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Plastic Surgery, Hamptons, Summertime, Decadence Combined In One Easy Package

Because some stories are nothing but blatant cries for condemnation, we're going to allow our disgust to swing around 180 degrees so that we support this idea: A Park Avenue plastic surgeon is offering a $500,000 package deal that includes a summer house rental in the Hamptons, and all the plastic surgery you want! "Within reason," of course. He's also throwing in a chauffeur, personal chef, and a nurse to tend to the surgically wounded. And tickets to the hottest parties, to show off your healing scars! This development is... a good thing. More »

advertising

'We're Just As Good As NYC,' Lies Rest Of New York

New York City: It is surrounded by New York state. This is the key message that state officials are hoping to communicate to you, the public, with their new and improved "I Love NY" campaign [NYT]. "There are a lot of beautiful pictures of serene mountains and lakes. How do you make your mountains and lakes different?" asked an ad exec. By polluting them with dioxin and a plethora of prescription drugs? No, it turns out the answer is to suggest that "we have the pulsating heart and soul of New York City in everything we do." In fact, it looks like the whole campaign is an attempt to slingshot some tourists out of the city for little jaunts upstate. Which will be hard, because New York state pretty much sucks. More »

poetry

Gawker to Enter Poesy-Free Fortnight; World to Continue Spinning

We have no idea who Leon Freilich is. We have no idea why he spends his days composing bits of media news-based poetry. We have no idea why he posts those poems as Gawker comments, or sends them to Romenesko, or sends them to who knows what other sites. And we have no idea how he decides which poems go where. But we do know this: Leon Freilich is headed to Canada for two weeks, and that will leave us all doggerel-free for the duration. How do we know this? Because Leon Freilich sent us a poem, of course: More »

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gridskipper

Dominican Republic: New Home of Hell's 10th Circle

Our airsick bag-collecting brother at Gridskipper points us to a NY Observer story on the big acquisition of a 2000-acre plot of land in the Dominican Republic, financed by what could be the least masculine troupe of investors in history. The thin-wristed crew includes Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria, DJ-ing white vegan stain Moby, mimbo socialite Alex Von Furstenberg and bird-chested money manager Boykin Curry. More »