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BREAKING NEWS!
Rafael Smith, 4, is believed by his mother and numerous Olan Mills employees to resemble the Democratic presidential candidate. No seriously that is a story.
Conventional Wisdom
The Only 90 Seconds of Convention Coverage You Need to Watch
Missed the convention so far? Want to know what all the fuss is about? Truthfully it's a series of mediocre-to-decent speeches and then hours and hours and HOURS of utter bullshit. The speeches are too long anyway, so our video department cut the whole thing down to 90 seconds. You got your Michelle Obama, your Ted Kennedy, your Clintons, and, of course, the next President of the United States, Dennis Kucinich. Enjoy!
"I Didn't Do It"
Fleeting fame continues! Michael Phelps, the richly be-medaled Olympian and Ariel the mermaid's half brother, will be making a cameo on HBO's Entourage this season. He could teach Vincent Chase a few things about pulling chicks, I'm sure. You know, when in the confines of a little village in a foreign country.
Fleeting fame continues! Michael Phelps, the richly be-medaled Olympian and Ariel the mermaid's half brother, will be making a cameo on HBO's Entourage this season. He could teach Vincent Chase a few things about pulling chicks, I'm sure. You know, when in the confines of a little village in a foreign country.
Body Issues
Retailer Pulls Catalogs With Death Camp-Thin Models—Can We Get Some Pictures?
The president of a venerable Montreal retailer is pulling some 450,000 of the the store's catalogs because he decided the models were too thin. Says Peter Simons of La Maison Simons, who claims he was on vacation when the catalogs were printed: "We are into social responsibility here.... I'm fully aware of what it is and I'm taking full responsibility… It's my job to ensure that we are a constructive actor in the community. I should have done better. I should have seen it." Well, holy overblown contrition, Pete, it's not like you asked the models to watch you masturbate like I hear is the retailing executive custom up there in Montreal! In any case, this is the most emaciated-looking picture I could find on the internet from the La Maison Simons catalog — its private label is called "Twik" — so for good measure thought I'd go back and upload my favorite pic from the pages of that other great publication and crusader against eating disorders, Teen Vogue. More »
Banksy
Art Or Dumb, Or Both?
This particular new Banksy piece in New Orleans that we posted earlier today is a statement on the city's aggressive art-buffing practices, so of course it has already been painted over. But in the most head-scratching way possible. Idiotic example of the power structure missing the point, or the work of a sympathetic city worker? Or just more art? Click through for before and after pics: More »
Books
Failure to Return
Seriously, who isn't returning their library books? The failure to return borrowed books is a very real, very pressing problem these days. We've brought you two jail-time examples of rogue library borrowers this week alone. Now we've received a list of various offenders from the fuzz—a Southern library is being robbed of their possession of something called The Amazing Panda Adventure! Don't worry: the police department is on the case. More »
Most Popular Stories
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- Artists Vs. iTunes: Fight For Your Right To Suck! (120 comments, 4,010 views)
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Yoko Ono
E 9th St & University Pl
Saw Yoko Ono walking south on 5th Avenue at 85th Street, wearing white pants, a black shirt, an off-white cap, and her trademark giant dark sunglasses. She had a young woman (an assistant?) walking with her, and she was moving very quickly and looking over her glasses nervously... -
Michael Phelps AND Kevin Dillon
7th Ave
ust saw Kevin Connelly shooting a scene for Entourage on 57th and 7th with none other than special guest star Michael Phelps. Kind of a funny duo as Phelps is about 3 feet taller than Connelly the leprechaun... the guy is built like a monster! -
Michael Imperioli
7th Ave
Saw Michael (Christophuh!) Imperioli on 23rd and 7th, with a ton of hair, and a huge handlebar mustache... Looking very '73, for that new Life on Mars series, I guess. I almost didn't recognize him. -
Michael Phelps
7th Ave
Saw Michael Phelps across from Carnegie hall. Wearing a blue shirt (maybe a vest over a white button down) and jeans. Looked cute even with his dumbo ears.
Real Men Eat Brains
Ha, Wendy's is being humorous with its new "Meatatarians" ad campaign, cause it's like, fuck vegetables, eat cows! "Our goal is to continue our dominance atop the food chain," reads the website, which has no content except a box for Meatatarians to sign up for mass emails from Wendy's. You won't see any cows signing up. Now who's smart?
Ha, Wendy's is being humorous with its new "Meatatarians" ad campaign, cause it's like, fuck vegetables, eat cows! "Our goal is to continue our dominance atop the food chain," reads the website, which has no content except a box for Meatatarians to sign up for mass emails from Wendy's. You won't see any cows signing up. Now who's smart?
confirmed
Aaron Sorkin admits he's working on "The Facebook Movie"
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Why would anyone not think Aaron Sorkin is working on a movie about Facebook? "You can't handle the truth!" That's the line Sorkin penned for Jack Nicholson in 1992's A Few Good Men. More »
Advertising
The Mock Cover
The spoof cover is an increasingly popular way to establish a character. Witness the fake issue of Wired flashed on the screen during a video tribute to Iron Man's arms manufacturer, Robert Downey's character, Tony Stark. HBO rival Showtime has borrowed the technique to advertise the new season of their tentpole show, the serial-killer drama Dexter, sacrificing a little authenticity for branding impact: Dexter's name is rendered in the style of the Wired and Rolling Stone logos, but replaces the magazines' names. (One assumes these fake covers will run on the back pages of the respective magazines.) But our current favorite is the mini-issue at the back of the latest Advertising Age, a 16-page 1960s version of the ad trade mag designed to promote AMC's critically-acclaimed show Mad Men—and Initiative, the agency that organized the innovative campaign. A scan after the jump: More »
Advertising
Hologram Ushers You Into Best Buy
Hm, how to grab shoppers' attention in the cavernous Mall of America, without having to pay some kid $7 an hour to stand there passing out fliers? A hologram man, sent from the future! It's only a matter of time now until Terminator-like robots patrol our nation's food courts, gesturing menacingly with their whirring appendages, their fixed gaze wordlessly urging you to check out the new Sears bathmat sale at the price of your life. For now, though: Best Buy employee holograms. Watch the ghostly salesman give his ever-repeating spiel, below: More »
sex wars
We Are All Whores, So Save Your Outraged Blogging for the War or Whatever
You know what's boring? Feminist outrage. But it's so easy to be strident, especially in the blogosphere. Especially when a gal writes an article like Jessica Pilot's now-infamous profile on Manhattan's so-called "Hipster Hookers" in Radar. In the piece, she profiled high-end working girls, and even met with a madam herself—although she chickened out on actually going through with a call. Fine, whatever! The members of the blogosphere—you know, when they were not busy watching porn and having casual sex—had a field day with Pilot. She's been reduced to defending herself on her Facebook page: "I AM NOT A HIPSTER WHORE." More »
Bad ideas
Live Nude McCain Ad During Obama Speech Tonight
John McCain is playing dirty! Tonight, after Barack Obama's speech, McCain bought airtime for a rebuttal ad. There are no details on which markets and channels the ad will air on ("battleground states" does not mean much!) but it will surely end up repeated on every channel in the name of "news" a couple million times. What will McCain do in this mysterious and unprecedented ad? We're not sure, but this is a terrible sign: More »
Exclusive
Leaked Gossip Girl Script! Sad Young Literary Men
Found at the Gossip Girl studios: a script for what appears to be the fifth episode of the teen soap's highly-anticipated second season. And what do the selected pages reveal? Mostly the tortured (and torturous) relationship between sad young literary man Brooklyn Dan and his crusty old mentor, Noah Shapiro. Amusingly, the Shapiro character is introduced by Jay McInerney, in a cameo role, who was once a sad young New York literary fellow himself. His 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City was a smash hit about "you" (the novel was written entirely in the second person) young ambitious writerly types in the big bad city. It's all come full circle! Enjoy some scans of the script after the jump. More »
What It Feels Like For A (Glamour) Girl
September Vogue: Last Ladymag Standing (And Jumping)
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: September Vogue jumps out on the news stand for all the wrong reasons. On her fourth cover in three years, Keira Knightley's hair looks reminiscent of a baby primate (though not in a cute way), her pose is all wrong for the Balenciaga she's wearing, and her expression has a whiff of... More »
taavo somer
Hipster God A Homophobe?
"It's stupid to be homophobic," mused a guy working in a downtown bar last night. "And it's really stupid to be homophobic if you're in the restaurant business. And it's really stupid to be homophobic if you're in the fashion business." The subject of his rant: Taavo Somer, the 35-year-old owner of faux-rustic LES hipster haven Freemans and faux-nautical bar The Rusty Knot and proprietor of his own fashion line of $88 t-shirts. Somer was anointed by New York magazine this year as "the next groovy thing," the embodiment of forward-thinking hipster cool. But this ex-employee was of the opinion that Taavo is an ass: More »
Dog Days
Americans Select Girl-Dog for Obama
Barack Obama promised his adorable daughters that he would get them a puppy if he won the presidency (they would surely mention this fact more often if they really wanted to win). The American Kennel Club had a poll to decide what sort of dog Obama should get. (Of course, Obama should rescue a dog from a shelter and not select an expensive purebred, but whatevs.) The winner? A poodle. A little fucking girly elitist poodle! Who's responsible for this? More »
The Holy Grail
The most Onion-like real news story of all time has been found. [Sioux City Journal via James Wilkerson]
The most Onion-like real news story of all time has been found. [Sioux City Journal via James Wilkerson]
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"Everything Is Lava Except For This Paint Strip!!! Carolyn, You're In the Lava!!!!!"
[Lauren Conrad, star of the Frontline special series "The Hills" out and about in the city of strip malls last night; image via INF] More »
New '90210', Old Tricks
Two stars of the original teen soap on the upcoming remake... Shannen Doherty: "All I know is there's a girl giving a guy a blow job in the first episode." Jennie Garth: "When they told me that, I thought, Aaron Spelling is rolling over in his grave right now." [EW]
Two stars of the original teen soap on the upcoming remake... Shannen Doherty: "All I know is there's a girl giving a guy a blow job in the first episode." Jennie Garth: "When they told me that, I thought, Aaron Spelling is rolling over in his grave right now." [EW]
Trash tv
Kathie Lee And Hoda's 4th Hour Of Today Is So Bad It's (Almost) Good
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: If you're around a TV at 10 AM with nothing to do, you should be watching the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, if only to marvel at how Kathie Lee has turned Hoda, a world-traveled, Peabody-award-winning journalist, into a fellow yenta. More »
Predictions
Whose Heads Will Roll At Bloomberg?
Bloomberg News' rather embarrassing faux pas—posting Apple chief Steve Jobs' obituary before he's actually dead—has now been chuckled at by just about everyone. It's not the sort of publicity that Bloomberg's bow-tied editorial boss Matthew Winkler, a notorious tyrant, wanker, and stickler for detail, is fond of. This is a man who threw a legendary tantrum (listen to it here!) while firing a reporter for making a far less egregious error. So the immediate reaction among those familiar with him to news of the Jobs obit was, "Heads will roll." Our question: whose heads? Email us if you have any information on the fallout. Though we personally encourage restraint and forgiveness.
Do We Smell A Hatecrush?
"Certain writers have a style that can be best likened to body odor: irresistible to some, obnoxious to many and apparently imperceptible to the writer himself." That is the overeducated overyoung* novelist Robert MacFarlane on the new book out by Paul Theroux. [Times]
Misadventures in pr
