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Shred The Pain Away At Times Square
The Time Square Business Alliance invites all New Yorkers to their hellish playground tomorrow to destroy their baggage, in the both-literal-and-figurative Darjeeling Limited sense. It's "Good Riddance Day," you see, and they've got shredders and garbage trucks at the ready. Show up with old love letters, bounced rent checks, the Bill of Rights, the only documents that prove your arch-nemesis' innocence—anything you need to forget about this terrible year we've all just muddled through. Then they'll shred it and cart it off to Staten Island, the spiritual and physical home of spiritual and physical refuse. You only have an hour, though! Get there before 1 p.m. or else you'll be stuck with that marriage license for another year! Not since the Comiskey Park Disco Demolition Riot of 1979 has there been such a cosmically confused and comically wasteful response to our shared spiritual bankruptcy!Good Riddance Day [Times Square Alliance]
Is Michael Wolff for real? Now he's trashing his sole competitor in the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp. book game. He tells Keith Kelly, regarding Wall Street Journal reporter Sarah Ellison, who'll take a year off from the paper for her own book: "The problem with someone from The Wall Street Journal writing a book is that they are inevitably conflicted. Either they're bitter that Murdoch bought the place or they are trying to save their job." And no one's ever conflicted at all by years of sucking-up to moguls.
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Flashback! New 'WSJ' Publisher: 'WSJ' Is Just A Cruddy Ford Taurus!
How excited is Robert Thomson to come to America to be the publisher of the Wall Street Journal? Possibly he has some mixed feelings! In a January, 2001 Business Week profile, Rupert Murdoch's boy actually savaged his new home. Thomson was at the FT then, and said that the Journal is best on cute little stories like ''midsize companies doing middling deals in the Midwest." Comparing the FT to the WSJ? "It's a Lexus-Taurus thing." We figure either he really does think the WSJ is a pile of crap—or he just likes to trash-talk because he's Australian, and therefore doesn't mean anything he says.
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Lydia Hearst And Her Factory 2.0 Of Idiocy
As noted femiblogger Moe Tkacik coolly observes, party gal Lydia Hearst has a diary page in Page Six Magazine in which she decries tabloid celebutards and also gives readers insight into what it means to be wealthy, young, intemperate, macabre, shallow, vapid, viscous and blithe. In the current Hearst Chronicles, we learn that Lydia and her friends have a thing called Factory 2.0. In her words, it's a "Andy Warhol-esque atmosphere in our own time." More »
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Team Party RSVP: Trash At Rififi
On Friday night, the shocking libertines of Trash celebrated their fifth anniversary of partying heartily. The resulting photos are not all safe for work. Unless you work at a truck stop hooker bar. Which we hope you do! Our photographer Nikola Tamindzic's gallery is here. After the jump, our correspondent Phil Oh meets and greets and explains the locals.More »
