The effeminate young man who requested that the country lay off of Britney a bit has posted a video, the first one he's put on YouTube since his tearful plea of September 7. (He did post some others but immediately removed them, but this one's stayed up for a full day now.) In the video, Chris Crocker (still not his…
On his Tumblr today, Alex Balk muses on Nick Denton's morality, suggests that his vision of hell involves doing his current job with Radar, and makes one (1) tit joke. Guest-blogging at kottke.org, Choire Sicha continues mining Times metro sections of days past for ironies and gimlet-eyed commentary on the sorry state…
When we last checked in with downtown doyenne Brooke Geahan, the founder of the defunct Accompanied Library was still pouting about her Library being booted from its home at the National Arts Club. The Accompanied Library, despite reports that hiphop mogul Damon Dash was throwing his weight behind it, was presumed…
Back when House and Garden published his winey online ramblings, semi-simian author Jay McInerney could justify his barfy hedonism by claiming it was for a greater literary good. But the magazine folded and the blog has been mute since Halloween. McInerney has been, presumably, casting about the cosmos for something…
Former taxi driver Rodney King, who had a 1992 riot named after him when the Los Angeles Police Department officers who were videotaped beating him on the street were acquitted, was shot in the face late last night. TMZ's commenters mourned the only way they know how.
Natasha Lyonne: still alive! [The Superficial]
Susan Powter—you remember the annoying motivational speaker with the harsh blonde crewcut, whose catchphrase was "Stop the insanity!"—is now a radical slightly goth tattooed lesbian moon-worshipping videoblogger who likes to film herself eating white nectarines in the middle of the night! She looks like Nina Hagen +…
"I am fine thank you, and enjoying my house in Palm Beach," says convicted fraudster Conrad Black, who remains "optimistic" about his chances on appeal. Uh, don't get too comfortable, Connie. [AP]
"Fucking kids. I don't know if you've got any... But you're going to be misfortunate some day." Henry Hill, whose life story was chronicled in the book Wiseguy and the film Goodfellas, discusses parenting, fine arts, and the underreporting of casualty figures in South Central. Oh, yeah, and getting your wang sliced.…
Wondering whatever happened to former Conde Nast wunderkind James Truman? He's busy skinnydipping with his girlfriend, Elle contributor Leanne Shapton. [WWD]
Remember the mid-'80s? Some of us do! And some of us were just at the right age to have a massive crush on Corey Haim. Remember how cute he was in Lucas? And The Lost Boys? And of course, his crowning achievement of the '80s, his star vehicle (sorry) License to Drive, with the other Corey, Corey Feldman, who was a…
From the mailbag:
Before there was Facebook founder and future billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, there was someone much less deserving: Stephan Paternot (pronounced Pat-er-noh, but I like to pretend it rhymes with Hot-or-Not — on which, incidentally, Stephan would be rated a 6.2) In 1998 the 23-year-old millionerkind took his company…
