July 2008
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Boning Lohan
TMZ promo during local Fox 5 o’clock news: “Lindsay’s sister is trying out for a movie. The problem is… it could be porn.” (I don’t really read gossip blogs, my apologies if this story is everywhere and I’m behind on everything as usual.)
Update: Oh, it’s a stupid joke from her reality show. Is gossip slow in the summer, too?
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Famous person I don't know update
Oh, boy, Page Six Magazine just interviewed me about Ivanka Trump, who I did go to college with for 2 years and who I — just like we did when I edited 34th Street — randomly mention on Philadelphia Will Do as a throwaway joke or when I need a random post I can blockquote from (it makes it look like I did more work!).
I made sure to sound as pathetic as possible — “I once...
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“Individuals bent on beating drug tests need only turn to the Internet to find...”
– Drug Test Cheaters Turning to Web: I have to assume the story meant to say, “People who used google have found.”
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That's What The Germans Want You To Think
Barack Obama is touring Europe this week; he spoke before 200k in Germany. Unfortunately, American journalists and bloggers apparently only know one thing about that country: David Hasselhoff was once popular there as a singer.
No matter where you read the news of Obama’s Germany visit, you probably read some bad joke such as, “With this crowd, you’d think David Hasselhoff was...
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“So, the LA Times won’t let their bloggers post on John Edwards and his...”
– Nothing quite approaches the essence of pure, undiluted unintentional comedy than blog entries from a political magazines’ websites. (Okay, and Huffington Post.) Today, Greg Pollowitz entertains us unintentionally in an post from National Review’s media blog titled “LA Times Thy...
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Mexican Coke (the legal kind)
doree:
-Stop eating things with high fructose corn syrup in them (thanks, Tara Parker-Pope!).
I’ve been going down to any of the bodegas near the Italian food market to get Mexican Coke since I moved to Center City; it tastes approximately 400 billion times better. It’s also in a glass bottle, another big plus.
I’ve been dying to try Dublin Dr. Pepper for a while now.
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I’m not really sure what’s more amusing: That Paul Westerberg has a new album out that is one long track (and costs 49 cents) or that he has a fansite hosted on members.aol.com. Hmm. The latter.
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This headline confuses me →
The headline, of course, is “Air guitar hero loses toe — literally,” from the New York Daily News. Whenever I rock the air guitar, I make sure to only lose my toes in a figurative manner.
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“Even ice cream became a point of contention: In the past year, a group of mostly...”
– The Wall Street Journal declares The End of White Flight in a headline. Naturally, a majority of the article deals with how white people annoy earlier residents once they start gentrifying an area. Oh, white people.
There are a ton of issues about schools, though; I thought white people always...
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Stop being greedy, Pope tells world's youth →
One of the best headlines in a long time. The Pope, in Australia, reminded the kids to be green and not abuse drugs or let television make them violent. Hmm. Well, at least he stopped short of saying, “Just Say No.”
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WatchGod has finally had enough, and is hitting users of social networking sites with lightning. I say it’s about time.
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“An American pastor who made news in April by studying NASA’s eclipse...”
– Sometimes, WorldNetDaily really does get the scoops.
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Tabloid: F1 chief's orgy 'overwhelmingly Nazi' →
“I didn’t quite expect the degree of Nazi-style humiliation we saw,” says a reporter. I wonder what percentage of an orgy needs to be Nazi for it to be declared “overwhelmingly” Nazi. At least 60?
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Prom special for senior who takes dad as date →
Um.
The prom, incidentally, took place at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena.
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Recent emails
woefullymisinformed:
From Steve:
We just got a case which alleges that the song “I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper)” infringes the copyright in the song “Makin’ Luv 2 A Player.” These are the things that keep me going.
This is kind of like when “Ice Ice Baby” infringed on “Under Pressure.”
Joel Stein is my hero, apparently
doree:
There will be new sections reminiscent of older versions of Time (the front of the book, now called “Notebook,” will be rechristened “Briefing”) and a slew of new columns in what Stengel calls a “branded expertise mall,” including Joel Stein—“a god to people in their twenties and thirties,” says Stengel—on food and Samantha Power on foreign affairs.
Doree points to this quote about Joel...
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Watch this space for exciting developments.