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American Airlines' Blog Is As Good As Its Flights

American Airlines has been having some PR problems lately, like being picketed by its own pilots and canceling 3,300 flights last week. So the company did what any $2 billion corporation would do: they started a laughable blog! It's hosted on Blogger, and it has 3 posts so far. And if their social media eloquence doesn't save the company, nothing can: More »

10:53 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,627 views, 25 comments

who shot ya?

Puff Daddy Denies Tupac Ambush Charge

Rap mogul Sean "Puff Diddy Daddy" Combs has denied yesterday's LA Times report that he had advance knowledge of a 1994 ambush on rival Tupac Shakur that left Tupac with five bullet wounds. Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond, the music manager that the Times named as the mastermind of the attack, also denied the charges. The Times is standing by its story so far. Below, Puffy's and Rosemond's statements—as well as (BONUS!) the lyrics to two verses of "Who Shot Ya?," the 1994 Biggie Smalls/ Puffy song that was widely believed to be an allusion to the Tupac shooting in question. More »

9:24 AM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,107 views, 36 comments

Latest by famousauthor: I don't even have to read this to make a judgment, because I just trust Puffy implicitly. And explicitly. And aplicitly. And deplicitly. more »

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Puffy Knew In Advance About 1994 Tupac Shooting, Says LAT

An exclusive story in the LA Times today says that P. Diddy, aka Puff Daddy, aka Sean "Puffy" Combs, the hip hop superstar and head of Bad Boy Records, knew in advance about a 1994 ambush in which rap icon Tupac Shakur was shot five times and robbed in a New York recording studio. According to the story, a promoter and talent manager who were friendly with Puffy set up Tupac because they were angry about his insolent posture towards NYC and its hip hop heavyweights. The key facts: More »

4:36 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
5,081 views, 32 comments

Latest by n/a: It should be known that Suge Knight was responsible for Tupac's death. Doesn't make sense that both Tupac and Suge was in the car when the drive-by happened and only Tupac got shot. All those bullet marks on the car more »

We're becoming obsessed with the story of the shoot-out on Friday night at the poker game in "unmarked office on the seventh floor of a commercial building at 251 Fifth Avenue, at 28th Street." There isn't much new on the story—but as a former math professor from New Jersey was killed in the poker den, it gave the "North Jersey Media Group" the opportunity to write this immortal line: "Those who knew Frank DeSena say the Wayne man had been dealt a good hand in life." URK. [NYT]

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Steve Almond To Oprah: "I Don't Give A Shit How Many Books You Sell"

Former journalist and current fiction writer Steve Almond writes a letter to Oprah in his new book, (Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, which was published this week. It's called "How This Book Became an Official Oprah Book Club™ Pick," and it's one of those "Kidding! Haha. Ok, not kidding! Okay, kidding!" type of jokes. It is pretty bonkers. More »

2:40 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Emily Gould
8,866 views, 34 comments

new york times

'NYT' Shocked, Shocked at Lack of Shock

The Amish schoolhouse shootings can be appreciated on so many levels. There's the murder thing, and the child-killing thing, and the deranged maniac thing, and then the school violence thing. Plus you got the extra shock value from the violence happening in Amish country, which has a reputation as a rather peaceful place. So all in all: shocking. But if you're Bob Herbert at the New York Times, you can always find something else to be shocked about, and even more, you can be shocked that other people aren't as sufficiently shocked as you would prefer. Hence Herbert's "Why Aren't We Shocked?" from earlier this week — and by the way, the more we think about it, the more we like that headline as a sort of universal catch-all for angry finger-wagging journalism in general. Anyway, Herbert points out that the Amish shooting victims were all girls (boys and adults were released by the killer), and given the killer's apparent intent to molest/rape the girls, there's a misogyny angle that deserves equal, shockworthy coverage as well. Since this angle wasn't much discussed in mainstream media coverage of the shootings, Herbert is, of course, shocked. More »

12:50 PM on Thu Oct 19 2006
By Chris Mohney
104 views, 17 comments

Latest by dmac: Hey, you leave The Pennysaver alone. Its local high school sports coverage is great. more »