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Sad NYC Ladies Will Pay $15,000 For Carrie's Bad-Luck Wedding Gown

Sheila — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:50:17 EST

Ladies, there's no reason to copy Carrie Bradshaw, who is a fictional character, in everything she does. For example, Page Six reports that bridal designer Gabriella Risatti will knock off 30 copies of the wedding dress that she wore in the Sex and the City movie. Um, hello? That's the dress that she was wearing when Big left her at the altar. (When they got married for real she wore a tasteful suit at City Hall.) The actual Vivienne Westwood dress, which was fairly ridiculous in the first place—that was the point! that the much-vaunted big wedding was hubristic and silly!—does not come avec bird-on-head hairpiece.

Live With 2 Sadults and 1 Gorilla

Sheila — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:30:22 EDT

Very funny, Bushwick kids! This ad is for a $385-per-month room in a Brooklyn apartment. You'll share the apartment with two other people, and the room with a gorilla. Seriously: "BEDROOM MUST BE SHARED WITH APPROX. 700 LB. ADULT MALE SILVERBACK GORILLA. THIS IS AN EASTERN LOWLAND GORILLA WHO IS FAIRLY DOCILE... AND HAS SOMEWHAT OF AN INTENSE SEXUAL APPETITE." See the full ad after the jump.

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Asylum.com Looking to Hire Chuck Klosterman Type

Sheila — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:53:12 EDT

Asylum.com, a "new men's lifestyle site," is hiring a staff editor. They need someone with a "strong writing voice, and an appreciation for Frankenberry cereal." (They need men who are afraid of adulthood? Because that's the only thing pink marshmallow cereal represents after 25.) The job also includes "ensuring that content captures the irreverent tone of the site" and "overseeing the promotion of material for maximum viral impact." See, now we can't even tell if they're still joking! We see the best candidate as being Chuck Klosterman, former Spin pop culture writer with a talent for self-absorption, and author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. Click to figure out if you should apply...

Museum of Broken Relationships Open for Business

Sheila — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:43:08 EDT

Do you have something hanging around your apartment, taking up psychic space? Maybe it's under the bed or in a shoebox. Maybe it's a cream-colored Fender jazz bass... but it doesn't have to be that. Heartbroken Eastern Europeans have been contributing to the Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia. You send them your romantic emblems and tchotchkes, and suddenly a dead cell phone with the caption, "It was 300 days too long. He gave me his mobile phone so I couldn't call him any more" becomes art. Our favorite entry?

It's a prosthetic leg, from a war vet who fell in love with his social worker.

Sadults Move Back Home

Sheila — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:19:16 EDT

Welcome to the recession! The AP reports that in the midst of a "slumping economy and the credit crunch," adult children are moving back into their parents' homes. Except they're not all 25 — some are middle-aged?! Well, at least one: they interview a 52-year-old and a 27-year-old who have moved back home. A financial planner in California "has never seen older children, even those in their 50s, depending so much on their parents as in the last six months."

And parents are giving their kids money like never before, maybe even threatening their own retirement plans!

That's probably why life insurance company New York Life has an inadvertently hilarious set of instruction on their website on how to control those so-called "boomerang kids." ("Remember: it's still your house.")

'Times' Creepy Mom Sends Her Kids Naughty Facebook Gifts

Emily Gould — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:35:10 EST

Oh noes: Fortune executive editor Josh Quittner's wife Michelle Slatalla is still writing her column about 'computers: who knew!' for the Times. Today, she revisits well-worn territory: How much her daughters hate her for cramping their style on Facebook. But she's upped the ante considerably now that she's discovered something called "apps." "The discovery of the existence of Naughty Gifts proved I was, once again, out of touch," Michelle writes. How to remedy? Adding as many apps as possible, starting "poo fights" with her husband, and sending her teenage daughters virtual rubber blow-up dolls. "Oh, my God, you are so creepy," one of them told her, before hanging up the phone on her. Heartwarming!

These Naughty Gifts Don't Clutter a Closet [NYT]