The trailer for HBO's Bored to Death, a show created by Jonathan Ames starring Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis about a Brooklyn writer living out his dream to be a character in a Raymond Chandler novel, is now online. [HBO.com]

William Shatner, looking bloated, red-faced, sweating, and acting as though he was either high or drunk or both, was a guest for the ages on Conan's Tonight Show tonight. God bless him.

Dave Eggers has a new book coming out in October! It's an adaptation(?) of the children's book Where the Wild Things Are called The Wild Things, and the cover is, well, precious!

George W. Bush spoke critically of Barack Obama in a Washington Times story being pushed hard by Drudge tonight, a story so big and important that the Times didn't bother to insert quotation marks before posting it to their website.

Well what the heck is going on with the Obama White House? Those pansy-ass liberals are just falling apart over there! First Sonia Sotomayor breaks her ankle at the airport (Who does that?!) and now Hillary has fractured her elbow.

Poor Griff Jenkins. He got all decked out in a tuxedo to harass whatever sort of Godless Americans attend ACORN conventions, only to get into a scuffle with one of those dang liberal bloggers, and we're all better for it!

Well, it looks as though the economic downturn has found another media victim. A tipster tells us tonight that there's been a "completely unexpected bloodbath" at Access Hollywood.

Yet one more reason to be a tad suspicious of anything you come across on TMZ: Just 24 hours before Billy Joel and Katie Lee announced that they were separating, TMZ reported that they'd heard from a "source" that the Piano Man was looking to buy his wife a restaurant in the Hamptons, and was currently "eying a spot in Sag Harbour [sic]." Guess not! The site's very juicy exclusive is below.

Have you heard of Jay Mundy? He's a conservative radio host who sounds like the result of a mating between a snapping turtle and a head of lettuce, which means he'll be a big GOP star! And he hates Williamsburg!

The open secret about Google's forthcoming product "Wave" is that no one knows what the hell it does. Here's the tech gibberish the Guardian used to describe the software after talking to Google co-founder Sergey Brin:

Happy last Wednesday of spring! It comes only once a year, and you probably don't want to waste the rest of it doing something inane or frivolous. So why not join our commenter live blog instead?

• Topshop is offering free bike rentals beginning this Saturday, strangely. [SF]
• Jimmy Choo is the latest brand to climb into bed with H&M. [WWD, SW]
• Helena Christensen is designing a linens line, apparently. [Cut]
• Sophia Kokosalaki is taking over Diesel's Black Gold line. [Vogue UK]
• Is Vera Wang really going to be on Dancing With the Stars? Maybe! [Cut]
• Simon Doonan on the state of things: "Fashion is currently going through a John the Baptist hair-shirt kind of period. Self-indulgence has been replaced by self-flagellation. All I can say is, 'Stop it, girls! Stop it before it's too late.'" [NYO]

We keep hearing more from people who once worked with Fox News writer Don Broderick. Even before he was accused of dragging a cyclist through Central Park, former colleagues tell us, co-workers were afraid to be around him.

A contrarian take on the much-discussed situation in Iran, via Business Week: While Twitter has been a great for international publicity, most activists are just organizing via word of mouth or SMS, like backward Web 1.0 people.

Who let Republicans use the Twitter? Who told them that was ok? Michael Steele? "Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House," Representative Pete Hoekstra says.

Craig Newmark embraced his Vulcan side, Touré threw down over a race label and Caroline McCarthy recognized her privilege. The Twitterati were tied in knots over identity.

• Hotel Griffou opens in the old Marylou's space this evening. [NYT, GS]
• New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni serves up a one-star review to a "somewhat confused and confusing" Rye in today's paper. [NYT]
• Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton has very good things to say about Aldea. [BN]
• Rumor has it Café Gitane will open at the Jane Hotel this fall. [TFB]
• Speaking of the Jane, here's another photo tour of the new bar. [Gothamist]
• Did you know that restaurants make more money when they remove dollar signs from the menu? Or that chefs place the dishes they want to sell on the center of the inside right page of their menu? It's true. [Baltimore Sun via GS]

[A woman stands in front of the racy new Calvin Klein ad in Soho that's causing a controversy; image via Getty]

For reasons that we cannot fathom, bouncers and cops in the UK are now using a device to ensure that people who sniff coke don't get into nightclubs. What?

Going to the theater can often be a culturally enlightening experience. But it does cost a lot of money. So when you do go, you want to make sure it's something good, right? Like something starring Ashton Kutcher!