• misshapes

    Stardolls Photoshop Contest

    At Stardoll, you can put clothes on Anna Wintour, Ryan Seacrest, P*r*z H*lt*n, and other cultural parasites. If you have rudimentary photoshop skills, we're guessing you can do something more creative than, say, making Laurel Touby's feather boa emerge from the clavicle of the MisShapes Cerberus-beast. Please send us your best efforts. The winner gets whatever's in the gift bag of Malan Breton's runway show.

    Media Dollings     [Stardoll]

    10:40 AM on Tue Feb 6 2007
    By Emily Gould
    1,415 views, 8 comments

    Latest by caustin: They made the Olsens real fat. more »

  • sarah silverman

    Sorry, But Some of Us Just Don't Find Sarah Silverman All That Funny

    That is all.
  • blogs

    And You Thought You Were Just Killing Time At Your Desk All Day

    Emmalee Bauer has raised the stakes for workplace procrastination. Like, by a lot. The young hotel Sheraton sales coordinator found that she had a lot of free time at work, but that she needed to look busy to avoid reprimands. So she started obsessively chronicling every moment of her day in a journal, ultimately filling 300 single spaced pages. Unfortunately, someone eventually figured out that Bauer's clackety-clack noises weren't actually evidence of her productivity and fired her, and at a state hearing to determine whether she should receive unemployment benefits, portions of the journal were made public. The Des Moines Register ran a few choice excerpts:
    I am going to sit right here and play Elf Bowling or some other nonsense. Once lunch is over, I will come right back to writing to piddle away the rest of the afternoon. ...
    Maybe it's just that we've been reading blogs all day, but Emmalee's opus actually sounds sort of fascinating to us.

    Diary Of A Goof-Off     [Des Moines Register]

    4:20 PM on Fri Jan 19 2007
    By Emily Gould
    578 views, 9 comments

    Latest by therealgoogle: I don't want to make this post a "last comment by raincoaster", and I hope that you piddle away your more »

  • out magazine

    Gawker Zen Koan Of The Day

    Wind blows through the trees
    why does 'Out' Magazine come
    wrapped in opaque foil?
  • utter randomness

    Because 'We Are The Champions' Seemed Sort Of Played Out?

    A friend passes along this email from deep inside the bowels of [marketing type place], which he assures us is not a joke:
    [Marketing Person]
    Date: 2007/01/02 Tue AM 10:04:09 CST
    To: [Marketing Person]
    Subject: I need song suggestions
    More »

    4:35 PM on Thu Jan 4 2007
    By Emily Gould
    610 views, 65 comments

  • utter randomness

    Holding Up A Cardboard Sign Is The New MySpace

    This is Mike. Right now, Mike is standing in Union Square holding up a sign that says "I Want A Girlfriend." We sent our intrepid man-on-the-street reporter, Bennett Madison, to find out what qualifies Mike for romance, and we got some answers. Ladies, you might want to bum-rush Union Square right now: not only will Mike buy you more gum if you drop yours in a puddle, but he has not seen Britney's privates on the internet! More »

    2:00 PM on Fri Dec 15 2006
    By Emily Gould
    809 views, 26 comments

    Latest by GothamTomato: I think we have just witnessed Kevin Federline's future. more »

  • britney spears

    We Knew Brit's New Boyfriend Reminded Us of Someone!

    We just didn't know it was Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl (seriously, she wasn't in New Kids on the Block, like, at all). It's only an 80% match, though — Brian at Banterist gave us the idea to do this by sending us the top match, Jake Gyllenhall, but we're not seeing that one at all. Also, Myheritage.com usually tells us we look like Johnny Depp, and it's widely agreed on that we actually look like Macaulay Culkin, so we tend to take their findings with a hefty grain of salt.

    Earlier:     Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Britney's Taste in Dudes

    5:10 PM on Tue Dec 12 2006
    By Emily Gould
    180 views, 4 comments

    Latest by TakeBackWhatYouSaidAboutThor: yea, gawker - this was funny. Let's do more celebrity likenesses of celebrities! more »

  • bloggers

    Brave Activists Fight To Take Back New Amsterdam

    We usually hate activisty-types, with their earnest sermons and inconvenient dietary restrictions and the way they leave the pillows on the guest futon permanently patchouli-scented when they come to visit. Ew! But we have found ourselves cottoning to the message of one particular group of protestors: the righteous individuals at nonprofit group Take Back New York. These courageous bloggers have an odd, but charming, mission and enough free time on their hands to photoshop wooden clogs onto the Naked Cowboy's feet — a winning combination. Anyway, their point is that New York should revert to the control of its original colonizer: The Netherlands. We're not so sure about replacing hot dogs with herring, but we can get behind at least one aspect of the takeover. More »

    9:40 AM on Wed Nov 22 2006
    By Emily Gould
    94 views, 5 comments

    Latest by Hops: So does this mean there will be a push for a red light district and cannabis coffee shops? If so, more »