"The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It's apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I'm not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!" —Courtney Love in an interview with The Fix about sobriety.

When viewers say goodbye to Oprah, they'll also be saying goodbye to a dream: Getting to be in the studio audience for her annual giveaway bonanza. Here's the $23,809,050 worth of products she's given away since 2002. [Jezebel]

Sean Parker said he's been "abused and maligned" by random gossips on Facebook and Twitter. These people have"commandeered my identity," the former Facebook president said. Welcome to the club, Sean.

Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare-privatizing "Path to Prosperity" will come up for a Senate vote this afternoon — one day after the House-approved plan cost Republicans a seat in the deeply conservative NY-26 congressional district. How will Senate Republicans vote?

After a sophomore season of highs and lows and asking "Are they just high?" I really wanted to like the season finale. I really, really did. Let's just say that it was a fitting end for a tumultuous season.

Yesterday, we learned that friendly red-hued big box retailer Target is now the "target," ha, of a union campaign here in New York. Goodbye, Target's reputation as a place that liberals who don't like Wal-Mart can shop without guilt! But just how anti-union is Target? According to former Target employees: very.

Perhaps the opposition researchers who dumped that story about Newt Gingrich's $250,000-$500,000 "revolving charge account" at Tiffany & Co. only wanted people to make fun of his gilded lifestyle, but it also raises more concrete, scandalous questions. Namely: Why would Tiffany's give the Gingriches a no-interest credit account?

A new Utah law would make it a crime not just to offer sex for money, but also to "indicate, through lewd acts," that you're willing to do so, which means cops may use it to target strip clubs. [Jezebel]

Kim Kardashian's giant boyfriend gives her a giant diamond. A Victoria's Secret model gets a DUI, kicks a cop, and escapes an L.A. jailhouse. Kellan Lutz rejects Britney Spears. Wednesday gossip attracts magpies.

OMG you guys, we are almost done. The sun's broken through the clouds and the birdies are chirping and we are almost ready to fall into the sweet embrace of summer. But first, there's this. Cruel, country this.

Despite your best efforts to fix problems on your own, sometimes you just have to call customer service. When you bite the bullet and give them a ring, follow these tips to make it go as smoothly as possible. [Lifehacker]

Let's get one thing straight right up front: wealthy white American male Republican and Fox Business Network TV personality Eric Bolling is not racist. Eric Bolling wants to make that perfectly clear. That said, he is kind of racist.

Well, well, well. It seems Sarah Palin is delving into the motion picture business! And her first, but hopefully not last, production will be about an Alaskan governor who quit her job halfway through her first term to make money. Behold The Undefeated, Palin's top secret film project that will debut in Iowa next month.

Does your child attend a "public" high school? You're so old. Also, broke, due to the fact that America's public schools these days charge lots of money. Is this a new thing?

This ambitious star will sleep with anyone—man or woman—as long as it will further his career. This actress now wants to be a pop star. And former starlet Estella Warren shares some blind dirt. Guess her ambition lies in the tabloids.

Mark Haines, CNBC's lovable and irascible drunk uncle, has died suddenly, the network reported this morning. Haines was the founding anchor of Squawk Box, one of the financial network's signature shows. He was with CNBC for 22 years. No cause of death has been announced.

Krittika Biswas is a high school senior in Queens and the daughter of the vice consul of the Indian Consulate in New York. Earlier this year, she was perp-walked out of school, arrested, held for a day in central booking, and spent a month at a school "suspension center," all for allegedly sending email threats "with references to rape and prostitution" to two of her teachers. Except she didn't.

Gawker staff writer Brian Moylan appeared on VH1's Morning Buzz on May 25, 2011. Check out the clip above. For media requests, please contact Kevin Prince at kevin@gawker.com.

Mmm, Marmite. That yeasty, sticky tar that Brits love to put on toast. Just thinking about it makes your mouth water. But now, in fascist Denmark, Marmite trafficking is illegal due to its added minerals and vitamins. It seems that the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries is trying to make some extra cash from desperate British expats:

The scourge of Europe's skies, Iceland's Grímsvötn volcano, has stopped spewing ash and is now just blowing off some steam. Looks like the obnoxious Ryanair guy was right.