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#fashion
Spanx: Still Lurking Out There
Women across America continue to wear "Spanx" and "Spanx"-like undergarments despite the fact that "Spanx" are clearly evil, most especially for the women wearing them, and whoever may be around when it's time for them to shed their "Spanx."
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#pressreleaseoftheday
'Tune In to Find Out What Sex Is Like for Lauren and What 2 Vaginas Looks Like!'
PR is a discipline that demands the delicate touch of a surgeon and the sober judgment of a sober judge. You can't just wildly issue press releases like, "Hey, We Got a Lady With Two Vaginas Here!" Or can you? More » -
#advertising
Sushi restaurant ads target medical marijuana users. When you'll eat anything, why not something expensive?
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#trendwatch
Fake Trends Morph Into Old Person Sex Thing
Here is how fake trends turn into troubling fake trends: Wooed into masculine complacency by male body lotion ads, men become metrotextual and start signing their text messages with "Kisses." Next thing you know, grandpa's sexting. More » -
#recessionomics
This Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome
The Way We Live Now: Bubblicious. The Great American Real Estate Bubble is so one bubble ago. People are already gulping in fear for the new bubble. Will it be stocks? Asian currencies? Failed laundromats? Boutique hotels? Golden pennies? Sure! More » -
#layoffs
Time Inc. carnage: Eleven layoffs at Entertainment Weekly, Business Insider reports. Know more? Email us.
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#lies
TMZ Far Too Modest to Run Sex Tape
Protector of feminine virtue TMZ says it's had a homemade sex tape starring attractive but not smart beauty pageant loser Carrie Prejean for months. But TMZ's own sense of decency simply wouldn't allow it to be published. More » -
#mediacrack
Time Inc. Layoffs Hit People, Essence
In your completely laid-off Wednesday media column: details on more Time Inc. layoffs and buyouts at People and Essence, Fortune Small Business folds, and various ways that magazine publishers are terrorists. More » -
#photography
The Last Days of Gourmet
Kevin Demaria's posted a whole mess of sad, beautiful photographs of the final days in the office of Gourmet magazine. Junk food abounded. Go see them all. [Last Days of Gourmet] More » -
#parenting
Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child's Looks, For Money?
Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new "Gameboys" and "contraception." Fortunately your child's dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a modeling agency, for sweet, sweet money.
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#scientology
Tom Cruise Controls Books and Bottles with His Mind
Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It's been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves. More » -
#moneymatters
Don't Invest in Newspapers
You may be aware that deathly newspaper company stocks have experienced a brief resurgence recently, amidst speculation that things aren't so bad after all for the newspaper industry. If you benefited from this resurgence at all, lucky you. Now sell. More » -
#corrections
Successful Baldwin Brother in Weezy Cake-Buy Deny
FACTUAL CORRECTION: Alec Baldwin denies purchasing his daughter Ireland this terrifying cake in the shape of rap personality and famed drug consumer Lil Wayne. It must have been Kim Basinger who special-ordered the toothy, licorice-haired monstrosity. [Vulture] More » -
#internalmemos
Time Staffers Have Two Weeks to Volunteer for a Dozen Buyout Packages
The massive Time Inc. layoff-buyouts are now sweeping through the company's various magazines. Below, a memo that just went out to Time magazine editorial employees offering them buyouts. Run, don't walk! More » -
#justice
Louisiana judge Keith Bardwell, who stood up against interracial marriage, has resigned. What a character!
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#media
Dominic Carter Did Not Have a Good Vacation
Declarative former NY1 newsman Dominic Carter already lost his job for unseemly name-dropping in court while on trial for beating his wife, then got barred from boarding a flight just because he exists. Can his week get worse? Yes, much. More » -
#kittykitty
PETA Protects Cat to Death
Pity poor Lydia Netzer, who lived next door to the PETA intern house outside DC. Pity Lydia Netzer's cat even more. The PETA interns finally good-intentioned it to death. More » -
#moneymatters
Si Newhouse Has Some Real Nice Art For Sale, Cheap!
Conde Nast potentate Si Newhouse is prepared to take a $10 million loss just to sell off some art and raise some cash. That can't be good. More » -
#classicads
Nicolas Sarkozy Prefers Bonux Detergent
Here is the most powerful man in France, Nicolas Sarkozy, starring in a detergent ad circa 1967. Your fears are true, kids: Embarrassing things you do now will come back to embarrass you again decades later. [Telegraph via Adfreak] More » -
#deaths
Paparazzo Dies Post-Gaga
Celebrity photographer A.J. Sokalner was working the rope line at the ACE Awards in Manhattan last night. Just after Lady Gaga arrived, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. Not how anyone deserves to go. [PDN] More » -
#layoffs
Time Inc. Layoffs Begin
We hear Time Inc. Guild members are meeting now regarding pending layoffs. UPDATE: A tipster tells us "Time Inc.'s news division has started their layoffs." Email us details. MORE: The memo People editor Larry Hackett sent out, below. More » -
#recessionomics
Warren Buffett Has So Many God Damn Trains There's No Way America Can Fail
The Way We Live Now: Workin' on the railroad. To the "tune" of $44 billion, hahaha! A tune to a song called 'America Rules.' We don't need sick days. We just need our railroad. Screw an "economic paradigm"! More » -
#newspaperwars
Wall Street Journal Takes on Local News
The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More » -
#andnowhesdead
Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology God
Claude Levi-Strauss, famed French structural anthropologist who influenced subsequent intellectuals from Foucault to Derrida, has died at the age of 100. More » -
#mediacrack
Now Everybody Talk about Terrible Washington Post Stories
In your alluring Tuesday media column: An emerging catalogue of WaPo Styles fuckery, Russia has this whole "journalism" thing nailed, nothing about The Onion is funny except the actual words, and "Twenty ten" means you're gay. More » -
#trendwatch
The War on Fat Is a Holy War
America is prepared to sacrifice its own children in order to win the War on Fat, with the help of Jesus, and The Government. More » -
#shutupnilla
Why Does Obama Want to Pay Hip-Hoppers for Their Violent Sex Talk?
The new head of the National Endowment for the Arts says that he'd like to explore government funding for hip hop culture, including rap and graffiti. Whoa, whoa. Does he know about the hoes? More » -
#death
Dead Body in NYU Library (Updated)
An unidentified male was found dead in NYU's Bobst Library this morning. NYU has an unfortunately well-earned reputation as a hub of student suicides: Six in 2004, five in 2005. UPDATE: Letter from NYU President confirming suicide, below. [WSN] More » -
#media
Heaven and Hell in Journalism Jobs
Media jobs used to be cushy; nowadays, you can't even land a media job, and if you do, it sucks. But six-figure journalism salaries still exist! As do terrible, fly-by-night hellholes (Billboard). We've found the best and the worst. More »
