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From a New Yorker review of hot new barbecue joint Hill Country: "Conversation is discouraged, most nights, by the raucous live acts, including, not long ago, CBS News's Bob Schieffer, who was fronting the D.C.-based band Honky Tonk Confidential. Sample lyrics: 'Excuse me, bud, before you intrude. I ain't some "Brokeback Mountain" dude.' Maybe the music ought to be left to Texas." Our heads just exploded a couple of times. [NYer]
"A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry." [AFP]
the new notness
"Inster" Post-Hipster Fashion "Trend" Makes Us Miss Hipsters
We shop at the Gap and splurge at Banana Republic [Ed. Note: Umm, speak for yourself, straight man], so we are the last people in the world to judge anyone else's fashion choices. But whatever this new "inster" trend is, we are not having it.
Inster [Prose Before Hos]
clinton home movies
It's been a good run, but I think it's safe to say that all those parodies of "The Sopranos" series finale have finally been consigned to the dustbin of history. We're too shocked to even come up with a Bill Clinton comare joke. Hillary, Hillary... now you have to apologize for this and your Iraq vote! What were you thinking? More »
"The Clintons" Are "The Sopranos"
It's been a good run, but I think it's safe to say that all those parodies of "The Sopranos" series finale have finally been consigned to the dustbin of history. We're too shocked to even come up with a Bill Clinton comare joke. Hillary, Hillary... now you have to apologize for this and your Iraq vote! What were you thinking? More »
our lohan!
Inside Silicon Alley: An Intervention
Sure, we joke a lot about addiction here at Gawker, but we're well aware that it can be a serious - and dangerous - problem. Recently, a member of the staff had a substance issue, which co-workers were so concerned that, under the pretense of having a company get-together, we lured the editor with the disease (because that's what it is, a disease) into the office to discuss it. Here's what happened. More »
katie couric
Even Katie Couric's "Scandals" Are Third-Rate
We saw the following editor's note on Katie Couric's blog yesterday and were too "overwhelmed" to tease out its "implications":Correction: The April 4 Notebook was based on a "Moving On" column by Jeffrey Zaslow that ran in The Wall Street Journal on March 15 with the headline, "Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?" Much of the material in the Notebook came from Mr. Zaslow, and we should have acknowledged that at the top of our piece. We offer our sincere apologies for the omission.Couric's Notebook is a regular, web-only feature in which she offers a couple of thoughts on the issues of the day (soldiers in the second World War were brave, why are Americans so fat, etc.) and wraps up with the extraordinarily grating, "And that's a page from my notebook." The library entry has now been "completely" erased from the Internet. So explain this to us: Katie Couric read something "from her notebook" that was actually written by someone else, a producer who had in fact plagiarized it from a third party? When is "plagiarism" an "omission"? We're "confused," to say the least. Help us, public editor boy Brian Montopoli, you're our only hope! More »
New Twist In Anna Nicole Smith Case
Okay, the other two aren't much of a surprise, but Ronnie Wood? This thing goes all the way to the top!
Anna Nicole Smith: Rx Shrink Was Next-Door Neighbor [Fox News]
Okay, the other two aren't much of a surprise, but Ronnie Wood? This thing goes all the way to the top!
Anna Nicole Smith: Rx Shrink Was Next-Door Neighbor [Fox News]
nolita
Nolita: Black Jocelyne Wildensteins Allowed
Copyranter notes this new advertisement for New York's hip Nolita nabe. Apart from the genuine bizarreness of the whole thing, we'd just like to say how totally excited we are for the Chelsea version, which will simply put the tail on the other end. Click to enlarge. More »
Hell, If This Was Really All They Wanted We Probably Didn't Need The Dogs And Firehoses
Sigh. Maybe Joseph Epstein was right.
Scaling the mountaintop [ESPN]
Related Negro Bowl I [Deadpsin]
Sigh. Maybe Joseph Epstein was right.
Scaling the mountaintop [ESPN]
Related Negro Bowl I [Deadpsin]
clips
There's Apparently A Gay Out There That God Is Not Too Fond Of
We, uh, don't have much to say about this except that it's the best "please don't let me give in to my gay urges" song we've heard since that last Toby Keith record. More »
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Anna Nicole Smith's Cesarean Section
In lieu of context, please accept this "Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!"
new york magazine
'New York': Rich Is The New Poor
In their reliably cringe-inducing Money Issue (uh, how is this week different from all other weeks, again?), New York Mag explores what life is like on both ends of the economic spectrum here — you know, the rich end and the insanely pornographically rich end. But they do make an effort to include an example of what life is like for the huddled masses who struggle to get by in this cutthroat town — take, for example, the "Spending Diary" of Brian, a 26 year old MFA candidate who scrapes by on $20,000 a year. Really, that's all, $20K. Oh, but wait, actually . . .His parents pay his tuition as well as a $140-a-month gym membership at Equinox. The rent for his half of a West Village two-bedroom is $1,800 a month, most of it covered by his parents.Poor Brian. Perhaps we should all pitch in to buy him some new pencils or something. More »
pigeons
Swallowing Pigeons in the Park
So many questions: What's a pelican doing in the middle of London? How many pigeons can a pelican eat? And how soon can we get a shitload of pelicans over here to New York? More »
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VMA-holes: Fall Out Boy Makes Out with Monkey
We're gonna go ahead and say that this doesn't require a whole lot of explanation. Except for that whole WTF? thing.
marijuana
Jews for Bong Hits 4 Jesus
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Former Whitewater special counsel Kenneth Starr petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Alaska's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case, a dispute involving a high school student, a banner and a tough school policy.More »
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