it is what it is.

» At Least One of My Friends Isn't a Total Fu** Up.

“ Pushing his rectangular sunglasses back, Mac obliges, signing for Tameka, Rashonda, Tasha. ”Our names used to be simple,” Mac writes in his book, ”I Ain’t Scared of You,” which was published last fall. ”Betty.’ ‘Cynthia.’ ‘Lamont.’ Then ‘Roots’ came out, and everyone lost they mind. ‘Zaqueeda.

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rip bernie mac.

Bernie Mac Smacks A Nerve - New York Times

“ So, um, EVERYONE who works for Obama? Most of us are not fucking True Believers. So please stop treating us, and especially the press, as if we should be, because that is exactly how you’re going to lose this thing, you self-satisfied, simpering pricks.

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Journalismism: Is The Press Turning On Obama?

-God, I love Ian Spiegelman

Guess this means Obama won't be picking him!

SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD! - Celebrity News | Gossip - National Enquirer

“ Then we saw them: little tiny flopping, shiny fishes. Many, many fishes, flopping happily in the sand. It was the grunions themselves, on a grunion run!

— How To Improve The Glow Festival: Try Adding More Glowing Things!

“ Newsroom executives said their greatest concern was over the loss of older, and often more highly paid, journalists who took with them the institutional memory, wisdom and sense of mission that formed the backbone of the best papers. One newsroom editor who was asked what had been lost said simply: “The concept of who and what we are.

— U.S. newspaper editors still optimistic, survey says - Los Angeles Times

“ While many celebrities themselves have stopped hiding their same-sex relationships, the media have not until Lohan followed suit. Michael Musto, an openly gay columnist for the Village Voice, who himself has never engaged in that kind of self-censorship, has noticed a change. As Musto sees it, we’ve reached a moment in which the Lohan-Ronson pairing can simply be reported as a fact because people have, you know, eyes.

— Lindsay Lohan & Samantha Ronson: Read all about it - Los Angeles Times

Why is David Sedaris so funny?

:He just read an exerpt of his new book on Letterman and it just got progressively deadpan and more absurd as it went along. How is one person so consistently funny? Must buy his new book now. I have to say I’m so glad I don’t take the subway anymoe because I used to read Sedaris in public and risk appearing totally insane.

I did wordle. http://wordle.net/

and it told me Goodbye New York

“ I did not move to New York to return to high school, but that’s exactly what it felt like.

— Au Revoir, New York ‘Literary’ Scene! — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine