Oh, look! Phillip Garrido, the maniac who kidnapped Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago, kept her in his horrific backyard and then twice impregnated her, has a blog! And it's scary!

Jeremy Piven today celebrated his court victory over the producers of Speed-the-Plow, who sued the actor after he dropped out of their production. He said he got "mercury poisoning" from fish. The National Fisheries Institute wants you to remain skeptical.

If Glenn Beck is, in fact, laying the ground work for Fox News banishment, he's doing so in true, fear-mongering, overwrought style!

This here's the California backyard where Phillip Garrido, who's living residence is to the right, kept Jaycee Dugard prisoner for 18 years. He obviously gave a hoot about building codes.

Phillip C. Garrido's one sick son of a bitch. He even puts sicko Austrian man Josef Fritzl to shame. For the past 18 years, Garrido spent his time tending to one Jaycee Dugard, whom he brazenly kidnapped back in 1991.

Gather round, Gawker commenters, for another edition of The Greatest Live-Blogging Show on Earth. Wanna be a part of it? Well, to paraphrase Timothy Leary, just "turn on, tune in and drop by."

• When you first heard the Olsen twins were breaking into fashion, you had a good laugh, didn't you? Well, it's been a few years since then and now "their success in a field as competitive as fashion is impossible to deny," says an enthusiastic Cathy Horyn today. Of course, it hasn't hurt that they're super-famous and worth a gazillion dollars either. [NYT]
• Things you didn't know about Vogue's André Leon Talley: He's partial to Juice Couture shorts at home, loves Uggs ("it's a cozy shoe"), and says The Golden Girls is his fave show on TV. [TONY]

Jennifer 8. Lee sought a "20something architect... construction worker... rapper," presumably for her Village People tribute band ; Elliot Holt ran into two squirrels and snapped a money shot; and Marissa Mayer mulled literature. The Twitterati were definitely seeking something.

One squirrel gets in some tourist picture and now it's squirrels in TV ads, forever.

[A 360-degree view from the top of Mt. Whitney in California. The stone structure at the peak—the highest point in the continental U.S.—was built a hundred years ago today. Image via Nasa]

• Tonight is the last night for Elettaria on West 8th Street. [Eater, GS]
• La Goulue on Madison Ave. was dismantled and packed up yesterday. [P6]
• David Burke's eponymous restaurant reopened its doors last night. [GS]
• Due to the economy and not-so-spectacular weather, this hasn't turned out to be the best summer for restaurants in the Hamptons. [EH Star via Curbed]
• Charles on West 4th Street begins brunch service this weekend. [GS]
• Graydon Carter is collaborating with someone new at Monkey Bar. His 83-year-old mother's butter tart is now on the dessert menu. [P6]

Yahoo deleted a controversial caricature of "Joker" Barack Obama from its creator's Flickr account. Why? Someone with an obviously fake name filed a copyright complaint.

Were you having difficulty keeping track of all the new hotels sprouting up around the city? Get ready to be even more confused. According to a study prepared by NYU's Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management (who knew?), 61 new hotels—with more than 10,000 rooms in total—will be added to the city's supply between the beginning of 2009 and the end of 2011. [HVS.com via Curbed]

[An Venn diagram that shows the intersections of men and animals that create myth and legend. This still does not explain the Montauk Monster. Image via Flickr via Kottke]

The arbitrator in the case of sushi-loving Jeremy Piven versus the Broadway producers of Speed-the-Plow ruled today that the producers could not prove their breach of contract suit against the star. But they still think they were right.

Seriously, this whole Shop Class As Soulcraft idolatry movement full of retro-blue collar yuppies: stop it. You people are like hippies but instead of getting back to nature you want to get back to... floor cleaning jobs, apparently.

Julia Allison wants to be a Web mogul. Foreman of a fameball factory. Oprah to a dozen young Dr. Phils. In short, she'd like to replicate herself. Ominously, for such grand ambitions, she's recruiting on Cragslist.

Remember when Mischa Barton was involuntarily committed this past July? Well, we finally found out why. It's because her teeth hurt. That's probably the worst rehab excuse we've ever heard. Why not just go with "exhaustion?"

Just for the record, this is a real screenshot of BravoTV.com, taken like a minute ago. Do you have a question for Rachel Zoe's assistant, a Real Housewife, or the head of the House Financial Services committee? Ask Bravo!