June 2010
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The National - Squalor Victoria (White Sessions)
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Video: The BP Station in SoHo Gets "Occupied" by... →
Annie! You’re alive. What’d you see? Were there a lot of protesters down there? There were probably just as many reporters as protesters there. So, not a lot.
Basically, the people who couldn’t get to the beach: protesters and reporters. And bloggers. What else? I kept stepping in the “protest-oil” (actual oil) people were thro—
Wait, actual oil? Like,...
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Bros Icing Bros: Smirnoff Officially Denies... →
Is Smirnoff behind this Bros Icing Bros business? Icing is consumer generated. And it’s not generated by Diageo. It’s not a marketing campaign.
So are you guys gonna sue the people who are using Smirnoff’s name and likeness for their Bros Icing Bros “Bro Attire”? We always look at everything that’s out there and we’ll take whatever actions we...
BP Station in SoHo to be "Occupied" by Protest of... →
It’s Friday night, people are gonna be dressed up as sea turtles, and protests are great singles hangouts. At the very least, those at a loss for passionate environmentalism can still attend if they carry the requisite amount of summer-blockbuster-inspired rage! More as we get it.
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What is Page Six Writer Neel Shah Doing on The... →
We’ve heard word of this for some time, but allow us to express a moment of astonishment. That shit’s still on the air? But no, really: someone who used to work for Gawker is now on The City. If you can grasp the reality of this, you can then grasp how this is like the inmates running the asylum, or at the very least, starring in a well-lit staging of One Flew Over The...
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At Rush's Going Away Party, Molloy Dishes on... →
Three cheers for the Boris and Natasha-esque New York Daily News gossip duo, Rush and Molloy, who have retired their collective moose-and-squirrel sights, as George is taking a buyout from the News. Also, you probably don’t know this - because you probably don’t look at the bylines when you read the Daily News - but Rush is one hell of a reporter outside of the column. His feature work...
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The Bartender's Bartender →
He filled beer mugs without watching what he was doing. He could apparently tell, by the weight of them, when to stop. He plucked bottles from their perches without pausing to check labels. He apparently had, in his head, the whole liquor layout at P.J. Clarke’s, on the East Side. And he remembered what my companion and I were drinking, even though we had ordered just one round so far, and there...
The Man Who Plays Pat Kiernan on TV →
I was doing a silly little blog post about NY1’s iPhone app and happened across this, which is one of my favorite things Doree did at the Observer. Doesn’t this…
Pat Kiernan does an eight-minute segment called “In the Papers” in which he summarizes important articles from that day’s newspapers. It is this portion of the newscast—not “Weather on the 1’s,” not “The Rail and ...
Andrew Cuomo Basically Is Now New York Governor →
About an hour-ish ago, Andrew Cuomo accepted the New York State Democratic Party’s nomination to be the governor of New York, which, unless he’s caught with his dick in the ear of a hooker who once sold Joe Bruno a sub-prime mortgage, is a job he’ll have in six months.
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Breaking: Manhole Explodes in Dumbo, Funny... →
…Has anybody ruled out the possibility that this is all just an elaborate Icing?
Sex and the City 2 Reviews: The 10 Best Slams →
5. “Amy Odell, of nymag.com’s [fashion blog] The Cut, accompanied me to the screening and was kind enough to whisper that a particular dress of Carrie’s cost 50 grand. But what’s the point of spending that much when the cinematographer, John Thomas, lights Sarah Jessica Parker to bring out the leatheriness of her skin?” - First and second sentences, fourth...
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Ed Hardy Condoms Bring Rise to Important... →
Why, exactly, is there an Ed Hardy condom?
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A Case for Newsweek: Depression's Depressing News →
I linked my post on the article above, but just because I want you mothafuckas to click the shit out of it (that’s the point, you know?). But I didn’t want to get into the meta-media angle of the article in my post, which is more important (to me, here, in my “safe space”): that this is the kind of story Newsweek absolutely kills at when other places who would write about...
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Bros Icing Bros: The Carnage Continues Through... →
Our reasoning to all of this has been, all along: Why would Smirnoff enlist a project involving a game, the crux of which is predicated on how embarrassingly bad and what a truly awful beverage Smirnoff Ice is?
They wouldn’t. Which is why we’ve reached out to London’s Spook Media, who represents British spirits maker Diageo - who owns the Smirnoff brand - for “web...
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What To Do Seven Years After You Were the Founding... →
In honor of tonight’s B5 party.
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Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
We could slip away, ...
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Fimoculous: From one island to another →
By the end of the night, I realized SF kids talk about Arrington the same way that NYC kids talk about Denton. They are both smoke monsters.
Except the San Francisco iteration of X won’t be the San Fransisco iteration of X so much as it will always be The San Fransisco Version of New York’s X.
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Texas Rangers Baseball Team Files for Bankruptcy →
The Texas Rangers, the Major League Baseball team controlled by billionaire Thomas Hicks, filed for bankruptcy after the planned sale of the team fell through.
The Arlington, Texas-based company listed assets and debt of between $100 million and $500 million debt in Chapter 11 documents filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Fort Worth.
Alex Rodriguez was listed as the Rangers’ top unsecured...
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Perfect.
It wasn’t a show about people ‘Lost’ on an island. It was a show about people capital-l Lost in their lives. And how they were all eventually “found,” by purpose, by themselves, and with each other.
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The James L. Dolan Honorary Scholarship for Media... →
Prolific blogger, re-blogger, and columnist Anthony “SoupSoup” DeRosa is trying to harness the awesome power of KickStarter - a website that helps facilitate people who are looking to source out funding for their own projects - for the power of “good.”
American Gangster Inspiration Frank Lucas' Still... →
I have this theory about movies with plots that involve serious drug trouble: the second a woman causes trouble, everything goes to shit. This isn’t to say it’s how it actually is in real life - I wouldn’t know - but if you watch Blow, Scarface, Goodfellas, even Pulp Fiction, you’ll start to see a little bit of a pattern. American Gangster, the Ridley Scott-directed ...
