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"Men need to fuuu..."
I meant "men need to be allowed to have feelings!" I wasn't going to say "fuck," I swear! Eliot Spitzer was looking for hot, kinky emotional freedom, you see.
Oh, Jenny
Book-pimping Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee is confused about why her book is being so steeply discounted, even though it's, like, the number one Chinese food book on Amazon. "Not sure why, but Amazon just upped the discount on The Fortune Cookie Chronicles from 34% to 40%." [Fortune Cookie Chronicles]
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Anderson Cooper Stunned By Cost Of Hookers These Days
Coquettish Anderson Cooper of CNN sat down with a former pimp, who gently walked the delicate anchor through the process of making money as a high-priced hooker, and left Cooper floored over how much money can be made as a prostitute. The pimp told Cooper exactly how fun whoring can be for all involved, how high-class prostitution is not nearly as exploitive as low-rent sex, and how there's not much difference between $1,000-per-hour call girls vs. $4,000 per-hour call girls. When the discussion turned to money, the Coop got a little flustered: "That's a lot of money for, fuh... for an hour -- uh, it surprised me." Anderson, everyone understands you have a job to do. There's no need to be embarrassed just because it sounds like you already knew something about hooker pricing. After all, it's not like you're keeping some big sexual secret from the world. Video after the jump.
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Daily Show
Daily Show Finally Unloads On Spitzer
The late-breaking news about now former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal caught the Daily Show and some of its late-night compatriots short of jokes, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart admitted as much on Monday night's show, when he had to cut from a few brief Spitzer jokes to a package on Wyoming's Democratic primary. One night later, the political comedy show was ready to feast on the news, as shown in the thumbnail at left. The result lacked the impressive same-day turnaround of David Letterman's Monday night performance, but had its moments, as show in the excerpt after the jump.
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Keith Olbermann's Special Comment On Hillary Is Horrifying
FROM WONKETTE.COM:
We are four minutes through this video of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's special "Special Comment" about Hillary Clinton. It's the first time he has made a "Special Comment" about a Democrat. It is a nine-minute video. He is the angriest person in the galaxy. SOS!
ashley alexandra dupre
Kristen: The Definitive Gallery
We've assembled a gallery of the 15 known pictures of Eliot Spitzer's high-priced hooker Ashley Youmans, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre, plus (after the jump) a gallery of two possible pictures of Youmans. Youmans has not yet closed off or deleted her MySpace page, despite giving an interview to the Times and rapidly having her name spread throughout the internet. Something tells us the aspiring musician is not entirely minding all the attention. At the moment, these shots come from her music store and MySpace page. We'll keep this gallery updated as new photos emerge, as they surely will.
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Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer is dead and buried. He just promised to never involve himself in public life again, everyone in America knows he's been fucking prostitutes for a decade, we forced our apology from him and now we just hope he'll go way so we can meet our awesome new blind governor. But some people, people who never liked that Spitzer character, are so thrilled about this turn of events that they've become utterly insufferable. Spitzer is a fucking idiot and moral failure. But honestly, some of you are a bit too excited.
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The Five Most Obnoxious Grave-Dances By Spitzer Critics
Eliot Spitzer is dead and buried. He just promised to never involve himself in public life again, everyone in America knows he's been fucking prostitutes for a decade, we forced our apology from him and now we just hope he'll go way so we can meet our awesome new blind governor. But some people, people who never liked that Spitzer character, are so thrilled about this turn of events that they've become utterly insufferable. Spitzer is a fucking idiot and moral failure. But honestly, some of you are a bit too excited.
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Clips
Earlier I wrote about Tim Gunn's appearance at the 92nd St. Y last night. Like I said, he was delightful and informative, but unfortunately I didn't record or tape anything (I don't think I was allowed?) Luckily, the Y taped it, and posted a segment on YouTube. It ought to give you an indication of what a wonderful raconteur the silver fox really is. Tim talking about his childhood and J. Edgar Hoover dressing in drag, among other things, after the jump.
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Tim Gunn On The Record
Earlier I wrote about Tim Gunn's appearance at the 92nd St. Y last night. Like I said, he was delightful and informative, but unfortunately I didn't record or tape anything (I don't think I was allowed?) Luckily, the Y taped it, and posted a segment on YouTube. It ought to give you an indication of what a wonderful raconteur the silver fox really is. Tim talking about his childhood and J. Edgar Hoover dressing in drag, among other things, after the jump.
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Heart of Gold
The New York Times was the first to track down "Kristen", the high-class prostitute whose two hours with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer ended his career. Her real name: Ashley Youmans, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre. She's 22, she's from Jersey, and she's newly single. Her MySpace profile is still live, if you'd like to listen to her demo. Or check out her top five! The kind-of insane Times story pretty clearly just went live because they knew their scoop wouldn't last. It summarizes her MySpace bio, quotes her talking about how she saw the Rolling Stones, and criticizes her demo song's "dated slang." And that's about it for news. But still, good show! Ashley's blog entry from Thursday, August 30 is full of awesome advice, so we will reprint it, below.
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The 'Times' Found 'Kristen'!
The New York Times was the first to track down "Kristen", the high-class prostitute whose two hours with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer ended his career. Her real name: Ashley Youmans, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre. She's 22, she's from Jersey, and she's newly single. Her MySpace profile is still live, if you'd like to listen to her demo. Or check out her top five! The kind-of insane Times story pretty clearly just went live because they knew their scoop wouldn't last. It summarizes her MySpace bio, quotes her talking about how she saw the Rolling Stones, and criticizes her demo song's "dated slang." And that's about it for news. But still, good show! Ashley's blog entry from Thursday, August 30 is full of awesome advice, so we will reprint it, below.
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Eliot Spitzer
Talk about a reversal of fortunes! Instead of reblogging the New York Post's content, today Gothamist had its content lifted by the Post. The paper ran a Gothamist photoshopped picture of Eliot Spitzer without crediting the site. You may think, How sad, New York Post, stealing from a web site. Or how sad, Gothamist, crowing that the New York Post stole from you. Or even, how sad, Gawker, caring about any of this. But one thing is for sure, this Eliot Spitzer scandal has left blood on all our hands.
No One Gets Out Clean
Talk about a reversal of fortunes! Instead of reblogging the New York Post's content, today Gothamist had its content lifted by the Post. The paper ran a Gothamist photoshopped picture of Eliot Spitzer without crediting the site. You may think, How sad, New York Post, stealing from a web site. Or how sad, Gothamist, crowing that the New York Post stole from you. Or even, how sad, Gawker, caring about any of this. But one thing is for sure, this Eliot Spitzer scandal has left blood on all our hands.
Facebook
Facebook is the ultimate journalist tool: it's the easiest way to track sources from a particular demographic. It's also the easiest way to find incriminating photos of someone online. So knowing the rules of the game, the BBC has set limits on the Facebook profiles of their staff, at once defending their online privacy while invading it. The BBC is doing it to protect their brand. It's true: all their hard work would be lost if one of their reporters was ever caught doing a brandy snifter pyramid, or whatever the British equivalent of a keg stand is. [Guardian]
Per Company Policy, No BBC Employee Is Interested In "Whatever I Can Get"
Facebook is the ultimate journalist tool: it's the easiest way to track sources from a particular demographic. It's also the easiest way to find incriminating photos of someone online. So knowing the rules of the game, the BBC has set limits on the Facebook profiles of their staff, at once defending their online privacy while invading it. The BBC is doing it to protect their brand. It's true: all their hard work would be lost if one of their reporters was ever caught doing a brandy snifter pyramid, or whatever the British equivalent of a keg stand is. [Guardian]
And now, the hunter becomes the hunted.
More Intelligent Life, the Economists's lifestyle blog, is picking their favorite film and book critics. In books, the New Yorker's James Wood came out on top.
blind item roundup
Another round of blind items today. The first is about an unnamed young woman from The Hills reality program who is pregnant. Hmm. "Now if we could just figure out the daddy," says Crazy Days and Nights. One more from them after the jump, plus a particularly shameful item about some drunken womanizer.
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A Hills Star Is With Child?
Another round of blind items today. The first is about an unnamed young woman from The Hills reality program who is pregnant. Hmm. "Now if we could just figure out the daddy," says Crazy Days and Nights. One more from them after the jump, plus a particularly shameful item about some drunken womanizer.
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Advertising
In record time, the Spitzer "Client #9" scandal has been turned into an ad for Virgin Mobile in Canada [click to enlarge]. Another ad in the series shows Hillary Clinton with a thought bubble saying "I wish my bill wasn't so out of control." Hey, only blogs are allowed to make sex jokes that blatant. The next ad up in the series will reportedly be Barack Obama—what trite slogan will they come up with for him? Ideas in the comments. We'll send the best one to Virgin Mobile, to be ignored. [Marketing Magazine via Dealbreaker]
Wow, Quick
In record time, the Spitzer "Client #9" scandal has been turned into an ad for Virgin Mobile in Canada [click to enlarge]. Another ad in the series shows Hillary Clinton with a thought bubble saying "I wish my bill wasn't so out of control." Hey, only blogs are allowed to make sex jokes that blatant. The next ad up in the series will reportedly be Barack Obama—what trite slogan will they come up with for him? Ideas in the comments. We'll send the best one to Virgin Mobile, to be ignored. [Marketing Magazine via Dealbreaker]
Hulu
Hulu, the video on demand website that could just change the way we watch everything, is, honestly, starting out pretty well. It has full episodes and clips from over 300 NBC and Fox titles (and some movies, too) with a much cleaner format than YouTube. While some of what's on there has already been defined as internet hipster zeitgeist programming (30 Rock, Friday Night Lights), there is also some delightfully random stuff, like episodes of St. Elsewhere, the medical drama that's responsible for Howie Mandel, and Exosquad, that weird kids cartoon where people actually died. Chairman Denton had me rummage around the site for a bit, trying to find my top ten favorites. Honestly, with as much Simpsons and 30 Rock stuff as they have, it's sort of impossible. But I've managed to compile a reasonable sampling of what this odd and varied possible murderer of television has to offer. They lie, not in any particular order, after the jump. Beware that some of them are long and embedding is not working for some reason, so they're just links. Sigh.
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My 10 Favorite Things On Hulu (For The Time Being)
Hulu, the video on demand website that could just change the way we watch everything, is, honestly, starting out pretty well. It has full episodes and clips from over 300 NBC and Fox titles (and some movies, too) with a much cleaner format than YouTube. While some of what's on there has already been defined as internet hipster zeitgeist programming (30 Rock, Friday Night Lights), there is also some delightfully random stuff, like episodes of St. Elsewhere, the medical drama that's responsible for Howie Mandel, and Exosquad, that weird kids cartoon where people actually died. Chairman Denton had me rummage around the site for a bit, trying to find my top ten favorites. Honestly, with as much Simpsons and 30 Rock stuff as they have, it's sort of impossible. But I've managed to compile a reasonable sampling of what this odd and varied possible murderer of television has to offer. They lie, not in any particular order, after the jump. Beware that some of them are long and embedding is not working for some reason, so they're just links. Sigh.
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Conde Nast Looks West
To think that New York was once the compulsory destination for that dying breed, ambitious magazine entrepreneur. Conde Nast, which has absorbed no significant new magazine since Wired in 1999, is reportedly in discussions to buy Dwell, the trendiest of the shelter titles. Both magazines started in San Francisco.
Scandal
Have you heard the story of Client 6 of the Emperors Club VIP escort and modeling service? This john lives in London. In January, he paid for a date with "Astrid." "After the appointment Astrid said that 'everything was fine' but Client 6 called the company to say that, while she 'was very nice', 'next time he wanted to see someone else', the documents show." That's from the Times of London, which doesn't identify Client 6 by name. It's the Duke of Westminster! He can afford the five-diamond call girls—he comes from the oldest money there is! He is the wealthiest aristocrat in the UK! Which is maybe why all the British papers seem to have scrapped their stories on his whoring. Libel laws are a bit less press-friendly over there. In America, though, we can proudly announce that Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, pays for sex with expensive hookers. Update: The Duke's enthusiasm for professional sex has been covered in the past by the British press. This Daily Mail story will make you cry for the loneliest Duke, all alone with his billions of dollars and funny costumes and harem of unsatisfying seven-diamond whores.
Spitz-Sinking Brothel's Client 6: The Duke of Westminster
Have you heard the story of Client 6 of the Emperors Club VIP escort and modeling service? This john lives in London. In January, he paid for a date with "Astrid." "After the appointment Astrid said that 'everything was fine' but Client 6 called the company to say that, while she 'was very nice', 'next time he wanted to see someone else', the documents show." That's from the Times of London, which doesn't identify Client 6 by name. It's the Duke of Westminster! He can afford the five-diamond call girls—he comes from the oldest money there is! He is the wealthiest aristocrat in the UK! Which is maybe why all the British papers seem to have scrapped their stories on his whoring. Libel laws are a bit less press-friendly over there. In America, though, we can proudly announce that Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, pays for sex with expensive hookers. Update: The Duke's enthusiasm for professional sex has been covered in the past by the British press. This Daily Mail story will make you cry for the loneliest Duke, all alone with his billions of dollars and funny costumes and harem of unsatisfying seven-diamond whores.
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Books
Regarding the fake memoir crisis, and its effect on budding writers: sometimes, your life, or the lives that touch yours, are so "bafflingly fucked" that the only thing to do is write about it. After the jump, two memoirists (one published, one not) with Dickensian backgrounds talk about the Frey/Leroy/Seltzer clusterfuck that conspired to cast doubt on their stories. (One way to prove that your homeless memoir is true? Dump memorabilia from your years as a waif on their desks!)
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What If Your (True) Memoir is So Good That Nobody Believes It?
Regarding the fake memoir crisis, and its effect on budding writers: sometimes, your life, or the lives that touch yours, are so "bafflingly fucked" that the only thing to do is write about it. After the jump, two memoirists (one published, one not) with Dickensian backgrounds talk about the Frey/Leroy/Seltzer clusterfuck that conspired to cast doubt on their stories. (One way to prove that your homeless memoir is true? Dump memorabilia from your years as a waif on their desks!)
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Demographics
Internet first amendment rights were threatened yesterday when RateMyCop.com was shut down. As the name implies, the site allows users to rate local uniformed cops. The host, GoDaddy.com, told the owner that it was taken offline for "suspicious activity." The site is back up, but Rate My Cop's inevitable failure is a good reminder that the internet is still a playground for rich kids.
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Website To Separate Good Cop From Bad
Internet first amendment rights were threatened yesterday when RateMyCop.com was shut down. As the name implies, the site allows users to rate local uniformed cops. The host, GoDaddy.com, told the owner that it was taken offline for "suspicious activity." The site is back up, but Rate My Cop's inevitable failure is a good reminder that the internet is still a playground for rich kids.More »
Disasters
It would probably be better if Photoshop had never been invented. Not only does it distort our mental image of what the human body looks like, but, when wielded incorrectly, it can actually destroy bodies altogether. Some parts get weirdly erased; some get warped beyond reason; and sometimes, unrelated parts of other bodies materialize in pictures like traces of a poltergeist. From a long list at the Photoshop Disasters blog, we bring you the five most grotesque works of Photoshop hackdom you will ever see—unless the monster strikes again.
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Photoshop Monster Destroys Bodies!
It would probably be better if Photoshop had never been invented. Not only does it distort our mental image of what the human body looks like, but, when wielded incorrectly, it can actually destroy bodies altogether. Some parts get weirdly erased; some get warped beyond reason; and sometimes, unrelated parts of other bodies materialize in pictures like traces of a poltergeist. From a long list at the Photoshop Disasters blog, we bring you the five most grotesque works of Photoshop hackdom you will ever see—unless the monster strikes again.
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[Tori Spelling and Heatherette fashion fellow Richie Rich at Spelling's book release party in New York last night ; image via Splash]
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All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem
[Tori Spelling and Heatherette fashion fellow Richie Rich at Spelling's book release party in New York last night ; image via Splash]
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cover lies
FROM JEZEBEL.COM:
It's time again for Cover Lies, wherein Cheryl and Maria rewrite the cover lines of major mass-market women's magazines to better reflect the content within.
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Cosmo Reminds You To Bring The Bucket Of Ice Next Time You Have Sex
FROM JEZEBEL.COM:
It's time again for Cover Lies, wherein Cheryl and Maria rewrite the cover lines of major mass-market women's magazines to better reflect the content within.
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julia allison
Admit it: Julia Allison is irrepressible. The Star magazine talking head abandoned her personal blog because it was ruining her life; and broke up with her webtard boyfriend, Jakob Lodwick, because he slept with her "adopted" little sister and was crushed commercially by Youtube. But she's merely moved up the internet food chain. On photo sharing service Flickr, Allison shows her act is still fresh outside New York. Here, at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, she pushes out her chest into friending distance of the alpha geek of the moment, Mark Zuckerberg. Coincidentally, the Facebook founder was recently named by Forbes as the world's youngest billionaire.
Mark Zuckerberg In The Presence
Admit it: Julia Allison is irrepressible. The Star magazine talking head abandoned her personal blog because it was ruining her life; and broke up with her webtard boyfriend, Jakob Lodwick, because he slept with her "adopted" little sister and was crushed commercially by Youtube. But she's merely moved up the internet food chain. On photo sharing service Flickr, Allison shows her act is still fresh outside New York. Here, at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, she pushes out her chest into friending distance of the alpha geek of the moment, Mark Zuckerberg. Coincidentally, the Facebook founder was recently named by Forbes as the world's youngest billionaire.
