· Is NYO's Anna Jane Grossman off to the New York Post, along with everyone else in the world? (Is the Post some sort of conceptual cult, where only people with three names are hired? Recent NYP converts include Jared Paul Stern and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz.) [Anonymous Outsider]
· Nightclub Avalon claims that Vanity Fair celebrity profiler George Wayne shook them down for first-class plane tickets in exchange for coverage. Wait, demanding favors for placement is bad? [Page Six]
· Editorial director of Playboy leaves after a year and a half in the job: reader complaints included "Not enough vulva" and "Big words bring pain." [Jon Fine]
· TBS will spend $50 million to rebrand itself as a "funny" network — but what's funny is that they actually have $50 mil. The lineup includes a Candace Bushnell show.
· The giant inflatable rat came to visit Dow Jones yesterday as the little elbow-patched and bespectacled WSJ workers protested. [Keith Kelly]