The set-up: It's some reality show on TruTV (formerly CourtTV) called The Principal's Office. Two male students, Brandon and Logan, are brought into the titular chamber to discuss the grinding epidemic plaguing recent dances. This is definitely one of those clips that rewards repeat viewings. We're currently fixated on how the blockhead principal ducks out of their kiss goodbye, as if they've tried it on him before.
· Don't fuck with Angelyne. Angelyne will cut you. Then run you over with her little pink Corvette.
· Rejoice, despondent Pushing Daisies fans! (Do they have a name yet? How about Pie-Holers? Hmm...That's filthy. Pie-Holers it is!) A movie could be in the works.
· The resplendent Richard Rushfield is blogging a new season of American Idol for the LAT, adding to an impressive body of work that has yet to win a Pulitzer. The campaign starts here.
· "At the after-show party, she insisted on using me as her taxi, riding about the green room on my back. She only stopped when somebody brought in a basket of puppies, which she killed with a hammer. All the staff had to cheer every time she cracked one of their tiny skulls." Gee—we knew The Weakest Link's host was a bitch, but we had no idea. [via b3ta]

Duck and cover, Los Angelenos: it's just been announced that the long-rumored Gossip Girl spinoff will be set here. In the eighties.

Kurt Andersen is, at long last, giving up his column in New York, the magazine he edited 12 years ago. Now he has time for things that are, somehow, even less important.

· Socioculturalist Malcolm Gladwell ("You may remember me from such bestsellers as Stop, Or That Giant Stack of Hush-Puppies Will Crush Us All! and Venti or Grande: Just Decide Already...") speaks at the WGA Theater.

After telling CNBC viewers for weeks that Steve Jobs is "fine," the network's Silicon Valley bureau chief Jim Goldman tried a novel experiment in journalism: Talking to a source who wasn't an Apple flack.

Misshapen comeback kid Mickey Rourke's been on an upswing since his Golden Globe win, but the real drama is whether he can he stay out of his own way until the Oscars finally get here.

Former writers' sweatshop matron and World's Richest Grandma with a Dick™ Tyler Perry expressed frustrations over his dating life recently to Essence magazine:

While Steve Jobs' famed "reality distortion field" transformed, despite all odds, computers, music, movies and cell phones, it is his own body which has proven resistant to his formidable power to reshape the world.

Iron Man formula: less Sam Jackson, more Emily Blunt. [Variety]

One night of Idol down, one to go. We feel bad for the hayseed kids who hear "You're going to Hollywood, dawg" and expect the 90028 to be a wonderful, joyous place. Enjoy Baja Fresh.

Sitcoms are rarely created under a veil of intense secrecy, but the creators behind NBC's new Amy Poehler "non-spinoff" of The Office rival even Lost for sheer obfuscation. Now, finally, we have a synopsis.

With tourists flooding into DC for next week's inauguration of Barack Obama, thousands of people are expected to skip out on work. Thousands of black people.

New York magazine has dropped columnist Kurt Andersen, reports FWD. Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with the layoffs last month or the salary cuts reported earlier today, which the mag's publicity chief, Serena Torrey, tells FWD weren't really cuts: Staffers are actually going to make more money now, she says. Good, because Bruce Wasserstein can clearly afford it! [FWD]

It's with heavy heart that we pass along news of Ricardo Montalbán's passing today, announced at a City Council meeting by president Eric Garcetti. He was 88.

Does your recession-spent pad need a wicker ottoman or Cuisinart-something? Take this survey! We'll give one respondent a $150 Crate and Barrel gift card. To enter, email surveys@gawker.com with the last question. (Standard Rules.)

Their simmering rivalry was thought resolved. But with their new, respective designer ads unveiled on the same day, Katie Holmes and Victoria Beckham appear to have retrenched in a battle for This Year's Look.

The last media company still hiring: Vice. [Folio]

The Magical Kingdom of Larry and Sergey has laid off 100 full-time recruiters, a tipster tells us. Inevitable, given the economy. But a crushing blow to Google's self-image as a kinder-than-thou employer.

Won't anyone tell us anything interesting about Obama's two picnics with the commentariat? No, because no one fun was invited.

In a town filled with dewy mangenues like Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson, is there any actor who producers can turn to for the Steve McQueen biopic just announced in Variety?