Not to totally alarm you but drugs are now legal in Mexico, okay. Here's how much you can carry! For "personal use," Dr. Gonzo:

And the trailer is really funny, but isn't that always the way. New Sensations' 30 Rock: A XXX Parody seems to get the comedy of our favorite sitcom, and the chick playing Tina Fey is pretty hot too!

Science: Summer heat makes people violent. Alcoholics use summertime as an excuse to drink. Evolution makes us see monsters everywhere. There really are glowing green monsters in the ocean. Arguing gives kids headaches. Social rejection hurts physically. Science!

Walrus-creature and war-monger John Bolton used to be undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. Guess what the new folks found when they moved into his old office? A dank and moist dungeon, that's what.

We've read a lot of reviews of the new Tarantino movie, but our favorite so far came out today in Tablet. Basically it says the new movie would be better if Tarantino was Jewish.

The Way We Live Now: "Poised to grow." Seriously, is that supposed to be encouraging? Your beard is poised to grow, Bernanke. You're rich. You'll be fine. The rest of us? All hoping we win that Free Banana Suit.

In addition to the handful of glassy hotels downtown that are already open for business, and the two new properties that are currently under construction, there's a third ultra-modern high-rise hotel now in the works. It doesn't have a name yet and the owners have yet to settle on a final location—it will be somewhere "between the Lower East Side and Soho"—but it may very well feature the smallest rooms in town when it eventually opens. How small? "So small that the shower is now a cylindrical tube," and there wasn't really any room for a proper bathroom, so "the toilet appears to be more or less on full display." [Curbed]

• Last night's long-delayed premiere of the sixth season of Project Runway—on Lifetime, not Bravo—earned the show its highest ratings ever. [NYT, THR]
• Breathe easy: Anna Wintour's travel itinerary for the fall fashion shows in London, Paris and Milan will not be affected by the recent round of budget cuts at Condé Nast. She'll be staying at the Ritz in Paris, as usual. [NYP]
• The cuts have claimed Condé's supply of coffee stirrers, however. [P6]
• Another member of the Sulzberger clan is joining the New York Times. [NYO]
• News Corp. has been meeting with newspaper publishers to discuss forming some sort of "consortium" to charge people for access to news online. [LAT]
• News Corp. is also in talks to sell its Dow Jones stock market index. [NYT]
• Harvey and Bob Weinstein have a lot riding on the success of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. How is the movie expected to perform at the box office this weekend? Not too bad, per early estimates. [THR]

The names of Marc Dreier's victims were released by a judge yesterday. Three hedge funds—Elliot Associates, Fortress Investment Group, and Eric Mindich's Eton Park Management—were at the top of the list of investors who were defrauded by the imprisoned lawyer. But a bunch of fashion/retail companies were swindled, too, including Nike, Adidas, Diesel USA, Tommy Hilfiger, and COOGI Partners, the company that controls Fubu and Heatherette. Let it be said, however, that Hilfiger and Heatherette founder Richie Rich almost certainly had nothing to do with the homeless look Dreier was rocking in the days after he was arrested. Men who commit financial crimes just have a tendency to commit fashion ones, too, that's all. [Crain's]

Five hundred dead! Where were you when the Central Park Treepocalypse happened?

Three! That's how many days Times reporter Geraldine Fabrikant—one half of the duo behind today's sympathy-for-the-rich piece about the decline of the super-wealthy—spent hanging out in New Mexico with deflated multimillionaire John McAfee. Why are newspapers dying, again?

In Britain, the death panel NHS commonly makes you wait a year to see a shrink, so some people just chat with therapists over instant messenger. Go figure: It actually works. So what about Tumblr, and so forth?

Kate Major, who quit her Star magazine reporting job after she "fell for" Jon Gosselin and now is very disappointed their love did not flourish: "I have a degree, I'm not some stupid girl." Okay.

Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to make a fabulous frock out of a pile of fabric. The delusion that people will like it. The vision to win. The delusion that it will actually happen.

"Stuff White People Like." It seemed so innocent for those first few hours. Now the whole format has been squeezed dry and used up like an old bottle of shampoo. Which is Something Hipsters Hate.

Listen up, aspiring actors and musicians! On August 28th, you can forget the fact you're waiting tables and you don't have an agent and delude yourself into thinking you're a star! A company called EL-Nightlife is holding an event called "A Walk Down the Red Carpet." If you've ever wanted to "feel and look like a celebrity for the night," you'll be thrilled to hear that EL-Nightlife is now making it happen. Because "anyone can purchase tickets for $40 and elevate them selves [sic] to super-star [sic] status." Details on this exciting event, the absurd press release, and some background on the illustrious founder of EL-Nightlife, Grigorij "Greg" Richters, after the jump.

Do you like to watch TV? Would like to watch TV for us instead of your Twitter account? (The pay is the same, btw.) Well, lucky you: the Gawker Video team is looking for fall interns. Details after the jump.

The Washington Post reports today that ACLU lawyers may have violated the law by showing photos of CIA agents to Guantanamo Bay prisoners. But they kind of buried the lead—the ACLU managed to tail and photograph CIA agents.

Gov. David Paterson has finally figured out why New Yorkers don't like him. It's because he's black! And now the "white-dominated media" is pushing him to bow out of the face for governor next fall: "My feeling is it's being orchestrated, it's a game, and people who pay attention know that." Sure, Americans may have put a black man in the White House last fall. And, sure, New York may be one of the most liberal states in the country. But presumably suggesting it's all about race is a better strategy than copping to the fact that people don't like you because you're incompetent. [NYDN]

In your sweat-drenched Friday media column: Newser's traffic plunches, Rupert Murdoch's paycheck plunges, the likelihood of Sam Zell staying at the Tribune Co. plunges, and The Progressive's bank account plunges.