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PageSix.com Forgot It Was On The Internet!

Hey, you know what's really wrong with PageSix.com? On the internet, you don't type the phrase "According to documents first obtained by CelebTV.com...." And if you must, of course, you link to CelebTV.com when you do so. Ditto with: "Hugh Grant had a little sleaze with his sushi when he shocked diners at chic West End Japanese restaurant Roka by engaging in a bizarre three-way make-out session with a woman while a male friend caressed her thigh, according to a report in UK newspaper The Mirror." How utterly RUDE. On the internets, we give and take. It's a circle of caring, of hyperlinking, of keeping your enemies close. And nobody will ever link to you now. (Also? That whole thing where it says "last updated two minutes ago" or whatever at the top is a total lie, as last night actually the top post was two hours old and it was about Tara Reid anyway, so please stop fronting, thank you.)

9:20 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Choire
1,288 views, 51 comments

Latest by cassandra: @Choire: Or maybe -15 for obviousness? Of course overshare is common. But like moms everywhere say: If everyone jumped off the overshare bridge, would you do it too? Being prevalent doesn't make it good. It's a matter of quality, the more »

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Robert Olen Butler Says His Mass Email Was 'Intended Strictly For Those Who Personally Know Elizabeth And Me'

So! Jilted author Robert Olen Butler isn't happy that yesterday we published the email he sent to his grad students. You know, the email that began "this sort of thing can get wildly distorted pretty quickly. You can feel free to use any part or all of this email to do so," and in which he explained exactly why his wife was leaving him for Ted Turner (she was abused by her grandpa!). In his email to us, he sounded steamed!

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10:40 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Emily Gould
23,741 views, 156 comments

Latest by Trackback: Monster Hospital by Alex Carnevale A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. - Groucho Marx  So my dad had a biopsy today. I took the day off from work, evidently to get my mom a baked more »

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The Truth About Perez Hilton's Traffic

Last week, Newsweek ran a brief "Catch Up on Hot Blogs" column. They suggested that readers check out Perez Hilton's celeb-watching website because "the snarky one gets 105 million page views a month. That's hot." Other articles over the past few months have given estimates for his traffic ranging anywhere from 2 million page views daily (Entertainment Weekly) to 4.5 million page views a day (Globe and Mail) to a whopping 4 million unique visitors a day (Stuff, pictured). He's gotten lots of ink from the mainstream media lately; in addition to reporting on his ongoing legal drama (he's being sued by a number of photo agencies for using their photos without permission), everyone seems to be in awe of his seemingly astronomical traffic numbers. And the kids love him! He's being lauded as, of all things, a musical tastemaker in addition to a gossipmonger. But how much traffic does he really get? More »

6:02 PM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By Doree Shafrir
33,177 views, 51 comments

Latest by DonPardoCalrissian: @leMaldeTete: I looked it up (?) and it's a place in Portugal but as a name crosses the border into Galicia, Spain. So he's all yours, baby! more »

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What Was In Miss New Jersey's Dirty Facebook?

Good for Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo! She's taking a brave stance against the would-be blackmailers who threatened to publish photos taken from her "private" Facebook page. Apparently the photos were from an event called "I Survived Colins' Bootcamp Cabaret Part III," and Amy says "I don't think the photos are that bad." Seriously, maybe in them she is doing a really wacky acting exercise or drinking a glass of white wine or something. Or maybe she is having a lesbian orgy wearing the costumes from Pippin! Even if that's the case, we think she's handling the situation perfectly.

N.J. Miss In A Fix Over Pix [NYP]

10:40 AM on Fri Jul 6 2007
By Emily Gould
25,232 views, 17 comments

Latest by lovely nigerienne: The last Miss New Jersey got knocked up and was applauded for keeping the baby. So why is Shar Jackson a ho for doing the same thing...four times? The pictures can't possibly be that bad which is why she's "taking more »

175 days ago, Malcolm Gladwell published his most recent blog post! [Gladwell]

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Confidential To 'WaPo' Ombudsman Deborah Howell

Hey, Deborah! While you're vacationing around Lake Como and then off in Austria later this week? Please remember to log out of your email when you're using a public computer! Good grief! Did they not teach you about the basics of internet security? Anyway, when you're back in the country on July 2, we want to talk to you about your plans for 2008. Call us! Love, Gawker.

11:30 AM on Mon Jun 25 2007
By Emily Gould
2,366 views, 4 comments

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In Defense of Modern Bride of the Year Heather Warnken

You guys were so harsh yesterday about the mercenary wedding plans of Heather Warnken and Michael Vallarelli that even our cold hearts almost twitched with a pang of conscience. And then Heather's brother Byron wrote to us about where we'd gone wrong in our earlier post. In the interest of fairness, we now post his letter, which describes Heather's heroic battle against an eating disorder ("she dedicated herself to recovery from the disease") and reaffirms her credentials ("She played DIII field hockey at Hopkins, where she graduated with something like a 3.7.") More »

1:36 PM on Wed May 30 2007
By Emily Gould
14,103 views, 102 comments

Latest by pbwarren87: Byron. Good for you! My sister gets married in two weeks, and let me tell you, I understand what it's like to be the brother of an accomplished gal. Not only did she play sixteen sports in high-school (mens wrestling among more »