Margaret Cho's "Domains" Q&A in the New York Times magazine is an entertaining romp, at least for fans of the comedian. Which is surprising: In a different light, these moments could look depressing.

A fashion designer has sued wacky-mess rocker Courtney Love for libel on MySpace. Love's response? Going on a blabby Twitter rampage and accusing Lindsay Lohan of stealing drugs.

Mark Penn, the Burson-Marsteller PR guy known for giving terribly inept advice to everyone from Hillary Clinton to Bill Gates, is opening his home to help the poor. Everyone's welcome!

New plays opened on Broadway to mixed reviews, the Greeks get big revivals, Laurie Metcalf is going to be awesome again, and Ian McKellen will soon be gouging his eyes out on your TV.

Either Lindsay Lohan's entire crazy family is really on Twitter, or the world's best comedy writers have taken to the medium. Here are Dina Lohan's Twitter tales of bad tea, insidious censorship, and "HATERS."

Former LA Times writer Daniel Hernandez relays a bizarre story from Mexico: A wrestler had a nervous breakdown on a bus, forced his way off and soon died in the wilderness.

All those curly-cue planet-saving fluorescent light bulbs that Al Gore made everyone buy even though they cost $30 and cast a sickly pale glow DON'T WORK.

Photos of Gossip Girl filming around New York are everywhere. I can't post all of them, obviously, but here are some of my (mostly Lily-centric) favorites. What do they reveal about upcoming episodes? Not much.

The attack from Obama's left flank began in earnest yesterday, as two reliably liberal forces openly compared Barack Obama's plan for escalating the war in Afghanistan to Bush's fiasco in Iraq.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire continues its turmoil after the announcement of COO Peter Chernin's departure. The newest player: Former AOL CEO Jon Miller, who's widely expected to take the top digital job there.

• Saks has agreed to pick up Christian Siriano's fall line. The collection will be sold at the in-store boutique for up-and-coming designers. [NYM]
• Rachel Zoe is launching a budget clothing line. Because she can. [SW]
• Kira Plastinina, the 16-year-old designer and Russian mogul's daughter who watched her company implode recently, is ready for her next challenge. She's going back to school. Possibly to Parsons, in fact! [FWD]
• The company that bought the rights to the Bill Blass name now has plans to revive it and is currently hunting for a creative director. [Fashionista]
• H&M reported its first drop in quarterly profits in more than five years. [BN]
• Not only does Olivia Palermo shop at Strawberry's (or doesn't), she says she shops at the Strand, too. For, like, books and stuff. [Racked]
• The ever-humble Kanye West would now like to be known as Martin Louis The King Jr. The "Louis" refers to Louis Vuitton, obviously. [NYDN]

Twitter has suspended the account of a clever Christopher Walken impersonator. Twitter users are outraged.

Gregory Fayer, a 2004 Columbia Law graduate, has put out a press release touting his amazing legal skills: Getting Twitter to take down celebrity impostors' accounts. It's a tricky legal process which involves sending email.

Since you asked, Mediaite.com is an unpronounceable mess. But only because you asked.

This week, the press/Obama honeymoon ended, so the press filed for divorce. Next week: hot divorce sex!

It looks like Bruce Wasserstein's Lazard pulled off the deal of the century. It actually found someone to pay cash money for a piece of Bernie Madoff's investment firm. Boston-based Castor Pollux Securities will pay between $500,000 and $15.5 million for Madoff's market-making business, depending on whether it ever makes any money again. [Bloomberg, NYT]

[A fire-breathing robot by artist Yanobe Kenji is featured at the Roppongi Art Night in Tokyo; pic via AP]

You know the media have fallen when former Star editorial director Bonnie Fuller can't get a car and driver. Also, another writer dude is newly unemployed! More vital information from the Twittersphere today:

This week Jim Behrle's Kreepie Kats tackle the tough issues: life, Lost, and clown rape.

Irving R. Levine, NBC's reserved, bow-tied business reporter during the '70s and '80s, has died, partly of old age and partly of shame at the way his former beat is being covered by tools.