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CLICK HERE to check out Jesse McCartney's just-released video for It's Over.
The song is sleek, sexy, pop - with an edge.
And the vid features plenty of "glam" shots, close-ups of his pretty Zefronish face!
Check it out, y'all!
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It's already been suggested by some that Karl Rove handed the Democratic Party its playbook for this month's election win. Since Rove needs all the good press he can get, he's grabbing the "I Got the First Black President Elected" meme with both hands and holding on until his next lucrative consulting gig. In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, Rove takes a break from crafting a Palin-Bush hybrid for contention in 2012 to make himself look good:
Deborah Solomon's painfully, quippy interviews usually reveal more about her than about the interview subject in question, but it looks like she hit a nerve with ole KR:
Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics?
Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.
Ah yes, Karl. The idea to get more people to vote. You came up with that in the early 1500s when you were working as a blacksmith in a small Scottish village. Next, Solomon unravels the terrifying web that connects Barack to Karl:
Have you met Barack Obama?
Yes, I know him. He was a member of the Senate while I was at the White House and we shared a mutual friend, Ken Mehlman, his law-school classmate. When Obama came to the White House, we would talk about our mutual friend.
Are you going to send him a little note congratulating him?
I already have. I sent it to his office. I sent him a handwritten note with funny stamps on the outside.
What kind of funny stamps?
Stamps.
Do not lick the stamps, Barack. That's the least Bill Ayers can do considering what a pain he's been over the last few months.
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We received a letter from a young Williamsburger in a legal "pickle." (We know a little about that!) "About ten months ago, I got a ticket for riding my bike on the sidewalk outside of the Mckibbin lofts (yes, I used to live there). Later that weekend, i got a ticket for public urination about two blocks away, near the Brooklyn Life Cafe. Sometime that Sunday, I either threw the tickets out or lost them....it was a bleary weekend, to say the least. So now, WTF do I do? Can I just show up to court and say, hey, I plead guilty for whatever you have me marked down there for in that little book? (and chances are, they've thrown out the charges.) Or, do I have a warrant [out for my arrest by now]!?" Read on to learn how to beat a ticket that you ignored. It's easier than you think!
This guy just needs to call his local precinct and ask what he owes. There will be money penalties for ignoring/losing the tickets, but not jail time. The tickets that carry jail time for this kind of stuff if you ignore them don't demand money—they demand that you sit in court all day until a judge calls you and tells you to pay $20 for being a fucking idiot. The tickets most people get just get more and more expensive as long as you don't pay them.
There's also this possibility, according to City Room:
"Bruce Turner, 43, said he was ticketed [for an open container] during a barbecue on Memorial Day weekend near his home in East New York. [He] showed up on Wednesday after missing his first summons in July. To his surprise, he was told that his case had been dismissed."
But seriously, dude. Just call your precinct.
Adds our tipster,
"Regardless of whether or not you have an answer, I think an 'advice' email address would do us functioning alcoholic New Yorkers a service, and shit, you know you'd get nothing but entertaining e-mails in that inbox!"
That's exactly what we're afraid of.
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The Killers did it in concert this past weekend, but their version pales in comparison to this one.
Greg Laswell has done an exquisite cover of Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
It's absolutely ravishing! One of the best renditions we've ever heard of the song.
You must check it out below. Then CLICK HERE to listen to more tunes from Greg Laswell.
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Tomorrow you can sit down and read the New York Times Book Review childrens' literature special insert. The annual feature is one way to find a choice picture book to give to a young person, and it also gives us the gift of the insane seriousness with which the Times reviewers treat the subject. The task of making these kinds of books relevant to the adult reader is admittedly a difficult one, and yet the best of the overwrought sentences that follow truly make us feel like children again. Unbelievably stupid children.
Our favorite five bon mots:
5. "The story is told in a fluid, seemingly effortless manner. Neither showy nor dull, the text has that feeling of giving you the right words in the right order with the right pacing," http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Rosenthal-t.html?ref=authors" target="_blank">says Amy Krouse Rosenthal about Jon Agee's The Retired Kid. Chills, Amy.
4. In his review of Doreen Rappaport's Lady Liberty, James McMullan breaks out the big guns: "The book also provides several pages of facts about the statue and its history: important events, selected sources, an author’s note and an illustrator’s note. This added material seems totally appropriate for the smart, practical kid I can imagine poring over this volume." Don't push us too far, James. We don't want to hear this semiotics bullshit. Stick to the here and now.
3. Some of the best moments happen when the critic is forced to really tear into the author, as when John Green writes of Susan Beth Pfeffer's The Dead and the Gone, "Some of the plot seems more symbolically resonant than realistic — Alex, for instance, takes coats and shoes from dead people to trade for food, and it’s hard to imagine a shoe shortage in a mostly depopulated Manhattan." A shoe shortage is what he doesn't find believable. I hope he doesn't start reading The Retired Kid.
2. We feel for Becca Zerkin, who is given the heady task of reviewing alphabet books. Her opening line is "If only life were as tidy as an alphabet book." No words.
1.: The big prize has to go to children's book critic Leonard S. Marcus, author of Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature. In his review of The Monster Who Ate Darkness, he summarizes the villain in the following fashion: "But to a small child the dark can be palpably real, a malleable and at times sinister medium, and the suggestion that a monster might exert a beneficial influence in a small child’s world is one that brims with possibilities." Amazing, Leonard. You may collect your prize.
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I write you, my friends, at a grave time in this country's history. Apparently people think they can just record any old YouTube endorsement of Barack Obama without the possibility of it backfiring and costing the Democrats the presidency. Ben Affleck endorsed John McCain for the greater good of the Democratic Party last night. If you're like him and you find yourself with a lower IQ than the norm and access to a video camera, don't post your thoughts to the internet, especially when those thoughts involve chanting, "Black Man in the White House!" Only the McCain campaign's lack of YouTube awareness can save us now.
Can we really rule out that transgender YouTuber (and pop singer) Ms. Chris Crocker is a spy working directly under Karl Rove? Ms. Crocker made herself famous by netting millions of pageviews in YouTubes like "Leave Britney Alone!" Judge for yourself whether she made an egregious mistake in this one:
Why did Chris have to lie when she quit YouTube? Someone get Keith Olbermann to show her the error of her ways:
Wow, I wasn't hallucinating — that sketch was actually almost 9 minutes long.
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Democratic candidates are having a field day with the past eight years all over America, putting double digit leads together in swing states in what's shaping up as the beginning of a vast Democratic majority. Things are going to be a little tighter in comedian Al Franken's race against longtime Minnesota conversative Norm Coleman. Though Coleman held a lead in the early-going, Franken has closed fast. Still, is there a chance Franken could walk away empty-handed on his big day?
After the lead Coleman started with, it's heartening for Democrats to see that Franken has closed the gap in some polls. Since polling is a dangerous art best practiced by Nate Silver, you can judge for yourself here:
Complicating the race is independent candidate and former Jesse Ventura protege Dean Barkley, who is polling as high as 19 percent, and whose reform agenda may be hurting Franken more than Coleman. Franken knows it's going to be a battle, recently using Hillary Clinton in a television ad, but it might be time to break out the big guns: reprising his Stuart Smalley persona in the campaign commercial to rule them all.
For a debate nerd like me, there was no greater joy than hearing this race would feature five debates, and that may end up hurting Franken in the waning days of the campaign. While he's a brilliant guy, he's still not the most polished pol, and it shows.
Franken-Coleman-Barkley, Round Three [C-Span]
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Their new album has been pushed back until December 16th, but you can listen to a new song from Folie a Deux.
Fall Out Boy's What A Catch, Donnie is a beautiful, anthemic ballad about life and finding acceptance. It reminds us of an Elton John song.
We're not sure if it's going to be a single, but it SHOULD!
The tune features the band's Decaydance labelmates, Brendon Urie from Panic at the Disco, Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, Wiliam Beckett from The Academy Is, and Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heros singing snippets of a few classic Fall Out Boy songs towards the end.
Plus, Elvis Costello is also featured on the song too!
Ch-ch-check it out below.
[Image via WENN.]
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If you're blonde and from New Zealand, then we are LOVING you this week!
A few days ago, we introduced you to to the brazilliance of Ladyhawke.
Today, we'd like you to meet Gin.
This blonde from new Zealand remind us of a few of our favorite artists - like Skybox, Joel Plaskett Emergency and Macy Gray.
Her voice is quirky and intoxicating voice - her tunes fun and charming.
Listen to the delightful Under My Skin below!
And then CLICK HERE to check out more songs from Gin.
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This is all sorts of amazing!
A mashup of Yo Majesty's Club Action with some Depeche Mode and even some Enya too!
Enjoy.
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Who's Priyantha Silva? Funny you should ask. He first appeared in 2006, described as a "drunken leech who feeds off of Manhattan's more exclusive social scene. As a semi-professional gatecrasher, he poses as Conde Nast editors, claims to be a producer, and like a true ass, pulls the 'do you know who I am' routine at doors." Ruh-roh: we got a tip from a lady—as is often the case with our favorite outlandish cads—saying she met Silva at a recent film festival and was saved from his clutches by doing some pre-emptive Googling. How's the game going for the tax-evading, reporter-threatening con artist that Conde Nast once had to pull an investigation on?
You saved me.
I recently bartended the after party of the New York Surf Film Festival. While almost all party-goers were laid-back and cool, there was one guest that was a sweaty mess, and not a hot one. It started with my making the required small talk. When asked if he was part of the film festival he replied, "No, I make Oscar winners." Ahhh, touché sir. Taking the bait, I said, "Would I know any of your films?" to which he responded, "Juno, Crash." I said, "Oh, the David Cronenburg "Crash"? I loved that," knowing full well that he meant the overly-wrought, forced mess that came out a few year ago. He stared blankly. I thought, "This guy is full of shit." Not that there aren't self-important film producers out there, but really, opening to a bartender with that?
He drank vodka straight all night like it was water and sweat like he was on fire. Any guess who I'm talking about yet?
More hints. After learning that I was a performer, he gave me a professionally printed card claiming him a Managing Partner of Red Wagon Films and said, "We can get you SAG, you're very pretty." Six vodkas later, he asked for my e-mail address so that he could take me to the premiere of "Changeling" this Wednesday. I gave it to him, thinking that if there was a chance that he was for real, I could network and play dumb on his expectations.
He sends me details on where to meet as well as five projects "in development" to review. The ridiculous caliber of casting sent me straight to IMDB and—shock—none were there!! I Googled his film company (no site) and his name...and you enlightened me!
Priyantha Silva is still going strong!
Thankfully I'm 1) cynical enough to know when something sounds too good to be true; 2) smart enough to do a background check on a stranger before meeting them; and 3) have way too much pride to ever consider banging someone for a role. Thankfully you are on top of it and made it easy. I'm sure that there's many a desperate actress, hoping for a break in NYC, because this guy is fairly good. Hopefully they'll have the sense to Google him before they give out an HJ or some P in the V. Word.
I sent him the link and he said that it was lies spread by an ex-girlfriend. Gawker, you're such a slut!
Tell us about it. Oh, do you wanna see the projects he's got "in development"? Stay tuned...
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Posted: September 25th, 2008, 2:30pm CDT
Taking to the red carpet, Gillian Anderson attended the premiere of her new film, “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,” in London on Wednesday night (September 24).
According to AP reports, the heavily pregnant “X-Files” actress’ new movie is “based on the best-selling book of the same name by British journalist Toby Young, chronicling Young’s ignominious period as a journalist at New York’s prestigious Vanity Fair magazine.”
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Our favorite black lesbian electro rappers are back!
After dropping such dynamite singles as Club Action and Kryptonite Pussy, Yo Majesty are finally set to release their debut album.
And the children will love the disc's lead single!
A pulsating, ridiculous, delightful and catchy little ditty, Booty Clap is everything and more you would expect from the song's title.
Check it out below and then CLICK HERE to check out more tunes from Yo Majesty!
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Say hello to Arsenal.
They rule!
This group from Belgium makes beautiful dance, chill-out music that reminds us of Röyksopp.
It's pretty. It's cool. It's perfect for your next mix-CD!
CLICK HERE to check out Arsenal's delicious Estupendo.
Soooo good!
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One of our "children" has just baked the most delicious dessert for us all to enjoy!
Perezcious fave Ultraviolet Sound have teamed up with Electric Valentine for a most scrumptious cover.
Sarah and the boys inject Stacey Q's '80s classic 2 of Hearts with a jolt of adrenaline.
It's burnin' up!
Ch-ch-check it out below.
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Pop quiz: are you moderating a presidential debate this fall? (Hint: are you old, white, and male?) You may be wondering what you're supposed to ask about! Sure, you could just ask them to talk about their positions on various issues, politely step back as they lay out policy proposals and debate the merits of said proposals, but then everyone will get bored. Your job is to stir shit up and force them both into making gaffes! That is how we decide what to talk about when we talk about campaigns. So. Because we dislike John McCain, personally, we will now explain how best to cause him to say or do something stupid during a debate. But don't worry, Republicans: we have a trick to trip up Obama too!
Foreign Policy
This one's a gimme, because John McCain doesn't know a goddamn thing about the rest of the world except that he wants to bomb it. There was the "Iraq/Pakistan border" thing, which could maybe be explained by him saying Iraq instead of Afghanistan, and the Czechoslovakia thing, which is pretty much just explained by him being lol old, and mistaking Sunnis with Shiites constantly and also thinking al-Qaeda was training in Iran, which can really only be explained by not giving a shit about minor details like who we're "fighting" besides Muslims in general.
But now that his confusion has spread to Western Europe, his handlers should be worried. "John McCain doesn't know where Spain is" is basically a gift to the Democrats. Of course McCain can and will play off any debate question about his gaffes with a condescending "of course I know [blank]" statement, followed by a carefully coached recitation of lessons his handlers drilled into him, which defuses the issue, but it's a clear sign that he'll be tripped up by a different lame gotcha question about world leaders or geography. Do people actually care when a candidate doesn't know "trivia"? Not really, but if he plays further into the "confused old man" routine it'll hurt him way more than idiocy did Bush.
The Economy
Ask him just about anything about the current Wall Street crisis. Wait for weird disjointed pseudo-Democrat talk about regulation. Followup with any serious statement John McCain has made on the economy during his 100 years as an anti-regulation Republican. Watch him forced to either sell out his Capitalist base or deliver some decidedly not-populist rhetoric.
Torture
Ask him, Andrew Sullivan style, if he believes the CIA should be allowed to use "interrogation techniques" similar and in some cases worse than the torture inflicted on him by the North Vietnamese. Offer to demonstrate! (Though, of course, 24 viewers definitely think the CIA should be allowed to torture, and McCain is maybe helped by any mention of his POW years, but still, this shit was indefensible.)
His Commercials, Campaign, and Surrogates
Just ask him if he "stands by" or can defend almost any number of questionable things his campaign has done. As we saw on The View, he will not apologize, but he will look pissed off as he half-heartedly defends shit he used to hate. Which is way worse than apologizing would be.
Bonus: How to Trip Up Barack Obama
Ask a serious question about a complex and important issue. Make it one that requires Obama to speak extemporaneously. He'll answer, as he thinks through it, with something pretty reasonable, but complex, and he will say "Uh," and then McCain will say "shut up, Brainiac! Babies are tiny angels, why do you want to kill them?" THE END.
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If you have yet to discover the beauty of Rachael Yamagata, then you are missing out!
The New Yorker - by way of Chicago - is one of our favorite singer/songwriters of the last decade.
Unfortunately, she hasn't released a new album in seemingly FOREVER! But, thankfully, that's all about to change.
Yamagata is finally releasing a new record in October and she's hitting the road again this month!
CLICK HERE to check the new single, Elephants, and its accompanying video.
Such a pretty pretty song!!!
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The Plain White T's are back with a new single called 1,2,3,4.
In addition to naming their song that, it sounds just like a song Feist would do.
And that's not a bad thing. We love Feist!
1,2,3,4 is very similar to the Plain White T's monster single, Hey There, Delilah. And that's not a bad thing either.
That song was massive!
Their 1,2,3,4 should do quite well at radio. It's a pretty love song and damn catchy and clever.
We love pretty. We love pop. We love catchy.
Ch-ch-check it out (below)!
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Seven years after terrorists attacked New York and Washington in a stunning feat of gargantuan destruction that instilled a seemingly permanent sense of fear in Americans pretty much everywhere except New York and DC, we at Gawker have not forgotten to never forget! And guess what, there is a very difficult new quiz up on MSNBC that five of us just took to prove it! We even beat Wonkette. Come, try failing it yourself! And then see which Gawker editors you most resemble in the Rage of the Creative Underclass Curve:
Pareene and I both scored 60%, because he is a genius and I was a journalist then. (All journalists covered nothing but 9/11 until January 2002; it was like Sarah Palin but with anthrax too.) (Also, remember Ashleigh Banfield? Just saying.) Richard got 50%, because he is secretly a genius. Jim Newell of Wonkette got 40%, because he is a child genius whose contemporaries were barely reading that Pet Goat book* in 2001 and Sheila got 40% because she was late to theater class and thought people were describing the plot of some wack ass movie. Ryan Tate got 20% because his mind is filled with information and data points that are actually usable in blog posts.
[MSNBC]
*Yeah, extra credit if you knew it was actually called "The Pet Goat", not "My Pet Goat." I guess we can blame Michael Moore for that common misnomer, but hey, like I told someone I misidentified in a post yesterday accuracy in these times is a giant fucking bridge to nowhere.
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Who is this Kevin Rudolf????
We have no idea, and you won't know any more about him after watching his debut music video (above).
Lil' Wayne is featured heavily in the clip and he's barely seen. Additionally, there are no pics of Rudolf on his MySpace.
Is he hideously ugly?????
Well, it doesn't matter. His track is the jam!
Let It Rock was produced by Rudolf, whose a guitarist and produced that has worked a lot with Timbaland. And the song, his debut single, features Wayne.
It's damn hot!
Ch-ch-check it out (above).
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Project Runway is crappy this season, your cat has been acting weird towards you lately, the body is starting to smell and you need to leave the house. Whatever the reason, you may find yourself wanting to go out on the town on this cool late-summer evening. But what to do?? Well we have got the party for you. And all you have to do to get in is say the name "Jason Preston":
Tonight at 11pm Jason Preston (marc jacobs ex) is throwing a HUGE party with make up artist Jasen Kaplan. Aubrey o'day from danity kane is the surprise performance.
12 pack from I love money is working the door and the whole real world cast for the new show will be there as well.
Lindsay Lohan will be stopping by after visting her gf at her other party.
The party is at 55 W21st street between 5th nd 6th. Make sure to say Jason Preston at the door.
Hah, the former hooker and Marc Jacobs-dater sure throws one hell of a party! And we mean "hell" quite literally, as this sounds like the exact confluence of reality show stars and tabloid fodder that marks the end of days described in Revelations 2.0. Someone go and give us a party/apocalypse report. Even if you don't get past the door, at least you'll have met "12 pack from i love money."
If that doesn't quite float your boat, the aforementioned Samantha Ronson is deejaying on the roof of the Empire Hotel tonight, celebrating some sort of new vodkee. Her ladyfriend Lindsay Lohan is totes sched'd to stop by. Two parties in one night for Lindsay Lohan! I dunno, sounds pretty tiring!!!!#Q$@# [tumble]
Orrrrr if you are a gay Mormon who doesn't drink and you want a slightly more wholesome and teetotaling outing, you can go watch teen soap Gossip Girl being filmed on the Lower East Side. They're at "the annex on orchard (btwn riv and stanton)" according to a tipster, and they'll be there til 11. Go ogle Chace and/or throw copies of Letters To a Young Actor at him.
Happy hunting!
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Remember when Vice magazine forced that intern to make and eat twelve flavored popsicles from this own semen to see how long it would take him to puke? Well you can't just do that sort of thing at Slate. You need a news peg, and some sort of underlying cultural criticism and/or geopolitical argument, a few riffs on the cognitive science of stoking consumer desire, maybe a reference to The Pentagon Papers. And most importantly you need a guy like Justin Peters here. Justin is the 27-year-old editor of a "print journal of arcana, deadpannery, and cultural criticism, nominally dedicated to the examination and deconstruction of that which vulgarians dub 'the American Dream'" you have obviously never heard of. Today on the internet you will find this vulgarian reviewing adult diapers for Slate…
NEWS PEG? It is the "Geezers Issue" at Slate! Old people may be the only group whose failing eyeballs are actually less coveted by advertisers than politically engaged public sector-employed poors, but John McCain is old! And he is about to be elected president, holy fuck.
OH GOOD FOR THEM! SO WILL I LEARN STUFF LIKE HOW THE DEMENTIA THAT GENERALLY SETS IN DURING ONE'S MID-SEVENTIES COULD EFFECT JOHN MCCAIN'S ABILITY TO GRASP COMPLEX ISSUES SUCH AS SOCIAL SECURITY PRIVATIZATION? Hm, don't think so! But they had this Brooklyn 27-year-old get drunk and feign incontinence in six brands of disposable "undergarments" and that is the point of this post.
EW! WHAT HAPPENED? Nothing, duh. You know how dudes piss in the streets when they are drunk? Maybe they even got cited for it once, and everyone found it highly amusing that the one day Mr. Highbrow Literary Elite shows up to the office in a suit it is because he urinated on the wall of a police station, sort of like how it's kind of amusing that this guy's literary journal is called Polite. Not LOL-funny, obvs, but "all the female assistants at Slate who are busy researching the mortgage meltdown or whatever get to roll their eyes" funny.
SO HOW DID THIS GET INTO SLATE? Glad you asked! For starters, young Peters came to the task armed with a cultural-economic theory:
Like chocolate, beer, and jewel thieves, the best adult diapers come from Europe. This is not coincidental. European manufacturers don't have to cater to institutional purchasers' demands, so they're more likely to sell on quality rather than cost.
That makes no sense at all, considering that we are the ones who are supposed to be coveting their nationalized health care system not least for its ability to cut costs by purchasing "institutionally!" But nevermind.
Then you throw in a little pathos:
The diaper swelled until it could swell no more, at which point streams of urine began running down the sides of my legs. Even though I had locked myself in a bathroom to perform the test, I still feel unaccountably ashamed, as if God were laughing at me—a feeling made worse by my inability to exit the diaper.
And a few quippy little "hit grafs" such as:
The word Attends sounds a lot like the word Depend, and, indeed, the two brands are similar—similar in their mediocrity, that is.
OK almost done! All we need now is the elusive killer wonk-cred-displaying simile.
They were about as absorbent as a drainpipe, sagging under the weight of the water and leaking like Daniel Ellsberg.
See what he did there, kids? A less-Slate-appropriate Slate contributor might have written "Scooter Libby."
I probably would have Googled the name of some sort of infamous hydroelectric power plant built by Bechtel in the seventies as part of a CIA strategy to prop up some murderous but Soviet-hating dictator. And that = why it has taken an hour and a half to write this damn thing.
[Slate]
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This has got to be one of the best band names ever.
Say hello to Natalie Portman's Shaved Head.
We are LOVING these kids from Seattle, Washington and their kickin' electro beats!
Super fun. Super camp. Super ridiculous. And, they have quite a way with clever titles.
You must Click here to watch the psychedelic video for Natalie Portman's Shaved Head's Sophisticated Side Ponytail.
Swoosh!!!!
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Posted: September 4th, 2008, 1:25pm CDT
She’s never in one city for very long, and the latest destination for Miley Cyrus is NYC. The “Hannah Montana” babe was spotted out and about in the Big Apple earlier today on her way to Green Spa.
The “7 Things” songstress will be in Manhattan through the end of the week per her “Stand Up To Cancer” benefit duties, including performing “Just Stand Up” with a host of fellow celebrities.
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This is gonna be your guilty pleasure!
Her last "effort" in the music world was the average (at best) Overdosin'.
But, Heidi Montag has just dropped a new single that is actually really good.
The song is called Party's Wherever I Am and it's got a killer hook. So damn catchy - like an STD!
It's seriously contagious.
The gays will be playing the shit out of this at the clubs! And, if she's lucky, your spinning instructor might be playing it at the gym too.
Heidi even name checks the gym in the song! And Reno, Neveda too!
It's kinda ridiculous and brilliant at the same time.
Check it out below!
Thoughts?????
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Jesse McCartney has done a cover of T-Pain's Buy U A Drank.
Try not to laugh.
Just listen!
We actually really like his reinterpretation.
Check it out (above)!
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 3:01pm CDT by Moe
Tired? Poor? Starting to wonder if you'll be a creative underclassman forever? Sick of feeling like the answer to the question "What do you?" is "Self-loathingly ask 'What do you do' at increasingly low-budget social events I used to think were the 'fun' part of doing this job?" Break the cycle! India, law school, teaching yoga… don't think it couldn't happen to you!
In this inaugural installment of "How To Sell Out," we learn a lesson in highbrow high finance from unsuccessful American Apparel shoplifter and weird novelist Tao Lin, who just successfully took a page from the financial engineering books of his favorite clothing store and launched an initial public offering for shares in a book he hasn't written. A lesson in the lifestyle of the poor but microfamous after the jump!
TAO LIN, 25
Who he is: I'm not really sure, because he lies about a lot of things, but I know he wrote a book that Emily really hated
On some level we knew there'd be Obama impersonators, but we thought they would be more like the tiny Japanese guy who impersonates Obama, or Fred Armisen's bland but comforting impression, or 
These are the men and women Barack Obama assembled today to advise him on how best to fix the cratering economy. They are a largely respected group, and though they ain't perfect—so many CEOs and so much Larry "Women Be Unable to Learn Math" Summers!—they are certainly more reassuring than the ideologues and incompetents our last guy surrounded himself with. We've identified them for your benefit and their brief bios are below.
Everyone—
I know Spiegelman likes to take a midday "siesta" on these lonely weekends, so I'm going to do the same. Well, I'm going to go eat food because I am starving. But don't worry I'll be back soon (YAY PALADIN, DID YOU HEAR THAT???? I LOVE YOU!) and hopefully will be in a better mood! Because right now?