Say it ain't so: we're hearing that Zoe Alexander, the Diva Who Dines and editor-at-large for Life & Style, has been relieved of her stylish, lifelike duties at the weekly publication. Mais non!

File under, Oh, Those Amazing College Kids:

From the Observer's September article, "The Botox Babies":

Front Pages [BBC]

Move over Ashton and Denise. Goodbye, Charlie and Demi.

Time for a quickie game of Media Pole Position for today's news:

If there's one thing everyone in the wholewideworld can agree on, it's that working at a magazine leads to lots of shiny, free stuff. And if you were envious of beauty editors bathing in complimentary "samples" of La Mer (oh, honey, you KNOW they do), take a look at what the lucky kids from Wenner Media get: Heidi Klum's new candy! Last week, Mrs. Seal headed to midtown to promote her new book and candy, Heidi's Fruit Flirtations — which, according to the "hand-written" note on the back of the package, are her favorite candy from Germany (fat-free, of course). We hear Janice Min likes the strawberry flavor, which features a cute kissy-face design.

What does a right wing rag do after taking down a President? Slam a joke textbook by a fake news anchor and his writers. Yeah, sometimes in the absence of whales, fish in a barrel will have to do.

From the Gawker mailbag:

Not sure, but it seems intuitively true.

From Bill O'Reilly's syndicated column in the print edition of The New York Post:

Hey, we're as pop culture savvy as the next guy, but some references even slip by us. Sometimes while we're watching The O.C. (it's a pleasure, minus the guilt, thank you very much), the in-jokes and allusions are so fast and so obscure that you need a Best of Bread R. Crumb trail (get it?) to figure it out.

MSNBC's resident gossip maven (and big-time book writing person) Jeannette Walls reports on a heretofore unexamined aspect of the controversial Terri Schiavo case: What is Moby's opinion?

If you thought the Defamer/David Cross IMterview was a virtual IMquisition, then you'll probably think The Black Table's 'Rock and a Hard Place' chat with MarketWatch.com's Jon Friedman is the cruelest IMterrogation you've ever witnessed.

Don't ask why I was at Michael's today; just know that I was the youngest lady there by, say, 400 years. And, as a young lady, I have a moral responsibility to comment on Seventeen editor Atoosa Rubenstein's outfit. So I'm going to break it down here for a second, with this heartfelt message from me to the 'Toos:

From the idiots what brung you "How do I pronounce US Weekly" comes a slightly more challenging question:

In today's New York Observer 'Off the Record' column, Gabriel Sherman reports on new Esquire design director David Curcurito (second item):

News? What news? Nothing to see here, people, move along...

The Economist

"Will you be a reference on my adoption application?"