is at it again! This one features more of our favorite flame-haired scribe, Jessica Joffe—plus another poem calling her a "baby deer," plus sunflowers, plus a map of the West Village surrounded by a heart. In the "about this video" section, Ryan writes, "if shit is gonna be out there in no matter how small a dose, i thought i would rust off this tune. better days now mean reflecting on better days. Eh gnite." Ryan: soon you'll feel better and this will all seem like a bad dream, I promise. Click for the video! More »
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By SheilaComment by whoneedslight: Yes, but was he this romantic while they were still together? I would love to know what went down. more » | Other threads
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Ryan Adams/Jessica Joffe Breakup Video Long on Style, Short on Substance
The new Ryan Adams YouTube video, which we can only assume is about his recent breakup with former Observer scribe, former model, and current ShopVogue writer Jessica Joffe, is called "Sad Days." Described as "found footage of dreams," it features a couple grainy shots of Jessica in all her redheaded beauty, plus shots of Ryan goofing around. Oh, the good times they must have had! Mostly, though, it features shots of the skyline racing by from the window of a car, or shots of the stars at night. Your next breakup could easily end up like this if you aren't careful! "He's obviously reaching out," writes a tipster. "Bless him." Click to watch! If you're looking for Jess, she appears about 2 minutes in, and again at 3:20, and at the very end. More »
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By SheilaComment by Trixie from Toronto: Am I wrong to love him and his music? Am I? Because I do. Ryan: text me! more » | Other threads
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gossip
"In No Way Do I Not Realize This Is Insane:" Did Jessica Joffe Block (Former) Boyfriend Ryan Adams' Email?
Yesterday, we received a poem from someone calling themselves Romantic Danzig, titled "poem for Jessica Joffe because she blocked my email." Whatever! But then we received separate information that Joffe, the glam writer (Vogue! Glamour! Observer alum!) and former Banana Republic model had broken up with scruffy "difficult to work with" NYC musician Ryan Adams. She has been credited with helping Ryan overcome his substance abuse problems. (As you might remember, he's prone to piss-drunk Internet ramblings). The poem, totally/probably written by Ryan, follows—along with his touching explanation. More » -
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Did you know that today is the shared birthday of not only Ryan but also Bryan Adams? Celebrate by watching and worshiping Jessica Joffe's ShopVogue.tv video while wondering whether you have ever really loved a woman.
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By Emily GouldComment by OnionRings: You guys know waaay too much about Bryan Adams.Totally embarrassed for you. (And in the time it took to write this,... more » | Other threads
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music
Ryan Adams, Ghetto Superstar
As your blood sugar plummets and you enter that mid-afternoon slump wherein your eyes glaze over and your mind starts wandering to truly inane places, surely you think to yourself, I wonder what Ryan Adams is up to? Well perk up, because we've got the answer! When not making dinner and cleaning house for his lady Jessica Joffe, the troubadour of the East Village is recording streaming hip-hop awesomeness for his website. If you're unable to listen at this moment, here's a sample of his flow (transcribed in random bits and pieces): More »
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By JessicaComment by the earl grey: Bryan Adams had a dance hit with "Don't Give Up" and he's photographed famous models. Jessica Joffee isn't a... more » | Other threads
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Ryan Adams Defends Jessica Joffe?
An interesting piece of babble just landed in our box. If we are to believe what we're reading, it's a letter from Observer staffer-cum-swan Jessica Joffe's concubine, lovable indie rock schizo Ryan Adams:
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Ryan Adams Deserves a Gawker Comments Invite
Late last week, Stereogum linked to a Ryan Adams fansite posting that appeared to be the work of the East Village's tattered troubador. Now that he's "sober" and doesn't have Parker Posey to distract him from cultivating his own rambling insanity, Adams has found the time and focus to cruise the internet, dropping greasy bundles of good news for his fans (he has three albums in the works) and, if you're lucky, responding to blogs that dare to write of his scruffiness. It's always fantastically entertaining when a celebrity of any mild level takes to the blogosphere, especially when the medium is as unforgiving as a comments section — but Adams' rambling, defensive prose reads like a cracky k nstlerroman: More »
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By JessicaComment by schlockapalooza: I never write on these sites but, well, I think Ryan is indeed right. Hate is the new smart. It... more » | Other threads
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parker posey
Posey-Joffe Love Triangle Gets All 'Single White Female'
We were just sitting around the Gawker headquarters thinking about how much we like Parker Posey. And we're not the only ones: More »
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